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Starlings.

A private place to remember the little things that make relationships feel close.

What it is
Personal relationship manager
Platform
iOS app
Status
Live on the App Store
Year
2026
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For the people
behind the names.

A Haiku product
The illustrated Starlings character surrounded by little reminders

Contacts tell us how to reach someone. Not what matters to them.

Starlings is a personal relationship manager for the people already in your life. It keeps profiles, dates, interactions, and everyday details in one private place.

The brief was to make that context useful without turning friendship into a set of tasks. A reminder should feel like an opening to connect, never an obligation.

Make the next thoughtful moment easier to notice.

The home view draws together upcoming dates, people to reach out to, and things to follow up on. It offers a useful starting point without asking you to manage a relationship like a pipeline.

01 / The everyday starting point

Starlings App Store image showing the Home dashboard with upcoming dates and people to reach out to
Home brings timely context into one view.

Built around people,
not a database.

Everything leads back to a person. Notes, quick facts, interactions, dates, tasks, and shared moments stay connected to the relationship they belong to.

Starlings App Store image showing the People screen, search, groups, and contact list
01 / Find your people Groups and search keep a growing circle easy to navigate.
Starlings App Store image showing a person's profile and interaction history
02 / Keep the context A profile holds the small details and moments worth remembering.

Personal should
stay personal.

No account is required. Information lives on the device, with optional iCloud sync and archive export. Privacy is part of how the product works, not a setting to discover later.

Starlings illustration about keeping personal information private

From a simple question to a useful app.

Starlings is live on iOS. It brings together rich profiles, interaction logs, reminders, a personal journal, tasks, and loan tracking. The free version supports five contacts; a one-time Pro purchase removes that limit.

The idea still guides what comes next: help people keep, find, and act on the details that make a relationship theirs.

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