Orbit vs Mneme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orbit
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Orbit is a second brain for the things you don't want to forget — moments, ideas, voice notes, photos, the link you saved at 2am. Everything lives in one calm timeline that AI quietly organizes for you. No tagging. No folder hierarchy. No notification fatigue. Just capture, and let Orbit find the meaning later. — WHAT YOU GET — • Capture anything in seconds — text, voice memos, photos, links, screenshots, even a place. Apple Intelligence handles the rest: titles, tags, summaries, categorization. • Daily Recap — a one-paragraph reflection of your day, generated each evening from the moments worth revisiting. • Ask Orbit — chat with your own memories. Ask "what did Pamela say last weekend?" or "what was the restaurant in Roatan?" Orbit answers from your captures, never from the cloud. • On This Day, Year in Review, Time Capsules — Orbit surfaces your past at the right moment. • Tasks that find themselves — write "I should call mom tomorrow" anywhere in a memory and Orbit suggests it as a task. Promote what you mean. Ignore what you don't. • Reading list & habit tracking — captures like "I want to read…" or "ran 5k" land in their own surfaces, quietly tracked over time. • Beautiful share cards — turn a memory, a Daily Recap, or a Year in Review into an editorial-quality image, ready for Stories, iMessage, or just keeping. • Privacy by design — On-device AI via Apple Intelligence. Voice transcribed locally. Sleep + steps stay on your phone. iCloud sync runs end-to-end. Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared. — DESIGNED FOR APPLE — Lock Screen camera capture · Apple Watch voice notes · Siri Shortcuts · Spotlight search · Home Screen widgets · Safari extension · Share extension · iOS Reminders & Calendar sync · HealthKit sleep + steps in your Daily Recap — PRO — A monthly or annual subscription unlocks unlimited captures and the full AI surfaces. Cancel anytime from Settings → Subscription. — WHY WE BUILT IT — Journaling apps ask too much. Note apps forget everything. The things we want to remember keep slipping away. Orbit is what we wished existed — a calm, native, private place where life can quietly accumulate, and an AI that helps you find what matters without taking over the experience. Welcome to Orbit. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://orbitbrain2.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://orbitbrain2.netlify.app/privacy By downloading Orbit, you agree to the Terms of Use linked above. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period — manage or cancel anytime from iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.
Mneme
This app helps you remember what you consume by organizing links, videos, PDFs, and thoughts into an evolving map. It identifies contradictions and emerging themes in your saved content, surfacing one insightful item daily.
- Self-organizing knowledge map
- Identifies content contradictions
- Tracks emerging themes and trends
- Captures from any source
- Daily curated insights
- Integrates with other services
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You read a hundred things a month and remember almost none of them. Not because you weren't paying attention, but because nothing was keeping the thread. Mneme remembers it. Send it a link, a video, a PDF, or a half-formed thought. It reads it, sets it beside everything you already think, and tells you when the two argue. A MAP THAT DRAWS ITSELF Everything you save lands on a map, near the ideas it already belongs with. You don't file anything, tag anything, or maintain anything. Topics form on their own and drift as you change. Zoom into one and it opens as a smaller map of its own. IT NOTICES WHEN YOU CONTRADICT YOURSELF Most apps store what you save. Mneme reads it. When something you saved this week disagrees with something you believed last month, it tells you — and shows you exactly where the two split. It also tells you when a thread is picking up speed, when different roads arrive at the same place, and when something you cared about has gone quiet. FIVE WAYS IN Atlas: the map. Every capture, placed by meaning. Mind: what's moving. Threads, tensions, convergences, dormant ground. Archive: the plain list, for when you just want to find the thing. Pulse: a check-in on what the people you follow have been engaging with. You: the long view. Your streaks, your busiest hours, and dozens of other insights. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE Share sheet, camera roll, or your own voice. Articles, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, PDFs, screenshots, book pages, quotes, and thoughts you haven't finished having yet. Most captures land in a few seconds. Bring your history with you: import your existing links, or connect Letterboxd and Goodreads so what you watch and read shows up on its own. IT COMES BACK TO YOU Mneme surfaces one thing a day worth thinking about again — a contradiction that formed while you weren't looking, a thread gathering pace, something you saved a month ago and forgot. No unread counts. No pile. Nothing to clear. Mneme is free with ads and monthly capture limits. Mneme Plus ($2.99/month) removes ads and raises the limits. Subscriptions renew monthly and can be canceled anytime. 'Mneme' was one of the three original muses, before there were nine. Melete for practice, Aoide for song, and Mneme for memory. This one is for Mneme. Terms of Use: https://mneme-app.com/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Orbit at none against Mneme's shown. Orbit also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 days). Mneme's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Orbit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Mneme sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Orbit ships an update every 3 days, Mneme every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orbit | Mneme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joshua Caleb Green | Aaron Pinto |
In-app purchases
Orbit
- Orbit Pro$2.991 Month
- Orbit Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Orbit Pro Lifetime$79.99
Mneme
- Mneme Plus (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Mneme Plus (Yearly)$19.991 Year
- Mneme Plus (Lifetime)$49.99





