Between, The App Couples Love

This app has many cute aspects. I really enjoy using the stickers to animate the conversation. My boyfriend and I have the lifetime membership so we can share photos in high definition and other small perks. I enjoy the calendar feature and being able to post pictures of our dates that later appear on the calendar itself. I’m the chat we can compose love letters with the paid membership and they usually make my day. I enjoy the variety of themes provided with the purchased membership but even if you don’t purchase it you’ll have a few themes to choose from. The app has mini video template you can use, the videos seem to be only around 3 seconds or so. Another perk is that you can call from the app. Now that I’ve told you all the good things about the app I’ll tell you some of it’s less likable aspects. The purchased membership does not give you access to all stickers those still need to be purchased separately with a pack for both of you being 300 coins (6 dollars). The app has never really failed to send one of my text messages but it often fails on my boyfriends phone with no notification or loading messages. Videos can only be chosen one at a time and take a while to compress and send to your partner. All of that being said I don’t think I would switch back to regular texting. I enjoy the app, the stickers, the themes and overall it’s a more fun experience using it to talk to your partner.

My boyfriend and I love Between! We are both college students. It’s easy for us to put our class and work schedules into the calendar on Between and be able to see when we’re both busy and when we’re both free for a date. I also love the chat feature, because I can’t accidentally text someone else. I know my message is going to him. I love being able to upload photos into stories, we have so many different memories uploaded to Between. This app is truly great. I would love a feature where we could video chat or share our screens and video chat (so we could watch a show together and talk to each other at the same time long distance) and a map feature (wherein the photos I’ve tagged a location on will put a pin on the location). I just think it would be nice to be able to see the map and see all the places we’ve been together. Again, I truly love this app and have nothing bad to say about it. I just hope to see new features in the future! The love letters feature is awesome and I love surprising him with them.

My boyfriend and I use this 90% of the time to chat every single day. We had this app for a few years. I love how it is just focused for just couples to enjoy personal bonding and talking with each other. Love the calendar and event features. Also do love sending special notes to him. I love how we can share and save our photos and memories in an album. Cute sticker features. I wish there were more stuff to add to this app like video calling. I like the call feature as it is through WiFi but adding video calls would make it even better as well. Would also like to see more changes in the app as this app doesn't get updated very often. New UI and bug updates are recommended as the layouts do get boring after staying the same for quite a while and the app could get buggy sometimes. New features would be great so that you can keep your couple audience continuingly using the app. Overall the app itself is a great idea and will continue to use it.

So my boyfriend and I have been using this app for over a year now. There are many aspects to this app that we love- how you can search through conversations by date, send the love letters, gif selfies, and stickers. He paid for the lifetime membership so we could enjoy all aspects of the app. However, there are many things that I believe could be improved because the app seems to have bug problems and just interface issues. Sometimes messages will not send and I would need to force quit the app or even turn off my phone for the messages to go through. Receiving and sending media such as photos and videos also tend to take very long. When videos load they often are lower quality even when video quality is set to high. It would be awesome too if this app supported better audio calls and even had video calling. All in all this app is good, but can be better. It’s cute and personal for two individuals. But definitely would love to see a dramatic update that would be for software and design.

First, the paid version is expensive. Like more expensive than the Adobe Lightroom app. I continue to balk at the price. For $5 it’d be worthwhile, but for $27 it better clean my house. Second, I am using this app as an attempted replacement for Couple, the app my husband and I had used for 7+ year before it stopped being updated and got buggier and buggier. I’m devastated that we have to change. Couple has many features that this app does not: self-destructing photos, “thumb kiss”, a doodle pad that both can access at the same time. I also liked being able to delete texts from BOTH of our texts, but just my own phone. However, a couple things I do like about this app: I can search for conversations by date, which makes it SO much easier to find past conversations I want to refer to and the shared calendar. However, on my iPhone the calendar only syncs to the apple calendar and not google calendar, which I use instead. Stickers on this app are nowhere near as good as Couple’s are either.