myBFF Diary vs Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
myBFF Diary
This app helps you nurture your most important relationships. Track your feelings, log memories, and visualize your social circle's health. It provides gentle reminders and insights to help you maintain meaningful connections.
- Daily friendship ratings
- Reflection journal
- Friendship Orbits visualization
- Friendship Pulse score
- Friendship badges
- Hangout logging
- Anniversary reminders
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myBFF Diary helps you understand the friendships that matter most Rate how each friendship is going on a simple 1–10 scale, write reflections to track your feelings over time, and watch your personal universe come to life. How it works: Add your friends, rate how connected you feel, jot down a quick reflection, and myBFF does the rest — tracking trends, and celebrating milestones. Features: - Daily friendship ratings with a beautiful circular dial - Reflection journal to capture thoughts about each friend - Orbits visualization — your friends orbit around you based on your ratings - Friendship Pulse score to see how your overall circle is doing - 18 friendship badges to earn and award (First Check-in, BFF Status, Deep Talk, and more) - Hangout logging to remember time spent together - Friendship anniversary reminders so you never forget - Gentle daily reminders to check in with yourself - Light and dark mode with a warm, elegant design Why? Friendships don't maintain themselves. Life gets busy, people drift apart, and it's easy to lose track of the connections that matter most. myBFF gives you a quiet space to reflect on your friendships — no social feeds, no messaging, no noise. Just you and the people you care about. Built for intentional friendships: - See which friends you're nurturing and which might need attention - Notice patterns over time with rating history and trends - Celebrate friendship milestones and anniversaries - Build a reflection habit with streak tracking Terms of Service https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Orbit
This app helps you maintain meaningful connections by visualizing your friendships as a solar system. Track how often you connect with loved ones and receive gentle reminders to reach out, ensuring no one drifts away unnoticed. It offers a private, ad-free experience with iCloud sync.
- Animated solar system visualization of contacts
- Real-time health-based color updates for relationships
- Long-Distance mode for tracking different interaction types
- Meeting diary with date, photo, location, and notes
- Home-screen widgets for quick attention reminders
- Private iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Constellations (tags) for grouping friends
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Orbit is a gentle, private way to stay close to the people who matter. Every contact becomes a planet in your personal solar system. You're the sun. The closer a friend orbits, the more often you want to catch up. Watch them drift when life gets busy, and glow again when you reach out. No accounts. No ads. No analytics. Private sync through your iCloud. WHY ORBIT The people who drift out of your life don't leave in one big moment — they fade. A missed text. A postponed coffee. A "we should catch up soon" that stretches into a year. Orbit is the quiet infrastructure around your friendships. It doesn't replace them. It just makes sure the ones you care about stay visible. HOW IT WORKS • Add the people you want to stay close to — by hand or from your Contacts • Set how often you'd ideally catch up — weekly for best friends, monthly for old uni mates, quarterly for family you don't see enough • Log meetings, calls, and texts with a tap. Orbit tracks the rest • Glance at your solar system any time to see who's healthy (green), drifting (amber), or overdue (red) FEATURES • A beautiful, animated solar system of your closest people • Health-based colours that update in real time as your relationships breathe • Long-Distance mode that rewards calls and texts differently from in-person meetings • Meeting diary with date, photo, location, and notes • Home-screen widgets that show who needs attention — right from your lock screen • Gentle, local notifications — never spammy • Comets for casual encounters and people you want to know better • Constellations (tags) to group friends by context: family, work, travel, gym • Stats and a full diary of every interaction • Supports both light and dark mode • Private iCloud sync across your Apple devices PRIVACY THAT ACTUALLY MEANS SOMETHING Orbit has no developer-operated backend. No user accounts. No analytics, crash reporters, advertising, or tracking SDKs. Your relationships, notes, and photos stay on your devices and sync through your private iCloud container. Beyond Tomorrow Studios cannot access them. NOT FOR MARKETERS, NOT FOR ADVERTISERS, NOT FOR CRM Orbit isn't a contact manager or a sales tool. It's for the twelve people whose birthday you actually want to remember. For the friend whose life changed while you weren't paying attention. For the grandparent you mean to call. Made with care in London. Feedback and ideas: beyondtomorrowstudios@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orbit at none against myBFF Diary's 5. Orbit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). myBFF Diary's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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. myBFF Diary sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Orbit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Orbit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
myBFF Diary ships an update every 3 days, Orbit every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | myBFF Diary | Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacob Thornton | Harry Lee |
Customer experience
myBFF Diary
Orbit
In-app purchases
myBFF Diary
- myBFF Unlimited$0.991 Month
- Monthly Alynd7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Alynd Yearly$14.991 Year
- myBFF Lifetime$1.99
- Alynd Lifetime$99.99
Orbit
No in-app purchases





