iPhone

Momento is a private journaling app that has a slick interface and is pretty easy to use. While you get the basic journaling tools like new entry creation, tags, and photos, Momento does more than some of the competition. You can pull in data from your social network feeds like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Swarm, and more. There is even support for videos in entries, which can be a big deal for some. Everything is neatly organized and there is iCloud syncing so your memories are completely private and not stored on a third-party syncing service.

Everything in your timeline. Memento is a journaling app that can do it all. Since the app is able to pull in your posts from social media feeds like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Swarm, and more, you may end up with a lot of things in your journal. Fortunately, Momento takes care of that. While the initial load of all of your feeds may take some time, everything is automatically organized and sorted. Every bit of data that comes in will be sorted chronologically, and images will even appear in the timeline feed. When you view a particular day, you'll see everything that happened on that day, such as tweets and Facebook updates, as well as any images you may have shared on Instagram. If you add a regular Momento entry on a day with many social feeds, don't worry about it — that normal entry appears larger and more dominant, as a way to "highlight" it so you don't get confused by the other stuff. It's simple, intuitive, and an amazing way to look back on things that happen in your life.

New entry creation. As we all go about our daily lives, there may be a lot of things happening at once, so it's important to capture those events as they happen. It doesn't even have to be big events — just anything that makes you smile, or even bad times that make you reflect on yourself. Adding new entries in Momento is easy and a tap away. Just write in what you want to say, add some photos and even video (a much better way to relive memories), add a place, organize by tags, and save your entry so it shows up in your timeline. Momento makes it easy to quickly capture and move on with your life so you can be ready for the next awesome thing to capture.

Import your social feeds. In today's day and age, we are all online a lot, especially on social media. We have friends on many networks and we talk to them through posts, photos, and updates. Fortunately, with Momento, all of these can be captured to your journal as well, so you never forget about those awesome updates or conversations. Just connect your Facebook, Twitter, Swarm, Instagram, Moves, and even Uber for rides and you'll be able to look back on all of your updates for better or for worse. No matter how dumb they are, they're still a part of your life. And hey, Momento is completely private so no one has to know about your embarrassing things except you. Unless you never deleted it from Facebook, but that's a whole other story.

What is it about?

Momento is another popular journaling app that is capable of a bit more than some of the competition. While it has the basics like new text and photo entry creation with the ability to add tags and places, automatically get date and time and geolocation data from photos for the entry date, it can do more. A big difference between Momento and Day One is the fact that Momento even has support for videos, which can be a big deal to many people — videos are a much more powerful form of media that helps you relive memories, after all. There is also automatic support for social media feeds built-in to Momento, rather than going through a third-party service like IFTTT. Plus there is iCloud syncing so you don't have to worry about a third-party syncing service, where your data is stored on someone's server. However, while Momento has many more features that can be useful for people, be warned that the initial load for your connected feed data can take a while and the scrolling is not as smooth. Still, Momento is an app to consider for those who want to make sure to capture every little detail of their lives.

For those who...

Don't trust a third-party syncing service
Want to automatically pull in social network data without a third-party service
Want support for videos in journal entries

Not for those who...

Want a smoother interface
Need multiple journals
Already have tons of entries in a competing app

Why we love it

Social media is a big part of our lives and it is important to include that in our journaling experience as well. Plus the support for videos is nice to have too.

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App Details

Version

3.6.5

Rating

(855)

Size

45Mb

Genre

Lifestyle Photo & Video

Last updated

December 28, 2023

Release date

November 17, 2015

More info

Momento is FREE but there are more add-ons

$3.99

Premium 1 Year Subscription
$0.99

Lock Code
$1.99

Multiple Photos
$2.99

Additional 3 Feeds

App Store Description

Introducing Momento — the smart private diary/journal app that helps you capture and collect memories to search, explore, relive and share your life story.

Momento not only helps you privately capture moments in just a few taps (with notes, photos, videos, people, places and tags) but it also automatically collects your daily activities, posts and photos from the social networks, apps and devices you use everyday!

Each and every moment is automatically organised and crafted into a beautiful private journal that chronicles your life story and stays up to date effortlessly.

Momento is perfectly suited for all types of journal (such as personal, professional, study, travel, pregnancy, dream and health). Keeping a journal can also have profound benefits for mental health, memory and creativity.

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Essential Features
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QUICK AND EASY CAPTURE

• Write notes and add photos and videos
• Add people, places and tags for context
• Custom reminders and streaks encourage capture

EFFORTLESSLY COLLECT

• Import your digital history from social networks and apps
• Posts, tweets, check-ins, photos, videos and activities
• Stays up to date effortlessly

SEARCH AND EXPLORE

• Powerful search and explore (keyword, people, places, tags)
• Group and bookmark moments with ‘Events’
• Navigate by calendar or day, month and year timelines

RELIVE AND REDISCOVER

• Moments are grouped by day on a unified timeline
• Browse by day, month, year and ‘on this day’ timelines
• Summaries to relive and remember at a glance

SHARE THE MOMENTS THAT MATTER

• Share moments and day summaries
• Share beautiful photo grids and notes
• Export data as plain text (Premium)

SAFE AND SECURE

• Passcode and TouchID Protection (Premium)
• Local & iCloud Backup & Restore
• Local Media Storage

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Supported Feeds
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• Facebook posts, photos and videos
• Twitter tweets
• Instagram photos and video
• Flickr photos
• Swarm check-ins
• Spotify saved tracks
• Medium stories
• Goodreads reading history, rating and reviews
• RSS & Atom web feeds

Capture and view 365 days of feed activity for free! Unlimited historic feed activity is available as part of Momento Premium.

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Momento Premium & Premium Gold
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Upgrade to access exclusive ‘Premium only’ features including:

• Unlimited Feed History
• Export
• Hourly Feed Updates
• Passcode / TouchID / FaceID Protection
• Add Multiple Photos to moments
• Themes
• Formatting

Momento Premium Gold is for the dedicated user who would like to contribute more towards ongoing development of Momento and provides access to Priority Support.

Momento Premium and Momento Premium Gold is an auto-renewing subscription. Momento will automatically charge your iTunes Account at the end of your subscription or free trial period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time and still receive full functionality until the end of your current period, but no refunds can be provided for unused portions of the subscription. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal can be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited if any subscription in Momento is otherwise purchased. Subscriptions cannot be shared using Family Sharing.

If you have previously purchased Momento Premium or any of the individual features through our previous in-app purchase options, you can use the 'Restore Purchases' option in the 'Premium' settings screen to restore access.

Prices will vary depending on your iTunes Account settings.

Full terms and conditions can be found at https://momentoapp.com/terms/

Get it for FREE in the App Store