Friendship Circles vs Duet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Friendship Circles
This app helps you maintain connections with your closest friends and family. It provides a simple way to keep track of important relationships and ensure you stay in touch.
- Maintain contact with close friends
- Track important relationships
- Simple interface
- Stay connected
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Circles helps you stay in contact with those who are closest to you.
Duet
A private, shared journal designed for couples to create a digital scrapbook of their experiences. Document moments with photos, titles, and descriptions, and engage with each other's entries through comments. Relive your journey together with a chronological timeline of memories.
- Shared journaling for couples
- Photo and text entries
- Comment on entries
- Chronological memory timeline
- Privacy-focused design
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A shared journal for couples to document their lives together. Built with privacy in mind, only you and your partner can access your journal. Create memories with photos and videos, add a title and description, and comment on each other’s entries as your story unfolds. Your memories are organised chronologically in a clean timeline, making it easy to look back on moments big and small. You can also explore your memories on an interactive map to see where each moment happened. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Friendship Circles at 5.0 against Duet's 4.0. Friendship Circles also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Duet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Friendship Circles asks for nothing beyond the download.
Friendship Circles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Friendship Circles | Duet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BENJAMIN O B DAVIS | Sebastien Vidal |
Customer experience
Friendship Circles
Duet
In-app purchases
Friendship Circles
No in-app purchases
Duet
- Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Annual1 Month trial$19.991 Year
