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Ping Pals

Simple social tracker iOS app without coding

Details

External ID
48338107
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Ping Pals
Website domain
apple.com
Launched
May 30, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.1147011308562197
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Hey folks,Honestly, I built this app for myself since I lost many professional and personal connections. It started with just coming across a news about Replit that got 400m investment so I decided to build an iOS app without coding. It's name is Ping Pals https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/ping-pals/id6770330997The idea is extremely simple, just add your pals that you do not want to break the relation in three levels: close, inner and distant pals. Then app allocates a bar with your pals for 30, 60 and 180 days. Each day it decreases by one, and you can check your pals' health in the dashboard. When you sync with your pals, you can restore the pals' bar manually.It is free, local, no account needed, and notifies you when pals are getting into the danger zone (<1/3 ). As a side feature, you can add the custom events with your pal, such as a birthday.Feel free to use and give a comment here. Future work is adding more personalized features and interactions with your pals.

Enrichment

Theme
meeting scheduling and notetaking tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
ios app to track friends without coding
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes The author built this without traditional coding on Replit; it is a basic personal CRM iOS app tracking decay timers for contacts using local storage and notifications.

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Attention rank: #108 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 203 days after the earliest competitor.

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