HOL Guard vs Memoria: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of HOL Guard and Memoria — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

HOL Guard

HOL

Freemium

HOL Guard sits between AI coding agents and their tools to intercept risky reads, installs, MCP registrations, and config changes before execution.

Pre-execution Interception: Wraps agent launch commands so risky reads, installs, MCP registrations, and config or hook changes are surfaced as a reviewable diff before they run.
Under 50 ms Local Scan: All scanning happens on-device with no outbound network call, keeping agent workflows fast and usable fully offline.
One-keystroke Approval Flow: Each block presents the diff on screen so the developer can allow or deny with a single key, and the decision is written to a local receipt.
Multi-Harness Support: Ships tailored integrations for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Hermes, and OpenClaw so the same policy engine covers every agent.
Guard Cloud Sync: Optional cloud tier syncs decision receipts, alerts, and audit history across machines while never uploading file contents, prompts, or environment variables.
Team Policy Packs: Team plan deploys shared policy packs, team alerts, and investigation routing so multiple developers operate under the same runtime rules.
Plugin Scanner for Maintainers: Companion CLI and GitHub Action verify plugin manifests, MCP transport posture, and skill-level prompt-injection markers before release.

Blocking secret exfiltration: Stop a coding agent from reading .npmrc, .env, or cloud credential files during an automated task.
Guarding MCP installs: Review new MCP server registrations for insecure HTTP endpoints or wildcard binds before they are added to the harness.
Enforcing config approvals: Require an explicit allow on config or hook edits proposed by an agent so surprise supply-chain changes are caught in place.
Team-wide policy control: Roll out a single Guard policy pack across a team so every developer's Cursor or Claude Code session enforces the same runtime rules.
Cross-device continuity: Sync approval history through Guard Cloud so switching laptops does not force a developer to re-approve safe actions from scratch.
Plugin release gating: Use the plugin-scanner action in CI to fail PRs that publish plugins below a minimum trust score or with high-severity issues.

Anas

Freemium

On-device photo and video search that indexes the text, speech, objects and faces in your library — no cloud, no account.

On-Device OCR: Reads the text inside photos, screenshots, documents, whiteboards and video frames in seven languages, making every written word searchable.
Local Whisper Transcription: Runs Whisper directly on the device to transcribe the speech in your videos across 99+ languages, so lectures, meetings and voice notes become searchable text.
Face Detection and Clustering: Detects faces and groups them locally so you can pull up every photo of one person in a single tap, without any cloud face database.
Object Recognition: Identifies objects in your library so queries like "red bicycle" return matching shots even when nothing was ever tagged.
Unified Full-Text Index: Combines text, speech, objects and people into one instant search index that lives entirely on the phone.
Background Indexing: Keeps indexing while the app is closed and prioritises work while the device is charging, so a large library finishes without you babysitting it.
Zero-Account Privacy Model: No sign-up, no upload and no tracking — analytics are anonymous and opt-out, and the app is GDPR-safe by having nothing to collect.
One-Time Purchase Unlock: Memoria Plus removes the 250-media indexing cap forever with a single payment processed by Apple or Google, including future on-device models.

Finding a Document You Photographed: Recovering an invoice, bill or receipt you snapped months ago by searching the words printed on it rather than scrolling the camera roll.
Searching Recorded Lectures and Meetings: Locating the moment a specific term was spoken inside a long video by searching the on-device transcript.
Pulling Every Photo of a Person: Assembling all shots of one friend or family member from a clustered face group for a birthday album or share.
Recovering Saved Screenshots and Memes: Tracking down a screenshot or meme by the text written on it instead of guessing when you saved it.
Working Offline or While Travelling: Searching a full media library on a plane or with no signal, since indexing and search never require a network.
Keeping Sensitive Media Off the Cloud: Making a library of personal, medical or client photos searchable without uploading any of it to a third-party service.