Comparison

Friendly SMS vs Lettuce

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

Head to head
About

Friendly SMS

This app helps you stay in touch with important contacts by setting personalized reminders. It allows you to send pre-written text messages with a single tap, ensuring you never miss a special occasion or a chance to connect.

Highlights
  • Recurring contact reminders
  • Birthday reminders
  • Pre-filled SMS messages
  • Customizable messages
  • Manual one-off reminders
  • Local notifications
Features
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Friendly helps you stay connected with the people who matter most — without letting life get in the way. Simply import your contacts, set a reminder frequency, and Friendly will nudge you when it's time to reach out. When the reminder fires, just tap to open a pre-filled text message and send it in seconds. Features: - Recurring reminders — daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly - Birthday reminders so you never miss a special day - Pre-filled SMS messages so sending is effortless - Customize your message for each contact - One-off manual reminders whenever you need them - Local notifications — no account or login required Your data stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no tracking.

About

Lettuce

This app simplifies social planning by helping users discover places, create plans with friends, and track shared memories. It offers AI-powered itinerary generation and a social calendar to reduce time spent organizing and increase time spent enjoying experiences.

Highlights
  • Make plans in minutes
  • Discover curated places
  • Build personalized lists
  • Social calendar
  • Capture moments
  • AI-powered itinerary builder
Features
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We have more ways to connect than ever, yet somehow we're seeing each other less. Between endless group chats, saved posts, and too many options, making a plan has become the hardest part. Lettuce helps you discover places worth going to, make plans with friends, and actually follow through. Save recommendations from friends and trusted locals, turn them into shared plans, invite your friends, or let Leo create the perfect itinerary in seconds. Whether you're grabbing dinner or drinks, planning date night, celebrating something big, or just figuring out what to do this weekend, it will help you spend less time planning and more time living. Features • Make plans in minutes: Choose a place, pick a time, send the invite to your friends, and keep everyone on the same page without the endless group chats. • Discover places you'll actually love: Browse curated lists from trusted locals, creators, and friends, not random reviews from strangers. • Build your own lists: Save and organize your favorite coffee shops, bars, restaurants, parks, and hidden gems. Or, import recommendations directly from Instagram, TikTok, or your Notes app. • Your social calendar: Every confirmed plan lives in one place so you always know what's coming up. • Capture the moments that matter: Share photos from the plans you actually made, not just perfectly curated content. Build a feed filled with real memories. • Meet Leo: For the moments nobody can decide, our AI-powered social planner, Leo, builds a personalized plan based on your group, your budget, your neighborhood, and the kind of day or night you're looking for. A Social Life Worth Tracking See just how much of your city you've explored. Every plan, every check-in, and every new favourite place helps you build your streaks and climb the leaderboard. The best moments of your life happen off your phone. Let us help you get there. Download Lettuce and start turning "we should" into "we did."

Screenshots

Friendly SMS4 screens
Lettuce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Lettuce at 48 against Friendly SMS's 2. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Friendly SMS against 4.9 for Lettuce. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lettuce has 48 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Friendly SMS versus Lettuce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFriendly SMSLettuce
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (48 ratings)
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings248 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB170 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGabriel BeerFirst Round Is On Me, Inc.

Customer experience

Friendly SMS

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

Lettuce

All ratings40 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Friendly SMS

No in-app purchases

None

Lettuce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Friendly SMS free?
Friendly SMS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lettuce free?
Lettuce is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Friendly SMS or Lettuce?
Friendly SMS is rated higher. Friendly SMS averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Lettuce averages 4.9 from 48 ratings.
Do Friendly SMS or Lettuce have ads?
Neither Friendly SMS nor Lettuce shows ads.

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