Comparison

LDR dates vs Moons

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

Head to head
About

LDR dates

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Turn your phone into a romantic getaway! Whether you are thousands of miles apart or just stuck in a busy routine, Couples Date App helps you disconnect from the world and reconnect with each other. Experience meaningful, guided dates without leaving your home (or your timezone). Choose from a variety of ready-made online date journeys: โ€ข Game & Fun: Laugh together with interactive challenges. โ€ข Romantic & Nostalgic Dates: Deepen your bond and relive your best memories. โ€ข Creative & Experimental: Try something new and spark meaningful conversations. Why couples love Couples Date App: โ€ข Designed for LDR, Perfect for Any Couple: A lifeline for long-distance relationships and a spark-igniter for busy couples. โ€ข Zero Planning Required: We handle the ideas; you just bring the mood. โ€ข One Subscription for Two: One plan unlocks all date experiences for both partners. Bridge the distance or break the routine. Download now and go on your next real date tonight! Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Privacy-Policy-2daff1fc843780b08e00cb8232cdac71?source=copy_link Terms of Use: https://www.notion.so/Terms-of-Use-2daff1fc8437800fb3f3d79f8ac14b72?source=copy_link

About

Moons

Features
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You know who you want to stay close to. You also know it has been longer than you meant since you spoke to some of them. Moons is a small app for the twelve people who matter most. You pick them from your contacts, give each one a rhythm โ€” weekly, monthly, whatever fits โ€” and they orbit you on a single screen. As time passes without contact they drift outward and their colour follows. One glance tells you who is due. That is the whole app. One screen, one loop, one payment. THE ORBIT Everyone fits on one screen. No list, no scrolling, no search. Green means you have just caught up, grey means drifting, terracotta means it has been a while. Pinch for a close-up when you want to see faces rather than positions. The twelve-person cap is deliberate. It is what removes tags, tiers, folders and pagination from the app, and it means adding a thirteenth person asks you a real question instead of quietly growing a database. If one circle is not enough โ€” a client, a team, the school run โ€” there is room for up to four groups, each its own orbit of twelve. Swipe sideways to spin from one to the next, or pinch in to see them all around you at once. LOGGING A CATCH-UP Tap someone and reach out โ€” a call, FaceTime, a message, an email, WhatsApp. Moons opens the right app and logs the catch-up for you. Or press and hold to record one that happened somewhere else: over lunch, at the school gates, on a walk. There is an undo, and never a confirmation dialog. Arrive to find several people overdue and you get a grid of faces. Tap the ones you have seen. Five seconds to clear a fortnight. WHAT IT HOLDS Notes, facts and what you talked about last time, kept for each person. Birthdays and anniversaries come across from Contacts, and you can add any other date worth remembering โ€” the day you met, a date you would rather not forget. Each gets a quiet nudge a week before. A reminder on the day someone is due, which you can switch off for anyone. When someone has drifted a very long way, Moons moves them out of the orbit rather than nagging you about it. One tap brings them back, or you can keep them without ever being prompted again โ€” because the reason you have not called is not always one an app should push at. IT DOES NOT WATCH YOU Moons cannot read your messages, your calls or your email. No iPhone app can, and Moons does not pretend otherwise. It records that you chose to reach out, which is the part worth remembering anyway. Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no server, no analytics, no adverts. The privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because that is literally true. NO STREAKS No scores. No leaderboards. No red badges on human beings. Missing someone by a few days is not a failure and the app will not treat it as one. ALSO INCLUDED A home-screen widget showing whichever group you choose, with a button that logs a catch-up for whoever is most overdue without opening the app. And a Siri shortcut: "Log a catch-up in Moons." PRICE Three people free, for as long as you like. One payment opens all twelve, for good. Another, if you want them, opens four groups. No subscription.

Screenshots

LDR dates4 screens
Moons4 screens

Verdict

The call

LDR dates and Moons are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. LDR dates sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Moons sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LDR dates ships an update weekly, Moons every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LDR dates versus Moons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLDR datesMoons
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size51 MB178 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIvan BarabanovZander Martineau

In-app purchases

2 purchases

LDR dates

Subscriptions2
  • Online Dates Premium$12.991 Month
  • Online Dates Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
3 purchases

Moons

One-time3
  • Four orbits upgrade$1.99
  • The full orbit$2.99
  • Four orbits$4.99

Questions

Is LDR dates free?
LDR dates is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moons free?
Moons is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LDR dates or Moons have ads?
Neither LDR dates nor Moons shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LDR dates or Moons?
LDR dates ships an update weekly, and Moons every 6 days. Most recently, LDR dates was updated on October 24, 2026 and Moons on October 24, 2026.

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