Folkfire
Tend your friendships
Folkfire reminds you to reach out to a few close friends, and gives you something to say when you do.
Your friends sit around a campfire, close to the fire when you've kept in touch and farther back when it's been a while. One look tells you who to reach out to next.
How it works
Pick a few friends from your contacts and choose how often you'd like to check in with each one, from every other day to once a month.
When it's time, Folkfire sends a quiet reminder.
Tap a friend and Folkfire suggests something to say: a question, a would-you-rather, a low-stakes debate, something from the old days, a recommendation or an invite to meet up. Try another, or write your own. Change the words however you like.
Folkfire opens your texting app or WhatsApp with the message ready, or copies it for any other app, and you press send. A call or a meetup counts too.
Your friends don't need Folkfire. They just hear from you.
Also in Folkfire
- Birthday reminders, for friends whose birthday you've added.
- An avatar for each friend, with hair, clothes, glasses and more.
- A short look at your week: texts, calls, meetups and plans.
- No feed and no ads.
What stays on your phone
Your friends, their numbers and your check-ins are kept on your phone. Folkfire has no account and no server of its own, and your phone's own backup can carry your fire to a new phone.
Two things leave. If Folkfire crashes, it sends a crash report with names, numbers and messages taken out first, and the report is deleted after 30 days. Plus purchases go through the App Store or Google Play, and nothing about your friends goes with them. The privacy policy has the details.
Free and Plus
Folkfire is free for three friends, with reminders, things to say and the whole campfire. It isn't a trial.
Folkfire Plus gives your fire room for up to 12 people, and more clothes and colors to dress them in. It's a monthly or yearly subscription, and the app shows the price before you buy. It renews automatically until you cancel, which you can do any time in your App Store or Google Play subscriptions. If Plus ends, nothing is deleted. The terms of use have the details.