Comparison

Memento vs Gooji journal

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

Head to head
About

Memento

Track important life events with beautiful, personalized countdowns. Add photos, favorite songs, notes, and receive timely notifications. Create widgets and share moments with friends.

Highlights
  • Personalized event countdowns
  • Custom photos and favorite songs
  • Event notes and reminders
  • Widget creation
  • Timely notifications
  • Social sharing
Features
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Memento - a countdown app that helps you track life’s most important moments beautifully and effortlessly. From birthdays and anniversaries to weddings, holidays, and parties, watch time move closer to the events that matter most. Personalize each countdown, stay organized with notes and favorites, and never miss a moment with timely notifications. First released in 2012, Memento is back refined, modernized, and still true to what made it special. An OG classic, rebuilt for today. Key Features - Create countdowns for birthdays, events, holidays, and milestones - Personalize each event with your own photos - Assign your favourite song to any event. Every time you open that countdown, your music plays automatically, making moments even more personal. - Add notes to capture ideas, plans, or memories - Get notifications - Create widgets - Share moments with friends on social media - Discover Public Events

About

Gooji journal

This app offers a digital journaling experience with a tactile, paper-like feel. It allows users to combine photos, stickers, text, and voice notes on customizable pages, mimicking the look and feel of a physical scrapbook.

Highlights
  • Paper-feel journaling interface
  • Add photos, stickers, text, and voice notes
  • Automatic photo subject cutout for stickers
  • Vector-based decorative frames
  • Native drawing canvas
  • Home screen widgets
  • iCloud sync
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Piece your days back together, one page at a time. Gooji is a paper-feel journaling app. Torn paper, washi tape, lace edges, spiral binding — the tactile things that make paper journals worth keeping are all here. Except this one fits in your pocket, is searchable, can't be lost, and lets you tuck a voice memo into the page. No feeds, no leaderboards, no daily streaks. This notebook belongs to you alone. ■ Put anything on the page Photos, stickers, text, frames, doodles, voice notes, tape. Drag them, pinch to scale and rotate, reorder layers. Flip through multiple pages like a real notebook. ■ Any photo becomes your sticker Pick a photo and the subject is cut out automatically, with an optional white outline for that die-cut look. Hand-drawn doodles can be saved as reusable stickers too. ■ Frames are drawn, not images Torn paper, Polaroid, stamp perforations, lace, film strip, hand-sketched outlines — all vector, crisp at any size. ■ Native drawing canvas The same pens, colors, widths, eraser and ruler you already know from the system tools. ■ Six home screen widgets Today's Mood (tap it right on the home screen, no need to open the app), a journal page, quick capture, an activity grid, a photo frame, and a daily sticker. ■ iCloud sync Your journals and custom stickers sync through your own private iCloud space. Switch devices and everything is where you left it. We run no servers and cannot see your content. ■ Free and PRO Free gives you 5 journals, with all built-in stickers, frames, the drawing canvas, voice notes, all six widgets and iCloud sync — no time limit. When you need more books, or want the PRO stickers, watermark-free export and PRO widget styles, there is a one-time purchase. No monthly or yearly fees, yours forever, including all future updates. Journaling shouldn't feel like a chore. If all you want today is to stick on one sticky note, that counts as a day well spent. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gooji.openvetta.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Memento4 screens
Gooji journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

Memento and Gooji journal are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Memento sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gooji journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Memento against 5.0 for Gooji journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memento ships an update every 11 days, Gooji journal every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Memento versus Gooji journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMementoGooji journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnand Raj Ryiyun software Co. Ltd

Customer experience

Memento

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gooji journal

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Memento

One-time1
  • Pro (Lifetime)$2.99
1 purchases

Gooji journal

One-time1
  • 咕叽本 PRO 终生解锁$7.99

Questions

Is Memento free?
Memento is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gooji journal free?
Gooji journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Memento or Gooji journal?
Memento and Gooji journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Memento or Gooji journal have ads?
Neither Memento nor Gooji journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memento or Gooji journal?
Memento ships an update every 11 days, and Gooji journal every 2 weeks. Most recently, Memento was updated on October 12, 2026 and Gooji journal on October 9, 2026.

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