Comparison

Keep In Touch vs Moons

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

Head to head
About

Keep In Touch

Features
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Keep the people who matter close. Life gets busy, and the people you care about most are the easiest to lose touch with. Keep In Touch helps you notice β€” gently β€” before too much time has passed. RELATIONSHIP MAP See your family, friends, partner and colleagues on a map. The people you connect with most sit near the center; those you haven’t reached out to in a while drift outward. GENTLE REMINDERS Get a quiet nudge when it’s time to reach out. Set how often feels right for each person β€” weekly, monthly, or a few times a year β€” plus birthday and anniversary reminders. LOG IN A TAP Tap β€œTalked today” to log a call, meeting, message or meal. Add a note or photo to remember the moment. MEMORIES & YEAR IN REVIEW Star favorite moments, and look back on your year with the people you love. (AI features run on your device with Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones.) HOME SCREEN WIDGET See who to reach out to next, and upcoming birthdays, right on your home screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data stays on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking. Optional Face ID lock and backup to your own iCloud Drive. FREE, AND BASIC WHEN YOU WANT MORE Free for up to 5 people. The Basic plan removes the limit: unlimited people and reminders. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase: pay once, no renewal. ABOUT THE BASIC PLAN β€’ Monthly and yearly plans are auto-renewing subscriptions. β€’ Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. β€’ Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. β€’ The one-time purchase is paid once and does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pohoda.jp/en/legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://pohoda.jp/en/legal/privacy.html

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Moons

Features
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You know who you want to stay close to. You also know it has been longer than you meant since you spoke to some of them. Moons is a small app for the twelve people who matter most. You pick them from your contacts, give each one a rhythm β€” weekly, monthly, whatever fits β€” and they orbit you on a single screen. As time passes without contact they drift outward and their colour follows. One glance tells you who is due. That is the whole app. One screen, one loop, one payment. THE ORBIT Everyone fits on one screen. No list, no scrolling, no search. Green means you have just caught up, grey means drifting, terracotta means it has been a while. Pinch for a close-up when you want to see faces rather than positions. The twelve-person cap is deliberate. It is what removes tags, tiers, folders and pagination from the app, and it means adding a thirteenth person asks you a real question instead of quietly growing a database. If one circle is not enough β€” a client, a team, the school run β€” there is room for up to four groups, each its own orbit of twelve. Swipe sideways to spin from one to the next, or pinch in to see them all around you at once. LOGGING A CATCH-UP Tap someone and reach out β€” a call, FaceTime, a message, an email, WhatsApp. Moons opens the right app and logs the catch-up for you. Or press and hold to record one that happened somewhere else: over lunch, at the school gates, on a walk. There is an undo, and never a confirmation dialog. Arrive to find several people overdue and you get a grid of faces. Tap the ones you have seen. Five seconds to clear a fortnight. WHAT IT HOLDS Notes, facts and what you talked about last time, kept for each person. Birthdays and anniversaries come across from Contacts, and you can add any other date worth remembering β€” the day you met, a date you would rather not forget. Each gets a quiet nudge a week before. A reminder on the day someone is due, which you can switch off for anyone. When someone has drifted a very long way, Moons moves them out of the orbit rather than nagging you about it. One tap brings them back, or you can keep them without ever being prompted again β€” because the reason you have not called is not always one an app should push at. IT DOES NOT WATCH YOU Moons cannot read your messages, your calls or your email. No iPhone app can, and Moons does not pretend otherwise. It records that you chose to reach out, which is the part worth remembering anyway. Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no server, no analytics, no adverts. The privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because that is literally true. NO STREAKS No scores. No leaderboards. No red badges on human beings. Missing someone by a few days is not a failure and the app will not treat it as one. ALSO INCLUDED A home-screen widget showing whichever group you choose, with a button that logs a catch-up for whoever is most overdue without opening the app. And a Siri shortcut: "Log a catch-up in Moons." PRICE Three people free, for as long as you like. One payment opens all twelve, for good. Another, if you want them, opens four groups. No subscription.

Screenshots

Keep In Touch4 screens
Moons4 screens

Verdict

The call

Keep In Touch and Moons are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Keep In Touch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Moons sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Keep In Touch ships an update every 3 days, Moons every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Keep In Touch versus Moons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeep In TouchMoons
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days β€” betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size3 MB178 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeisuke SugimotoZander Martineau

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Keep In Touch

Subscriptions2
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One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99
3 purchases

Moons

One-time3
  • Four orbits upgrade$1.99
  • The full orbit$2.99
  • Four orbits$4.99

Questions

Is Keep In Touch free?
Keep In Touch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moons free?
Moons is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Keep In Touch or Moons have ads?
Neither Keep In Touch nor Moons shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Keep In Touch or Moons?
Keep In Touch ships an update every 3 days, and Moons every 6 days. Most recently, Keep In Touch was updated on October 28, 2026 and Moons on October 29, 2026.

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