Comparison

CircleIt vs Forethought Personal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CircleIt

Send messages, cards, and gifts to loved ones in the future. Preserve family memories and build a digital time capsule for generations to come. Connect privately with end-to-end encrypted chat and schedule future deliveries.

Highlights
  • Send future messages and cards
  • Schedule future deliveries
  • End-to-end encrypted chat
  • Build family tree
  • Digital time capsule for memories
  • Guest mode for sending/receiving
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Just imagine if you could send a message to anyone in the future. Would you congratulate your grandchild on their wedding? Would you send your son or daughter advice on looking for jobs or raising their own children? Would you remind your spouse how much you love them, even after you’re gone? This is the magic of CircleIt, the world’s first generational platform. With CircleIt, you can: - Guest Mode: Experience the delight of sending and receiving digital cards and gifts with your friends and family without the need to create an account. Plus, you can use our future - delivery feature to send your card to any future date. - Create & send digital greeting cards for your family and friends, personalize them with attached media, and schedule them to be delivered to any future date. - Chat privately with loved ones on our end-to-end encrypted network. Schedule messages to arrive on any future date or time. So whether you need to wish your child good luck on a final exam, or remind your spouse you love them 20 years from now, you can do it with CircleIt. - Build and nurture your family tree, with information that will be discovered by future generations. Instead of keeping documents and photos in a box in the basement, you can store these precious memories in a secure digital time capsule for your family to cherish and enjoy. The CircleIt app is 100% free to use. We’ve been referred to as “Hallmark for the 21st century” by press and media outlets, and our 4 million+ happy members around the world are happily sharing memories with their families and friends. CircleIt is the perfect app for families. Parents can use it to store memories for their children. Grandparents can send gifts for important milestones in the lives of their grandkids. Terminally ill individuals can leave messages for those that they love to receive in the future. Police, firefighters and military personnel can have peace of mind knowing their families have mementos of their love. Children can create Mother’s Day cards and even send tulips, flowers, carnations, and other flowers to their mom or grandmother in advance. Download & install CircleIt today, and start preserving your legacy and sending cards & gifts to the future.

About

Forethought Personal

This app helps you securely organize and share essential information about people, places, and things. It allows you to provide instructions and ensures your data is protected. A premium subscription offers online backup and coordination with designated trustees.

Highlights
  • Secure information organization
  • Share instructions with others
  • Online backup (premium)
  • Coordination with trustees (premium)
  • Data security
Features
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Keep important information together, so it is easier to find when you need it. Forethought helps you organize documents, account details, contacts and helpful notes for yourself or someone you care for. Each person's information has its own place in the app, called a vault. ORGANIZE FOR YOURSELF OR A PARENT Keep your own information in one vault and a parent's information in another. Add a document, a contact or a note about an account. You can start with a few details and add more at your own pace. START WITH A FREE BASIC ACCOUNT A Basic account lets you organize information for yourself or a parent at no cost. Your information is automatically saved online with encryption to help protect it. Basic also includes VaultKeepers and 100 MB of storage for documents and photos. HELP LOVED ONES FIND WHAT THEY NEED Choose trusted people, called VaultKeepers, who can request access to a saved report of the information in your vault after your death. Forethought's unlock process determines when that report becomes available. Both Basic accounts and Premium subscriptions include VaultKeepers. SHARE INFORMATION WITH PEOPLE YOU TRUST With a paid Premium subscription, you can invite other Forethought users to a vault. You decide whether each person can only view the information or also help update it. People you invite can use a free Basic account. This lets you share information during everyday life, separately from the VaultKeeper process. KEEP PERSONAL VIDEOS ALONGSIDE YOUR INFORMATION Premium also lets you add personal videos and gives you 1 GB of storage in total for documents, photos and videos. You need to sign in and have an internet connection to save information online or share it. The app shows the price and terms of a Premium subscription before you purchase it. Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CircleIt4 screens
Forethought Personal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CircleIt at none against Forethought Personal's 2. CircleIt also leads on ratings volume (325 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Forethought Personal's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Forethought Personal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. CircleIt asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Forethought Personal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CircleIt has 325 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CircleIt ships an update every 10 days, Forethought Personal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CircleIt versus Forethought Personal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCircleItForethought Personal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (325 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings325 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB78 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCircleIt IncMobileAnswer, Incorporated

Customer experience

CircleIt

All ratings327 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive96.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.9%

Forethought Personal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

CircleIt

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Compatibility issues with older devices
  • Unreliable payroll and financial issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Expand gifting and delivery options
  • Add more customization for cards and messages
  • Improve notification system
  • Integrate with other communication channels

Forethought Personal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CircleIt

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Forethought Personal

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is CircleIt free?
CircleIt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forethought Personal free?
Forethought Personal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CircleIt or Forethought Personal?
Forethought Personal is rated higher. CircleIt averages 4.7 out of 5 from 325 ratings, while Forethought Personal averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do CircleIt or Forethought Personal have ads?
Neither CircleIt nor Forethought Personal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CircleIt or Forethought Personal?
CircleIt ships an update every 10 days, and Forethought Personal weekly. Most recently, CircleIt was updated on October 14, 2026 and Forethought Personal on October 6, 2026.

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