Check vs Check Up
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Check
This app helps you maintain connections by reminding you to check in with friends, family, or colleagues. You can customize the frequency of these reminders to ensure you stay in touch.
- Customizable check-in reminders
- Stay connected with contacts
- Personalized reminder frequency
- Supports friends, family, and work contacts
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Check-in Tools helps you stay connected with friends, family or at work. Stay in touch with them by setting up how often you want to be reminded to check-in with them.
Check Up
Easily manage your social connections by logging interactions, taking notes, and setting reminders to check in regularly. Strengthen relationships by ensuring you stay in touch with friends and family.
- Add and manage contacts
- Log interactions and notes
- Set regular check-in reminders
- Track time spent with contacts
- Unlimited contacts with Premium
- Privacy-focused, data stays local
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Check Up helps you stay connected with the people who matter most. Easily add your friends, family, and loved ones to your list, log your interactions, take notes, and set reminders to check up on them regularly. Whether it's a phone call, video chat, or meet-up, keep track of your time together and never let months pass by without checking in. With Check Up, maintaining and strengthening your relationships is effortless. Check Up is free to use with a limit on the number of contacts you can add. Upgrade to Check Up Premium to unlock unlimited contacts. Your privacy is important; all contact data you import remains solely on your device and is never transmitted elsewhere. Terms of Use: https://checkup.ginkgolabs.dev/checkupterms.html Privacy Policy: https://checkup.ginkgolabs.dev/privacycheckup.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Check at none against Check Up's 2. Check also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.2). Check Up's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Check Up sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Check asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Check against 5.0 for Check Up. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Check Up has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Check ships an update every 3 days, Check Up every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Check | Check Up |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rooted Software | Ginkgo Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Check
Check Up
In-app purchases
Check
No in-app purchases
Check Up
- Check Up Premium - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Check Up Premium - Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
