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Ciao! vs YourPond
YourPond, by LilyPadLabs
A personal contact book that maps where your people live, how they know each other, and the trips, dinners and gifts you shared.
29 ratings in the App Store, October 2026. Also in a browser.
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| What it costs | One payment $9.99 |
$10 a month or $100 a year |
| Free tier | 3 friends | 25 contacts |
| Account needed | None | Yes |
| Where it runs | iPhone | iPhone and the web |
| Where your notes live | Your phone and your own iCloud | On YourPond’s own service |
| A creature for each friend | 15 animals, 6 moods | No |
| A weekly swipe deck | Yes | No |
Every row comes from YourPond’s own App Store listing or website, read on 2 October 2026. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews.
Sources: YourPond on the App Store · YourPond on AlternativeTo · YourPond’s website
Where YourPond wins
- •25 contacts free. When you reach the limit nothing is locked or deleted, you just can’t add new people.
- •A world map of where your friends live and where you have travelled, and family trees that build themselves as you add relationships.
- •A gift log for ideas, gifts given and gifts received, with a nudge to say thank you.
Where Ciao! wins
- •$9.99, once. YourPond Pro is $100 a year.
- •No account. Your notes stay on your phone and in your own iCloud. YourPond keeps your data on its service, and it says it never sells it or trains AI on it.
- •Each friend gets a rhythm and a timer from the last time you talked, and shows up in the Sunday deck when they are due.
Which one should you actually get?
YourPond is for people who want the full picture: who lives where, who knows whom, and who came to the wedding. It also works in a browser, and the free tier is much bigger. Ciao! does a smaller job. It tells you which friends are due and helps you reach them, with nothing to sign up for and one payment.
