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Ciao! vs Kinfolio
Kinfolio: Keep in Touch Notes, by HollyByte
A private notebook for the people in your life, with pinned facts, a quick note after each talk, date reminders and a nudge when someone has gone quiet.
3 ratings in the App Store, October 2026. Also on Android.
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Ciao!
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Kinfolio
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
€2.99 a month or €24.99 a year ($2.99 or $22.99 in the US) |
| Free tier | 3 friends | 5 people |
| Account needed | None | None |
| Where it runs | iPhone | iPhone and Android |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | Your phone, with optional encrypted sync through your own iCloud or Google Drive |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
Every row comes from Kinfolio’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: Kinfolio on the App Store · Kinfolio on AlternativeTo · Kinfolio’s website
Where Kinfolio wins
- •Five people free instead of three, and it runs on Android as well as iPhone.
- •An hour before a meeting in your calendar, it tells you who you are meeting, what matters to them and what to ask. Ciao! does not read your calendar.
- •It comes in nine languages, tracks name days and work anniversaries, and has optional AI that turns a few spoken words into a new card.
Where Ciao! wins
- •$9.99, once. Kinfolio Pro renews every month or every year, and there is no free trial.
- •Your notes back up to your own iCloud on the free tier too. In Kinfolio, sync and backups are part of Pro.
- •A deck on Sunday that you swipe through, and an animal for each friend, instead of a Today screen of dates and people to write to.
Which one should you actually get?
Both keep your notes on your phone with nothing to sign up for, so this comes down to what you need. Pick Kinfolio if you are on Android, if you want work contacts and family dates in one place, or if you like a short briefing before you meet someone. Pick Ciao! if it is just friends, and you would rather swipe through who is due once a week and pay one time.
