Comparison

PartnerWise vs Lycka

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

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PartnerWise

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Start with a practice, not a sign-up form. Open PartnerWise and today's question is already waiting. Answer it, see what it means, and decide later whether you want an account, whatever you said comes with you. One practice a day, a few minutes, grounded in research: 38 published relationship frameworks from the Gottman Method to Brene Brown's work on trust and vulnerability. Built for individuals and couples who want to invest in their relationship before they need to. WHAT YOU GET . One daily practice, drawn from 291 prompts across 8 areas of a relationship: communication, conflict, intimacy, trust, appreciation, money, parenting together, and where you're heading . Answer in a tap, or take it further in your own words . An AI coach, available anytime, for whatever's actually on your mind: a fight you keep having, a distance you can't name, something you noticed this week . Progress across all 8 areas, and prompts that get more personal the more you use it TWO WAYS TO PRACTICE WITH YOUR PARTNER Connect with your partner and you get both: . The same question, each on your own phone. You both get today's practice and answer it in your own time. You see when they have done it, never what they wrote. Your coach sees what you have each shared and uses it to find the common ground, without repeating either of you to the other. . One phone, one conversation. Open the coach together and pass the phone back and forth. It knows you are both there, greets each of you by name, and answers whoever is speaking. Free, and no account needed to begin.

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Lycka

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Lycka is built for one thing: two people staying genuinely close while they live apart. ONE QUESTION A DAY, ANSWERED BLIND Every day, at a time the two of you choose, the same question arrives for both of you. You each answer on your own, whenever the day allows. Neither answer appears until both are in. No peeking, no half reveals. It works with a nine hour time difference and no overlap in your waking hours. Skipping one is a normal thing to do, not a broken streak. MOMENTS, ON THE HOME SCREEN Send a photo or a few words. It reaches your partner's home screen widget without them opening the app, and it fades after a day unless one of you keeps it. Kept moments become a shared archive worth going back through. A RECORD OF YOUR TIME TOGETHER Plan the next visit and see the countdown on both your clocks. In the days before you meet, the daily question turns toward the reunion, because arriving with the same picture of those few days in your heads is what makes them land. The day after, it helps you hold onto them. Visits that have already happened stay. Most apps treat closing the distance as the end. We think it is the part that deserves the most care. SOMEDAY Date nights, films, trips, the things you keep saying you will do. One shared list, ticked off together when you are finally in the same room. QUESTIONS TO PLAY TOGETHER Four decks of conversation openers for a call or the same sofa. Nothing is stored and any card can be passed on. One deck is explicitly for adults. WHAT LYCKA IS NOT No streaks. No badges. No days answered counter. No message telling you your partner is waiting. Nothing here rewards you for opening the app more often, because volume is not what keeps two people close. It's intention. There is no location sharing, and there never will be. YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS Everything lives in Frankfurt, inside the EU. Photos sit in private storage that only the two of you can reach. You can delete your account from inside the app at any time, and it goes.

Screenshots

PartnerWise4 screens
Lycka4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PartnerWise at none against Lycka's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
PartnerWise versus Lycka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPartnerWiseLycka
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysโ€”
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size59 MB58 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMICHELLE REAJonathan Werle

In-app purchases

None

PartnerWise

No in-app purchases

None

Lycka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PartnerWise free?
PartnerWise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lycka free?
Lycka is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PartnerWise or Lycka have ads?
Lycka shows ads; PartnerWise does not.

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