What if the purpose of a couples app was to get you out of the app?

I’m Mathieu, one of the people behind Daily Rituals for Couples.

We built this because of a very ordinary problem.

You can love someone deeply and still end up spending an evening sitting next to each other without really being together.

Work happened.

The kids happened.

One of you is tired.

One of you is scrolling.

You’ve discussed groceries, schedules, school, bills and everything else that keeps life moving.

And suddenly you realise:

We haven’t really noticed each other today.

There are already many relationship apps with quizzes, questions, scores, streaks and huge libraries of content.

We wanted to try something different.

We asked:

What if the purpose of a couples app was to get you out of the app?

So Daily Rituals works around a very simple loop:

Open → understand the moment → choose one small thing → put the phone down → be together.

It might suggest something as simple as:

- telling each other how you're arriving today

- one honest question

- a few breaths together

- looking at each other for a minute

- a small playful moment

- reconnecting after tension

- affectionate touch without pressure

- exploring desire when you both want it

Most rituals take only a few minutes.

Because we're not trying to create another relationship task.

We're trying to make starting easier.

We also learned something else.

Couples are not always available at exactly the same moment.

Sometimes your partner is working.

Travelling.

Exhausted.

Not ready.

Or simply hasn't answered yet.

So Daily Rituals is increasingly built to also help one partner use that time well:

reflect, learn something, understand their own mood, prepare a thoughtful gesture, or discover something they can bring back to their partner later.

And that creates a strange product question for us:

How do you build retention for an app whose goal is to reduce screen time?

Our answer is that retention shouldn't mean:

“People spent 27 minutes in our app today.”

It should mean:

“That gave us a good moment yesterday. Let's open it again tonight.”

That is the habit we're trying to create.

Not dependence on an app.

A habit of returning to each other.

What Daily Rituals includes today

🌤️ Inner Weather

Share how you're arriving without needing a big conversation.

✨ Daily Rituals

Small guided moments around touch, breath, gaze, conversation, repair, play and desire.

🫁 Breathing Together

Slow down together before trying to solve anything.

💬 Communication & Repair

Find a gentler way into conversations that normally become difficult.

🔥 Intimacy & Presence

Explore closeness and desire without making every touch owe you a next step.

🎲 Play

Because relationships don't always need analysis. Sometimes they need laughter.

🎁 Learn & Surprise Them

Learn something alone, then bring it back to your partner later.

💞 Your private Couple Space

Whispers, gratitude, memories and small signs that say: I noticed you.

And Premium is for the couple, not two individual subscriptions.

What we're not trying to be

We're not therapy.

We're not diagnosing your relationship.

We're not giving your relationship a score.

And we're not trying to convince couples that something is wrong with them so they'll spend more time inside an app.

We're building for the ordinary days when nothing is necessarily wrong...

…but you could be a little more together.

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I'd love feedback from the Product Hunt community on two things:

1. Does “an app designed to get you off the app” immediately make sense to you?

2. What would make you come back to a couples app after the novelty of week one disappears?

Especially interested in criticism.

We're still building this every day.

With love,

Mathieu — Daily Rituals for Couples

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# PRODUCT HUNT HERO MESSAGE

## Put the phone down. Pick your partner up.

Daily Rituals gives couples one small reason to reconnect today.

A question.

A breath.

A touch.

A laugh.

A repair.

A moment.

Then close the app.