Comparison

CatchUp vs Rekindle!

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

Rekindle!

This app provides daily, personalized reminders to reach out to contacts from your phone. It offers a simple, private way to reconnect without social feeds or pressure, allowing you to text directly from a reminder.

Highlights
  • Daily personalized contact nudges
  • One-tap text message initiation
  • Contact tracking and management
  • Customizable reminder schedule
  • Privacy-focused, on-device operation
  • Smart cooldowns for contact cycling
Features
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Life moves fast, and it's easy to lose touch with the people who matter most. Rekindle gives you a daily, personalized nudge to reach out. No to-do lists, no social feeds, no pressure. Every day, Rekindle quietly picks a few contacts from your phone and reminds you it's time to reconnect. Tap once to open a text message directly to that person. Mark them done, skip them, or snooze them for later. Rekindle keeps track so you don't have to. Simple. Private. Yours. Your contacts never leave your phone. There are no servers, no ads, and no accounts to manage. Rekindle runs entirely on your device, using your iPhone's built-in Contacts app securely. Get daily reminders at the time you choose, jump straight into a text with one tap, and let smart cooldowns naturally cycle you through everyone in your life. Snooze or hide contacts you're not ready for, and customize your schedule to whatever works for you: daily, weekdays, weekends, or specific days. Download Rekindle and say hello to an old friend today.

Screenshots

CatchUp4 screens
Rekindle!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rekindle! at none against CatchUp's 3. Rekindle! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). CatchUp's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 2). 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. Rekindle! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rekindle! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CatchUp has 47 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CatchUp ships an update every 2 months, Rekindle! monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CatchUp versus Rekindle!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCatchUpRekindle!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (47 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan TokenAnuj Pranav Sanghvi

Customer experience

CatchUp

All ratings47 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral8.5%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative16.0%

Rekindle!

All ratings2 ratings
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

Rekindle!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CatchUp free?
CatchUp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rekindle! free?
Rekindle! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CatchUp or Rekindle!?
Rekindle! is rated higher. CatchUp averages 4.6 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while Rekindle! averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do CatchUp or Rekindle! have ads?
Neither CatchUp nor Rekindle! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CatchUp or Rekindle!?
CatchUp ships an update every 2 months, and Rekindle! monthly. Most recently, CatchUp was updated on November 2, 2026 and Rekindle! on October 31, 2026.

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