The Best Apps for Long-Distance Relationships

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1 Agape

2 Between

3 Cupla

4 Couple Game

5 Couply

6 DreamDays

7 Gottman Card Decks

8 Gyft

9 Honeydue

10 Honi

11 iPassion

12 Journey

13 Kast

14 LiveStatus

15 Locket Widget

16 Love Days Counter

17 Love Letters

18 Love Nudge

19 My Love

20 NUJJ

21 noteit

22 obimy

23 official

24 Paired

25 PathShare

26 Rave

27 SumOne

28 The Happy Couple

29 TouchNote

30 Waffle Journal

31 WeFeel

32 We-Vibe

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Co-authored by Kemar & DeAnne Johnson and Aly Rusciano

Last Updated: February 27, 2026 Fact Checked

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So, you’re in a long-distance relationship. You love your partner with all your heart, but the distance can be unbearable sometimes—we get it! And that’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best apps you can use as a long-distance couple. With a few taps, you and your partner can feel closer than ever (even if you're hundreds of miles apart). Take a look at the apps below to see how you can get to know each other more and strengthen your relationship no matter where you are.

Apps for Long Distance Couples

• Agape: Daily questions to spark meaningful communication.
• Cupla: Shared calendar app to coordinate schedules.
• DreamDays: Creates custom countdowns to your next reunion.
• Honi: Fun couples challenges and games.

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Agape

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   Agape sends you and your partner questions every day to spark meaningful conversations. This app prides itself on helping partners communicate better. Each day, the app will send you a question. Once you and your partner both answer it, you’ll be able to see each other’s responses and continue the conversation via text or IRL.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Relationship questions, in-app messaging, point-reward system, regular wellness checks
   • Available on iOS and Android
   • In long-distance relationships, marriage experts Kemar and DeAnne Johnson always recommend communication—while “you may not be able to speak on the phone every day, you definitely want to make sure you’re communicating as much as possible.”
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Between

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   Between is a calendar app that syncs your schedule with your partner’s. The app allows you to schedule special dates and create countdowns with each other. You can also message and call each other through the app and share favorite memories.

   • Price: $2.99 monthly
   • Features: Track anniversaries, share photos and videos, plan dates, synced calendar
   • Available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac

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Cupla

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   Cupla is a shared calendar app that helps you stay connected with your long-distance partner. The app shares your calendars so you can plan when to chat, meet up, or schedule a fun adventure. Plus, the app even includes reminders to help you and your partner share ideas and relationship goals.

   • Price: $4.99 monthly (after free trial)
   • Features: Private chat channel, synced calendar, shared (or secret) to-do lists, date planner
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Couple Game

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   Couple Game is an app of quizzes just for couples! Test each other's knowledge with fun quizzes like “Who Knows Who Best?” and “How to Improve the Relationship.” Then, use your collective responses to start deep and meaningful conversations.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Couple quizzes, in-app chat, real-life rewards
   • Available on iOS and Android

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Couply

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   Couply helps you stay connected with your partner no matter where you are! This app features relationship quizzes, conversation prompts, and dating advice to help you get the most out of your relationship. The app prides itself on deepening connections between couples and improving overall communication.

   • Price: $69.99 annually
   • Features: Quizzes, conversation prompts, games, expert articles and advice, date ideas, anniversary reminders, date planner, photo journal, love notes
   • Available on iOS and Android
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DreamDays

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   DreamDays is a countdown app that helps you keep track of important dates and anniversaries. With this app, you can create custom countdowns for upcoming events. This tool is a great way to count down the days until you see your long-distance partner!

   • Price: $0.99
   • Features: Multiple countdown options, alarm notifications, customizable wallpapers
   • Available on iOS

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Gottman Card Decks

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   Gottman Card Decks helps increase intimacy and connection in relationships. This app will ask you a series of questions and then tailor date ideas and relationship advice to best match your needs. You and your partner can find questions based on physical intimacy, appreciation, listening, and expression.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Conversation prompts, relationship advice, relationship quizzes, date ideas
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Gyft

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   Gyft helps you send surprises to your partner, no matter the distance. With this app, you and your partner can exchange gifts with the click of a button! Send them a coupon or virtual gift card to their favorite store or restaurant to help brighten their day.

   • Price: Free (in-app purchases required)
   • Features: Buy and store virtual gift cards
   • Available on iOS and Android

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Honeydue

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   Honeydue is a financial app for couples that helps you track your finances and bills together. The app organizes joint expenses and payments to help you stay on track with your shared money. Plus, you can even receive financial advice based on your spending habits.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Financial tracking, synced calendar, account tracking, in-app messaging, financial advice
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Honi

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   Honi puts you and your partner head to head with a series of fun challenges and quizzes. With this app, you can play Truth or Dare with your partner and take quizzes geared around how well you know each other. Plus, Honi will even give you relationship advice and send personalized notifications.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Private chat, truth or dare prompts, “Would You Rather” questions, daily relationship tips
   • Available on iOS and Android

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iPassion

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   iPassion is full of spicy games and quizzes for the bedroom. Who says you can’t get hot and heavy without your partner at your side? Lessen the distance by using iPassion to discover your and your partner’s wants and needs through a collaborative quiz. Then, follow the app's challenges to kick start a wild night.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Passion quizzes, sex tips and challenges, in-app chat
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Journey

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   Journey is a virtual journal app that lets you record anything and everything about your life. If you and your partner both download it, you can share each other’s journals and stay up to date on what’s happening in each other’s lives.

   • Price: $4.17 monthly
   • Features: Media, calendar, journal prompts, mood tracking, shared and collaborative journals
   • Available on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Chrome

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Kast

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   Kast allows you to watch TV shows and movies at the same time as your partner. Having to wait to see a movie together is a thing of the past with this app! Simply create a watch party with your partner, and then enjoy the show together, no matter how far apart you are.

   • Price: Free or Premium subscription for $6.49 monthly
   • Features: On-screen video and messaging chats, ad-free watch parties, animated reactions
   • Available on iOS, Android, Chrome, and Edge
   • Alternatively, you can also try the app Teleparty, which offers similar features.
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LiveStatus

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   LiveStatus is a lock and home screen chat widget that helps you stay in contact with your long-distance partner. The app allows you to send messages and images to your boo’s lock and home screens instantly. You can even pin special messages so they’re always in view.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: In-app messaging, camera, emoji statuses, doodling, picture-in-picture frame, vanish mode
   • Available on iOS and Android
   • Marriage therapist Moshe Ratson says that one of the best ways to maintain closeness during long-distance relationships is to do virtual check-ins via “Zoom, Team, or WhatsApp video. Checking up regularly with each other and updating each other with life” can help you maintain a connection.

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Locket Widget

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   Locket Widget automatically shares photos with your partner. This long-distance-friendly app adds a widget to your loved one’s home screen, and when they open their phone, they’ll be sent any picture you send them in a matter of seconds. It’s a perfect way to reminisce or let them know you’re thinking about them.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Send live photos, react to photos, build an image history
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Love Days Counter

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   Lovedays is a countdown app and widget. This app creates countdowns for special anniversaries or upcoming dates. You and your partner can download the app and count the days to upcoming events together.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Countdown widget, couple profiles, customizable colors and themes
   • Available on Android

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Love Letters

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   Love Letters sends sweet, personalized messages to your love. With this app, you can create customized romantic letters fit for Pinterest! Simply pick your background image, select a quote (or write your own), and create an image they’ll cherish forever.

   • Price: Free or Premium for $19.99
   • Features: Image gallery, customizable fonts and lettering, quote ideas
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Love Nudge

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   Love Nudge helps you connect mentally and physically with your partner from anywhere. This app uses love languages to help you cultivate a strong and lasting relationship. Then, once you and your partner’s love languages are determined, you can set goals, send messages, and get relationship advice together.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Love language quiz, goal setting, notification reminders, relationship advice, in-app messaging
   • Available on iOS and Android

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My Love

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   My Love tells you how long you and your partner have been together. Unlike a typical countdown app, this app counts the total amount of seconds, minutes, hours, and days you’ve been together. In other words, it tells you how long you’ve been in the relationship.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Customizable image
   • Available on iOS and Android
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NUJJ

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   NUJJ is a private app that lets you “nudge” your partner. If you and your partner both have this app, you can send them little love taps to say you’re thinking about them. Simply open the app and share your phone to send them a vibrating “nudge.”

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Send vibrating reminders
   • Available on iOS

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noteit

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   noteit uses widgets to display your images and messages on your partner’s home screen. With this app, you can send your boo doodles, messages, and selfies that appear on their home screen.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Customizable widget, camera, drawing feature
   • Available on iOS and Android
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obimy

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   obimy lets you share your mood at any time. This unique app prides itself on curing loneliness with a simple tap! With this app, you create a cartoon version of yourself that reflects your mood. Then, you can pair your device with your partner’s so you can stay aware of each other’s moods throughout the day, no matter the distance.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Mood emojis, virtual hugs and slaps, in-app messaging, reminders to connect
   • Available on iOS and Android

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official

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   official helps you cultivate healthy relationship habits. When you connect with your partner on this app, you’re prompted with daily questions and activities to help your relationship thrive. The app also offers “Plan a date,” “Check-in,” and “Memories” features.

   • Price: Free or $14.99 monthly
   • Features: Relationship questions and games, statistics, check-in reminders, mood status, virtual notes, memory board, in-app calendar
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Paired

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   Paired is a communication app that helps spark daily conversations with your partner. This app focuses on helping you get to know your partner (and yourself) on a deeper level. Every day, the app will prompt you and your partner with a quiz or question to start a meaningful conversation.

   • Price: Free or Premium for $14.99 monthly
   • Features: Fun and meaningful conversation prompts, relationship quizzes, in-app messaging
   • Available on iOS and Android

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PathShare

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   PathShare shares your location with your partner throughout the day. If you and your partner love knowing where each other is, this app is for you! Plus, the app even lets you set up meeting locations in real time.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Real-time location sharing, in-app messaging
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Rave

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   Rave lets you instantly share playlists, movies, and shows with your partner. The app mirrors what you’re listening to or watching with your partner in real time, helping you connect no matter the distance.

   • Price: Free or Premium for $1.99 monthly
   • Features: Host watch parties on streaming platforms, listen to music at the same time, store and share videos, create mashups, in-app messaging and voice chat
   • Available on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows

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SumOne

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   SumOne lets you and your partner raise an adorable egg (or EggMon) together. With this app, you and your partner answer relationship questions and play games to take care of a virtual pet. You can also decorate your pet’s space.

   • Price: Free or SumOne Gold for $12.99
   • Features: Relationship questions and games, customizable house, diary, memos
   • Available on iOS and Android
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The Happy Couple

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   The Happy Couple is marketed as a personal assistant for relationships. This one-in-all app provides research and education on relationships and is designed to give you the best advice possible. After answering a series of questions, the app will give you daily insights, alerts, and activities to help strengthen your long-distance relationship.

   • Price: Free
   • Features: Daily insights, personalized relationship advice, relationship activities
   • Available on iOS and Android

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TouchNote

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   TouchNote sends physical notes to your boo. With this app, you can send sweet love notes that feel more personal than a text. The app offers personalized postcards, cards, and gifts that can be sent to your partner at any time.

   • Price: $1.99 per postcard; $19.99 per framed photo (prices vary based on the selected gift)
   • Features: Customizable cards, event reminders, easy tracking, free delivery
   • Available on iOS and Android
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Waffle Journal

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   Waffle Journal is a collaborative journal app that helps you emotionally connect with your long-distance partner. The app provides daily journal prompts and gives you and your partner space to virtually reflect on the day. You can even customize the look of your journals and create cartoon images of each other.

   • Price: Free or 1 Plus Journal for $74.99
   • Features: “Get to know you” questions, journal prompts, customizable layouts, therapy resources
   • Available on iOS and Android

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WeFeel

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   WeFeel prides itself in cultivating healthy and sustainable long-term relationships. With this app, you and your partner play games and answer questions to help you better understand each other and your needs.

   • Price: $14.99 monthly
   • Features: Quizzes, conversation prompts, relationship activities, in-app messaging, creative dares and date surprise ideas
   • Available on iOS and Android
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We-Vibe

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   We-Vibe is an intimacy app that brings sexting to a whole other level! With this app, spicy texts and phone calls become a bit more real. Partners can sync their sex toys to each other’s apps to make the physical distance between them seem less and less.

   • Price: The app is free, but toys range from $79 to $408 (a We-Vibe toy is required to enable the app)
   • Features: Pair app with We-Vibe intimacy toys, control vibration and touch, personalized playlist, in-app chat and video call
   • Available on iOS and Android

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