Comparison

Olively vs Relate

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

Head to head
About

Olively

Understand your relationship patterns through attachment theory. This app helps you identify anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment styles, offering tools to improve communication and build healthier connections. It provides quizzes, message translation, and guided programs to foster secure attachment.

Highlights
  • Attachment style quiz
  • Understand relationship patterns
  • Translate messages for clarity
  • Decode partner's texts
  • Relationship Pulse insights
  • Guided programs for secure attachment
  • Attachment theory library
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

Relate

This app helps couples improve communication by providing a private space to process feelings and craft clear messages. It offers evidence-based strategies to foster understanding and suggest fair compromises, transforming difficult conversations.

Highlights
  • Private emotional processing
  • Clear message crafting
  • Evidence-based communication strategies
  • Fair compromise suggestions
  • Partner understanding enhancement
  • Judgment-free environment
Features
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Every relationship hits rough patches. Misunderstandings pile up. The same arguments keep coming back. You know what you feel, but saying it the right way is hard. Relate changes that. Talk to Relate like you would a trusted friend or therapist. Share what's on your mind, process your feelings, and get help expressing yourself clearly, before the conversation with your partner even starts. Vent freely in private. Relate listens, understands, and helps translate your raw emotions into calm, clear messages your partner can actually receive using evidence-based communication strategies. When both partners use Relate, you stop talking past each other. You start understanding each other. Relate suggests fair compromises that respect both of your needs, not just whoever feels more strongly in the moment. Relate is private, judgment-free, and built for real couples navigating real life. Download Relate and start understanding each other better today! Privacy Policy: https://startrelate.com/privacy Terms: https://startrelate.com/terms

Screenshots

Olively4 screens
Relate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Relate at 100% against Olively's 44%. Relate also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (3 vs 1). Olively's advantage is ratings volume (603 vs 4). 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 Relate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Relate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olively has 603 ratings behind it against 4, 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 Relate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Olively ships an update weekly, Relate fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Olively versus Relate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOlivelyRelate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (603 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings603 — better4
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB58 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperYosha VenturesButterCorp

Customer experience

Olively

All ratings587 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral3.1%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive43.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative53.1%

Relate

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Olively

Subscriptions4
  • Olively Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Olively Pro$19.991 Month
  • Olively Pro (3 months)3 Days trial$39.993 Months
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  • Olively Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Relate

Subscriptions2
  • Relate Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Month
  • Relate Yearly7 Days trial$149.991 Year

Questions

Is Olively free?
Olively is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Relate free?
Relate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Olively or Relate?
Relate is rated higher. Olively averages 4.7 out of 5 from 603 ratings, while Relate averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Olively or Relate have ads?
Neither Olively nor Relate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Olively or Relate?
Olively ships an update weekly, and Relate fortnightly. Most recently, Olively was updated on November 5, 2026 and Relate on October 31, 2026.

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