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If Garden has not changed since 2020

Garden: Stay in Touch, by Meaning Labs

The last update was June 2020. Six years is a long time for an app to sit still, and iOS has moved on underneath it.

50 ratings in the US App Store, September 2026. Last updated 4 June 2020.

	Ciao!	Garden
Last update	This month	June 2020
What it costs	One payment $9.99	Free
Free tier	3 friends	Everything
Account needed	None	[CHECK]
Your friends in the app	Never	Invite links
A creature for each friend	15 animals, 6 moods	A flower ring

The rows about Garden come from its own App Store listing, read in September 2026, and from its update date. Where a cell says [CHECK] I could not confirm it without installing, so it stays blank. Nothing here is taken from another app’s reviews. There is a newer, unrelated app also called Garden: Keep in Touch, released in 2026. This page is about the older one, by Meaning Labs.

Where Garden wins

•It is free, with no limit on people.
•A ring for each friend is a nice picture, and it was there first.
•If it still opens on your phone, it still works.

Where Ciao! wins

•It is still being made. The last update was this month.
•A creature for each friend, with six moods, instead of one ring.
•Nobody is invited and nothing is shared. Your friends never know they are in it.

What to do now

Copy out whatever you wrote about people, while the app still opens. Then add your first three people to Ciao! from Contacts. That part is free.

Three friends free. Decide after that.

Get Ciao! on the App Store