Available on the App Store

Be the friend
you want to be.

Keep your people close. Their birthdays, stories, and moments — all in one private place, right on your iPhone.

Free to start
Data stays on your iPhone
No account needed
Starlings — a purple bird surrounded by hearts

Remember what matters

Notes, quick facts, birthdays, addresses — every detail about the people you love, in one place you'll actually check.

Never let a friendship drift

Set a contact cadence. Get nudged. The people who matter should hear from you more than once a year.

Say the right thing

A library of message templates for every occasion — birthdays, check-ins, congratulations. Personalized in seconds.

Everything inside

The details that make the difference.

Starlings brings together everything you'd normally forget, organized around the people in your life.

🗓️

Upcoming dates

Birthdays, anniversaries, and custom dates surface before they happen, with customizable advance notifications.

📝

Notes & quick facts

Store notes, facts, pet names, work history, and anything else worth remembering per person.

🔔

Keep in touch cadence

Set weekly, monthly, or quarterly check-in goals per person and get nudged when it's time.

📓

Personal journal

Write freely and link entries to the people who were there. Filter by label, search everything.

💌

Message templates

Build a reusable library for every occasion. Customize tone — warm, funny, formal — and copy in seconds.

Tasks & reminders

Attach tasks directly to people. "Send Sara a gift." "Follow up with Dad." Never let an intention slip.

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Track loans

Log money or items lent and borrowed per person. Know what's outstanding without awkward guessing.

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Interaction log

Record calls, meetups, and messages. Build a living history of each relationship over time.

📱

Import from Contacts

Bring in your iPhone contacts in seconds. Starlings reads them once at your request and never touches them again.

Privacy first

Your relationships are yours.
Not ours.

Starlings is built on a simple belief: personal relationship data is too sensitive to live on someone else's server. Everything stays on your iPhone.

  • No account required. No sign-up. No email.
  • All data stored locally in SwiftData on your device.
  • iCloud Sync is optional and off by default.
  • Starlings cannot see, read, or recover your data.
  • Export your data any time from Settings.
Read the full privacy policy →
Starlings bird with a padlock — your data is locked to your device

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

Start free with 5 contacts. Upgrade once if you want more.

⭐ Starlings Pro
$1.99

one-time purchase · no subscription · no renewal

  • Unlimited contacts (free tier: 5)
  • Import your full address book at once
  • All features, now and forever
  • Restore on any iPhone with the same Apple ID
  • Support indie development — one person, one app
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From the blog

Thoughts on friendship,
memory, and staying close.

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