Comparison

Mementara vs Knockbox

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

Head to head
About

Mementara

Features
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Your Markdown knowledge, within reach. Mementara brings your GitHub repositories to iPhone and iPad for focused, offline reading. Download a selected repository, choose a branch and root folder, and keep your notes available wherever you are. YOUR SECOND BRAIN, READY TO READ Keep your second brain within reach. Read supported Markdown notes from an Obsidian vault stored in a GitHub repository, with offline search, wikilinks and supported note embeds. Mementara is an independent reader and is not affiliated with Obsidian. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED FOR PUBLIC REPOSITORIES Explore the bundled sample or browse and download public GitHub repositories without signing in. Enter a repository URL, owner/repository name or GitHub username to find public repositories. A GitHub account is optional and is required only to access private repositories. READ AND EXPLORE Follow relative links, wikilinks and supported note embeds. Read Markdown, code, tables, math and Mermaid diagrams. Open cached images and PDFs, save bookmarks and return to your reading position. FIND WHAT YOU NEED Search downloaded notes and filenames, then open matching passages in context. Search works offline and does not send your queries to an AI service. YOUR REPOSITORY STAYS YOURS Mementara connects directly to GitHub and never edits your source files or writes changes back. For private repositories, sign in to GitHub and grant read-only access to selected repositories. Credentials stay in device-only Keychain storage. The app includes no advertising or analytics SDK. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Use the adaptive iPad workspace, adjust reading appearance and text size, protect access with app lock, and share an original document through the system share sheet. The interface supports English, German, French and Spanish. Free to use, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions. Requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. Supports one active repository and one optional GitHub.com account. Download notes and supported attachments before going offline; download coverage shows missing or oversized media. External links require a connection. Editing, GitHub Enterprise Server, Obsidian plugins, Dataview and interactive Canvas are not supported. Privacy: https://mementara.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Knockbox

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Knock once, and your phone buzzes. Knockbox turns one HTTP request into a push notification on your iPhone. Anything that can send a request can reach you: a deploy script, a cron job, a monitoring check, a CI pipeline, or a coding agent that has just finished a long task. If it needs your go-ahead before continuing, it can wait for your answer. curl -d "Build finished" https://your-server/api/v1/send/YOUR_TOKEN THE SERVER IS YOURS Knockbox is the client for a server you control. The server is open source and runs on a VPS, a NAS, or a Raspberry Pi at home. It holds its own Apple push key, so a notification goes from your machine to Apple and then to your phone, without passing through anyone in between. If you would rather not run anything, open knockbox.miramiao.com on your iPhone and you are connected — no sign-up, no password. WHAT A MESSAGE CAN CARRY • A Markdown body with headings, lists, links and syntax-highlighted code. • Images, shown in the notification and kept with the message. • Long text. The body is fetched as the notification lands rather than packed into it, so there is no length limit to work around. • A title, a channel, and an interruption level: quiet, normal, or time sensitive when it has to break through Focus. REPLIES • The sender can attach a set of options, or allow a free-text answer. • Answer from the message itself. Your server posts the reply back to the address the sender gave, signed, and the sender takes it from there. • The sender can set a deadline. After it passes the message reads "Reply window closed" and the server stops accepting — you are never left thinking an answer went through. • A message is answered once, and the answer is the same across your devices. CHANNELS • One token per channel, so a noisy monitor and a personal reminder stay apart. • Muting a channel truly stops it: the mute lives on the server, so nothing is sent at all. • Search your history, mark as read, delete a message, or clear a channel. Deletions are real, on the device and on the server. MORE THAN ONE DEVICE Pair a second iPhone or iPad from a device that is already connected. Both receive everything and share read state. TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER Demo mode fills the app with example messages and sends a sample notification, so you can see how it works before setting anything up. FREE, AND THAT IS ALL No ads, no analytics, no account with us, no in-app purchase, no subscription. The app is free and the server is open source. Server source code: https://github.com/aichy126/knockbox Public server: https://knockbox.miramiao.com How to send: https://knockbox.miramiao.com/docs Questions: info@miramiao.com

Screenshots

Mementara3 screens
Knockbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mementara versus Knockbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMementaraKnockbox
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMirko Jahn苗 苗

In-app purchases

None

Mementara

No in-app purchases

None

Knockbox

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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