Comparison

TasteShelf vs TalkMemo

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

Head to head
About

TasteShelf

Features
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TasteShelf is a personal taste archive for collecting the things you love by category. Save cafes you want to revisit, exhibitions you remember, perfume and whisky notes, wishlists, long-life objects, and small discoveries that say something about you. Create shelves for every interest Start quickly with templates for perfume, whisky, LP bars, exhibitions, cafes, and stationery, or create a custom shelf for anything you want to collect. Design each shelf your way Add the fields that fit each category: text, memo, number, date, tags, ratings, location, URL, photos, and more. Remember with photos and places Add cover images and save locations so each item stays easy to recognize later. See your taste at a glance Your profile summarizes shelves, items, tags, photo records, favorite categories, and average ratings, helping you notice patterns in what you like. Private by default Your data is stored locally on your device. You can export a backup and import it again whenever you need to restore your shelves.

About

TalkMemo

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Speak while the thought is fresh. Find it when you need it. TalkMemo turns voice notes into organised memos and helps you manage tasks and dated items. Choose Korean or English in Settings. PERSONALISATION THAT REFLECTS YOUR CORRECTIONS Start with useful default categories and keywords. If a memo belongs somewhere else, move it to the right category. TalkMemo remembers the expressions and categories you correct and uses them in later classification. Repeated title corrections can also become text-correction rules. Store up to 20,000 personal classification rules. Learning does not stop at the limit: new corrections are applied while less-confirmed, older rules are retired. This is not a limit on saved memos. Review, edit or remove learned patterns and pronunciation corrections in Settings. YOUR CATEGORIES AND KEYWORDS Create categories for your work, shopping, ideas or personal projects. Add the words you use most often to help classification. A dated action may be treated as a task; say the destination category explicitly or choose it on the save screen when you want a particular folder. DATES AND REMINDERS Try 'Add dentist tomorrow at 3 pm to my calendar', then check the recognised date. TalkMemo distinguishes alarms from ordinary notifications and asks you to check invalid or ambiguous dates. Reminder delivery depends on device support and permissions. An ordinary notification may be used when an alarm is unavailable. Sync to Apple Calendar manually from the calendar screen when you choose. QUICK CAPTURE AND EDITING โ€ข Capture, Quick View, Calendar and Library views โ€ข Search, edit titles, change categories and mark items complete โ€ข Quick capture with Siri โ€ข Voice capture on Apple Watch with transfer to iPhone โ€ข A detailed in-app guide in Korean and English GETTING STARTED Names, accents and background noise can affect early results. Personalisation adapts to the categories and expressions you correct; it does not retrain Apple's speech recognition model or remove every recognition error. Check important content and dates, and correct anything that is wrong. Personal rules are stored on your device. Speech-to-text may use Apple servers depending on your device and connection, so recognition is not always offline. Korean and English are selected separately.

Screenshots

TasteShelf4 screens
TalkMemo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TasteShelf at 15.1 against TalkMemo's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
TasteShelf versus TalkMemo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTasteShelfTalkMemo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size48 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJung Tae Parksunkyu song

In-app purchases

None

TasteShelf

No in-app purchases

None

TalkMemo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TasteShelf free?
TasteShelf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TalkMemo free?
TalkMemo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TasteShelf or TalkMemo have ads?
Neither TasteShelf nor TalkMemo shows ads.

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