PairDiary vs avec.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PairDiary
This app provides a private shared journal for couples to document their relationship journey. It allows partners to write entries together, attach secret messages, and view their memories on a shared timeline. Designed for couples of all stages, it offers a secure space to preserve special moments.
- Private shared journal for two
- Attach secret 'Whispers' to entries
- Shared relationship timeline
- Designed for long-distance couples
- End-to-end private notes
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PairDiary is the private shared diary for couples — write your relationship journal together, attach secret Whispers to each memory, and watch your love story unfold on a timeline made for two. Your relationship has a story worth keeping. PairDiary is the couple journal where you and your partner write it together, one entry, one whisper, one milestone at a time. SHARED DIARY, JUST FOR TWO One private journal you both write in. No social feed, no algorithm, no sharing buttons. What you put here stays between you and your partner — your own private couples diary. WHISPERS — NOTES BEHIND THE NOTES Attach a private message to any diary entry. A thought you didn't say out loud. Something only your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife would understand. Whispers turn an ordinary memory into something deeper. YOUR RELATIONSHIP TIMELINE Every entry lands on a shared timeline you can scroll back through together. Anniversaries, first dates, milestones — but also the random Wednesday that was somehow really good. BUILT FOR LONG DISTANCE TOO Across town or across continents, PairDiary keeps your relationship present. Long distance couples use the shared journal to stay close, celebrate anniversaries, and never miss a moment. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Two people. No one else. Your entries aren't analyzed, shared, or surfaced anywhere. End-to-end private notes, just for you and your partner. PERFECT FOR: - Dating couples building their first memories together - Engaged or married partners keeping a relationship journal - Long distance couples staying emotionally connected - Anyone who wants a private diary for two instead of social media WHY COUPLES CHOOSE PAIRDIARY: - Truly private — your shared diary stays between two - Built for partners, not the public - Whispers feature found nowhere else - Beautiful relationship timeline view - Works for new and long-term couples Download PairDiary and invite your partner today. Five years from now, you'll be glad you started writing your love story down. Terms of Use: https://couplespairdiary.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://couplespairdiary.web.app/privacy
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.
- 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
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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/.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: avec. at every 3 days against PairDiary's every 3 weeks. avec. also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). PairDiary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). 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
Both are free to download. PairDiary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PairDiary against 5.0 for avec.. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: avec. has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PairDiary ships an update every 3 weeks, avec. every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PairDiary | avec. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohamed amine Hnioua | Avec Labs LLC |
Customer experience
PairDiary
avec.
In-app purchases
PairDiary
- Monthly$6.991 Month
- PairDiary Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
avec.
- 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








