Comparison

Inner Circle· vs fiammo

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

Head to head
About

Inner Circle·

Features
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Your close friends are always up to something. A new job, an engagement, a move across the world. And somehow you're finding out six months later, buried in a group chat you forgot to check. Inner Circle is a private home for the friend groups that actually matter to you. Your university cohort, your hometown crew, your school friends. Life news, who's nearby, trips you've been meaning to plan, and a fair way to split costs. All in one calm space that belongs to your people, not the internet. MOMENTS Share a life update with the people who will actually celebrate it. Engagements, new jobs, big moves — they get their own space and never scroll away. React, comment, and have real conversations. NEARBY Know when a friend is in your city before they text you. Share your city, see who's around, and nudge them for coffee in one tap. You choose when you're visible and to whom. City-level only, never an exact location. TRIPS That trip your group has been talking about for three years? Create it, invite your people, and run a quick availability poll. From "we should really do something" to a confirmed plan. SPLIT BILLS Log what you spent, see who owes what, and settle up with one tap. Works across trips and circles, unlimited, and always free. CIRCLES Belong to multiple circles without them overlapping. Your work friends, your college group, your hometown crew. Each one is its own private world with its own feed and chat. No algorithm. No strangers. No performance. Just the people you actually care about.

About

fiammo

This app offers a private space to share daily thoughts and reflections with a select group of friends. Posts are ephemeral, disappearing after a day, encouraging authentic expression. It facilitates intimate conversations through encrypted messages and a unique 'echo' feature.

Highlights
  • Daily writing prompts
  • Ephemeral posts
  • Private circles for sharing
  • Encrypted direct and group messages
  • Echoing feature for conversations
  • Personalized 'Catch up' reminders
  • Writing 'sky' visualization
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fiammo is a place to write something small every day, for the people you choose, and let it go. Each day there's a prompt. Answer it in a line or a page, or tap one of its options and say why. Write it as a post for your friends, or keep it to Just me, where only you can read it. On Saturdays the prompt asks how your week went, in two taps. A post burns after a while: it's there for a day, then it's gone, so what you write is for now, not for a record. Your friends are in circles you make, and every post goes to the circles you pick, or to a few people by name. A post is only public if you make it public. Add photos or a video, a voice note with its words beneath it, or the place you wrote it, and tag the friends who were there. Write on a day and your streak burns: a fire that grows the longer you keep it, with Puff, the ember, living at it. Miss a day and a match can relight it. Once you've answered the day's question, guess what one friend picked. You find out when their answer is in, and over time you see who knows you best. When something a friend wrote stays with you, echo it: choose the line, add a note if you like, and it goes to them as a message. Echoes are how conversations start here. Messages are encrypted end to end, one to one and in group chats. Only the people in a conversation can read it. Send photos, videos, voice notes, links with a preview, and reactions, and share a link from another app straight into a conversation. A message written without a connection sends when you're back. Open a conversation's details to see everything the two of you have shared, gathered by month. Discover is the public side: posts anyone chose to make public, and people you may know. A profile can point to where else someone writes. At the start of each month, fiammo offers you a dump of the last one: your photos, a few posts worth bringing back, and what you wrote about, for the circles you choose. A post of yours, even one that has burned, can go out as a link that lasts a day. Catch up is a private list of people you want to stay close to, with a reminder on a schedule you set, so keeping in touch isn't left to chance. Over time, your writing becomes a sky: a constellation read once a week from what you wrote, with a star for each thing you keep coming back to. Your profile keeps the month's writing at a glance, and turns over to show your fire. fiammo is for a small circle, not a crowd. Write for the people who matter to you, and let the rest burn.

Screenshots

Inner Circle·4 screens
fiammo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Inner Circle· at every 2 days against fiammo's every 4 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inner Circle· ships an update every 2 days, fiammo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Inner Circle· versus fiammo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInner Circle·fiammo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJohnny Abou JaoudehCaleb Hung

In-app purchases

None

Inner Circle·

No in-app purchases

None

fiammo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inner Circle· free?
Inner Circle· is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is fiammo free?
fiammo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Inner Circle· or fiammo have ads?
Neither Inner Circle· nor fiammo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inner Circle· or fiammo?
Inner Circle· ships an update every 2 days, and fiammo every 4 days. Most recently, Inner Circle· was updated on October 25, 2026 and fiammo on October 31, 2026.

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