Mem vs Craft
Mem and Craft side by side: what each one is, what it costs to start, and whether you can try it free. Everything below comes from the vendors' own sites and other public sources, not from hands-on testing.
At a glance
| Mem | Craft | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Starting price | Free; paid plans from $9/mo (checked October 2026) | Free; paid plans from $8/mo (checked October 2026) |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Profile | Read profile | Read profile |
Prices are in US dollars unless shown otherwise. Confirm the current price on the vendor's site before you buy.
Key differences
Both list a free tier, so you can try each before paying.
Craft has the lower starting price ($8/mo against $9/mo for Mem). The cheapest plan rarely has the same limits or features, so compare plans before choosing on price.
Both are in our Productivity category.
About each tool
Mem
AI notes app with search, tasks, voice capture and a chat agent over your notes. Free plan has monthly caps; paid plans start at $9 a month (monthly billing only).
Who it is for
It suits individuals who want notes, tasks and voice capture in one place with AI search and Q&A over them. The vendor's higher Pro tiers add custom routines and connections to Gmail, Slack and Todoist for heavier use.
Strengths
- Mem lists Deep Search and templates on every plan, including Free.
- The App Store listing says Mem detects tasks and projects from notes, keeps voice notes with their transcripts, and works offline on iPhone, syncing when reconnected.
- The App Store listing names Gmail, Slack and Todoist as connections that can supply context; Mem says connections require Pro or higher.
- Mem says it is SOC 2 Type II compliant, encrypts content in transit and at rest, and runs on Google Cloud.
- Mem's privacy policy says it does not use your personal information or notes to train generalized AI or ML models, and does not use integration queries to train AI models.
- Mem's pricing page lists one-click export of notes and collections as Markdown files.
Limitations
- Usage is capped each month on every plan: Free gets 25 messages to Mem, 25 new notes, 15 open tasks/projects and 3 hours of Voice Mode; Plus gets 50, 50, 25 and 10 hours.
- Custom routines, routine executions and connections are not included on Free or Plus; Pro includes 1 routine, 50 executions and 1 connection, and more cost $49 to $199 a month.
- Mem's security page says content is decrypted for AI processing by third-party vendors it describes as trusted and SOC 2 compliant, so notes are not end-to-end encrypted.
- The App Store listing shows an in-app purchase named Pro at $12.00 and three Proactive entries ($29, $59, $99) that do not appear on the pricing page, so check which plans are current.
Craft
Document and notes app with an AI assistant that answers questions and edits docs. Free plan; Plus is $8 a month billed annually ($10 monthly), per the help center.
Who it is for
Craft's pricing page describes Plus as one full-featured account for an individual, with Family and Team plans that bundle several Plus accounts and shared spaces. Craft's help center describes the free Starter plan as suited to personal projects.
Strengths
- Craft's help center says the assistant has two modes: Explore, which proposes changes and waits for approval, and Execute, which applies changes directly.
- Craft's help center says you can connect your own OpenAI account or API key, or an Anthropic API key, on macOS and iOS, and that no Craft AI credits are spent while a connected provider is used.
- Craft says MCP and API usage does not count toward the AI usage quota, and its pricing page lists API and MCP access at 100 requests a minute and 20,000 blocks a minute.
- Craft's AI data page says Craft does not use your content to train AI models and that conversation history is kept for 30 days.
- Craft's refund page lists a full refund within 30 days of an annual purchase or renewal, and within 14 days of the first charge on a monthly plan.
Limitations
- The Starter (free) plan is capped at 1,500 blocks, 1 GB of storage, 25 MB media uploads and 7-day version history, and its AI allowance is 15 credits that Craft's usage page describes as lifetime, about 15-25 sessions.
- Craft's own pages disagree: the pricing page shows Plus as $8.0 and $6.4 a month with an unlabeled Yearly/Monthly toggle and Family as 2 to 6 Plus accounts, while the help center shows Plus at $96 a year or $10 monthly and Family as up to 5 invited members.
- Craft's security page does not state whether customer data is used for AI or where data is stored; its SOC 2 and GDPR headings carry no details, and compliance materials are offered on request. The AI data page names no model providers.
