Kinu vs Revere

Kinu is a private personal CRM for remembering details and important dates about friends and family. It can remind users when a date arrives or when they have not been in touch for a while. For each person, users can keep moments, private and voice notes, dates, and rituals. It is designed for personal relationships rather than sales contacts or a larger social network, and has no feeds, followers, likes, or public profiles.

After sign-in, Kinu works offline and saves changes to the device first. Relationship data is local by default; users can enable free encrypted backup or paid encrypted sync. When either is enabled, data is encrypted on the device before it leaves and remains encrypted in transit and at rest. Voice notes stay on the device on every plan, and data can be exported at any time. Kinu is available on Android, iOS, and web. The free plan supports up to 10 people; Kinu Plus adds unlimited people and encrypted sync for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year.

Revere is a notes app for remembering details about important relationships and keeping up with people. Users can save notes about conversations, gift ideas, projects or favourite drinks, then set reminders to reach out or follow up. Groups, family details, how-you-met notes, and birthday or other important-date reminders help organize those details; some features require Premium. Search is available, and the app can show phone contact details without uploading them to Revere. Notes are stored in the cloud and sync across iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad and Mac, through an account. The free plan costs $0.00 per free, has no time limit and does not cap people, notes or reminders. Premium includes in-app Face ID or Touch ID locking. AI Note Cleanup can shorten or reformat notes by sending them to Google for processing; Revere says notes are not stored or used to train AI models. Users can export data as CSV or permanently delete an account in settings. The U.S. App Store lists Premium at $4.99 per month; prices vary by country.