Comparison

Poppy vs Waffled

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

Head to head
About

Poppy

This app helps you maintain meaningful connections with friends and family. It provides gentle reminders and simple tools to log interactions, ensuring you stay in touch consistently without added pressure. Visualize your relationships as a blooming garden that thrives with your engagement.

Highlights
  • Personal relationship tracker
  • Customizable check-in schedules
  • Gentle reminders
  • Log check-ins quickly
  • Add conversation notes
  • Track relationship streaks
  • Privacy-first design
Features
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Poppy helps you keep in touch with the people who matter most. Life gets busy. You care about your friends and family, but follow-ups slip. Poppy is a personal relationship tracker and reminder app designed to make staying connected simple, calm, and consistent. Instead of overwhelming lists and rigid workflows, Poppy gives you a living garden view of your relationships. As you check in, your garden blooms. If someone is overdue, Poppy gently nudges you at the right time. No doomscrolling. No social pressure. No guilt. Just clear reminders and quick actions that help you follow through. What you can do with Poppy Import contacts and pick the relationships you want to prioritize Set a check-in schedule per person (weekly, monthly, or custom) Choose preferred reminder times that fit your routine Log check-ins in seconds after calls, texts, or meetups Add context and notes so your next conversation feels natural Track streaks and activity to build better consistency Export your data when you want Poppy works well for: Busy professionals managing personal relationships People who moved away and want to stay close long-distance Anyone who struggles with “out of sight, out of mind” Anyone who wants a lightweight personal CRM for real relationships Designed to feel human Poppy is built to support meaningful relationships, not turn them into a chore. You choose your rhythm. Poppy helps you keep it. Privacy-first by default Your relationship data stays on your device by default. Poppy does not upload your contact names, check-in notes, or message content to cloud servers. Anonymous product analytics can be disabled anytime in Settings. If you’ve ever thought “I should reach out,” Poppy helps you actually do it.

About

Waffled

A shared digital space for families to organize calendars, chores, meals, pantry, shopping lists, and goals. It keeps everyone in the household informed and synchronized, with options for a wall-mounted display or phone access.

Highlights
  • Shared family calendar with event countdowns
  • Chore assignment with photo proof and rewards
  • Meal planning and automated grocery list generation
  • Pantry tracking with expiration alerts and allergen warnings
  • Family goal setting and progress tracking
  • Customizable family night agenda
  • Personalized 'Today' view with reorderable cards
Features
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Waffled is the calm command-center for family life. One shared home for your calendar, chores, meals, pantry, shopping lists, and goals — so everyone in the house is finally on the same page. Mount an iPad on the wall or counter as a family display, and carry the same plan in your pocket on your phone. Everything stays in sync. • SHARED CALENDAR — Everyone's events in one view, with countdowns to the days that matter ("3 sleeps until the trip!") and birthdays that never sneak up on you. • CHORES & REWARDS — Assign chores, snap photo-proof when they're done, and let kids earn rewards. Set up a rewards jar to save toward a shared goal. • MEALS & SHOPPING — Plan the week's meals and build the grocery list from them. Scan barcodes to add pantry items in a tap. • PANTRY — Track what's in the house and what's about to expire, with allergen warnings for the whole family or per person. • GOALS — Keep the family's intentions front and center, from reading streaks to saving up for something big. • RHYTHMS — The things that should keep happening but aren't chores and aren't goals: trash out weekly, the air filter every three months, a family outing on the third weekend. Waffled counts down to each one and gets out of the way. • WEEKLY PLANNING — Sit down once a week and decide the week ahead together: what's still open, the calendar, goals, meals, who does what, and a turn for the kids. • FAMILY NIGHT — A customizable, auto-rotating agenda for your weekly family time. • A HOME SCREEN THAT'S YOURS — Reorder and hide the cards on your Today view so it shows what your family actually cares about. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Waffled is self-hostable and open source. Run it on your own server and your family's data stays yours — no ads, no tracking, no selling your life to anyone. Get your family on the same page. Get Waffled.

Screenshots

Poppy4 screens
Waffled4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Poppy at 5.0 against Waffled's 4.0. Poppy also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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

Poppy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Poppy ships an update every 9 days, Waffled fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Poppy versus Waffled: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoppyWaffled
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeepa LokwaniKevin Sites

Customer experience

Poppy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Waffled

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

In-app purchases

None

Poppy

No in-app purchases

None

Waffled

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Poppy free?
Poppy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Waffled free?
Waffled is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Poppy or Waffled?
Poppy is rated higher. Poppy averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Waffled averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Poppy or Waffled have ads?
Neither Poppy nor Waffled shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Poppy or Waffled?
Poppy ships an update every 9 days, and Waffled fortnightly. Most recently, Poppy was updated on November 5, 2026 and Waffled on October 31, 2026.

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