- Price$0.99
- CategoryUtilities
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerRecession Apps
- Bundle IDcom.RecessionApps.FreeMemory
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueThe app NOW FREES MEMORY AUTOMATICALLY ON START and when brought to the front from the multi-task bar. Users LOVE the app: - "I love this app and use it all of the time. It works perfectly. Without it I would have to turn off my Itouch and restart it to free up the memory and that uses a lot of battery resources" - “I have an iTouch and have had your very helpful app, “Free Memory” for ages and love it.” - “I've had your Free Memory app since it came out, and I use it quite often” - “My all-time favorite app, Free Memory” - “FreeMemory is one of my favorite apps, I use it all the time” - “I've been a very satisfied user of this app for a long time, on an iPhone 2G, a 3Gs, and now an iPad” - “I'm using Free Memory 2.0 on iOS4 on iPhone 3GS, That's simple and cool app and I love it. One of my favorite app :)” - “Thank you, thank you, thank you for this app!” - “I LOVE my Free Memory application and recommended it to several friends“
Free Memory displays the amount of runtime free memory (RAM) currently available on your iPhone or iPod Touch. This is different from the storage capacity used for storing music, videos or apps.
The iPhone and iPod Touch comes with 128-512MB of runtime memory. The iPhone and iPod Touch does not use the storage memory as virtual memory, so the memory available for applications is limited to the 128-512MB of runtime memory.
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| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 28, 2010 | 2.0.1 | — | 9,121 | $0.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25I don't have the multitasking thing so when my iPod is slow I use this app... It makes other apps load faster and sometimes safari works faster too..
I have a suspicion this app does absolutely nothing. That's my guess. Might be possible I'm wrong but.. For a dollar though .. I can deal.
I figured it would help my phone from crashing all the time but now the app crashes as well. The app doesn't seem to do what it says it does. Waste of money.
It would be nice to have the option to choose if you'd like to free the memory or not. It would certainly clear up the confusion that the simpletons are experiencing. ("duh, why'd my pandora stop?") Other than that, it works well enough. If you'd like to know something that works better, open this app, then open your multitask menu and close all other apps. Your free memory will skyrocket.
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For instance, the review from "mettur" below has to be the funniest review I have ever read. LOL the name of the app is "Free Memory" ...the whole *point* of the app is to *Free* memory by closing down background applications! (It is analogous to closing down every running program on a computer in order to free RAM for other use...) Concerning the review saying the last one (MemoryInfo) worked better: I had that app throughout its history (before the specific button to free memory was even pulled! [Apple is to blame on that one btw.]) This version seems to work better - the issue is that iOS 4.0.x itself is not as forgiving about allowing processes to be killed than 3.x or earlier versions of the OS. Just the very nature of multiple apps running at once implies much more memory use in the first place. (So again, this is on Apple's side.) I have a question though: Since installing iOS 4 on my 3GS almost everytime I open this I have almost *NO* free memory! (It often shows less than 3MB of memory left at first...that's right, *3* MB!) This makes sense since with multitasking almost nothing truly closes and removes itself from memory. However, even after exhaustive searching, I cannot find anyone else with this issue. If this is true, then how can this operating system properly work without running an app like this continuously or without restarting the iPhone all the time. Other 3GS owners say their phones are faster since iOS 4...mine is DEFINITELY much slower because of this. Is there something wrong with my installation or am I missing something? (I would HATE my PC if it were so difficult to close anything on the bottom taskbar...It is like the Home Button just Minimizes the current app. (Hitting Home twice brings up every single app I have run since the past reboot - dozens and dozens of them!) [To the more techy people - I assume that when in that low-memory state I am now working in Virtual Memory (the SLOW speed seems to imply this) but why isn't anyone else complaining about this?] Regardless, I hope this review is helpful. Because of my situation I run this app all the time and love it! (Thankfully Apple is allowing it [sans the button] again - for almost a year Apple outright banned all "Free Memory" type apps!)
Does not work on iOS 3.2
In the past I could "free" the memory simply by pressing a button and the results were very obvious. Now whatever number the app opens up to stays there and after a while the memory available does increase but just a little, not significantly. The "automatic" feature is not as automatic as it's supposed to be. I don't get it. The original version was very popular, why change something people liked?? People, including me, like being in control. The new version took the control away. ==>>> Bring the FREE MEMORY button back!!! <<<==
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.