Comparison

Inside Then Out vs Olively

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Inside Then Out

This app helps you reflect on your life through guided or freeform journaling. Capture memories with photos, videos, and audio, track your goals, and monitor your emotional progress. It offers daily prompts, reminders, and a blog for wellness advice.

Highlights
  • Guided and freeform journaling
  • Multimedia memory capture (photos, video, audio)
  • Mood assessment and goal setting
  • Journaling streaks and rewards
  • Daily reminders and notifications
  • Wellness blog and advice
  • Passcode, Touch ID, and Face ID protection
Features
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We believe the best way forward is inward. With the Inside Then Out app, reflect on your life –past, present, and future. Capture your memories with pictures, videos, and audio recordings. Check in on yourself and your goals, and see just how far you’ve come. With our guided journals, you’ll never run out of things to say and opportunities to get to know yourself better. With our free-form journaling, you can let your own thoughts run as wild as you want them to! Get started journaling no matter your experience • Choose between a guided journaling experience, or a free, at-your-own-pace experience. • If you’re new at journaling, get inspired by thought-provoking prompts every day. • If you prefer to journal freely, create your own blank journals and write as you wish. Preserve your most cherished memories • Add photos and videos that tell your story in your journal entries. • Record your voice or your surroundings to add even more context. Make a commitment to yourself • Check-in with yourself every morning and evening with our mood assessment and goal setting tool. • Start a journaling streak and get rewarded with redeemable points daily. • Set a reminder and get daily notifications to encourage you to stay consistent. • Read more about wellness, and get advice you didn’t know you needed in our ‘Blogs’ section. Look back on your personal journey • Browse through your past entries using our calendar view to reflect on key moments in your life. • Get an overview of how your feelings have evolved over time using our check-in tool. Find the right tools for you • Shop all ITO products in app, with an easy checkout process and the option to redeem points you’ve earned! Your thoughts made private • Protect your journal with your device passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID. Multi-Language Support • We now support English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and Chinese! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Olively

This app helps couples understand each other by translating communication based on attachment styles. It offers tools to rephrase messages, decode partner's words, and provides guided programs and educational content to improve relationship dynamics.

Highlights
  • Translate messages based on attachment styles
  • Decode partner's communication
  • AI-powered relationship check-ins
  • Guided 7-day relationship programs
  • Attachment theory library
  • Real-time trigger risk scores
Features
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Olively is the attachment style app for understanding your relationship patterns through attachment theory. Learn how anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, fearful avoidant attachment, secure attachment, insecure attachment, and codependency patterns show up in real communication. Take an attachment style quiz, understand your relationship patterns, learn how your attachment system shows up in texts and conflict, and practice more secure communication with tools for real conversations. Olively helps you move from spiraling, shutdown, protest behavior, reassurance-seeking, defensiveness, mixed signals, and repeated fights toward clearer communication, healthier boundaries, repair, and earned secure attachment. Built around attachment theory, Olively combines an attachment style quiz, partner-style insights, guided programs, a practical attachment library, message translation, text decoding, Relationship Pulse, and Spiral Support. How Olively Helps Attachment Style Quiz Find your attachment style and learn how anxious, avoidant, fearful avoidant, disorganized, and secure attachment patterns show up in communication, intimacy, conflict, and repair. Understand Your Relationship Pattern Add your partner’s attachment style to see how your two patterns interact. Olively helps explain anxious-avoidant dynamics, reassurance loops, emotional shutdown, distancing, overthinking, and repair needs. Translate Messages Type what you want to say. Olively helps rewrite it for your partner’s attachment style so your message is clearer, calmer, and less likely to trigger defensiveness. Decode Texts Paste a message from your partner and see what your anxious, avoidant, or insecure attachment system may be hearing compared with what they may actually mean. Relationship Pulse Answer a few questions about what is happening and get a read on the pattern: why it feels triggering, what dynamic may be showing up, and what secure next step to try. Spiral Support When you are overthinking a short reply, waiting for reassurance, or afraid your partner is pulling away, Olively helps you slow down, name the trigger, and choose a more secure response. 7-Day Programs Follow guided programs for anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, codependency, conflict repair, boundaries, reconnection, and secure relationship habits. Attachment Library Learn attachment theory in practical language, including anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, fearful avoidant attachment, disorganized attachment, secure attachment, emotional availability, nervous system triggers, communication patterns, and relationship repair. Olively is for you if: - You spiral over texts, tone, silence, or delayed replies - You want an attachment style quiz with practical next steps - You are healing anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, or codependency patterns - You and your partner repeat the same fight again and again - You want to communicate without escalating conflict - You want to understand anxious and avoidant attachment dynamics - You want healthier boundaries, repair, and secure communication Many relationship fights are not only about the words being said. They are about the attachment system underneath them. An anxious attachment style may hear rejection where none was intended. An avoidant attachment style may hear pressure or criticism in a request for closeness. Codependency patterns can make it hard to pause, set boundaries, or stop chasing reassurance. Olively helps turn those moments into clearer, calmer conversations. Instead of asking “What should I text back?” in panic, Olively helps you understand what you are feeling, what your partner may be feeling, what could trigger conflict, and how to respond from a more secure place. Olively uses attachment-aware AI guidance to support communication and education. It is not a replacement for therapy, diagnosis, crisis support, or professional relationship counseling.

Screenshots

Inside Then Out4 screens
Olively4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Olively at 4.7 against Inside Then Out's 3.5. Olively also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (580 vs 20). Inside Then Out's advantage is review sentiment (53% vs 44%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Inside Then Out sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Olively sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Olively holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olively has 580 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Inside Then Out's written reviews are positive against 44% of Olively's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inside Then Out ships an update every 5 weeks, Olively weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Inside Then Out versus Olively: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInside Then OutOlively
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (20 ratings)4.7 (580 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews — better43.8% of reviews
Number of ratings20580 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInside Then Out, LLCYosha Ventures

Customer experience

Inside Then Out

All ratings20 ratings
Positive55.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative35.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative40.0%

Olively

All ratings569 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive43.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative53.1%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Inside Then Out

Subscriptions4
  • Better Every Day Journal7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Dig Deeper7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Better Every Day7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Dig Deeper7 Days trial$19.991 Year
4 purchases

Olively

Subscriptions4
  • Olively Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Olively Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Olively Pro (3 months)3 Days trial$39.993 Months
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  • Olively Annual3 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Inside Then Out free?
Inside Then Out is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Olively free?
Olively is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Inside Then Out or Olively?
Olively is rated higher. Inside Then Out averages 3.5 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Olively averages 4.7 from 580 ratings.
Do Inside Then Out or Olively have ads?
Neither Inside Then Out nor Olively shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inside Then Out or Olively?
Inside Then Out ships an update every 5 weeks, and Olively weekly. Most recently, Inside Then Out was updated on October 22, 2026 and Olively on October 28, 2026.

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