Comparison

Olively vs ForgetMeNot

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

Head to head
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.

About

ForgetMeNot

Capture and save meaningful thoughts, experiences, and moments in digital jars. Add notes, photos, and videos to preserve memories and revisit them anytime. Collaborate with others on shared jars to create timeless stories.

Highlights
  • Create custom memory jars
  • Add notes, photos, and videos
  • Collaborate with others on jars
  • Revisit and reflect on memories
  • Share memories with loved ones
Features
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ForgetMeNot is for remembering our lives. Not just the big stuff like birthdays and epic trips, but also the countless smaller moments we have with our friends, family, and ourselves. Like when your friend said something so dumb and funny you were laughing until it hurt. These times are the easiest to forget, but also what gives life real meaning. Now you can collect them all in your own memory jars. Keep them private, or build them together with the people who were there. And whenever you need it, pull a memory out at random and be back there for a minute. WHO WE ARE We're just two people with a couple of cats. Come say hi: https://instagram.com/forget.me.not.app WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH FORGETMENOT A memory jar app for photos, videos, and notes, kept privately or shared with the people you love. Capture memories - Save photos, videos, and written notes as memories - Each memory keeps its date, so a jar doubles as a timeline you can scroll - Make as many jars as you like: a family jar, a couple's jar, a travel jar, a baby's first-year jar, a pet jar, a gratitude jar Relive memories - Pull a random memory from any jar whenever you want to look back - Browse any jar as a dated photo journal Share memories with family and friends - Invite people to a shared jar so everyone adds their own photos, videos, and notes - Collaborative jars for couples, families, friend groups, and long-distance relationships - Send a single memory to someone who was there Private by default - Jars are private unless you invite someone - No public feed, no followers, no strangers Whether you use it as a memory keeper, a shared photo journal, a family diary, a digital scrapbook, a time capsule, or a gratitude jar, ForgetMeNot is a place to put the moments you don't want to forget, and a way to find them again when you need them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://forget-me-not.co/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://forget-me-not.co/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Olively4 screens
ForgetMeNot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ForgetMeNot at 100% against Olively's 44%. ForgetMeNot also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Olively's advantage is ratings volume (576 vs 10). On price, update cadence, 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. Olively sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and ForgetMeNot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ForgetMeNot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olively has 576 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Olively's written reviews are positive against 100% of ForgetMeNot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Olively versus ForgetMeNot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOlivelyForgetMeNot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (576 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings576 — better10
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYosha VenturesDendric LLC

Customer experience

Olively

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

ForgetMeNot

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

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
3 purchases

ForgetMeNot

Subscriptions2
  • Timeless (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Timeless (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Jar Permanent Growth$4.99

Questions

Is Olively free?
Olively is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ForgetMeNot free?
ForgetMeNot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Olively or ForgetMeNot?
ForgetMeNot is rated higher. Olively averages 4.7 out of 5 from 576 ratings, while ForgetMeNot averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Olively or ForgetMeNot have ads?
Neither Olively nor ForgetMeNot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Olively or ForgetMeNot?
Olively ships an update weekly, and ForgetMeNot weekly. Most recently, Olively was updated on October 25, 2026 and ForgetMeNot on October 24, 2026.

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