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Ciao! vs amiqo
amiqo: Workout with Friends, by Amiqo, Inc.
An app that started as a way to stay close to friends and is now built around going to workouts and classes with them.
32 ratings in the App Store, October 2026. iPhone and Android. It is now a fitness app, and its own site explains why it changed.
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
Free |
| Free tier | 3 friends | Everything |
| Account needed | None | Yes |
| Where it runs | iPhone | iPhone and Android |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | amiqo’s servers |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
Every row comes from amiqo’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: amiqo on the App Store · amiqo on AlternativeTo · amiqo’s website
What amiqo did well
- •Your friends are in it with you. They tap "I’m in" to join your class, and the photo you send after lands on their home screen.
- •It still notices when a friend has gone quiet and offers you an opener. Only you see that part.
- •It is free on iPhone and Android, with no feed and no ads.
Where Ciao! wins
- •Ciao! is still about friends, whatever you do together. It works for the ones you only ever call or text.
- •Nobody else is in the app. Your friends never learn it exists.
- •No account. Your notes stay on your phone and in your own iCloud.
Which one should you actually get?
If you want friends to come to classes and runs with you, amiqo is made for that now, and it is free. If you were looking for the friendship app it used to be, Ciao! does that job: a rhythm per friend, a weekly deck, and notes, with nobody else in the app.
