Hilo review
A focused free iOS app for private contact notes, reminders, and follow-ups.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Hilo is a personal CRM for people who want to organize and remember relationships outside a business-sales workflow. It supports contact organization, categories for friends, family, and colleagues, birthday and special-moment reminders, quick notes after calls or meetings, and follow-up alerts for conversations. The product is designed for close personal relationships and is available as a free iPhone and iPad app. Its emphasis is on keeping relationship information on the device rather than building a broad business platform.
The Free plan costs 0 and includes contact organization, birthday and special-moment reminders, quick notes, and follow-up alerts. Those features cover the core tasks of recording interactions and prompting future contact without a paid tier structure. Conversation and relationship tracking adds context beyond a basic address book, while categorization helps separate different types of relationships. For someone seeking a lightweight personal CRM with no subscription decision, the pricing is straightforward.
Hilo’s main trade-off is its narrow platform and ecosystem focus. The published product details identify iOS support, while Android is described as coming soon. There are no verified integrations with email, calendars, or other services, and no stated import or export capability, so it is better suited to starting and maintaining a personal relationship system within the app than to connecting an existing workflow. Choose Hilo for free, private-feeling relationship tracking on an iPhone or iPad; choose a broader CRM when cross-platform access, connected tools, or portable contact data matter more.
Hilo pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free contact organization with categories for friends, family, and colleagues
- Birthday, special-moment, and follow-up reminders support consistent contact
- On-device storage with a no-data-collection claim
- Where it doesn't
- Available on iOS, with Android described as coming soon
- No verified integrations with email, calendars, or other services
- No stated import or export capability for contact data
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