Friendly SMS vs Lettuce
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Recurring contact reminders
- Birthday reminders
- Pre-filled SMS messages
- Customizable messages
- Manual one-off reminders
- Local notifications
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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.
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.
- Make plans in minutes
- Discover curated places
- Build personalized lists
- Social calendar
- Capture moments
- AI-powered itinerary builder
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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."
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Friendly SMS | Lettuce |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (48 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 48 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Gabriel Beer | First Round Is On Me, Inc. |
Customer experience
Friendly SMS
Lettuce
In-app purchases
Friendly SMS
No in-app purchases
Lettuce
No in-app purchases









