Comparison

Olively vs Veya Self

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

Veya Self

This app offers evidence-informed tools and mindful practices to help users reduce stress, improve habits, and achieve better balance. It provides daily guided plans, sleep support, and journaling prompts designed for realistic integration into everyday life.

Highlights
  • Daily guided plans (starting at 3 minutes)
  • Mindful sleep support (stories, meditations)
  • Journaling tools with guided prompts
  • CBT-based exercises
  • Nervous-system regulation techniques
  • Mind-body approaches
Features
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Veya: Your Companion for Self-Guided Well-Being
 Find better balance in mind and life with Veya — an evidence-informed self-guided well-being app designed to help you reduce stress, improve your habits, sleep more peacefully, and feel more grounded each day.
 Veya blends science-based tools, mindful practices, and gentle guidance to support your emotional health — one small, realistic habit at a time. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, stuck in stress cycles, or simply want a more balanced routine, Veya helps you reconnect with yourself and build resilience from within.
 - What Veya Helps You With • Feel calmer, more confident, and more empowered in daily life
 • Reduce stress and ease tension in your mind and body
 • Wake up energized and fall asleep more peacefully
 • Stay centered and focused even during stressful moments
 • Break out of potential fight-or-flight mode and move toward balance
 • Stop feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or guilty for resting
 • Build routines that support long-term emotional well-being
 - What You’ll Find Inside Daily Guided Plan — starting at just 3 minutes
 A simple, self-guided flow of CBT-based exercises, reflection prompts, and calming practices to help you shift unhelpful patterns and build healthier habits gradually. Mindful Sleep Support
 Sleep stories, calming meditations, and breathing exercises designed to quiet racing thoughts and help your body unwind. Mindfulness & Journaling Tools
 Guided prompts, grounding exercises, and perspective-shifting articles to bring clarity into your day.
 - Rooted in Evidence-Informed Practices Your plan draws from cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, and mind-body approaches reviewed by:
 • Clinical psychologists
 • Eastern medicine practitioner
 • Mindset coach - Designed for Real Life Veya is built for people who want meaningful change without overwhelm. No long sessions. No pressure to be perfect. Just guided steps that fit into your day — helping you feel lighter, clearer, and more in control.
 - Find Your Way with Veya Start your personalized well-being plan and begin feeling better — one small step at a time. Disclaimer: Veya offers general well-being guidance and mindfulness-based tools intended for everyday support. It is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, or mental health care. The information and practices provided in the app are for educational and self-reflective purposes only. Veya does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical or mental health conditions, and may not be appropriate for everyone. If you have concerns about your mental or physical health, or if you need personalized advice, please consult a qualified healthcare professional. If you are experiencing a crisis or feel unsafe, please seek immediate help from local emergency services or a trusted professional in your area. Use Veya at your own discretion, and always consider your personal needs and circumstances when engaging with any activities in the app. Privacy Policy: https://veya.coach/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://veya.coach/terms-of-service Data Used to Track You Contact info Identifiers Usage Data Location Data Linked to You Health & Fitness Location User Content Usage Data Purchases Contact Info Identifiers Diagnostics

Screenshots

Olively4 screens
Veya Self4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Olively at 4.7 against Veya Self's 1.6. Olively also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (576 vs 7). Veya Self's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.2 vs 17.6). 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. Olively sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Veya Self sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olively has 576 ratings behind it against 7, 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 20% of Veya Self's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Olively ships an update weekly, Veya Self every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Olively versus Veya Self: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOlivelyVeya Self
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (576 ratings) — better1.6 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings576 — better7
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB110 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYosha VenturesIgnitea Ltd

Customer experience

Olively

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

Veya Self

All ratings7 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative85.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

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
1 purchases

Veya Self

One-time1
  • Somatic Movement$0.99

Questions

Is Olively free?
Olively is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Veya Self free?
Veya Self is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Olively or Veya Self?
Olively is rated higher. Olively averages 4.7 out of 5 from 576 ratings, while Veya Self averages 1.6 from 7 ratings.
Do Olively or Veya Self have ads?
Neither Olively nor Veya Self shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Olively or Veya Self?
Olively ships an update weekly, and Veya Self every 2 months. Most recently, Olively was updated on October 25, 2026 and Veya Self on October 24, 2026.

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