Relationship Calculator is a lifestyle utility for couples to track relationship duration and milestones via static timers and social sharing.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to memorialize relationship length and milestones, serving a need for digital sentimentality that requires persistent, low-friction visibility.
For Couples looking to track relationship milestones and share anniversary or duration data on social media.
What does it look like?
Key features
Calculates time elapsed in years, months, weeks, days, minutes, and seconds
Allows users to log specific relationship milestones and calculate time passed since those dates
Exports event counts as images for sharing on Facebook and Twitter
Offers romantic images and video backgrounds for the interface
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free utility, but recent transitions of previously free features to a paid model have triggered user dissatisfaction.
Velocity
Dormant developmentopaqueShow more...
The app has not received a release in over a decade, with the last recorded update occurring on February 24, 2016. There is no evidence of active development, feature updates, or maintenance. The project is considered a zombie app due to the complete lack of activity for well over the 12-month threshold.
Who built it?
Joachim Bruns
13+ apps tracked · Lifestyle
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews mixed.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Monetization dissatisfaction
Competition
Competitive landscape for Relationship Calculator: Been Together Love Days Counter
How's the Lifestyle market?
The app maintains a 4.17 rating across 12 reviews, but the lack of updates since early 2016 signals a stagnant position in the Lifestyle category.
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Key takeaways for Relationship Calculator: Been Together Love Days Counter
Where is it heading?
The lifestyle utility market is consolidating around persistent, widget-based engagement that the current app architecture cannot support. Without a pivot to modern UI standards, the app will continue to lose its remaining user base to competitors that offer active, glanceable value.
- The lack of updates since 2016 leaves the app vulnerable to modern, widget-based competitors, accelerating user churn to more active platforms.
- Monetization shifts have triggered negative sentiment, which compounds the risk of losing users to free, more feature-rich alternatives.
The SWOT
- Social sharing export function enables organic user-driven brand visibility on Facebook and Twitter
- Development of home-screen widgets could reclaim visibility from newer entrants
- Expansion into relationship-coaching content
Next best moves
Ship home-screen widgets because competitors use them to drive daily engagement → increase retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of updates is not just technical debt…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Home-screen widgets (available in Love Widget but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's sentiment data has expanded from a single review to 12, resulting in a shift from 'terrible' to 'mixed' sentiment, alongside a more structured competitive threat assessment.
Bottom line
The app relies on a passive utility model that is losing relevance to widget-based engagement, so the PM should prioritize home-screen integration to prevent further churn to modern rivals.
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