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Ciao! vs Queue
Queue Personal CRM, by Jeremy Lubin
A simple personal CRM for anyone you want to see more often: you pick how often to catch up, it nudges you, and it asks for a few notes after each catch-up.
65 ratings in the App Store, October 2026. Also on iPad and Mac.
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Queue
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
$4.99 a month or $49.99 a year |
| Free tier | 3 friends | One week free |
| Account needed | None | Not stated |
| Where it runs | iPhone | iPhone, iPad and Mac |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | Not stated. Summaries made by the Mac app stay in your own iCloud |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
Every row comes from Queue’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: Queue on the App Store · Queue on AlternativeTo · Queue’s website
Where Queue wins
- •The Mac app notices when you email, text, call or FaceTime someone and logs the catch-up for you. On iPhone, Ciao! asks you to log it yourself with a swipe.
- •Meetings in your Apple or Google Calendar count as catch-ups on their own. It can also bring people in from LinkedIn and tell you when someone starts a new job.
- •You choose when reminders come for each person or group: any day, weekdays only, or weekends only.
Where Ciao! wins
- •$9.99, once. Queue is $49.99 a year after its free week.
- •Three friends free for as long as you like, so you can try it slowly before you pay anything.
- •Queue sorts everyone into one list by who is next. Ciao! gives you a deck on Sunday, and an animal for each friend that shows how long it has been.
Which one should you actually get?
Queue is the better pick if you have a Mac and a mix of friends, family and old colleagues to keep up with. Its automatic logging and calendar link do work that Ciao! leaves to you. Ciao! is for friends you keep up with from your phone, paid for once, with a weekly deck in place of a long list.
