MemoAssist App Review

MemoAssist is an app for your iPhone and iPad that uses images and sounds to remind you and guide you through tasks. It’s visual and audible (obviously) and that combination is indeed helpful. More importantly, it’s simple.

You can view the main interface as either a single day view or you can select to view the entire week at once. Both views are handy.

When you create a new event, a new “to-do” as I like to call them, you can assign a picture to the event. In fact, you can create a detailed step-by-step guide with pictures each step of the way. You can also write out instructions for each step and/or record audio. In fact, you can do pretty much everything short of shooting video footage.

It’s nice that you can take pictures yourself and use them in MemoAssist, but it’s also cool that the app lets you choose one of their many stock images. And you set the duration for the event or step too, and then you see a visual clock with time passing. That’s a great feature for our visual learners. It’s helpful for reinforcement that time is passing.

Reminders are a big deal. The support documentation for this app reports that, “MemoAssist will try to remind you about the event until you have marked it as completed.” I found in my testing that it alerted me in a timely manner. And it alerted me more than once if I ignored it and did not mark an event as completed. However, I would prefer to have a setting that lets me decide how often to see and hear alerts after the initial reminder, especially if I didn’t do the task at hand. I know that some people will want/need to be alerted much more frequently than others. MemoAssist would be a more ideal app if it had some wiggle room for setting reminders more frequently or less frequently.

I know people who could benefit from use of this app, but they’ll need to be alerted multiple times until the scheduled task is marked as complete.

MemoAssist is pleasing to the eye. It has a simple, yet intuitive interface. It’s easy to learn and use. What’s more, it’s easy to master. The learning curve is not steep. Those qualities are important and cannot be understated, in my opinion.

For technical purposes, it should be known that I tested the app with an old iPad 2 with iOS 8.1.3 installed. At the time of this review that’s a very recent, but not the latest, version of iOS (iPhone Operating System) on the second generation iPad. Only one step above the original iPad that initially launched in 2010. Either way, the app store indicates that MemoAssist is compatible with any iPad as long as it’s running iOS 8.1 or newer. The iPad used for testing meets those requirements.

MemoAssist is $38.99 at the time of this review. The developers offer a free version called MemoAssist Intl for trial purposes. Documentation and details about the app from the developer can be found at MemoAssist.com.