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Ciao! vs Covve
Covve - Personal CRM, by Covve Visual Network Limited
A contact book for your professional network: scan business cards, set follow-up reminders, keep notes, and get news about your contacts.
626 ratings in the US App Store, October 2026. Also on Android and the web. The company’s own site now leads with business card scanning and lead capture.
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
Pro from $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year in the App Store; its site shows €84 a year per user |
| Free tier | 3 friends | Free to download; the limits are not stated |
| Account needed | None | Yes |
| Where it runs | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Android and the web |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | On its servers, end-to-end encrypted |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
Every row comes from Covve’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: Covve on the App Store · Covve on AlternativeTo · Covve’s website
Where Covve wins
- •It scans business cards and event badges, and you can share your own digital business card, even from a widget.
- •News about your contacts’ careers and interests before you reach out, plus weekly and monthly stats on your networking.
- •It runs on Android and in a browser as well as on iPhone, and an AI assistant takes notes for you by email.
Where Ciao! wins
- •Covve is built for work contacts and leads. Ciao! is built for friends: each one gets a rhythm, like every 3 weeks, and a timer from the last time you talked.
- •No account. Ciao! has no server of its own, and your notes live on your phone and in your own iCloud.
- •$9.99 once. Covve Pro renews every month or every year.
Which one should you actually get?
If you go to conferences and need to turn handshakes into contacts, get Covve. Ciao! does not try to do that. If the people you want to keep are friends and family, get Ciao!: it does one thing, which is to show you once a week who you have not talked to in a while.
