Why › Private
Your friends never know they are in it
No account, no server, no phone number. Your notes live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and I cannot read them.
What this actually looks like
A phone number to start
A verification code, to stay in touch with your own mother, felt like the wrong deal.
Notes about people, on somebody’s server
The partner’s name, the illness, the job hunt. You did not want that anywhere but your phone.
Privacy policies you could not finish
Long, vague, and still not saying who can see the notes.
What Ciao! does about it
Nothing to sign up for
No email, no password, no Sign in with Apple. Open it and it works.
On your phone and in your iCloud
Backed up in your own private iCloud, so a lost phone does not lose the notes. Ciao! has no server of its own.
Nobody is told
Your friends are not in the app. There are no invites and nothing is shared.
