Comparison

Recall vs Narratives

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

Head to head
About

Recall

Organize your personal and professional network with detailed contact profiles, custom categories, and relationship mapping. Quickly find the right person for any need using powerful search and optional AI assistance.

Highlights
  • Detailed contact profiles
  • Customizable categories
  • Relationship mapping
  • Powerful network search
  • Optional AI assistant
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Recall is a personal relationship manager built around the people you already know. Save contacts with notes, categories, locations, companies, links, and context so you can quickly remember who someone is and why they matter. Add connections between people and companies, mark favorites, organize custom categories, and search across your whole network when you need the right person for a question, project, opportunity, or introduction. Recall can also use iCloud to keep your data available across your devices. With the optional Recall AI feature, you can ask questions about your own contacts, plan outreach, or create and update people using your saved network as context. Recall AI is optional and requires your own Google API key. Whether you are networking, job hunting, organizing professional contacts, keeping track of friends, or simply trying to remember โ€œwho was that person again?โ€, Recall helps you know who you know. Key Features: - Save people with notes, company, location, phone, email, links, and images - Organize contacts with customizable categories - Track how people know each other - Add connections to people and companies - Search across names, notes, companies, locations, categories, and relationships - Mark favorite people for quick access - Import from system contacts - Sync with iCloud - Optional in-app AI assistant using your own API key

About

Narratives

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Thoughts do not arrive in order. Narratives helps you bring them together. Write a few messages or dictate a voice note: an idea, a plan, details you do not want to forget, or a question you are still working through. Talk it over at your own pace. After the conversation, Narratives organizes the material into a card with the main idea, useful details, decisions, and questions that remain open. FROM SCATTERED THOUGHTS TO A USEFUL NOTE โ€ข Capture thoughts by text, voice, or photo. โ€ข Return to the original messages whenever you need context. โ€ข Edit the card to make it your own. โ€ข Preview and share just the card as text or images. Long image exports use multiple pages. โ€ข Export a full dialogue separately when you want to include the source conversation. SEE WHAT CONNECTS Daily summaries bring together the important topics from your conversations. Weekly summaries connect recurring themes, changes, and questions that are still open. Events and reminders, saved memories, web search, and weather are also available when useful. PRIVATE, ON YOUR IPHONE The conversational AI, voice transcription, and image analysis run on your device. Your conversations, cards, and saved memories are stored locally. No account, subscription, or in-app purchase is required. The model downloads separately on first launch; core AI features become available when setup completes. Optional online tools send the necessary request to an external service, for example for web search or weather. Sharing and backup export happen when you choose. You can review, correct, or delete saved memories in Settings. AI can make mistakes. Keep the original conversation, review important details, and edit a card before sharing it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Recall4 screens
Narratives4 screens

Verdict

The call

Recall and Narratives are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Recall versus Narratives: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallNarratives
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyโ€”Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size12 MB86 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVerband Deutscher Wirtschaftsingenieure - Hochschulgruppe Augsburg e. V.Mikhail Kolokolnikov

In-app purchases

None

Recall

No in-app purchases

None

Narratives

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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