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title: "Candle app alternative: a free couples app for iPhone · Ourio"
url: https://ourio.app/compare/candle-alternative/
description: "Looking for a free alternative to the Candle couples app? Ourio has daily questions, games, date ideas, a shared cat and Lock Screen drawings. No subscription."
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Candle alternative

# A Candle alternative that stays free.

Candle is a couples app of one-minute daily rituals: questions, photo prompts, games and local date ideas. A year of Candle Premium costs $39.99 to $49.99. Ourio is a free alternative for iPhone: five daily questions in Who knows who, Draw & guess, 150 date ideas you swipe together, a shared cat and drawings on your partner's Lock Screen. The same year costs nothing.

We make Ourio. Candle's prices and features are from its own App Store page and website, checked November 13, 2026.

Coming soon to the App Store

## Ourio vs Candle

| | Ourio | Candle |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases | Free; Premium $4.99 a week, $12.99 a month or $39.99 to $49.99 a year, plus Sparks and streak reignites |
| Android | No, iPhone only | Yes |
| Daily questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Games or quizzes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Widgets | ✓ | – |
| Drawings to your partner | ✓ | – |
| Shared virtual pet | ✓ | – |
| Calendar, countdown or days counter | ✓ | – |
| Date ideas | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shared lists or wishlists | ✓ | – |
| Chat | – | – |
| App Store rating | Not yet on the App Store | 4.8 (12k ratings) |

## When Candle is the better pick

- You want a daily photo prompt, BeReal-style, for the two of you.
- You want date ideas near you: Candle suggests local ones each week. Ourio's ideas don't use your location.
- One of you uses Android. Candle runs on both; Ourio is iPhone-only for now.

## When Ourio fits better

- You don't want a subscription. Everything in Ourio is free for both of you.
- You want something on your Lock Screen: your partner's drawings and notes, your shared cat, days together.
- You want to plan, not only talk: wishlists, shared lists, a shared calendar and countdowns.

## Questions

More answers in the [FAQ](https://ourio.app/faq/) and the [help pages](https://ourio.app/help/).

### Is there a free app like Candle?

Yes. Ourio has daily questions, couples games and date ideas, free with no subscription and no in-app purchases.

### Does Ourio have daily questions like Candle?

Yes, as a game: each day five multiple-choice questions about one of you, from 150; the other guesses, and the answers open together. All 150 are on our list of questions to ask your partner.

### Does Ourio have date ideas?

Yes. Date night has 150 ideas for home, going out, outdoors and long distance. You each swipe on your own phone, and when you both love one, it's a match.

## More comparisons

See [all couples apps compared](https://ourio.app/compare/), or the [Paired alternative](https://ourio.app/compare/paired-alternative/), or the [Locket Widget alternative](https://ourio.app/compare/locket-widget-alternative/), or the [Widgetable alternative](https://ourio.app/compare/widgetable-alternative/), or the [Couple Joy alternative](https://ourio.app/compare/couple-joy-alternative/). Sources: [apps.apple.com/us/app/candle-couples-relationship/id6743355635](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/candle-couples-relationship/id6743355635), [trycandle.app](https://www.trycandle.app/).

## Move in together.

Ourio is free on iPhone. Your partner joins with one code.

Coming soon to the App Store