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Ciao! vs CatchUp
CatchUp: Keep in Touch, by Ryan Token
Free, no ads, paid for by tips. It reminds you about anyone in your Contacts.
47 ratings in the US App Store, September 2026. Last updated May 2026.
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CatchUp
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
Free Tips if you want to |
| Free tier | 3 friends | Everyone |
| Where the list comes from | People you add, one at a time | Your iOS Contacts |
| Account needed | None | [CHECK] |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
| Still being updated | Yes, this month | Yes, May 2026 |
Every row comes from the app’s own App Store listing, read in September 2026. Where a cell says [CHECK] I could not confirm it without installing and paying, so it stays blank. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews. There is a second app called Catchup, by Chris Lee, and it is a different app that stopped in 2024.
Where CatchUp wins
- •It is free, and it does not stop at three people. Ciao! asks for $9.99 after that.
- •It reads your Contacts, so you are set up in about a minute.
- •It ranks first for “keep in touch”, so it is the one most people find.
Where Ciao! wins
- •One note on Sunday, instead of a notification for each person on its own day.
- •A face for each friend, which fades when it has been a while.
- •Notes about each person, in front of you at the moment you are about to write.
Which one should you actually get?
Honestly, if all you want is a reminder, CatchUp is free and it does that well. Ciao! is for when the reminder was never the hard part, and remembering what they told you last time is.
