Hippo

Hippo

Keep track of friends, family and colleagues you care for.

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Keep track of friends, family and colleagues you care for. Make notes, keep track of events and store to-dos for all your contacts. So next time you meet, you remember all their important details.
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Roel van der Kraan
Hi 👋, I’m Roel I'm very excited to share the app I've been working on the past months: Hippo. An app that helps you remember all the important things about the persons you care for. 🤯 My problem: forgetting things all the time I have been struggling with my memory at work and in my personal life. I used to forget children’s names, someone's job, birthdays, anniversaries and other important life events. This made me insecure and unhappy. Because I like to be attentive and thoughtful! So, I started tracking notes linked to persons in a simple Airtable database and that helped me a lot! I decided to turn that idea into an app. Go from forgetful 😬💭 to attentive 🤗💬 With the Hippo app, you can keep track of your friends, family and loved ones. • Refresh your memory before you meet. • Make notes after you have met. • Create events to remind yourself of important dates. • Use to-dos so you don't forget to keep in touch Next time you meet, a glance at the person's profile in Hippo is all you need to remember the details! 🔒 Privacy Similar apps often require full access to your address book and store your data on their servers. I'm always scared away by that, so I took extra care of privacy. Your data is only stored on your device. I don't operate any servers for Hippo. You don't need an account. And access to your Contacts is optional. I'm looking forward to your questions and feedback!
moo
@roelvanderkraan Appreciate your respect for privacy. So many apps these days are just shameless. Oh, you wanna play tetris? Cool, allow our app to make outgoing calls.
Roel van der Kraan
@mooooorrisjjj LOL :) Yeah it's really a no-no for me when an app requests permission to my entire phone book before I had the chance to try it out.
Binu Mathew
Reol, This look very promising and easy to use Any plan to release android version ??
Roel van der Kraan
@binumathew1 Thanks Binu! I'm not planning to make an Android version right now, sorry. Hippo was created in Swift (I really wanted learn native app development), so it would be a big task to make it ready for Android. First I'm planning to make a Mac version when Catalina comes out!
mG S
@roelvanderkraan flutter is the way to go now ;-)
Ivan Brezak Brkan
Looks great - would be cool if you could sync the events with your Google calendar - and yes, I add my family and friend events to Google Calendar
Roel van der Kraan
@ivanbrezakbrkan Yes calendar integration is high on my prio list! What kind of events do you track in your calendar?
Ivan Brezak Brkan
@roelvanderkraan In this case, meeting the people either offline or online. For example, a friend moved to Ireland and we had a Facetime call yesterday. Would be great to have that as an event in Hippo so I can track it.
Roel van der Kraan
@ivanbrezakbrkan Got it! Yes I'm planning to add something like that soon.