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Ciao! vs Bond: Keep in Touch
Bond: Keep in Touch, by Rooftop Moments UG
A private iPhone app that sorts your friends by how long it has been, with soft dates, five closeness tiers and a daily idea of something to do together.
5 ratings in the App Store, October 2026. iPhone only. Last updated June 2026.
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Ciao!
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Bond: Keep in Touch
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
$8.99 once, or $3.99 a year |
| Free tier | 3 friends | A 7-day trial, then read-only |
| Account needed | None | None |
| Where it runs | iPhone | iPhone |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | Your phone only, with no cloud |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
Every row comes from Bond: Keep in Touch’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: Bond on the App Store
Where Bond wins
- •Overdue friends show soft dates like "Late March" instead of a count of days.
- •An Inspiration tab suggests one thing to do together each day, matched to the friend you have not seen in longest, and a network map shows who knows whom.
- •$8.99 once, a dollar less than Ciao!, and it comes in German as well as English.
Where Ciao! wins
- •Notes for each friend. Bond says in its listing that it does not care about last-contact notes. Ciao! shows yours when it is time to get in touch.
- •Three friends free for as long as you like. Bond gives you seven days and then goes read-only.
- •A backup in your own iCloud. Bond keeps everything on the phone only.
Which one should you actually get?
Bond and Ciao! start from the same place: private, no account, pay once, no guilt. Pick Bond if you want ideas for what to do together, or tiers for how close you are. Pick Ciao! if you want to remember what you talked about last time and you would like an iCloud backup. Ciao! also speaks Italian and Spanish, and Bond speaks German.
