How Repaired Compares
A lot of apps live in this space and they solve different problems. Here is where Repaired fits, where it doesn't, and when something else is the right choice.
Competitor pricing and features come from each company's own pages and app listings. Verify current details at each company's website before making a decision.
Compared one by one
- Repaired vs RepairBoth are for the hours after an argument. Repair helps you write a message. Repaired helps the two of you resolve what happened.
- Repaired vs LoveFixBoth keep what you write private at first. In LoveFix you talk to an AI. In Repaired you talk to each other, one step at a time.
- Repaired vs LastingLasting teaches relationship skills over time. Repaired is for the conflict in front of you right now.
- Repaired vs PairedPaired helps couples stay close day to day. Repaired is for when something has gone wrong.
What Repaired does differently
Most relationship apps are designed for one person to use, or for two people to use side-by-side. Repaired is different: both people go through the same steps, in the same order, privately, and nothing is shared until each person submits.
That structure matters. When one person is still processing what happened and the other is already defending themselves, real-time conversation tends to go badly. Repaired creates enough space for both people to work through their own perspective before anything is exchanged.
Repaired is built so that:
- ✓Both users follow the same structured steps in the same order
- ✓Nothing is shared until each person explicitly submits
- ✓Works for any two people (not just couples)
- ✓Core repair flow is free
Repaired vs. Therapy Apps
BetterHelp (couples), Ours
Therapy apps connect you with licensed professionals. Repaired is not therapy and does not involve a clinician.
| Feature | Repaired | Competitors |
|---|---|---|
| Licensed therapist involved | No | Yes |
| Cost | Free (core flow) | About $70 to $100 a week (BetterHelp) |
| Start immediately | Yes (no intake, no matching process) | Matching process required |
| Async | Yes (each person responds on their own schedule) | Partly (a weekly live session, with messaging between) |
| Private from third parties | Yes (no clinician reads your content) | No (therapist sees everything) |
| Appropriate for clinical needs | No | Yes |
Use them when
Use BetterHelp or Ours when the conflict involves trauma, mental health issues, abuse, or anything that requires clinical care. Repaired is not a substitute for therapy.
Use Repaired when
Use Repaired when the conflict is interpersonal: a hard conversation that needs structure, not a clinician.
Repaired vs. Couples Apps
Lasting, Paired, Relish
Couples apps are designed for relationship maintenance: staying connected, learning about each other, building habits. Repaired is designed for after a conflict.
| Feature | Repaired | Competitors |
|---|---|---|
| Designed for post-conflict repair | Yes | No (maintenance and growth focus) |
| Works for non-romantic relationships | Yes (any two people) | No (couples only) |
| Ongoing relationship curriculum | Partly (Grow reflection questions, no fixed course) | Yes (libraries of guided sessions) |
| Free core use | Yes | A few free sessions; most is a paid subscription |
Use them when
Use Lasting, Paired, or Relish when the relationship is going well and you want to maintain and grow it. These apps are not designed for active conflict.
Use Repaired when
Use Repaired when a conflict happened and you need a structured way to work through it.
Repaired vs. Conversation Prompts
Gottman Card Decks, Headspace (relationship content)
Conversation prompt apps give you exercises to do together. They work well when both people are calm and willing to engage. Repaired is for when you're not there yet.
| Feature | Repaired | Competitors |
|---|---|---|
| Requires both people present simultaneously | No (fully async) | Yes (designed for in-room use) |
| Each person works privately first | Yes (nothing shared until submitted) | No (prompts seen by both at once) |
| Structured bilateral steps | Yes (same sequence for each person) | No (open-ended discussion prompts) |
| Free | Yes | Yes (Gottman Card Decks is free) |
| Large library of exercises | No (one repair process, plus 7 Know Yourself exercises) | Yes (many decks and modules) |
Use them when
Use Gottman Card Decks or similar tools when both people are ready to sit down and do an exercise together. They're excellent in that context.
Use Repaired when
Use Repaired when the conflict is too fresh for a joint exercise, when you need each person to work through their own perspective privately first.
When to use which
Two people had a conflict and want to work through it
Repaired
Structured bilateral protocol, private, async, free.
One person wants to work through it but the other won't (yet)
Repaired
Solo repair walks your side of it on your own; invite them if and when they are ready. For ongoing one-sided coaching, BetterHelp or Relationship Hero.
Couple wants to stay connected and maintain the relationship
Lasting, Paired
Repaired is for repair after conflict, not ongoing maintenance.
Clinical distress, trauma, or mental health needs are involved
BetterHelp, Ours
Repaired is not therapy. Licensed clinical care is required here.
Both people are calm and want to do an exercise together right now
Gottman Card Decks
In-room exercises are better than an async protocol when both people are ready.
Need a human coach for accountability and personalized advice
Relish, Relationship Hero
Repaired has no coach. If human guidance is needed, use a coaching product.
What Repaired is not
- Not therapy. Repaired does not involve a licensed clinician. It is a structured protocol, not clinical care.
- Not for every conflict. Repaired is not appropriate when abuse, coercion, or clinical mental health needs are involved.
- Not a substitute for professional help. If you or the other person needs clinical support, use it. Repaired is not a workaround for real care.
- Not a guarantee. Repaired provides a process. What people do with it is up to them.
If Repaired sounds like the right fit
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Start freeWhere to go next
- How the process works
The actual sequence, so the comparison is concrete rather than abstract.
- Guides
Whether your situation is one this is built for, and what helps if it is not.
- Repaired Plus
What the paid tier adds, and what stays free forever.
- Repaired vs Repair
One app helps you write a message; the other resolves it.
- Repaired vs LoveFix
Talking it through with an AI, or with each other.
- Repaired vs Lasting
A course for your marriage, or a process for one fight.
- Repaired vs Paired
A daily couples habit, or help when something has gone wrong.