Get the appCouple Joy and Amourly both put your relationship on your Home Screen with widgets, mood sharing and countdowns. The difference is the center of gravity: Couple Joy is built around thousands of questions and couple games, while Amourly is built around small everyday exchanges (notes, taps, photos, drawings) and a shared journal and map of your memories.
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On paper these two share a lot. In daily use, one feels like a game night in your pocket and the other like a running thread of small hellos.
| Feature | Amourly | Couple Joy |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Small daily moments: notes, taps, moods, photos, drawings | Questions and games, plus relationship widgets |
| Daily questions | Not included — Amourly is built around everyday moments | Yes — thousands of questionsEdge |
| Quizzes & games | Not included | Yes — Would You Rather, Never Have I Ever and moreEdge |
| Love notes & messages | Love notes with text, a photo or a drawing; repliesEdge | Chat about answers; story replies |
| Quick taps & nudges | 12 love taps (hug, kiss, poke, boop…) sent as a notificationEdge | Not a core feature |
| Mood sharing | 42 moods plus custom moods (Pro), shown on widgets | Yes — real-time mood sharing |
| Photo sharing | Snaps that land on your partner's Home Screen; 24-hour stories | Photo journal and stories |
| Drawing together | Saved drawings, plus real-time Live Drawing (Pro)Edge | Not a core feature |
| iPhone widgets | 7 widgets for Home Screen & Lock Screen: notes, mood, photo, drawing, days together, next special day | Yes — days together, distance, events, memory of the day |
| Shared memories | Shared journal of memories with photos, date and place | Shared photo journal |
| Memory map | Map of your memories with cities and countries visited | Map view of your journal |
| Anniversaries & countdowns | Special days with reminders and a days-together counter | Countdowns and a days-together counter |
| Location & distance | No live location tracking | Live distance trackerEdge |
| Streaks | Daily streak with a free Streak Freeze each monthEdge | Yes; paid streak repairs ($0.99–$3.99) |
| Platforms | iPhone | iPhone, AndroidEdge |
| Free version | Free: 7 journal entries, 7 love notes, 3 taps a day, 1 story a day, core widgets | One set of questions per category |
| Premium price (US) | $9.99/month or $44.99/year | Listed at $12.99, $29.99 and $39.99 (plan lengths not shown) |
| One subscription for both partners? | Yes — one Pro plan covers both partnersEdge | Not clearly stated |
Both lean on widgets. Couple Joy's show your days together, the live distance between you, upcoming events and a memory of the day. Amourly's seven widgets focus on what your partner just sent: their latest note, mood, photo or drawing, plus days together and your next special day, on the Home Screen or Lock Screen.
Couple Joy's live distance tracker is a real plus if you like seeing exactly how far apart you are. Amourly doesn't track live location. Instead it keeps each other's everyday moments close with notes, taps and photos, and counts down to your next special day.
Not necessarily. Couple Joy is great if you enjoy Would You Rather or deep-conversation decks. Amourly is for couples who'd rather connect through the small stuff, a 'thinking of you' tap or a photo of your view, with no quiz in between.
Couple Joy sells streak repairs from $0.99 to $3.99. Amourly gives you a free Streak Freeze every month and doesn't sell repairs.
Add Amourly widgets to see your partner's latest note, mood, photo or drawing without opening anything. It feels less like checking an app and more like a glance at them.
Explore couple widgetsEvery memory with a place shows up on your shared map, with a count of the cities and countries you've visited together.
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Send a hug, a kiss, a poke or a boop in one tap. Your partner gets a notification, and it's a small, honest way to say you're on their mind.
Couple Joy is free to download. Its App Store page lists Premium at $12.99, $29.99 and $39.99 without showing plan lengths, and reviewers say the free tier includes one set of questions per category. Amourly Pro is $9.99/month or $44.99/year.
Amourly Pro covers both partners with one subscription. Couple Joy doesn't clearly state whether its Premium is shared with your partner.
Couple Joy is a highly rated couples app from a Romanian husband-and-wife team. It combines a large library of questions and games (Would You Rather, Never Have I Ever, deep conversations) with widgets, mood sharing, a live distance tracker, a photo journal and streaks.
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Partly. Both offer widgets, mood sharing, a photo journal with a map and countdowns. Couple Joy adds a large library of questions and games and a live distance tracker; Amourly adds love notes, love taps, snaps, drawings and real-time Live Drawing.
No. Amourly doesn't share live location. Its map shows the places of memories you've saved and the cities and countries you've visited together.
It's free to download with a limited free tier. Premium is listed at $12.99, $29.99 and $39.99 on the US App Store.
Amourly. It has no quizzes or question decks; it's built around notes, taps, moods, photos and shared memories.
Yes. When one partner subscribes to Amourly Pro, both partners get Pro. Pro is $9.99/month or $44.99/year on the US App Store.
Not yet. Amourly is currently available for iPhone only. Couple Joy is available on iPhone and Android.
We compared each app's public App Store listing, official website, help pages, and published pricing, and read recent public reviews for recurring themes. Feature lists change often, so we re-check these pages regularly. Last checked .
Disclosure: this comparison is written by the team that makes Amourly. We've aimed to describe every app fairly, including where another app is the better fit. If something here is out of date, email support@amourly.app and we'll correct it.
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