Catchup vs Dippidee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Catchup
This app helps you nurture important relationships by setting connection goals and sending gentle reminders to reach out. Track your interactions and add notes to remember details, ensuring your connections stay strong.
- Add friends and family
- Set personal connection goals
- Track conversations and meetings
- Add notes to interactions
- Receive gentle outreach reminders
- Home screen widget for tracking
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Your relationships matter. But in our busy lives, staying in touch isn't always easy. Catchup is a simple, beautiful way to nurture your most important connections through consistent touchpoints. Add the people you care about, set meaningful connection goals, and get gentle reminders to reach out. How it works: 1. Add friends and family you want to stay close with 2. Set your intentions with personal goals for how often you'd like to connect 3. Track conversations, meetings, and meaningful moments with a quick tap 4. Add notes to remember the little details of each interaction 5. Get gentle reminders when it's time to reach out Try Catchup free with 2 contacts. Upgrade to connect with unlimited friends and family and track your relationships through notifications and a home screen widget. Keep your relationships strong, one connection at a time.
Dippidee
This app helps you stay connected with friends and family through spontaneous, personalized reminders. It sends randomized nudges to encourage genuine interactions without feeling like a chore. Keep your relationships thriving with effortless, serendipitous communication.
- Serendipitous notifications
- Customizable messages
- Smart scheduling with variability
- Offline functionality
- Private data storage
- Local notifications
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Dippidee — Stay Connected, Spontaneously Life gets busy, and staying in touch with friends and family can fall by the wayside. Dippidee makes it easy to nurture your relationships without feeling robotic or forced. Experience the Joy of Serendipity: Unlike typical reminder apps, Dippidee is designed to feel human. Instead of rigid, repetitive alerts, Dippidee’s randomized notifications surprise you at just the right moment. Whether it’s a quick call to a friend or a thoughtful message to a family member, these spontaneous nudges keep connections feeling natural and authentic. Effortless and Personalized: Add your contacts, set a frequency, and customize a message — that’s it! Dippidee will do the rest. Each reminder is tailored to your chosen interval but with a touch of unpredictability to keep things spontaneous. You’ll feel like you’re reaching out just when it matters, not because an app told you to. Why Choose Dippidee? • Serendipitous Notifications: Randomized reminders that keep relationships feeling genuine. • Custom Messages: Personalize each reminder with a message that feels just right. • Smart Scheduling: Set intervals with a variability range — no more predictable pings! • Offline and Private: Your data stays local, and no internet connection is needed. • Local Notifications: Get a nudge right when you’re likely to reach out. Reconnect, Refresh, Repeat: Dippidee isn’t just a reminder app — it’s a way to keep your most important relationships thriving without feeling like a chore. Discover how effortless staying connected can be when serendipity is on your side. Download Dippidee today and start building stronger, more spontaneous connections!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dippidee at 5.0 against Catchup's 4.4. Dippidee also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Catchup's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (73 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Catchup sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dippidee asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dippidee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catchup has 73 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Catchup ships an update fortnightly, Dippidee every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catchup | Dippidee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Lee | Darren Misar |
Customer experience
Catchup
Dippidee
In-app purchases
Catchup
- Catchup Plus$9.99
Dippidee
No in-app purchases









