Comparison

Duette vs avec.

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

Head to head
About

Duette

A private digital scrapbook designed exclusively for couples to capture and cherish their shared life. Document daily moments, plan future events, and spark conversation with interactive prompts.

Highlights
  • Daily photo journaling
  • Shared memories with notes
  • Joint calendar for events
  • Collaborative lists
  • Conversation-starting prompts
  • Customizable widgets
Features
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Duette - the private scrapbook for you and your person. A couples app for daily photos, shared plans, and the moments you want to keep. Whether you live together or you're doing long distance, Duette gives the two of you a place to capture your life together, one day at a time. Pair with a link code. Then it's just the two of you. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Daily Photos - one moment from each of you, every day. Add a photo and a note, build a streak, and keep a shared photo diary you'll want to look back on. • Memories - save the moments that matter, with photos, places, and notes attached. Look back through your shared timeline, from big trips to ordinary days. • Memory Map - see where your memories happened. From your favorite spots to weekends away, tap a place to look back on the moments you saved there. • Your Moments Page - your days together, next milestone, and anniversary countdown. Always right there. • Shared Calendar - plan date nights, remember important dates, and keep track of everyday plans together. • Shared Lists - restaurants to try, date ideas, weekend to-dos. Build them together and check them off as you go. • Questions - flirty, playful, and thoughtful prompts for when you want a better conversation than “how was your day.” • Widgets - keep your streak and days together on your Lock Screen, with shared lists and memories on your Home Screen. JUST THE TWO OF YOU Everything stays in one cozy, private corner. No public profiles, no followers, no noise. A place for your photos, plans, and memories to live together. Free to start, with room to grow into Duette Plus for unlimited memories and lists, every question deck, and more ways to make it yours. One Plus subscription covers both of you. Duette. Built for two. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://duette.app/privacy

About

avec.

This app allows couples, friends, and families to create a private shared diary. Document your journey together with entries, photos, and location mapping. Relive memories and plan future adventures.

Highlights
  • Private shared diary for couples
  • Collaborative entries with photos
  • Location mapping of memories
  • On This Day memory recall
  • Shared wishlists (Somedays)
  • Exportable diary and photobooks
Features
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Some moments are too good to keep to yourself, but you don't want to share them with the world, either. avec. is a private diary for couples, close friends, and families. Write entries together, relive memories on the day they happened, and build a living record of your relationship — one day at a time. A diary that belongs to both of you — Every diary is private and shared only between its members. Write about your day, add photos, react to each other's memories, and watch your story grow entry by entry. avec. feels like a journal and works like a conversation. Everywhere you've been, together — Tap the globe icon to see a map of every place you've visited as a dot on the map. Tap any pin to relive the memory — photos, notes, and all. The longer you use avec., the richer your map becomes. On This Day — Every morning, avec. surfaces what happened on this date in previous years. Tap to see the full entry, photos included. A quiet, beautiful way to remember how far you've come. Trips, beautifully captured — Planning a trip or just got back? Add it to your diary and let avec. do the rest. Import your photos and avec. automatically organizes them by day and place using GPS — so every stop is mapped, every moment is where it belongs. Somedays — a wishlist you share — Keep a running list of things you want to do together. Restaurants to try, places to visit, experiences to have. Filter by category or travel, and convert a someday into a trip when you're ready to make it happen. Export your story — on screen and in print — Turn your diary into a beautiful keepsake — or hold it in your hands. Export any entries or a full trip as a print-ready PDF, or order a real photobook delivered to your door. Choose your entries, pick a cover photo, and avec. does the rest: your photos, your words, your story — bound and shipped. Bulk photo import — Select photos from your library and avec. automatically groups them into entries by date. A year of memories, organized in seconds. Built for the way you actually live - Long press any entry to react with an emoji and leave a note for your partner - Location tagging with place search and automatic photo GPS detection - Dark and light mode, because moods change - Push notifications so you never miss a new entry - Fast search across everything you've written - Private by design — your diary is for you and who you share it with avec. For the moments worth keeping Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.

Screenshots

Duette4 screens
avec.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: avec. at free against Duette's freemium. avec. also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Duette sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and avec. sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Duette against 5.0 for avec.. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Duette ships an update weekly, avec. every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Duette versus avec.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDuetteavec.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB48 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDuette Technologies Inc.Avec Labs LLC

Customer experience

Duette

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

avec.

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Duette

Subscriptions2
  • Duette Plus Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Duette Plus Annual$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Duette Lifetime$49.99
6 purchases

avec.

Subscriptions6
  • Personal$4.991 Month
  • Group$9.991 Month
  • Organization$14.991 Month
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  • Personal$29.991 Year
  • Group$59.991 Year
  • Organization$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Duette free?
Duette is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is avec. free?
avec. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Duette or avec.?
Duette and avec. are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Duette or avec. have ads?
Neither Duette nor avec. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Duette or avec.?
Duette ships an update weekly, and avec. every 3 days. Most recently, Duette was updated on October 11, 2026 and avec. on October 7, 2026.

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