In the world of virtual romance, dating apps and online sites are becoming important, with many users finding their match and even consummating it with marriage. Here is a quick roundup of some interesting apps to inject your life with a neat dose of love.
Couple
‘Couple’ is a relationship app or the ‘app for two’, which helps you connect with your loved one through a private timeline. The app helps you share photos, plans, ideas and the like…it also allows you to find restaurants in the neighbourhood and even create a to-do list together.
Love Maps
‘Love Maps’ helps you to track whatever you may know about your partner’s inner world and experiences – from day to day events to the major hopes and dreams. The app is designed around the premise that the more you know about what’s important to your partner, the more likely your relationship will work.
Avocado
On the lines of ‘Couple’ is the ‘Avocado’ app, which can set you up with your partner to send text messages, share photographs and anything that is important to the two of you. It has a built-in calendar for reminders of important dates and can offer virtual hugs if you are in a long distance relationship.
eHarmony
This paid app ($59 per month!) is designed to give you an insight into your own personality and help you find your right match. Based on your responses to an extensive questionnaire, the app will present potential matches that you can check out using secure messaging.
TheIceBreak
This is an iOS app, which offers daily questions for couples, focusing on their life. Partners can also share photos and posts on their private virtual walls.
Romeo To Go
‘Romeo To Go’, featuring tips for people who get nervous on dates and guidelines on conversation starters, is for those who need a little help in the romance department. What is more, it will also ping a romantic idea every day and suggest gifts for important occasions.
Happy Habits
Based on the principles of cognitive-behavioural therapy, the Happy Habits app, an exclusive personal app, contains tools to create the conditions for happiness in your life. The toolkit includes a test to assess your happiness, audio guides for relaxing and creating happiness, a journal for affirmations, a ‘Happy To Do’ list, and graphs to keep track of your happiness levels.
Happy Now
‘Happy Now’ is another happiness app that will help you assess what it is that makes you happy, by correlating your mood, health, energy and overall vibe with the things you do. The app will track your feelings with your actions and, having recognised your patterns, will send affirmations and suggestions to get your happiness quota.
iLoveNote
As the app name suggests, it is all about cherishing your love life by documenting the important dates and events. Whether it is your date nights, your to-do list, or secret desires, you can keep a track of all things that define your love life, which you can share with your partner.
Glide
This one is a video messaging app for couples that love to share things that they see and experience everyday. It could be a funny joke or something that you saw on your way to work; the app will help you strengthen your connection with each other.
Send with Love
Busy, but want to text your love? ‘Send with Love’ will allow you to store a host of text responses to send to your partner at any given time of the day. It includes texts like ‘I love you’ and the like to make things easier for you.
Love SMS
‘Love SMS is for all those poetically inclined. The app is a storehouse of love quotes, poems and stories that you could send to your partner.
Mood Kit
Give your mood a perfect boost using ‘Mood Kit’, which will help you discover unhealthy thought patterns and behaviours and encourage you to give them up or at least shift them. It contains 200-plus mood enhancement activities with guides to identify and change stress-inducing thoughts and mood charts to keep track of your emotions.
Inner Balance
Love will flow naturally when you are at peace with yourself. To achieve that peace, ‘Inner Balance’ uses a sensor to measures heart rate and changes in the rhythm of your heart when you are stressed. It also shows how your heart patterns change when you are calm, happy, grateful and relaxed and helps you use that information to learn more about your physical response to stress so you can spend more time experiencing happiness.
