Comparison

friendo vs Little Things

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

Head to head
About

friendo

Visualize your friendships as a personal orbit, with closest connections at the center. Log interactions, receive reminders to stay in touch, and privately journal about friends. All your data stays on your device, ensuring complete privacy.

Highlights
  • Friendship orbit visualization
  • Relationship ranking
  • Stay-in-touch reminders
  • Interaction logging
  • Private journaling
  • Offline functionality
  • Birthday reminders
Features
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friendo turns your friendships into a living orbit map. You're at the center and friends orbit around you based on how close you feel to each of them. YOUR FRIENDSHIPS, NEVER SHARED Everything stays on your device. No account required. No data ever leaves your phone. There's no likes, no followers, no fyp, and no algorithms. Just purely focused on growing and maintaining your friendships. HOW IT WORKS • Add friends and rank your relationships through simple comparisons • Watch your orbit form. Your closest friends are near the center, acquaintances further out • Get gentle reminders to stay in touch with the people who matter • Log hangouts for a whole group at once — no need to repeat yourself • Re-rank friends anytime as your relationships evolve • Journal about friends and note down the little things, memories, and details to remember FEATURES • Beautiful orbit visualization with animated rings • Search your orbit to find and spotlight any friend instantly • Smart notifications to help you stay connected • Birthday reminders so you never forget • Interaction logging: track calls, texts, and hangouts • Quick log shortcut to record a hangout in seconds • Group interaction logging for dinners, trips, and hangouts • Interaction streaks to see your consistency • Notes for each friend to remember the little things • Tag friends into custom groups • Face ID lock to keep your friendships private • Works completely offline, there's no internet required • Full data export so your data is always yours Your friendships deserve attention and friendo helps you give it.

About

Little Things

This app helps you remember important details about the people in your life, like birthdays, preferences, and memories. Create profiles for loved ones and categorize notes for easy recall when buying gifts or planning events. Your personal information is kept private and secure on your device.

Highlights
  • Personalized profiles for friends and family
  • Categorized notes for preferences and memories
  • Birthday and gift idea tracking
  • Secure on-device storage
  • Export and share contact cards
Features
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Little Things is your private, thoughtful notebook for the people you care about most. We all want to be better friends, partners, and family members, but remembering the small details can be hard. Little Things helps you easily keep track of birthdays, favorite meals, coffee orders, clothing sizes, gift ideas, and meaningful memories in one private place. In Little Things, you can create dedicated profiles for your friends and family, and categorize your notes by favorites, gift ideas, go-to orders, hobbies, and memories, and more. Instantly recall details when buying a gift, planning a dinner, or catching up. Create an encrypted sharing link for a friend's card so others can remember too. Little Things is private by design. Your notes stay securely on your device or in your private iCloud unless you choose to share them. New sharing links expire after 30 days. Your friendships are personal, and your data should be too.

Screenshots

friendo4 screens
Little Things4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: friendo at none against Little Things's 1. friendo also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Little Things sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. friendo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for friendo against 5.0 for Little Things. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

friendo ships an update every 10 days, Little Things every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
friendo versus Little Things: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfriendoLittle Things
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHarry LiuETHAN PERCIVAL

Customer experience

friendo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Little Things

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

friendo

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Little Things

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$5.99

Questions

Is friendo free?
friendo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Little Things free?
Little Things is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, friendo or Little Things?
friendo and Little Things are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do friendo or Little Things have ads?
Little Things shows ads; friendo does not.
Which is updated more often, friendo or Little Things?
friendo ships an update every 10 days, and Little Things every 2 months. Most recently, friendo was updated on October 1, 2026 and Little Things on October 8, 2026.

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