Clara for Daters vs After the Date
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clara for Daters
This app helps you date intentionally by providing a gamified approach to relationship management. It offers guided reflection, prospect scoring, and a personal profile to help you make better choices and improve your dating journey.
- Gamified relationship management
- Intentional dating guidance
- Psychologist-designed reflection questions
- Prospect scoring
- Personal Clara Card for referrals
- Dating feedback and insights
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CLARA: Level Up Your Love Life Date intentionally with Clara, the first ever gamified relationship management tool that takes the anxiety and weight out of modern dating. WE BELIEVE THAT THE PEOPLE YOU CHOOSE TO BE IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH IMPACTS YOUR MENTAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. Today’s dating world can feel overwhelming, lonely, and downright depressing. Clara for Daters is here to help you learn to choose relationships that are good for you. What You’re Doing. Making a consistent effort to date. Reflecting honestly on your dates. Dropping relationships that waste your time or are not good for you. What Clara Does for You. Gives you the dating feedback you crave to help guide your dating journey. Keeps you honest with psychologist-designed questions. Keeps you organized by scoring your prospects. Gives you your own personal Clara Card that you can share and use as a referral tool for high value prospects within your own communities. Free to Download for Everyone. Premium features may be introduced in the future. 100% Women & Minority Owned The Backstory: Our founder is a corporate leader turned love scientist who has always been business smart but romantically challenged. Jillian was determined to get back into the dating world after recovering from a traumatic breakup when she lost all faith in her ability to pursue healthy relationships. So she raised some money and built Clara to help her and others who are struggling in their dating lives. Join our Clara for Daters Facebook community of Intentional Daters to hear how she is not letting rejection get in her way as a thirty something looking for a healthy relationship OR as a female minority in the VC space. Support: support@clarafordaters.com Feedback: feedback@clarafordaters.com Terms and conditions: https://www.clarafordaters.com/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.clarafordaters.com/privacy-policy FAQ: https://www.clarafordaters.com/faq
After the Date
This app helps you reflect on dates by asking a few quick questions about your emotional and physical feelings. It reveals patterns over time to support self-awareness without judgment or external opinions.
- Quick post-date reflection
- Emotional and physical check-ins
- Pattern identification over time
- Supports self-awareness
- Private and judgment-free
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After the Date is a simple reflection tool to help you pause and check in with yourself after a date — without pressure, scoring, or outside opinions. In under a minute, answer a few thoughtful questions about how the date felt emotionally and physically, and whether you’d want to see the person again. Ideal for people who say things like: "They were great on paper… but something felt off." Over time, your reflections reveal gentle patterns across dates, helping you better notice what feels calm, uncertain, or aligned for you. After the Date doesn’t give advice or recommendations. All insights are based on your own entries and are meant to support self-awareness.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Clara for Daters at Free against After the Date's $0.99. Clara for Daters also leads on ratings volume (126 vs 1). After the Date's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 56%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.4). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Clara for Daters is free to download; After the Date costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
After the Date holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clara for Daters has 126 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Clara for Daters's written reviews are positive against 100% of After the Date's.
Clara for Daters ships an update fortnightly, After the Date every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clara for Daters | After the Date |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (126 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 126 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Clara Network Inc. | Lisa Henry |
Customer experience
Clara for Daters
After the Date
Bugs and requests
Clara for Daters
Reported bugs
9 issues- Failure to load questions error
- Voice-to-text notes disappear
- DONE button not visible after typing notes
- Text boxes don't scale
- Keyboard covers buttons (next/done)
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- City/location field not populating
- Next button greyed out when adding dates
- Date vibe check questions not appearing or saving
- Incorrect year on dates cannot be changed
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to edit date notes and reflections
- Option to export data for analysis
- Fix voice-to-text bug where text disappears
- Improve UI/UX to prevent buttons being covered by keyboard
- Ensure city/location field populates correctly
After the Date
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clara for Daters
No in-app purchases
After the Date
No in-app purchases
Questions
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