Comparison

NestNote vs Olively

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

Head to head
About

NestNote

This app provides a digital binder for parents to share essential information with babysitters and pet sitters. It helps organize details like routines, important places, and emergency contacts, ensuring sitters have everything they need for a smooth experience.

Highlights
  • Digital binder for sitters
  • Organize essential family details
  • Create entries for text notes
  • Note important places
  • Define multi-step routines
  • Secure information sharing
  • Emergency contact access
Features
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NestNote helps parents create a comprehensive digital guide for babysitters, pet sitters, etc., containing all the essential information needed to keep your children safe and happy while you're away. Everything Organized! Keep all your family's important details organized into folders of your choosing. Add Items like: - Contacts, for uploading emergency contacts like Grandma or your favorite neighbor! - Entries, for storing plain text like "Wifi Password", "Garage Code", etc. - Places, for noting places of importance like "Soccer Practice", or "Favorite Dog Park", etc. - Routines, for noting multi-step flows, like "House Night Time", etc. Why Parents Love NestNote: - Peace of mind knowing sitters have all the information they need - No more scrambling to write notes before leaving - Secure sharing that protects your family's privacy - Works with any sitter - Reduces miscommunication and forgotten details Why Sitters Love NestNote: - Everything they need in one organized place - Clear, easy-to-follow information - Time sensitive notifications - Quick access to emergency contacts Privacy Policy: https://www.nestnoteapp.com/privacypolicy Terms: https://www.nestnoteapp.com/terms

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

NestNote4 screens
Olively4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: NestNote at 100% against Olively's 44%. NestNote also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Olively's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (580 vs 13). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. NestNote sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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

NestNote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olively has 580 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of NestNote's written reviews are positive against 44% of Olively's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NestNote ships an update every 3 weeks, Olively weekly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
NestNote versus Olively: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNestNoteOlively
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better4.7 (580 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better43.8% of reviews
Number of ratings13580 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSWAPPFUNC, L.L.C.Yosha Ventures

Customer experience

NestNote

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Olively

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

In-app purchases

5 purchases

NestNote

Subscriptions5
  • NestNote Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • NestNote Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
  • NestNote Premium Yearly$9.991 Year
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  • NestNote Premium Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • NestNote Premium Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 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 NestNote free?
NestNote 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, NestNote or Olively?
NestNote is rated higher. NestNote averages 5.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Olively averages 4.7 from 580 ratings.
Do NestNote or Olively have ads?
NestNote shows ads; Olively does not.
Which is updated more often, NestNote or Olively?
NestNote ships an update every 3 weeks, and Olively weekly. Most recently, NestNote was updated on October 28, 2026 and Olively on October 28, 2026.

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