Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MEMO file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MEMO to another file type
To convert your MEMO file to another format, you need Samsung S Note or other Text software.
Convert a file to MEMO
To convert other file formats to the "Mobile Note Archive" file type, you need software like Samsung S Note or a similar tool.
About MEMO files
The .MEMO file extension is primarily associated with Samsung S Note, a note-taking application pre-installed on older Samsung Galaxy devices. These files serve as containers for rich media notes, encapsulating handwritten text, typed content, sketches, voice recordings, and images into a single archive. While efficient for mobile use, the format presents significant accessibility challenges today. It is a proprietary format, meaning files created on a Galaxy S5 or Note 4 often cannot be opened on modern Android devices, iPhones, or desktop operating systems like Windows and macOS without specific legacy software.
Users typically need to convert .MEMO files because the original S Note app has been largely superseded by Samsung Notes, leaving older archives stranded. Additionally, the files often function as ZIP containers; while savvy users might try renaming the extension to ZIP to extract individual images, this destroys the layout and formatting of the note. For preservation and easy sharing, the best solution is converting these files to PDF, which retains the visual layout of drawings and text. For further editing, converting to JPG or extracting raw TXT data allows users to migrate content to platform-agnostic tools like Evernote or Microsoft OneNote.
Convert.Guru analyzes your MEMO file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert MEMO file to MP3, TEXT, PDF, VIDEO, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ or LZMA, you can use Samsung S Note or similar software from the "Mobile Note Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to MEMO, try Samsung S Note or another comparable tool in the "Mobile Note Storage" category.
The MEMO Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our MEMO converter.