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Ciao! vs Keepsake
Keepsake, by Nicolas Croce
A web app that puts quick notes, tasks, a daily journal, publishing and your contacts in one place, so you remember who said what.
Not in the App Store; it runs in a browser and you can install it on your phone as a web app. In English and French.
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
€9 a month or €89 a year |
| Free tier | 3 friends | 30-day trial, no card needed |
| Account needed | None | Yes |
| Where it runs | iPhone | Any browser, installable on a phone |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | Keepsake’s servers |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
Every row comes from Keepsake’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: Keepsake on AlternativeTo · Keepsake’s website
K Where Keepsake wins
- •Type @Sarah@ in any note and it lands on Sarah’s profile, so your notes, tasks and people stay linked.
- •It does far more than friends: tasks, a daily journal, project pages, and a page you can publish for subscribers.
- •Claude and ChatGPT can read your notes through its MCP server, and it has an API.
Where Ciao! wins
- •$9.99 once. Keepsake is €9 every month after the trial.
- •It only does friends: a rhythm for each one, and one deck on Sunday of who is due.
- •No account. Your notes stay on your phone and in your own iCloud.
Which one should you actually get?
Keepsake is a notebook for your whole life with your contacts inside it, made for creators, entrepreneurs and writers. If you want notes, tasks and people linked together on every device, it is the better tool. If you only want help keeping up with your friends, Ciao! does that one thing and you pay once.
