MemoryStash vs Lociform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
MemoryStash
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Stop forgetting. Start remembering. Whether you are a student cramming for exams, a professional memorizing presentations, or someone looking to keep their mind sharp, this app is your ultimate personal memory gym. Train your brain using the exact techniques used by global memory athletes and cognitive science. Our structured, step-by-step path breaks down complex mnemonic systems into bite-sized, interactive daily practices. Every association you build makes your brain stronger! Your 5-Step Journey to Super-Memory: 1. The Major System: Convert digits into phonetic sounds. Say goodbye to raw numbers and hello to memorable words! 2. Peg Words: Attach vivid, concrete words to every 2-digit pair (00-99) for lightning-fast numerical recall. 3. PAO (Person-Action-Object): Group numbers into highly visual, dynamic action scenes. 4. Memory Palace (Method of Loci): Map your knowledge onto familiar locations and navigate through your mind to retrieve it. 5. Acronyms: Compress complex lists, formulas, and academic facts into memorable, fun phrases. Powerful Features Built for Mastery: Interactive Quizzes: Test your recall with custom speed quizzes, adaptive difficulty modes, and real-time timers. Mobile Number Storyteller: Input any long number (like a phone number) and instantly generate peg-word breakdowns and visual stories to lock it into your long-term memory. Visual Personalization: Add your own custom images to your Peg and PAO flashcards to make memory associations uniquely yours. Ready-to-Use Reference Guides: Quick-access sheets for the Major System phonetic rules, peg words, and built-in classic acronyms (like planet order, music scales, and geography). Performance Tracking: Track your accuracy, reaction times, and daily streaks to watch your recall speed soar. Get ready to build a mind like a steel trap. Download now and build your first Memory Palace today!
Lociform
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A memory palace is the oldest study technique there is. Lociform makes it practical. Type what you need to remember. Lociform binds each item to a spot in a place you already know, with a vivid image that actually interacts with that spot. Then it walks you through the route out loud and brings each item back on a spaced-repetition schedule. WHY PUT THINGS IN PLACES Your memory for places is far better than your memory for lists, so you smuggle the list into a place. Roman orators used this to deliver speeches without notes. When Eleanor Maguire's team scanned ten of the highest-ranking competitors at the World Memory Championships in 2003, nine of the ten were using the method of loci, and they were not smarter than the controls and their brains were not structurally different. FREE, WITH TWO PALACES - A worked sample palace, one tap from first launch - A three-minute before-and-after test, so you see your own two scores - Starter decks: the 12 cranial nerves, the 8 carpal bones, the Krebs cycle, the NATO alphabet - Memory Walks read aloud while you look at each locus - Spaced repetition built on FSRS-6, showing the real interval on every button - Build a palace from your own photo, rendered with real depth - Full VoiceOver support, and a designed flat mode for Reduce Motion VERIFIED, NOT GUESSED For factual material Lociform uses a human-written hook library, each entry carrying the etymology that justifies it. Scaphoid is a boat because scaphe is Greek for boat. On-device Apple Intelligence is only ever asked to phrase a hook it has been handed, never to invent a medical association. Every scene is labelled so you can see where it came from. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No servers. No analytics. No third-party SDKs of any kind. Lociform makes no network requests at all. The depth model and the language model both run on your iPhone, so your palaces, your photos and everything you memorise stay on the device. ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK Every feature is free. If you want more than two palaces, Unlimited Palaces is a single purchase that never renews and never expires. No feature is locked behind it, there are no ads, and if you ever lose access every palace you have built stays readable and walkable. HONEST ABOUT THE LIMITS The method of loci is good at ordered lists of discrete things. It will not give you understanding, and two items per locus is the sensible limit. Lociform says so inside the app, and sets out what the research shows alongside where that research is weak.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MemoryStash at none against Lociform's 1. MemoryStash also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Lociform sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MemoryStash asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | MemoryStash | Lociform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GK SOFT | JOSHUA JOHN |
In-app purchases
MemoryStash
No in-app purchases
Lociform
- Unlimited Palaces$9.99








