Comparison

Remember vs Charging Animations

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

Head to head
About

Remember

Display customizable sticky notes on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch home screens and watch faces. Personalize notes with colors, fonts, and frames, and sync them across devices using iCloud. Dictate notes directly on your watch for seamless transfer.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Watch widgets
  • Customizable colors and fonts
  • Frames for notes
  • iCloud sync
  • Dictation on Apple Watch
Features
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Show stickies on iPhone & iPad home screen and Apple Watch faces! Customise stickies with colors, fonts and beautiful frames. Sync devices with iCloud. 【 iPhone / iPad 】 • select a page to write and design. • select text and page color. • change font and text alignment. • select a beautiful frame! • add widgets to home screen or lock screen! • send to Apple Watch and show as widgets! 【 Apple Watch 】 • enter text directly or transfer from iPhone app. • setup as widgets on watch faces and smart stack. • select text/page color. • dictate on watch and sent the text back to iPhone! 【 NOTES 】 • open the app first before adding widgets to home screen.  • use simple Markdown syntax to format text. • pages can have different notes and customisation. • add optional title to the page. • Apple Watch version can be used without iPhone.

About

Charging Animations

Enhance your iPhone's charging experience with automatic, visually appealing animations. Choose from various styles that play when you plug in your device. Minimal setup required for a personalized charging display.

Highlights
  • Automatic charging animations
  • Multiple animation styles
  • Minimal setup
  • No ads or account needed
  • Supports iOS 16
Features
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NO ads. NO personal data collected. ZERO permission requested. Full iOS 26 support. This is the official charging animations app. Privacy Policy: https://joyapps.com/privacy User Agreement: https://joyapps.com/eula Charging Animations for iOS plays cool charging animations automatically when you plug in your iPhone. You could choose from multiple styles of charging animations using this free app. Features: - Play charge animations automatically when plug in your iPhone (required to create Personal Automation in Shortcuts app). - Multiple charging animations to choose. - Minimal setup. - No ads, no account needed. - Supports iOS 16 How to use: To display charging animation, please tap one style from main interface, then plug in your iPhone. If you want to automate this process, please use Shortcuts app and follow the in-app video tutorial. Note: The auto mode only works when your iPhone is unlocked.

Screenshots

Remember4 screens
Charging Animations4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Remember at 75% against Charging Animations's 39%. Remember also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Charging Animations's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, ads 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

Remember costs $0.99 and Charging Animations $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Remember holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Remember's written reviews are positive against 39% of Charging Animations's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remember ships an update every 4 days, Charging Animations every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Remember versus Charging Animations: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRememberCharging Animations
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.2 (56 ratings) — better3.7 (33 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better39.4% of reviews
Number of ratings56 — better33
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVirtual GSChunxia Li

Customer experience

Remember

All ratings56 ratings
Positive80.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.8%
Negative16.3%

Charging Animations

All ratings33 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral6.1%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral9.1%
Negative51.5%

In-app purchases

None

Remember

No in-app purchases

None

Charging Animations

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Remember free?
Remember costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Charging Animations free?
Charging Animations costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Remember or Charging Animations?
Remember is rated higher. Remember averages 4.2 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Charging Animations averages 3.7 from 33 ratings.
Do Remember or Charging Animations have ads?
Neither Remember nor Charging Animations shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remember or Charging Animations?
Remember ships an update every 4 days, and Charging Animations every 2 months. Most recently, Remember was updated on September 24, 2026 and Charging Animations on September 22, 2026.

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