Comparison

Recence vs Local Memo

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

Head to head
About

Recence

Features
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ノートが増えるほど, 探すのが大変になる. Recenceは, その「探す時間」を減らすためのアプリです. Obsidianで育てた何千ものMarkdownノートを, iPhoneやiPadで軽く, 速く検索・閲覧できます. 重いvaultをそのまま同期するのではなく, 必要なノートだけを軽量なデータに変換して持ち歩くので, 大きなvaultでもサクサク動きます. ■ 探せる ・高速検索: AND / OR / NOT, タイトル・タグ・見出し・本文を指定した検索に対応. ・AI検索: 言葉が違っても, 意味の近いノートを見つけます. ・専門用語の辞書で, 略語や言い換えも拾えます. ■ 読める ・ノート内の画像も軽量化して表示. ・一度読み込めば, 通信がなくても閲覧できます. ・iPadの大きな画面にも対応. ■ 書き留められる ・Inboxに思いついたことをすぐメモ. Mac側でObsidianへ自動で取り込めます. ・画像からの文字起こし, 音声入力, 他のアプリからの共有に対応. ■ 覚えられる ・ノートごとに学習状況と最終確認日を記録. 見直したいノートがすぐ分かります. ■ 安心して使える ・Face IDでノートを保護できます. ・アプリ切り替え画面ではノートの内容を隠します. ・閲覧専用なので, 元のノートを書き換えません. 【ご利用にあたって】 Mac用アプリ「Recence Exporter」(別途インストール)でvaultを変換し, iCloud Drive経由でiPhone/iPadへ届けます. AI検索のデータもRecence Exporterで作成します. - The more notes you keep, the harder they are to find. Recence gives you that time back. Search and read thousands of Markdown notes from your Obsidian vault on iPhone and iPad—fast and light. Instead of syncing your whole heavy vault, Recence converts only the notes you choose into compact data, so even large vaults stay quick. ■ Find ・Fast search with AND / OR / NOT, and filters for title, tag, heading, and body. ・AI search finds notes with related meaning, even when the words differ. ・A domain dictionary catches abbreviations and synonyms. ■ Read ・Images in your notes are optimized for quick display. ・Once loaded, notes are available offline. ・Designed for the larger iPad screen, too. ■ Capture ・Jot ideas in the Inbox and import them into Obsidian automatically on your Mac. ・Text recognition from images, voice input, and sharing from other apps. ■ Remember ・Track study status and last-reviewed date for each note, so you know what to revisit. ■ Stay private ・Protect your notes with Face ID. ・Note contents are hidden in the app switcher. ・Read-only: Recence never modifies your original notes. [Requirements] Convert your vault with the Mac app "Recence Exporter" (installed separately); it reaches your iPhone/iPad via iCloud Drive. AI search data is also created with Recence Exporter.

About

Local Memo

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Keep your notes close. Local Memo organizes notes, folders, photos and voice recordings on your iPhone or iPad, without an account or cloud sync. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Create as many folders as you need, nested up to 15 levels deep. Choose folder colors from a palette or fine-tune them with hue, saturation and brightness sliders. Move items between folders, use drag and drop, and switch between grid and list views. WRITE AND COLLECT Write notes with bold, red or blue text. Add photos directly to folders or attach photos and files to notes. Record and play voice memos alongside your writing. FIND WHAT YOU NEED Search folder names, note titles and text, photo names and attachment filenames. Matching text is highlighted to help you find the right item. LOCK PRIVATE FOLDERS Protect selected folders with Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode. Your device must have a passcode set. The app does not store your password. Locked content is excluded from the Home Screen widget. MAKE IT COMFORTABLE Choose your own background color and black or white text. If a combination becomes hard to read, restore the default colors in Settings. Red and blue note text keeps its own color. QUICK ACCESS Use the small widget to create a new note, or the medium and large widgets to read a selected note. The layout adapts to iPhone and iPad, including landscape orientation. ON YOUR DEVICE Your notes and files stay in the app on your device. There is no account, advertising, analytics or in-app purchase, and the app does not sync through iCloud or an external server. Keep a device backup: deleting the app also deletes its contents. Links to the developer’s other apps open the App Store. 20 LANGUAGES Japanese, English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese.

Screenshots

Recence4 screens
Local Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

Recence and Local Memo are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recence ships an update every 4 days, Local Memo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Recence versus Local Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecenceLocal Memo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeiichi Uchiyamatomohide yanome

In-app purchases

None

Recence

No in-app purchases

None

Local Memo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recence free?
Recence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Local Memo free?
Local Memo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recence or Local Memo have ads?
Neither Recence nor Local Memo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recence or Local Memo?
Recence ships an update every 4 days, and Local Memo weekly. Most recently, Recence was updated on October 28, 2026 and Local Memo on October 18, 2026.

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