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Paired: Couples & Relationship
Better Half Limited · 198,954 ratings · ★ 4.7
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198,954 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 18 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"year"
5 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app is okay. Overall it has good question, quizzes and games. Some of the answers are a bit self-defeating but okay. My biggest annoyance was being charged for a year a day before my 7 days was even up. We didn’t feel like a whole year was feasible and …" - Bmwgrl76
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"relationship"
5 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stupid. It’s basically a collection of relationship quizzes with no real follow through. Activities are fine and can surface differences and get you thinking. But after the results, the app just stops. There’s no real analysis, no guided discussion…" - @ppl3!988
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"didn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app is okay. Overall it has good question, quizzes and games. Some of the answers are a bit self-defeating but okay. My biggest annoyance was being charged for a year a day before my 7 days was even up. We didn’t feel like a whole year was feasible and …" - Bmwgrl76
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"free"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not Free. The AppStore says there are in app purchases but does NOT say you have to pay a subscription service until you download and start logging in. I don’t mind paid apps but say it up front….." - thewbell
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"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not Free. The AppStore says there are in app purchases but does NOT say you have to pay a subscription service until you download and start logging in. I don’t mind paid apps but say it up front….." - thewbell
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"paid"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not Free. The AppStore says there are in app purchases but does NOT say you have to pay a subscription service until you download and start logging in. I don’t mind paid apps but say it up front….." - thewbell
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"real"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stupid. It’s basically a collection of relationship quizzes with no real follow through. Activities are fine and can surface differences and get you thinking. But after the results, the app just stops. There’s no real analysis, no guided discussion…" - @ppl3!988
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"help"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stupid. It’s basically a collection of relationship quizzes with no real follow through. Activities are fine and can surface differences and get you thinking. But after the results, the app just stops. There’s no real analysis, no guided discussion…" - @ppl3!988
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"into"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stupid. It’s basically a collection of relationship quizzes with no real follow through. Activities are fine and can surface differences and get you thinking. But after the results, the app just stops. There’s no real analysis, no guided discussion…" - @ppl3!988
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"thing"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stupid. It’s basically a collection of relationship quizzes with no real follow through. Activities are fine and can surface differences and get you thinking. But after the results, the app just stops. There’s no real analysis, no guided discussion…" - @ppl3!988
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"reviews"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sigh. Do better.. I’ve written a few reviews for this app but they don’t show up on it or my history. To that I wonder did I drop a swears by accident or do they now block reviews? Either way my wife wanted us to do this after I suggested the free trial. W…" - That dude again.
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"trial"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sigh. Do better.. I’ve written a few reviews for this app but they don’t show up on it or my history. To that I wonder did I drop a swears by accident or do they now block reviews? Either way my wife wanted us to do this after I suggested the free trial. W…" - That dude again.
📋 All 18 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
The app is okay
Overall it has good question, quizzes and games. Some of the answers are a bit self-defeating but okay. My biggest annoyance was being charged for a year a day before my 7 days was even up. We didn’t feel like a whole year was feasible and would have done a couple months and went from there. Getting ahold of anyone or a refund is like pulling teeth.
Not Free
The AppStore says there are in app purchases but does NOT say you have to pay a subscription service until you download and start logging in. I don’t mind paid apps but say it up front…..
Stupid
It’s basically a collection of relationship quizzes with no real follow through. Activities are fine and can surface differences and get you thinking. But after the results, the app just stops. There’s no real analysis, no guided discussions, no actual direction on what to actually do with what you learned. That’s a major flaw. If you’re going to advertise something as a relationship tool, then it should move from insight to action. This doesn’t. This doesn’t give you give you prompts tailored to your results, doesn’t suggest practice step, and doesn’t help turn awareness into change. Feels very incomplete and not worth the subscription.
Definitely no
I will not put in payment information to TRY an app.
Disappointed
The questions are too similar. I do not feel it has helped. It is one more thing to do on mu phone to take me away from real face to face interaction.
Stupid to charge
Not paying for this
Free trial scam
Sign up for a free trial. There is no way to cancel it. They take you to their website to sign up to make sure you can’t cancel it on iOS the only way you s to cancel it on their we site. But wait! You downloaded it on your app and you don’t have a log in! Also no way to make a new account on their website. Big scam. I had to change my credit card number. If they charge me I’ll report it as fraud. I can’t believe it has so many reviews. Maybe lots of bots
Disappointed in ethics
I’m so disappointed that there’s no way to opt-out of the use of AI in the app. It feeds ALL of your responses to an AI that they don’t clarify the origin of, and you don’t get any say in it. There’s NO way I could recommend this app without them integrating an easy opt-out option or turning it off altogether. Embarrassing.
What a joke
This app has some of the absolute worst topics to talk about and even has the Gaul to talk about wildly inappropriate topics for an app. Would not recommend this unless you’re trying to end a relationship
Not built for us
We were excited to try this app. I envisioned an app that would be tailored to me, my relationship, and my preferences, and would be fun and useful in generating positive discussions. This has not been our experience. There is way too much content about sex and kink, which has made this uncomfortable for my spouse, and over emphasized the importance of this in our relationship. There are also a variety of relationship types man/woman, man/man, woman/woman that are repeatedly presented throughout the experience in terms of specific action plans and in simple visuals. I don’t have any issue with an app creator building something for a broad spectrum of potential clients, but once I’ve decided to try one that’s designed to benefit me and my specific relationship, I don’t want to be exposed to politically and socially sensitive topics of others sexuality. We attempted to use the app beyond the 7day trial period, not recognizing that these issues would make it unappealing to use until after we’d paid for an annual subscription. So we’ve got the app for a year but we’ve cancelled the renewal and have decided not to continue using it. Hope our experience will help you evaluate if you want to proceed past the 7day free trial.
Subscription scam.
They will sign you up for a $75 subscription without your knowledge and then charge you annually after you cancel your subscription (that you never signed up for by the way) and delete the app.
Used to like
This app was awesome but not anymore. Unusable now unless you pay for premium. You can’t find a single thing that isn’t premium only.
Probably great for people in couples therapy
Instagram ads made this out to be a fun thing for couples. Ended up feeling like we were helping build a database of our personal information. If ya got problems you might enjoy this. If you and your S/O love each other this will feel like a tiresome game of “of course I knew that about you”.
Didn’t work for us
It’s cute, but some relationships aren’t suppose to work
Sigh. Do better.
I’ve written a few reviews for this app but they don’t show up on it or my history. To that I wonder did I drop a swears by accident or do they now block reviews? Either way my wife wanted us to do this after I suggested the free trial. Well now I pay for a year have reminders to cancel when I’m closer that year mark. Any ways. It passively aggressively bothers you and notifies you all day long after you did your daily’s already only to find your partner didn’t do anything it just want to sell you cards or add a widget to your phone. Yea my wife hasn’t been using it. So it bugs me more. Tries to get me to buy more things like real life cards to chat across. So pretty much the app works but it’s repetitive and many of the questions are just ai slop with no thought behind them. The answers to pick from are too general or too specific. It’s stale and thoughtless and greedy. I guess is my leaving thought. Gobbles. Pasta the lagoon.
Paid version
I feel like this would be an amazing app if you do the paid version. However, you can only do so much with the unpaid. Kind of expensive for a year too.
Before you download, please read the reviews
Never used paired but I've heard of this app being promoted from a few youtube commentary creators, however I talked to my bf about this app as well as what it's about, and I even planned on wanting to take advantage of it thinking it can help with our relationship. However though I question myself is it worth my time or our time using the paired app? I have an iffy feeling about this and so my recommendation is to do your research and look at actual organic reviews before investing your time, energy, and money into this stuff regarding couples app or whatever. I never used it but I give this a two for now because I read critical reviews that some users were scammed and it didn't help their relationship, marriage, or date situation. Based on the critical reviews that I've read, if you want to save yourself the stress/headaches and want to come up with some ideas or solutions for you and your partner to solve issues or whatever the case may be, then maybe consider investing in physical couples board or card games instead.
My best advice, please do your research and research on reviews before using this app. Be careful and cautious on clicking any links that online video creators put out as well.
My best advice, please do your research and research on reviews before using this app. Be careful and cautious on clicking any links that online video creators put out as well.
Sorry!!
This app tricks you into buying it and then doesn't do anything for your relationship! If I could do a civil suit against you and Apple I would! A waste of 40$ and for a whole year!🤬🤬
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)