Ciao! vs Gravity

Gravity: Stay In Touch, by Gabriel Rubens

Closeness levels, warmth rings, and a nudge when someone has not heard from you in a while.

No ratings yet in the App Store. A web app, with the phone apps in beta. Last updated June 2026.

	Ciao!	Gravity
What it costs	€3.99 a year after 7 days free	$24 a year
Free tier	None. The yearly plan starts with 7 days free	5 people
Account needed	None	Yes
Where it runs	iPhone	The web. iPhone and Android in beta
How it reminds you	A note on the evening someone is due, never more than one a day, and a look on Sunday at everyone who is due	A daily nudge by email or push, plus a Sunday digest
Opens WhatsApp for you	Yes, with Messages and Call too, when a number is saved	Yes
A creature for each friend	15 animals, 6 moods	Warmth rings

Every row comes from Gravity’s own App Store listing and its website, read on 24 September 2026, including the line about the phone apps being in beta. Ciao!’s prices here are the euro ones. The App Store shows yours before you confirm. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.

Sources: Gravity’s website

Where Gravity wins

Five people free, for good.
It works in a browser, so it is not tied to an iPhone.
It can nudge you by email as well as on your phone.

Where Ciao! wins

No account, and no email from it. Everything happens on your phone.
The phone app is the whole of Ciao!. Gravity’s phone apps are in beta, and its own site says so.

Which one should you actually get?

Gravity is the closest thing to Ciao! in spirit. Same warmth, same refusal to make you feel bad. The real differences are the account and where it lives. If you want it in a browser, take Gravity. If you want one app on your phone, with no account, take Ciao!.

Try it for a week. Then decide.

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