Why › Any way you talk
A call counts. So does a coffee.
Ciao! counts that you talked, not how. Text, call, video or dinner: it is all contact.
What this actually looks like
Apps that only count texts
You saw them on Saturday and the app still says it has been a month.
Apps that want the channel
Was it a call or a message? Which app? You do not care, and neither should it.
Your friends are on five apps
WhatsApp for one, Instagram for another, a phone call for your dad.
What Ciao! does about it
One swipe means “we talked”
Whatever it was. The timer resets and the creature wakes up.
Backdate the dinner
Saw them on Tuesday? Tap the card, pick the day, done.
No channel field, ever
Ciao! never asks where the conversation happened. That is none of its business.