Comparison

VoiceMemo vs MEMO

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

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About

VoiceMemo

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Recording is just the start. What matters is the follow-through. Most voice apps stop when the transcript finishes — leaving promises, deadlines, and decisions buried in a wall of text. VoiceMemo is built around what happens after: impromptu capture anywhere from your Apple Watch and iPhone, intelligent meeting reminders, automated task extraction with two-way calendar & reminders sync, and deterministic structured context ready for your AI agents via native Model Context Protocol (MCP). CAPTURE ANYWHERE: APPLE WATCH & IPHONE • Apple Watch on your wrist — Complications, raise to speak, or Action Button. Record long meetings effortlessly right from your wrist. • Meeting Radar & 1-Tap Record — Within 5 minutes of meeting start, your watch surfaces an upcoming meeting card; at start time, a haptic alert lets you 1-tap "Record Meeting" with title and attendees attached. • Instant iPhone capture — Control recording right from Lock Screen widgets, Action Button, or Dynamic Island. FOLLOW-THROUGH & TASK MANAGEMENT AT THE CORE VoiceMemo recognizes who you are ("This is me") and intelligently extracts only what requires your follow-up: • Your follow-up tasks only — Action items committed by you enter your global "My Tasks" hub without cluttering your to-dos. • Spoken deadlines ("today at 6 PM", "next Monday") become real reminders with exact 24-hour times; fuzzy phrases ("ASAP") get one-tap suggestions. • Each task has a ▶ timestamp button that replays the exact sentence where the promise was made. • Bi-directional sync with Apple Reminders and Calendar — edits and completions stay in sync across devices. NATIVE MCP & STRUCTURED CONTEXT FOR AI AGENTS VoiceMemo is the first voice app with native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support: • Connect directly to Antigravity, Codex, Claude, Cursor, GrokBot, Hermes, and OpenClaw — Agents query meeting notes, transcripts, action items, and personal context. • 4 automatic scene templates (Meeting, Lecture, Journal, General) with a unified 6-part structure: Overview, Key Decisions, Action Items, Open Questions, Key Points, and Verbatim Quotes. • High-signal context: Verified speaker identities, calibrated domain vocabulary, and structured tasks give AI agents grounded truth instead of noisy transcripts. AUDIO SHARE SHEET IMPORT & SILKY 120FPS SCRUBBER • One-tap Share Sheet Import — Share audio (.mp3, .m4a, .wav) directly from Apple Voice Memos, Files, WeChat voice messages, or external recorders for instant transcription. • 120fps Silky Scrubber — Fluid audio scrubbing with zero decoder lag across recordings up to 3 hours long. WHO SAID WHAT, ON THE RECORD Multi-person recordings split by voice — up to 6 speakers labeled. Preview voice clips inline before naming them or marking "This is me", syncing across transcripts, summaries, and PDF exports. IT LEARNS YOUR VOCABULARY Spot a misheard name or term? Preview audio inline and batch-replace it across transcripts, summaries, and tasks in one pass. Confirmed terms save to your personal vocabulary (up to 100 terms). ASK YOUR NOTES & GLOBAL SEARCH Search globally across titles, summaries, transcripts, and tasks, or ask your entire note library in plain language with cited sources and one-tap audio jump. BUILT NOT TO LOSE A WORD, PRIVATE BY DESIGN Zero cloud dependency by default. Transcription runs locally on-device; audio stays safely on your phone and iCloud — never on our servers. Support for custom Gemini API keys gives you complete data ownership. SIMPLE LIMITS Every feature is on every plan. Free: unlimited recording and on-device transcription, plus 60 AI minutes/month. Pro raises the pool to 1,200 AI minutes/month with a 7-day free trial on yearly. ——— Subscriptions: VoiceMemo Pro is billed monthly or yearly through your Apple Account and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage anytime in Settings. Terms: https://voicememo.work/terms Privacy: https://voicememo.work/privacy

About

MEMO

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MEMO is a second brain that remembers life for you. Save passwords, ideas, prompts, reminders, notes, and random thoughts in seconds. MEMO automatically organizes everything for you. No folders, no forms, no setup. Just type. Later, ask MEMO naturally: • “What was the hotel Wi Fi password?” • “Find the prompt I used last week” • “What was the name of that coffee place?” • “Remind me to call mom tomorrow” MEMO searches only through things you’ve actually saved. Never invented. Never hallucinated. If you didn’t save it, MEMO tells you. What you can save • Passwords and private information • Ideas and side projects • Reminders and tasks • Prompts and AI chats • Places, restaurants, and recommendations • Random thoughts you don’t want to lose Smart reminders Timed reminders send notifications exactly when you need them, even when your phone is locked. Tasks without a specific time stay organized and ready when you are. Works in every language MEMO understands every language you type, even mixed languages. Dates, times, and reminders automatically match your local timezone wherever you are. Private by default Sign in with Apple in one tap. No passwords. No onboarding. Your data stays in your private vault. What MEMO is not MEMO is not a chatbot. It only knows what you save, and only answers from that. That’s why you can trust it with passwords, reminders, personal thoughts, and important details. Try it once, and the next time you need to remember something, you’ll open MEMO instead of searching through Notes, chats, or screenshots. MEMO Pro $6.99/month or $49.99/year Unlock: • Unlimited captures • Voice input • Screenshot and image memory • AI search across everything • Long term reminders Support Questions or feedback? ofri@ofrimishali.com MEMO is built one idea at a time. Subscription details: MEMO Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: $6.99 per month, or $49.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple ID settings. AI processing: MEMO uses AI to transcribe, understand and organize what you save. The content you save (text, voice recordings, photos and screenshots) and the questions you ask are sent to OpenAI, which processes them on our behalf and does not use them to train its models. The app asks for your explicit agreement before any of this happens, and the disclosure stays available in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getmemo.vercel.app/privacy

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MEMO at 15.1 against VoiceMemo's 26.0. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. VoiceMemo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and MEMO sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
VoiceMemo versus MEMO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoiceMemoMEMO
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer佳俊 郑Ofri Misahli

In-app purchases

2 purchases

VoiceMemo

Subscriptions2
  • VoiceMemo Pro$4.991 Month
  • VoiceMemo Pro7 Days trial$34.991 Year
2 purchases

MEMO

Subscriptions2
  • MEMO Pro$6.991 Month
  • MEMO Pro$49.991 Year

Questions

Is VoiceMemo free?
VoiceMemo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MEMO free?
MEMO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do VoiceMemo or MEMO have ads?
Neither VoiceMemo nor MEMO shows ads.

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