Momento
Momento is an iPhone journaling app that combines written entries, photos, videos, and imported activity feeds in a searchable personal journal.
What Momento is
Momento is an iPhone journaling app that combines written entries, photos, videos, and imported activity feeds in a searchable personal journal. Users can tag people and places, group moments into events, and browse timelines or visual summaries. Preset and custom reminders encourage regular capture. Supported feeds include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Swarm, Flickr, YouTube, Spotify, Medium, Uber, Goodreads, and RSS or Atom sources. The free plan costs nothing and includes notes, photos and videos, entry search, and local or iCloud backup. Premium export creates plain text with a media folder. The maker says journal content and settings stay on the device, with iCloud storage used when enabled. Momento was designed specifically for iPhone.
Good
- Combines notes, photos, videos, and activity feeds
- Search spans moments, people, places, and tags
- Preset and custom capture reminders
- Local and iCloud backup options
- Passcode and biometric protection in Premium
Watch out
- Designed specifically for iPhone
- Several protections and export features require Premium
Who it suits
It suits people keeping personal, travel, work, food, health, pregnancy, notebook, or review journals on iPhone. Users wanting feed imports, reminders, and searchable memory archives may find the organization useful.
Verdict
Momento focuses on collecting and revisiting memories from one iPhone journal, with broad feed integrations and searchable organization. The free tier covers core writing and backup, while feed history, export, and added protection belong to Premium.
Plans and prices
From Momento's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Write notes · Add photos and videos · Search entries · Local and iCloud backup |
| Momento Premium | — | Unlimited feeds · multiple photos and videos per moment · journal export · passcode and biometric lock · hourly feed updates · future premium features |
The facts
Each one read from Momento's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- App lock
- Premium can protect Momento with a four-digit passcode and biometrics.checked 8 Oct 2026
What it does
- Audience
- The maker describes uses including personal, travel, work or project, food, health, and pregnancy journals, plus notebooks and review logs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Availability
- The maker says Momento was designed specifically for iPhone.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Backup and export
- Momento supports local or iCloud backups, and Premium can export a journal as plain text with a folder of media.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Capture
- Users can write moments, add photos and videos, and tag people and places.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Data storage
- The maker says journal entries, photos, videos, imported feed data, and settings are stored on the user's device and are not stored on its services; iCloud storage applies if enabled.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- multiplechecked 20 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Supported feeds include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Swarm, Flickr, YouTube, Spotify, Medium, Uber, Goodreads, and RSS or Atom feeds.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Organization
- Moments can be grouped into events and organized with people, places, and tags.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Momento is an iPhone journaling app that collects activities, photos, and videos into a journal.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Recall
- Momento provides timelines, visual summaries, and search across moments, feeds, people, places, and tags.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Reminders
- Users can set preset and custom reminders to capture memories.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- The privacy policy says sensitive information sent between the browser and website or device and third-party services is transferred using SSL encryption.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- Momento directs users to its Zendesk support site for help and enquiries.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Momento says it launched in January 2010 and identifies d3i Limited as the owner and data controller.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Stafford, Staffordshire, Englandchecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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