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Ciao! vs Norrie
Norrie: A personal relationship manager for real life, a web app run from the United Kingdom
A web app where each person gets question packs about gifts, pets, life events and work, plus birthdays and a weekly email of who to reconnect with.
Not in the App Store, so no ratings. It runs in a web browser. Checked October 2026.
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
Free, or Pro at $6 a month or $60 a year |
| Free tier | 3 friends | 20 people |
| Account needed | None | Yes |
| Where it runs | iPhone | A web browser |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | Norrie’s servers, encrypted |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No. It sends a weekly email of birthdays, events and people to reconnect with |
Every row comes from Norrie’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: Norrie on AlternativeTo · Norrie’s website
N Where Norrie wins
- •Twenty people free, for as long as you like. Ciao! gives you three.
- •Question packs give each person a set of things to fill in: gift ideas, their pets, life events, work. Ciao! has one plain notes field per friend.
- •It runs in any browser, so it works on Android or a laptop. Ciao! is iPhone only.
Where Ciao! wins
- •A rhythm for each friend, like every three weeks, counted from the last time you talked. Norrie’s own site says it does not track follow-up cadences.
- •No sign-up. Norrie needs an account and keeps your notes on its servers. Ciao! keeps them on your phone and in your own iCloud.
- •$9.99 once. Norrie Pro is $60 every year.
Which one should you actually get?
Pick Norrie if you want to keep a lot of detail about people, in a browser, on any device, and twenty free people matters to you. Pick Ciao! if what you need is a nudge when a friend has gone quiet, on an iPhone, with no account and one payment.
