Comparison

Pairloom vs avec.

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

Head to head
About

Pairloom

Create a private digital space for couples to share photos and add personal notes, stickers, and signatures to create unique memory cards. Build a shared journal of your relationship's moments, big and small, and look back on your growing story together.

Highlights
  • Private photo sharing for couples
  • Add notes, stickers, and signatures to photos
  • Create digital memory cards
  • Build a shared relationship journal
  • Track relationship milestones and streaks
  • Unlimited card sharing with subscription
Features
Read full description

Make Cute photos. Sweet notes. A little space for two. Pairloom is a private photo-sharing space for couples. Pair with your partner, share a photo from your day, and turn it into a little card with words and stickers on the back. From ordinary mornings to your favorite days together, build a collection of memories that feels like you. YOUR OWN SPACE FOR TWO Connect with an invite code and see your partner's photos alongside yours. Whether you live together or love from a distance, there's a place for the moments you want to share. A PHOTO ON THE FRONT. YOUR WORDS ON THE BACK. Flip a card to add a love note, an inside joke, or the story behind the picture. Add your signature and decorate it with stickers to make a keepsake worth turning over. LITTLE WHISPERS, JUST BETWEEN YOU Leave a note on your partner's card. A few thoughtful words can make an everyday photo mean a little more. WATCH YOUR STORY GROW Look back through your shared cards, keep a streak going, and celebrate milestones with rewards along the way. START SMALL, KEEP MORE WITH PLUS Your first five cards are included. Optional Pairloom Plus unlocks unlimited cards, every sticker, and streak protection for both paired partners with one subscription. Prices and any available trial are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Manage or cancel in your Apple account settings. Make a little room for your story. Start with a photo. Privacy Policy: https://pairloomapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://pairloomapp.com/terms

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
Read full description

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

Pairloom4 screens
avec.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: avec. at free against Pairloom's freemium. avec. also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (9 vs 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pairloom 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pairloom 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pairloom ships an update fortnightly, avec. every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pairloom versus avec.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPairloomavec.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMohamed amine HniouaAvec Labs LLC

Customer experience

Pairloom

All ratings1 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

2 purchases

Pairloom

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$6.991 Month
  • PairDiary Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
6 purchases

avec.

Subscriptions6
  • Personal$4.991 Month
  • Group$9.991 Month
  • Organization$14.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Personal$29.991 Year
  • Group$59.991 Year
  • Organization$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Pairloom free?
Pairloom 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, Pairloom or avec.?
Pairloom and avec. are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Pairloom or avec. have ads?
Neither Pairloom nor avec. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pairloom or avec.?
Pairloom ships an update fortnightly, and avec. every 3 days. Most recently, Pairloom was updated on November 9, 2026 and avec. on November 5, 2026.

Other comparisons