Matching Pairs vs Memory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matching Pairs
Enhance your memory and concentration with this engaging game. It offers 25 difficulty levels and over 10 themed card packs, suitable for all ages. Track your progress and compete with others globally.
- Memory and concentration training
- 25 difficulty levels
- 10+ themed card packs
- Global score comparison
- Soothing graphics and animations
- User-friendly interface
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Improve and train your memory while having fun! Test your memory and concentration across 25 difficulty levels and compare your scores with friends and players around the world thanks to integration with Game Center. — 4.0.0 — • Time Attack The clock starts at 30 seconds and every pair adds a few more. Clear the board to earn 5 extra seconds before a bigger board is dealt, while your score keeps adding up. The run ends when time runs out. • 2 Players Take turns on the same device. Find a pair and you play again; miss and the turn passes. Points count as usual — the highest total wins. • 2 Players Online The same rules as 2 Players, live against another player through Game Center. • Educational Choose an activity to practice letters, words, numbers, memory or another language. A pair can join cards that look or sound different but mean the same thing — a picture and its word, lower- and uppercase letters, or two languages. Ready-made activities set up the cards for you; Custom lets you choose the image, text, voice and language on each side. • Choose your look — Original Wood • Mochi Friends • Sea Glass Lagoon • Deco Midnight You can change it any time in Settings. • Card backs — Colors • Decorations • Layouts • Enhanced animations With 10 different card packs, each of excellent quality, appealing to all types of visual memory: - Animals - Musical instruments - Sports - Food - Faces - Emojis - Numbers - Capital letters - Lowercase letters - Common words With its soothing graphics, smooth animations and user-friendly interface, the game offers an immersive and enjoyable gaming experience.
Memory
This game challenges your memory by matching pairs of beautiful, colorful images. It offers multiple modes to train your brain, concentration, and reflexes, suitable for all ages. Exercise your mind daily and improve cognitive skills with this engaging matching game.
- Matching pairs of pictures
- Classic, time challenge, and limited tries modes
- Adjustable card count (6-96)
- Variety of beautiful card decks
- Simple, easy-to-master interface
- Small app size
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Match pictures and find out how good is your memory! This app is a great matching games for adults but also an amazing and challenging matching games for children and seniors. It is a memory game for everyone were you have to play with beautiful images, full of colors, and find the pairs. Train your memory, concentration, accuracy, attention, the speed of thinking and logic skills and much more. This game is a great way to exercise your memory and keep your brain fit! It will also increase your train your reflexes and can help you with short term memory problems or lack of attention like ADHD. Exercise your brain with brain games every day. Take this memory challenge and you will see the difference! Features: * Play by making matches of pictures * 3 game mode: classic, time challenge and limited tries * From 6 up to 96 cards * Beautiful card decks with animals, colors, abstract pictures, vegetables and more ! * Simple and easy-to-master interface * Small app size Please rate the app and leave us feedback to improve it.
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Verdict
Matching Pairs and Memory both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Matching Pairs's written reviews are positive against 50% of Memory's. Matching Pairs also leads on ratings volume (929 vs 52) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). Memory's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Matching Pairs sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Memory asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Matching Pairs against 4.8 for Memory. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Matching Pairs has 929 ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Matching Pairs's written reviews are positive against 50% of Memory's.
Matching Pairs ships an update every 10 days, Memory every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Matching Pairs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (929 ratings) | 4.8 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 929 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clement Marty | Jean-Matthieu DECHRISTE |
Customer experience
Matching Pairs
Memory
Bugs and requests
Matching Pairs
Reported bugs
4 issues- App stops opening after giving 5-star rating
- Game fails to launch or becomes unplayable
- Progress not transferable between devices
- Compatibility issues with device changes
Requested features
6 requests- More diverse and varied card images
- Ranking system for multiple attempts
- Speed/time-based challenges
- More free category options
- Progress transfer between devices
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- Clear in-game tutorial or instructions
Memory
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Matching Pairs
- Food Card Pack$0.99
- Memory Card Pack Lower Case Letters$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Music Instruments$1.99
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- Memory Card Pack Numbers$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Sports Images$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Upper Case Letters$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Words$1.99
- Card Pack "Faces"$1.99
- Card Pack Emoji$1.99
- Card Pack Animals$1.99
- Memory$8.99
Memory
No in-app purchases
Questions
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