Comparison

Olively vs HearUs

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

HearUs

Features
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HearUs helps couples communicate with more clarity, empathy, and understanding using AI-powered relationship insights. Whether you’re navigating conflict, feeling disconnected, or simply trying to improve communication, HearUs provides a safe and supportive space to better understand each other. Record a conversation or upload a transcript, and HearUs will analyze communication patterns, emotional dynamics, tone, and interaction styles to deliver thoughtful feedback and practical recommendations. Designed to feel approachable and judgment-free, HearUs helps couples recognize unhealthy patterns, improve emotional awareness, and build stronger habits for healthier conversations. Features AI-powered communication analysis Upload transcripts or record conversations directly in the app Personalized relationship insights and recommendations Identify communication styles and emotional patterns Discover healthier ways to navigate conflict Simple, calming, privacy-focused experience Conversation summaries and actionable takeaways Who It’s For HearUs is designed for couples who want to: Improve communication Resolve recurring conflicts Better understand each other Build emotional connection Grow together in healthier ways HearUs is not a replacement for professional therapy, crisis services, or medical care, but it can be a valuable tool for reflection, communication growth, and relationship awareness. Privacy & Trust Your conversations are private and handled securely. HearUs is designed to support honest communication with care and discretion. Subscription Information Some features may require a subscription or in-app purchase. Pricing and availability may vary by region. Start listening better. Start understanding deeper. Start growing together with HearUs.

Screenshots

Olively4 screens
HearUs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HearUs at daily against Olively's weekly. HearUs also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). 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. Olively sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and HearUs sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Olively ships an update weekly, HearUs daily. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Olively versus HearUs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOlivelyHearUs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (576 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings576 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB3 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperYosha VenturesJordan Douglas

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

HearUs

One-time1
  • 5 Report Pack$3.99

Questions

Is Olively free?
Olively is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HearUs free?
HearUs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Olively or HearUs have ads?
Neither Olively nor HearUs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Olively or HearUs?
Olively ships an update weekly, and HearUs daily. Most recently, Olively was updated on October 25, 2026 and HearUs on October 25, 2026.

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