Keep Connected With Reminders And Stay In Touch
Stay In Touch! ($0.99) by Xanadu is a simple app designed to help users keep in touch with their friends. Users connect through Facebook and their iDevice contacts.
The app works as a reminder system, users set reminders to connect with their friends. Friends are “found” through contacts on your iDevice, Facebook account, or Google account. If you link these accounts, all the contacts are available through the “find friends” feature. Unfortunately, there is no way to add a new contact just in the app.
Once you have chosen friends to connect with, they show up on the Friends screen. Friends with upcoming reminders are shown at the top of the screen, and friends without reminders are shown below.
Reminders are set by a day, three days, a week, two weeks, a month, etc. There is no way to set custom reminders or reminders for different times of the day, a feature which could prove quite useful. The app also does not have any method for reminding you of your friend’s birthdays, like popular Facebook apps such as Friendly do.
I find Stay In Touch to be quite dull. There is little color, and on the iPad version especially, too much white space. I don’t like the inability to customize reminders so this app really doesn’t impress me. If you can’t remember to talk to your friend then maybe they aren’t that important to you after all. For me this app is not worth $0.99, but maybe it is for you.
