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Ciao! vs Friendly Reminder
Friendly Reminder, by Matt Blake
A web app from 2018 that emailed you when it was time to get back in touch with someone. You replied to the email and it saved what you wrote as a note.
Closed. Its domain was taken over in 2019 and no longer loads. It was a web app, launched on Product Hunt in April 2018.
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
Paid, price not stated |
| Free tier | 3 friends | Not stated |
| Account needed | None | Yes |
| Where it runs | iPhone | Was a web app, with reminders by email |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | Its own servers (it was built on Bubble) |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No. An email for each person when they were due |
Every row comes from Friendly Reminder’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: Friendly Reminder on AlternativeTo
F What Friendly Reminder did well
- •Logging was a reply. You answered the reminder email, and what you wrote became a note.
- •Each email brought your notes from last time, a birthday if one was close, and a link straight to their number or Facebook chat.
- •Nothing to install. It ran in any browser, and the reminders came to your inbox.
Where Ciao! wins
- •No account and no server of its own. Your notes stay on your phone and in your own iCloud.
- •Your inbox stays out of it. The reminder is one notification on Sunday with everyone who is due.
- •Logging is a swipe right on the friend’s card.
Which one should you actually get?
Friendly Reminder closed years ago. If you liked getting a nudge and saving a note in the same step, Ciao! does that on iPhone: swipe right, and the note for that friend is right there. If you want something that works in a browser on your computer, Ciao! cannot do that.
