Comparison

Memolet Garden vs Linger

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

Head to head
About

Memolet Garden

Features
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Memolet Garden (memoniwa) is a cute notes app: every memo you write becomes a little creature, a Memolet, that lives in your garden. Shopping lists, to-do lists, reminders. Each memo adds one more Memolet to the garden. Memolets live in the Memolet Garden. ■ Write, and one is born Write a memo and an egg appears in your garden. Reread and add to it, and it hatches; the more you write, the more your Memolet grows. Shopping lists and checklists become winged Sky Memolets. Notes and ideas become Land Memolets that walk on the ground. Depending on what you write, they grow into all kinds of shapes. ■ A shopping list is one creature, too Check items off with one tap, and add things you often buy right from Regulars. Even the family's grocery run becomes one creature in your garden. ■ It remembers the time and the place Tell a Memolet "When?" and it comes to remind you then. Tell it "Where?" and it also lets you know when you get near the store. ■ Whistle, and they come running No folders. No tidying up. Looking for something? Blow the Whistle (search), and the matching Memolets come running to you. ■ Free to use Unlimited memos, search, reminders and shopping lists — all free. Making or joining a Shared Garden is free too. In-app purchases: one-time items such as garden decorations and Memolet outfits, plus two optional subscriptions (keeping a backup on our server and syncing / extending the day a Shared Garden disappears). When you save to the server and sync, devices that share the same passphrase keep the same memos. ■ Memos and photos never get sent on their own Memos are saved only on your phone or tablet. No account needed. Memo content leaves the device only when you make a share card link, use a Shared Garden or keep a backup on our server. (With the setting "Include the title and text when sharing" on, opening a memo also creates such a link.) It is all encrypted on your device first, so not even we can read it (only the Memolet picture on share cards and readers' marks and counts are kept unencrypted). Photos are never sent. Other communication (in-app purchases, maps and so on) never contains your memos. Privacy policy: https://memoniwa.app/privacy/ ■ Shared Garden — for group notices and surveys Share a whole garden with others. Send an invite link, and people answer with their own Memolets (they need the app too). ・Ask who's coming or what people would like (Note / List) ・Have people pick the days they can make (Calendar) ・Vote Only the garden's maker can see the results. Even for a class or a team, making the garden bigger keeps it free. A garden disappears on the date its maker picks (free plan: up to 14 days ahead). ■ Plans go on the calendar Give a Memolet a date, and its label in the garden shows that day instead of its name. A single day or a span of days. It can become a reminder, too. ■ Pick what you copied, and paste Up to 20 things you copy in the app are kept, newest first. Pick one to paste later, or paste several lines one by one. Put the Memolets widget on your home screen to write right away and open your copy history. On iPhone (iOS 26 or later), paste from your copy history into other apps line by line or item by item via a small window (Picture in Picture). With the Memolets Keyboard on iPhone, put your copy history straight into other apps' text fields (no Full Access requested). Choose Memolets in another app's share menu to add to your copy history or make a Memolet from it. ■ The garden is your place Set out decorations, build fences, add more gardens. You can even put family photos in a photo frame. The more memos you write, the livelier your garden gets. ■ About generative AI Your memos and images are never sent to generative AI. It was used in parts of development (such as coding), with final review by people. -- Terms of Use: https://memoniwa.app/terms/ Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://memoniwa.app/support/

About

Linger

This app places reminders directly on your lock screen, ensuring they remain visible until completed. It uses natural language processing to understand scheduling and allows for quick completion with a simple swipe. Track your progress with visual streaks and archive past reminders.

Highlights
  • Persistent lock screen reminder cards
  • Natural language reminder scheduling
  • One-gesture completion
  • Habit streak tracking
  • Reminder archiving
  • Home screen widget
  • Customizable colors and dark mode
Features
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Reminders that don't go away. Every reminder gets its own card on your Lock Screen, and it stays there until you deal with it. No badge to miss, no list you have to remember to open. Swipe the card away and it's done. If you have ever closed a reminders app and forgotten the reminder existed, Linger is built for exactly that. WRITE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Type "water the plants every Tuesday at 8am" and Linger reads the schedule out of the sentence. It shows you what it understood, so nothing gets silently misread. Every repeat you'd actually want is there — daily, weekdays, every Tuesday and Thursday, the 1st of the month — without a form to fill in. FINISHING IS ONE GESTURE Swipe the card off your Lock Screen and the reminder is complete. A repeat rolls forward to its next date on its own. You never have to open the app at all. SEE WHAT IT ADDS UP TO Every reminder keeps a grid of each day you ticked it off — months of it, readable at a glance. Streaks count themselves. It's the difference between thinking you've kept something up and knowing you have. PUT SOMETHING DOWN WITHOUT LOSING IT Archive takes a reminder off your Lock Screen and out of the list, and keeps its whole history. Bring it back whenever you like and the grid comes back with it. Something archived in March and restored in August returns on its next real date, not five months overdue. YOUR REMINDERS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. What you write is a file on your device and nowhere else — there is no copy of it on any server, ours included. ALSO • A Home Screen widget, so it's there before you unlock • Fourteen colours, so a glance tells you which is which • Dark mode, lit properly rather than dimmed • A backstop notification, so a reminder can never quietly vanish FREE, AND WHAT PLUS ADDS Linger is free to use, with one reminder on your Lock Screen at a time. Linger Plus lifts that limit — keep as many as you like, each on its own card — and is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-off lifetime purchase. The yearly plan starts with seven days free: the whole app, nothing held back. We'll remind you the day before the trial ends, so it can't turn into a charge you didn't expect. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Linger Plus is available as a monthly subscription and a yearly subscription, both auto-renewing, and as a one-time lifetime purchase that never renews. The price in your local currency is shown on the purchase screen before anything is charged. A subscription renews at the end of each period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before that period ends. You can turn it off at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://spicelabs.app/linger/privacy/

Screenshots

Memolet Garden4 screens
Linger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Linger at none against Memolet Garden's shown. Memolet Garden's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Memolet Garden sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and Linger sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memolet Garden ships an update every 3 days, Linger every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Memolet Garden versus Linger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemolet GardenLinger
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperasopiNeel Chary

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Memolet Garden

Subscriptions4
  • サーバーに保存(月払い)$0.491 Month
  • 消える日をのばす(月払い)$0.991 Month
  • サーバーに保存(年払い)$5.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • 消える日をのばす(年払い)$11.991 Year
One-time6
  • おうかん・C$0.49
  • おうかん・E$0.49
  • おうかん・D$0.49
Show 3 more
  • ごうけいの黒板(5こ入り)$0.49
  • デジタルけいじばん(5こ入り)$0.49
  • 大きな写真たて(5こ入り)$0.99
3 purchases

Linger

Subscriptions2
  • Linger Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Linger Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Linger Plus Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is Memolet Garden free?
Memolet Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Linger free?
Linger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Memolet Garden or Linger have ads?
Memolet Garden shows ads; Linger does not.
Which is updated more often, Memolet Garden or Linger?
Memolet Garden ships an update every 3 days, and Linger every 2 days. Most recently, Memolet Garden was updated on October 29, 2026 and Linger on October 24, 2026.

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