Comparison

Distraxt vs Olively

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

Head to head
About

Distraxt

This app offers quick, interactive activities to help break cycles of overthinking and calm racing thoughts. It provides instant mental relief through playful, science-inspired tools designed to redirect attention and reset your mind.

Highlights
  • Tap to distract activities
  • Motion-based focus games
  • Quick relief for stress
  • Minimal input required
  • Designed for anxiety and mental reset
Features
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Feeling stuck in a loop of overthinking? Distraxt is your quick fix to break free. With fast, interactive activities designed to shift your focus, Distraxt helps calm racing thoughts and reset your mind—anytime, anywhere. Why Distraxt Works When your thoughts won’t stop, even a few seconds of distraction can make a difference. Distraxt gives you instant mental relief through playful, science-inspired tools that redirect attention and interrupt overthinking patterns. Inside Distraxt: - Tap to Distract: Pop bubbles, clear shapes, burst stress. - Tilt and Focus: Use motion-based mini-games to shift your attention. - Quick Relief: Activities built for short, high-stress moments. - Minimal Input: No logins, no pressure—just open and play. - Feel the Change: Designed for anxiety, stress, or simple mental reset. Distraxt is your pocket tool for mental clarity. No fluff. Just fast, effective distraction when you need it most. Download now and stop overthinking—one tap at a time. Terms of Use: https://shiningmuffin.com/terms-and-conditions/

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

Distraxt4 screens
Olively4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Distraxt at 100% against Olively's 45%. Distraxt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (3 vs 1). Olively's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (473 vs 1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Distraxt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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

Distraxt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olively has 473 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Distraxt's written reviews are positive against 45% of Olively's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Distraxt ships an update every 2 weeks, Olively every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Distraxt versus Olively: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDistraxtOlively
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (473 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better44.8% of reviews
Number of ratings1473 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShining Muffin LLCYosha Ventures

Customer experience

Distraxt

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Olively

All ratings473 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive44.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.2%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Distraxt

Subscriptions2
  • Unlock Your Best Self$9.991 Month
  • Try Your Best Self7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Distraxt free?
Distraxt 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, Distraxt or Olively?
Distraxt is rated higher. Distraxt averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Olively averages 4.7 from 473 ratings.
Do Distraxt or Olively have ads?
Neither Distraxt nor Olively shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Distraxt or Olively?
Distraxt ships an update every 2 weeks, and Olively every 5 days. Most recently, Distraxt was updated on September 12, 2026 and Olively on September 24, 2026.

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