Memopolis guide: how your photo city is built, and what to do in it
A tour of Memopolis: how photo days become buildings, the time-lapse, your city's type, City of Us, Neighbours, the video to share and Demolish.
Memopolis turns your photo gallery into a 3D city you can fly around. It sounds like a gimmick until you see your own years laid out as a skyline. Here’s how it works and what you can do in it.
How the city is built
Memopolis reads the dates of the photos and videos in your gallery and groups them by day, all on your phone. Then:
- Every day you took photos becomes a building.
- Years are districts and months are blocks.
- Your busiest days stand as skyscrapers, and quiet days become parks.
Your photos never leave your phone.
A building for every photo day, a district for every year.
Watch it rise
The first thing you see is a time-lapse: your city builds itself from your very first photo to today, then dives into your tallest tower to show your best day. Drone tours fly you to individual memories after that.
A drone tour flying to a memory from August 2016.
Your city’s type
Each city gets a type worked out from what’s really in it, such as Festival City, Night Owl Metro, Screenshot Slum Lord or Forward Bazaar. The stats screen shows your best day, your boom year and the quiet days that became parks.
Stats: your best day, your boom year and the quiet days that became parks.
Landmarks and a city every year
Name the days that mattered and they become landmarks. When a big day joins your city, a new landmark lights up. You can keep a city for every year of your life, and your skyline also lives in a home-screen widget.
The Look
Change the place, time, weather, colours and city life. With Pro you get city styles (Mumbai Monsoon, Dubai Gold, Tokyo Neon, Paris Dusk) and landscapes such as Snow Peaks and Cherry Blossom.
The Look: here, Dusk over Snow Peaks.
A video to share
Save your city rising as a vertical video with music made in the app, ready for Reels, Shorts or WhatsApp status. The free version saves 720p videos and posters with a small Memopolis mark; Pro saves 1080p video and HD posters without it.
City of Us
Pick a day in your city and tap Start a city from this day, or send an invite link. When the other person opens it and taps Merge with my city, Memopolis builds one city from both galleries, and the days you both took photos glow gold.
Neighbours
Friends’ cities stand next to yours across a river. You can visit, like, and leave a tree, lantern, fountain or statue by their city. There are no rankings: towers are busy days and parks are quiet ones. Neighbours only shares a random name and how many photos you took each day, never photos, file names or places.
A friend’s city across the river. They never see your photos.
Demolish the junk
Old screenshots take up space. Demolish (part of Pro) lets you pick screenshots to clear. Your iPhone shows its own confirmation first, and they go to Recently Deleted, where you can still restore them.
Getting it
Memopolis is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and an Android version is on its way. The free version builds and explores your whole city; Pro is a one-time unlock. You can try a demo city in your browser, and see screenshots on the Memopolis page.
