Comparison

Recall vs Candor

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Recall

Enhance your iOS Contacts with personal CRM features. Add birthdays, anniversaries, notes, and reminders to your contacts to keep track of important details and nurture relationships. All data stays private on your device.

Highlights
  • Personal CRM for contacts
  • Track birthdays and anniversaries
  • Add custom notes and gift ideas
  • Sync reminders with iOS Reminders
  • Organize contacts with tags
  • Dashboard with upcoming events
  • Private and on-device storage
Features
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Recall is the personal CRM hiding inside your iOS Contacts. You already have hundreds of people in your phone. Recall adds the human context around them — birthdays, anniversaries, kids' names, gift ideas, notes from your last conversation — so you never blank on something that matters. It sits on top of the Contacts app you already use. Standard fields (name, phone, email) stay synced with iOS Contacts. The rest — the stuff that makes a relationship a relationship — lives only in Recall, on your device. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK • Birthdays and anniversaries, with a freeform label (Wedding / Met / Sober since / whatever) • Kids' names and birthdays — never forget a niece's birthday again • Per-contact notes for the little things (coffee order, dietary preferences, gift ideas) • Reminders that sync two-way to a dedicated "Recall" list in iOS Reminders — so Siri, Apple Watch, and Mac all see them • Social profile links with one-tap launch • Tags to organize your people (Family, Friend, Business, or whatever you make) • Call logs to track the cadence of your relationships WHAT YOU GET ON THE DASHBOARD • Today's birthdays and anniversaries with a celebratory hero • Reminders due for the day • "Upcoming in 30 days" — never get caught off guard • Smart Lists to slice your people (Birthdays this month, Kids' birthdays this quarter, etc.) • A gentle "maybe reach out?" card when contacts go quiet • Home screen widget showing what's next PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads • No in-app purchases • No tracking • No accounts to create • No servers — everything stays on your device Recall is for the people you orbit.

About

Candor

This app uses AI to analyze your written notes, revealing patterns, themes, and contradictions you might miss. It offers on-device and cloud-based AI models, with a strong emphasis on end-to-end encryption and user privacy. Chat with your notes and map clusters by theme for deeper reflection.

Highlights
  • AI-powered note analysis
  • Theme and pattern identification
  • On-device and cloud AI options
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Chat with your notes
  • Note clustering by theme
  • Data export options
Features
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Candor is a AI Note Eighteen AI lenses surface the patterns you'd never see otherwise the themes you keep returning to, the loops you don't notice, the questions you're quietly carrying. Every entry is encrypted with your master password before it leaves the writing surface. No analytics. No cloud-scraping. No support backdoor. Honest writing, in your hands. THE AI HUB Reflect runs your scoped notes through one of these lenses: • Themes — what you keep returning to, ranked by frequency • Recent mind — the 2–3 threads pulling at you this week • Loop — unconscious cycles running through your writing • Salience — what you say you care about vs. what your attention keeps landing on • Contradictions — beliefs you hold that don't fit together • Open questions — the ones you keep asking yourself • What's missing — topics you'd expect to write about but don't • The Outside View — what a stranger reading your journal would assume • Steel Man — the most generous reading of a flaw you keep naming • The Crucible — calibrated challenges at the edge of your capacity • Trajectory — where the next 6–12 months go if nothing changes • Spark for writing — open scenes to write into • Plus: Story, Timeline, Period summary, Growth, Preferences, Key choices Chat with your notes for open-ended dialogue. Map clusters your entries by theme. TWO AIs TO CHOOSE FROM • Apple Intelligence — on-device, fast, included with Backup & Export • Candor AI — cloud, frontier reasoning, included with Bundle Switch any time in Settings. The same notes feed either one. PRIVACY YOU CAN AUDIT Your master password derives a 256-bit key locally with Argon2id. Every entry is sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before it leaves the writing surface. Search runs in memory and forgets. Nothing leaves your phone unless you turn on iCloud sync — and even then, Apple sees ciphertext only. There is no support backdoor. Lose your password and your recovery key, and the data is gone. That's the point. FREE CANDOR INCLUDES • Writing with auto-save • Voice dictation (on-device — Apple Speech and Omnilingual for 100+ languages) • End-to-end encryption • Full-text and semantic search • Categories, widgets, daily reminders • Local-only — no account required SUBSCRIPTIONS • Backup & Export — $2.99/month or $24.99/year Apple Intelligence on-device + Gemini cloud (bring your own API key) + iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac + .ilbk / ZIP / Obsidian export and import. • Bundle — $5.99/month or $49.99/year Everything in Backup, plus Candor AI — our most capable model, server-managed, no API key needed. 7-day free trial on the Bundle. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings. Family Sharing supported on both tiers. AUTO-RENEWAL DISCLOSURE Subscriptions renew at the price shown above unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://belvantis.com/candor/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Made by Belvantis. Email info@belvantis.com or visit belvantis.com.

Screenshots

Recall4 screens
Candor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Candor at 5.0 against Recall's 4.5. Candor also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Recall's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Candor sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Recall asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Candor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recall ships an update every 3 weeks, Candor every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Recall versus Candor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallCandor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.226.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArha Ventures LLCBenyamin Famili

Customer experience

Recall

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Candor

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Recall

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Candor

Subscriptions4
  • Backup & Export$2.991 Month
  • Bundle$5.991 Month
  • Backup & Export7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • Bundle7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Candor free?
Candor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recall or Candor?
Candor is rated higher. Recall averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Candor averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Recall or Candor have ads?
Neither Recall nor Candor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recall or Candor?
Recall ships an update every 3 weeks, and Candor every 9 days. Most recently, Recall was updated on October 21, 2026 and Candor on October 7, 2026.

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