LoveClock vs Long Goodbye
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LoveClock
Track your relationship milestones and count down to special events with a partner. Share moments, send messages, and view shared memories with end-to-end encryption. Offers widgets for quick access to important dates.
- Daily relationship counter
- Anniversary countdowns
- Shared moments and milestones
- End-to-end encrypted pairing
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Animated messages and photos
- Voice note sharing
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LoveClock counts every day you've been together, with a glowing ring and floating hearts, right on your iPhone. Set the day you became a couple and you're in, in under a minute. No account, no sign-up. ■ Count every day together • A live "together" counter from the day you met. Tap it to see your time in days, weeks, months, or the full breakdown. • Your next anniversary, named by its traditional material: paper, crystal, gold, diamond… • Hearts bubble up around the ring as a big day gets close. ■ Our Story • Add every moment that matters: when you met, got engaged, anything else. Free, and there's no limit. • Tap a moment to count it in days, weeks, months or years, and give it its own emoji. • Turn any moment into a shareable card, colors and all. ■ Pair with your partner • Share a code or a link and see the same countdown on both phones. • Dates, milestones, reunions and plans stay matched, end to end encrypted. • With the app open on both phones, edits appear on your partner's screen in a blink. • Keep some plans just for you. Share the rest with a tap, and change your mind anytime. • No account. The pairing code never leaves your phones, and our server only ever stores scrambled data it cannot read. ■ Little moments, together • A heart on the Partner tab fills as you nudge each other through the day. No streaks, no pressure. • Nudge notes fade after a while. Long-press one you love to keep it; your partner sees that you kept it. • Send an animated flower with a personal note. It lands in a vase you fill together. The rose is free; Premium adds five more. • Share today's mood or food craving and see your partner's. When you match, you'll both know (Premium). • Send a snap: a photo that fades about 20 minutes after your partner opens it, encrypted end to end. Long-press to keep one, and your partner is told you did. Premium to send, free to receive. • Say it out loud: a 15-second voice note that fades about 20 minutes after your partner plays it, encrypted end to end. Keep the ones you love. Premium to send, free to receive. • Everything you send tells you it went out; anything that doesn't make it waits on the Partner tab for another try. • Keep it private: lock the Partner tab behind Face ID or your passcode (Premium). ■ Count down to what's next • Reunion countdowns for long-distance love, time-zone aware. • Plans for everything ahead: trips, concerts, the big move, each with its own emoji. ■ Widgets, and LoveClock in iMessage • A smart Home Screen widget that surfaces the date that matters most, not just the soonest one. • Lock Screen widgets: your next date at a glance, without unlocking. • Send countdown cards and stickers straight from Messages, including a card that shows how long you've been together. ■ Private by design • Solo, everything stays on your device: no account, no ads, no tracking. • Paired, your data is end to end encrypted. We cannot read it. • If you like, back up your dates, moments and kept photos, notes and voice notes to your own iCloud, sealed before they leave your phone — we never see them. A new iPhone brings it all back in one tap. • No location access, ever. Free to start, and the heart of the app is free forever: the counter, pairing, anniversaries, reminders, Our Story, iCloud backup and a widget. Optional Premium (a 7-day free trial on the monthly plan, or a one-time lifetime unlock) adds reunion countdowns, plans, every theme world, animated shares, the nudge that rains a little heart on your partner's screen, the full flower catalog, mood sharing, disappearing snaps, voice notes, and the Partner tab lock. While you're paired, one Premium covers you both. LoveClock speaks English, Polish, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, Spanish and French. Set one date and see your story. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Long Goodbye
This app keeps your partner close on your home screen with their local time, a "thinking of you" tap, and a countdown to your reunion. It offers a warm presence without the pressure of constant communication, perfect for long-distance couples.
- Couple widget for home screen
- Partner's local time display
- "Thinking of you" tap feature
- Reunion countdown timer
- Photo moments postcards
- Designed for long-distance relationships
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Draw on your partner's lock screen, from the other side of the world. The Long Goodbye keeps your person on the screens you both see most. Your handwriting lands on their home-screen widget, and on their lock screen once they add a one-time Shortcut. Their clock sits on your lock screen, and a countdown ticks down to the day you're finally together again. It's not another chat app to keep up with. It's warm presence, in the spaces between hellos. WHAT'S INSIDE • Draw on their lock screen — a heart or a "good morning" in your own handwriting (Together+) • Your lock screen, their drawing — their handwriting over your photo and the days you've been together, ready to set as your wallpaper • Lock Screen widgets — their clock and time of day, their last tap and the countdown • Home Screen widget — your partner one glance away: their local time, their last tap, the days to go • "Thinking of you" taps — one tap lights up their widget, no words needed • Reunion countdown — count down to the next visit, down to the time the flight lands • Photo moments, notes and audio postcards — little postcards, with replies • Your people — keep a partner, a best friend and a parent close, each a private 1:1 connection (Together+) • Countdowns for visits, deployments and visa waits, with milestones and OPSEC mode • Good hours to call, and moment labels and shared albums COUNTDOWNS FOR EVERY KIND OF WAIT Count down to the next visit, a deployment homecoming or the end of a visa wait. Add the stops along the way (R&R, the interview), watch the bar pass halfway, and share a card with family. OPSEC mode keeps the date off your widget, your lock screen and anything you share. GOOD HOURS TO CALL See when you're both awake and both free, in your time with theirs beside it, for the whole week. One tap suggests a call with the time in both your clocks. MOMENTS, LABELLED AND IN ALBUMS Label photos, voice and notes ("first visit", "Lisbon") and gather them into albums you both keep. MADE FOR THE DISTANCE Built for couples apart for school, work, military deployment, a visa wait, or whole oceans and time zones. Students, immigrants, deployed partners — everyone counting down to the next hug. NOT A CHAT APP No pressure to reply, no endless notifications. Just a calm presence that says "still here, still yours." TOGETHER+ Free to start: pairing, their time, taps, widgets and one countdown. Together+ unlocks drawing on their lock screen, your photo and the together-for count, unlimited photo moments, audio postcards, premium themes, multiple & recurring countdowns and up to 10 connections — with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. One purchase covers both of you. Plans and local pricing are shown in the app. The goodbyes are long. The countdown makes them shorter. Privacy Policy: https://adelyons.com/apps/long-goodbye/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://adelyons.com/apps/long-goodbye/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LoveClock at 5.0 against Long Goodbye's 3.7. Long Goodbye's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. LoveClock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Long Goodbye sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LoveClock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
LoveClock ships an update weekly, Long Goodbye every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LoveClock | Long Goodbye |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pawel Szydlowski | Adelyons Software LLC |
Customer experience
LoveClock
Long Goodbye
In-app purchases
LoveClock
- LoveClock Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- LoveClock Lifetime$39.99
Long Goodbye
- Together+ Monthly1 Month trial$7.991 Month
- Together+ Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Together+ Lifetime$99.99









