Comparison

CatchUp vs Orbit Contacts

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

Head to head
About

CatchUp

This app helps you remember to stay in touch with your contacts. Set custom reminders for friends, family, or colleagues and receive notifications when it's time to reconnect. It offers automatic birthday reminders and syncs across your devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable contact reminders
  • Recurring and custom reminder intervals
  • Automatic birthday/anniversary alerts
  • Upcoming catchups grid
  • Unread indicators
  • Contact information sync
  • Cloud syncing across devices
Features
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Free with no ads! Supported 100% by tips. Keep in touch with your friends, family, business associates, and anyone else in your iOS Contacts list with CatchUp. Set reminders for the contacts you choose, and get notified when it's time to CatchUp with them again. Set these up as recurring reminders, like every week or month, or a custom day that you pick. Regardless of your choice, you can choose the time of day that you get the notification. Step One: Add Contacts Step Two: Set your Notification Preference (how often you want to be reminded to catch up with that individual) Step Three: There is no step three Features: – Receive daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, or custom reminders to catch up with your contacts, even when not connected to the internet – Automatic reminders for contacts' birthdays/anniversaries if you have them set in your Contacts app - A grid of your upcoming catchups - Unread indicators for contacts it's time to CatchUp with - Pull down on the home screen to update your contacts' pictures and information - Automatic cloud syncing with other Apple devices – Full light and dark mode support – No ads CatchUp is free and has no ads. This is a passion project that honestly helps me out, and I'd rather not muddy the waters with advertising I can't control. If you'd like to support development, you are welcome to leave a tip in the Tip Jar within the app. A note on privacy: I store NONE of your contacts or any of your personal information. The contacts you choose and the preferences you set for them are stored locally on your device, and are never sent anywhere else. Read my full privacy policy at https://www.ryantoken.com/privacy-policy

About

Orbit Contacts

This app acts as a self-updating address book, ensuring your friends and family always have your latest contact information. It also helps you remember important personal details about your contacts, like their preferences and special dates, making it easier to stay connected.

Highlights
  • Self-updating address book
  • Remembers personal contact details
  • Tracks birthdays and anniversaries
  • Stores gift ideas
  • Sends handwritten cards
  • Integrates with Letterboxd
Features
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The self-updating address book. Moving? Update your address, and your friends & family instantly have it -- no need for the annoying "Hey what's your address?" text. Your friends are more than contacts. They’re the people you grab coffee with, celebrate wins with, and turn to when you're down. Orbit remembers everything so you don’t have to: - Coffee orders (especially for those painfully long ones: oat milk, frothed, extra hot double pump vanilla espresso orders) - Birthdays, Anniversaries, “Dog Gotcha" days. - Favorite sushi spot, allergy alerts, spouse’s name. - Gift ideas you jotted down 6 months ago - Letterboxd recent watches Birthday coming up? One tap sends a real handwritten card. It means more than a text. Stop being “that friend who always forgets.” Download Orbit and become the friend they ask “how did you remember that?!”

Screenshots

CatchUp4 screens
Orbit Contacts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orbit Contacts at none against CatchUp's 3. Orbit Contacts also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). CatchUp's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 3). On price, 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. CatchUp sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Orbit Contacts asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Orbit Contacts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CatchUp has 46 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of CatchUp's written reviews are positive against 100% of Orbit Contacts's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CatchUp ships an update every 2 months, Orbit Contacts every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
CatchUp versus Orbit Contacts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCatchUpOrbit Contacts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (46 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings46 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB102 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRyan TokenJack Polivka

Customer experience

CatchUp

All ratings38 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral7.9%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative16.0%

Orbit Contacts

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

CatchUp

One-time3
  • Gracious Tip$0.99
  • Generous Tip$1.99
  • Gratuitous Tip$4.99
None

Orbit Contacts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CatchUp free?
CatchUp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Contacts free?
Orbit Contacts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CatchUp or Orbit Contacts?
Orbit Contacts is rated higher. CatchUp averages 4.6 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while Orbit Contacts averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do CatchUp or Orbit Contacts have ads?
Neither CatchUp nor Orbit Contacts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CatchUp or Orbit Contacts?
CatchUp ships an update every 2 months, and Orbit Contacts every 4 days. Most recently, CatchUp was updated on October 16, 2026 and Orbit Contacts on October 10, 2026.

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