Deepbond vs The Gift Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deepbond
This app offers a focused approach to finding meaningful relationships by prioritizing compatibility, values, and shared life goals. It encourages thoughtful connections with a limited time to chat and explore potential. Designed for those seeking serious, lasting partnerships.
- Compatibility-focused matching
- No endless swiping
- Dealbreaker filters
- Limited chat window
- Focus on shared goals
- Respectful community
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Deepbond is a dating app for people looking for serious, meaningful relationships built on compatibility, shared values, and clear intentions. In a world of endless swiping and unclear intentions, Deepbond brings clarity back to dating. We help you meet people who align with your values, lifestyle, and vision for the future, so you can focus on what truly matters. MEET PEOPLE YOU'RE MORE COMPATIBLE WITH Compatibility goes beyond shared interests. Your values, lifestyle, goals, and what matters most to you in a relationship help you understand whether there's real alignment. NO SWIPING, NO PRESSURE Explore profiles at your own pace, without endless swiping or split-second decisions. Take the time to get to know each profile before deciding whether you want to connect. SET YOUR DEALBREAKERS Create dealbreakers around the topics that matter most to you and define what you're looking for in a relationship. Before a connection happens, you can see whether you're compatible on the things that really matter. CONNECTIONS WITH INTENTION When two people pass each other's dealbreakers, a connection is created. From there, you have 24 hours to start the conversation and up to 5 days to explore whether there's real potential beyond the screen. A DATING APP FOR SERIOUS RELATIONSHIPS Deepbond is built for people who want more than matches. For those who want to meet someone, build a meaningful connection, and create a relationship with real potential. Respect, inclusion, and authenticity are at the heart of our community. Thousands of meaningful connections have already started on Deepbond. Yours could be next. Download Deepbond for free and meet someone you can build something real with. _____ Deepbond is a free dating app to download and use. We offer optional Premium subscription packages to gain access to exclusive features. - Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. If you don’t choose to purchase Deepbond Premium, you can continue using Deepbond for free. Your personal data is securely processed in line with our privacy policy and applicable laws. Please review: https://deepbond.app/legal/privacy https://deepbond.app/legal/terms
The Gift Journal
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Remember what they'd love — and the moments that meant something. The Gift Journal is a private journal for thoughtful gifting. A calm place to remember gift ideas, hints, preferences, occasions and the little details that make someone feel understood. Built around people, not products, it helps you capture inspiration, prepare for important occasions and build a meaningful history of the gifts you give, receive and remember. **A YEAR OF THOUGHTFULNESS, REMEMBERED** • Year in Review brings together gifts, hints and meaningful occasions in a personal annual reflection. • Revisit thoughtful moments across the months and years. • Moments Remembered creates a lasting history of gifts given, gifts received and thoughtful details for each person. • Explore memories by date and gift direction. • Print or save reflections to revisit whenever you like. **THINK FROM WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW** • Help me think brings together hints, preferences, interests and gift history already in your journal. • Discover thoughtful directions supported by what you've remembered. • Understand why suggestions surfaced, including possible repeats and known traditions. • Dislikes and Avoid gifting help guide ideas away from unsuitable choices. • Protected information stays outside Thoughtful Inspiration. **REMEMBER THE LITTLE THINGS** • Keep lasting profiles for the people who matter, including birthdays, relationships, preferences and practical details. • Preserve previous details when something genuinely changes. • Capture Gift Ideas and Hints with photographs, links, prices and personal context. • Remember gifts you've given, received and those received by people in your journal. • Record who gave a gift, when and why. • Keep a private Wishlist for yourself. **CAPTURE FIRST, FILL IN LATER** • Save an Idea or Hint from a photograph without needing a product link. • Capture memories offline and enrich them later. • Turn a Hint into a Gift Idea while preserving its original inspiration. • Save products and pages from Safari and review them when convenient. **PLAN WITHOUT THE PRESSURE** • See upcoming occasions and gentle readiness cues. • Plan birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, weddings and personal celebrations. • Track optional budgets, planned gifts and spending. • Remember deliveries, tracking, return dates and where gifts are stored. • Set discreet, privacy-conscious reminders. **FIND WHAT MATTERS** • Search and filter People, gifts, hints and journal records. • Revisit relationship history through Moments Remembered. • Use optional Spotlight integration to find supported records. • Access Quick Capture, Wishlist, People and Help me think through Apple Shortcuts. **PRIVATE BY DESIGN** • Local-first and useful offline. • Optional private iCloud synchronization across your Apple devices. • Protect sensitive Ideas, Hints and Wishlist items with device authentication. • Preview what you share, keeping sensitive details private by default. • Create full backups and export portable copies of your journal. • Schedule additional archive backups to a selected Files location, including supported cloud-storage providers. • Keep separate managed backup histories on Mac and iOS, with a quiet Backup & Restore History. • No ads, behavioural-data monetisation or proprietary account required for core use. **MADE FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES** • iPhone, iPad and Mac for capturing, planning and remembering. • Apple Watch for quick voice capture and reminders. • Four carefully designed visual themes. • English, German, Spanish and Portuguese (Portugal). **ONE PURCHASE. NO RECURRING SUBSCRIPTION.** Explore the complete app free for 14 days. Full Unlock is a one-time in-app purchase across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Private iCloud synchronization is included. The Gift Journal becomes more valuable over time: a quiet record of what people love, what changed, what worked before and the thoughtful moments worth remembering.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: The Gift Journal at none against Deepbond's shown. The Gift Journal also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). Deepbond's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.2). On price and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Deepbond sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and The Gift Journal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Deepbond ships an update every 3 weeks, The Gift Journal every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Deepbond | The Gift Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Deeep Lda | Ross Williams |
In-app purchases
Deepbond
- Deepbond Plus$3.991 Month
- Deepbond Boost$6.991 Month
- Deepbond Spark$8.991 Month
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- Deepbond Ultimate$12.991 Month
- Deepbond Pulse$14.991 Month
- Deepbond Infinity$22.991 Month
- 1 Intro$1.99
- 5 Intros$5.99
- 10 Intros$8.99
The Gift Journal
- Full Unlock$24.99









