Whengram vs footnotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whengram
Capture one memory daily with optional photos and mood tracking. Organize your moments into yearly books and revisit past entries with 'On This Day' features. Secure your reflections with biometric lock and cloud backups.
- One memory per day
- Attach photos to memories
- Track daily mood
- Weekly overview
- Yearly memory books
- On This Day feature
- Biometric lock
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Whengram is your personal time capsule. One memory a day, a lifetime of moments. Some days are ordinary. Some change everything. Whengram helps you remember both. Capture one memory a day, a few lines about what mattered. A photo if you want. That's it. Just you and your thoughts, saved in a calm space that feels like yours. What you get: • One memory per day. Focused, intentional, no clutter • Attach a photo if the moment deserves one • Track your mood: positive, steady, or tough • Whenweek: your week at a glance on the Home tab • Whenshelf: every year of your memories is its own book • On This Day: memories from past years resurface on the same date • Milestones: mark the moments that shaped you (first job, big move, new home) • Widgets: On This Day and Today's Memory on your home screen • Daily reminder at your chosen time, if you want one • Dark mode for late night reflection • Biometric lock: your memories stay yours, nobody gets in but you • iCloud and Google Drive backup: private, to your own cloud, never our servers • Daily auto-backup into a Whengram folder in your iCloud Drive • Local backup: get a complete backup of your data, everything included. Restore anytime • Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian and French Your data stays on your device. Whengram has no servers, no analytics, no ads. Your memories are stored locally on your phone. If you choose to back up, it goes to your own iCloud or Google Drive. We never see it. Just a quiet place to save what happened today, so future you can look back and smile. Connect: X / Instagram / Telegram: @getwhengram Email: hello@whengram.com Privacy Policy: https://www.whengram.com/privacypolicy
footnotes
Capture the full texture of everyday moments with words, photos, video, and voice. Organize these memories into notebooks and create a timeline of your life. Share your moments as little stories.
- Capture moments with text, photos, video, and voice
- Organize notes into different notebooks
- Build a timeline of life's moments
- Create shareable stories from moments
- Edit and add to old notes
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footnotes is a quiet notebook for the photographs, voices, passing thoughts, ideas, and ordinary moments that make up a life. you can: - capture the full texture of a moment: in words, photos, video, and voice, all together. - return to old notes, add new moments, and watch a timeline of your life slowly take shape. - make notebooks for different parts of your life, and - turn moments into little stories to share. slices of light sizzling on a wall. laughter of friends sloppy and gold. the loosey goosey fragments. all of which you look back on with tenderness, kept whole. footnotes makes space for the footnotes of a life. the little things that become the story of who you are.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: footnotes at every 2 days against Whengram's every 2 months. footnotes also leads on ratings volume (190 vs 1). Whengram's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Whengram holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: footnotes has 190 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Whengram ships an update every 2 months, footnotes every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Whengram | footnotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (190 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 95.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 190 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yash Kumar | Doppler HQ, Inc |
Customer experience
Whengram
footnotes
In-app purchases
Whengram
No in-app purchases
footnotes
No in-app purchases








