Comparison

Nowadays vs Comminxy

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

Head to head
About

Nowadays

This app offers a private daily check-in for relationships, asking one question per day. Users respond by rating their feelings, creating a visual history of relationship patterns over time. It's designed as a personal reflection tool, not for professional advice.

Highlights
  • Daily one-minute check-in
  • Rate feelings with a slider
  • Tag life events
  • Add personal notes
  • Visualize relationship patterns
  • Track progress by area
Features
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Nowadays is a quiet, private daily check-in for your relationship. Once a day it asks one plain question and you answer by dragging a face, warmer or heavier, in a few seconds. Over time those small check-ins become a picture of how things have actually felt, so you can see the patterns memory tends to blur. A mirror, not a judge. Nowadays never scores your relationship, never gives advice, and never tells you to stay or leave. It keeps your record and shows you its shape, warm days rising in peach, heavier days settling in blue, never red-and-green, because you are not being graded. WHAT YOU DO • A one-minute daily check-in, a gentle question and a face you drag, frown to smile. • Mark a moment, tag what happened (time together, a good talk, closeness, a fight) if you like. • Add a note in your own words. Everything optional, always. WHAT YOU SEE • A timeline where each day leans warm or heavy, with life events on the day they happened. • A calendar of how each day felt, and a "lately" line of your overall warmth. • Progress by area, connection, communication, intimacy, respect, appreciation, quality time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your entries are encrypted and stay on your device. We can't read them. • Face ID or a PIN locks the app before you write anything, and it auto-locks when you leave. • A decoy PIN can open an empty version of the app. Notifications never reveal the question. • No ads. Nothing sold. No partner access, ever. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT Nowadays is free to use for the daily check-in, the full timeline and calendar, notes, and every privacy feature. Nowadays More (optional) adds deeper chart views and PDF export. Nowadays is a personal reflection tool, not medical or professional advice, and not a crisis service. If you are in danger or crisis, please contact your local emergency services. Terms of Use (EULA): https://nowadays.love/terms Privacy Policy: https://nowadays.love/privacy

About

Comminxy

This app provides a private digital space for couples to deepen their understanding and connection. It offers tools to refine messages before sending, daily prompts for connection, and a way to pause and process difficult conversations. It also allows couples to save learnings as shared promises and visually track their relationship's growth.

Highlights
  • Message refinement for gentler communication
  • Daily prompts for connection
  • Space for pausing difficult conversations
  • Saving learned insights as shared promises
  • Visualized relationship growth garden
  • Private, two-person space
Features
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Relationships are built in the little moments. A message that came out wrong. Something you wanted to say but left unsaid. A question you forgot to ask. A difficult conversation that needs a little more care. Comminxy is a private space for two people who want to understand each other better. It helps you take care of the moments that shape a relationship, whether everything is going well or something has become difficult. SOFTER WORDS BEFORE YOU SEND When a message may land harder than you meant, Comminxy can help you find a gentler way to say what you already mean. You always choose what to send. A SMALL MOMENT TO CONNECT Each day brings something simple to explore together. A question, a thought, or a small invitation to notice each other. A minute can be enough. PAUSE WHEN THINGS GET DEEPER When emotions rise, take a breath before you react. Comminxy gives both of you space to slow down, express what is really happening, and listen with more care. TURN UNDERSTANDING INTO SOMETHING YOU CAN CARRY When you work through something together, you can save what you have learned as a promise. Not a rule. Something the two of you choose. AND KEEP GROWING Your shared Garden grows from the care you put into the relationship. Small moments become something you can see together. Comminxy is not about having a perfect relationship. It is about having a place to come back to each other. PRIVATE BY DESIGN. BUILT FOR TWO. No feeds. No audience. No performance. Just a space for the two of you to communicate, connect, understand, and grow together.

Screenshots

Nowadays4 screens
Comminxy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Nowadays at 5.0 against Comminxy's 4.0. Comminxy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nowadays sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Comminxy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nowadays holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Nowadays versus Comminxy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNowadaysComminxy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander JacobsComminxy Private Limited

Customer experience

Nowadays

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

Comminxy

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Nowadays

Subscriptions2
  • Nowadays More Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Nowadays More Yearly$29.991 Year
None

Comminxy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nowadays free?
Nowadays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Comminxy free?
Comminxy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nowadays or Comminxy?
Nowadays is rated higher. Nowadays averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Comminxy averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Nowadays or Comminxy have ads?
Neither Nowadays nor Comminxy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nowadays or Comminxy?
Nowadays ships an update every 5 days, and Comminxy every 5 days. Most recently, Nowadays was updated on October 31, 2026 and Comminxy on October 24, 2026.

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