The short answer, the features one by one, the price, where your data lives, and the questions people ask before they install it.
Pomia is a couple app for iPhone. It deals you real places and events around you like a deck of cards and picks the ones that suit the two of you; keep one and it becomes a dated plan; live it and it becomes a polaroid pinned on your map. Around that: one question a day, a shared calendar, goals, time capsules and a small pixel garden. It works entirely on your own, and it is free to start.
Yes, to start, and with no advertising anywhere. The free tier gives five discoveries a day and limits on photos, plans, dates and capsules. A share, paid per person, lifts your own limits; two shares in the couple lift the shared ones. Stopping a subscription never deletes anything — it only stops the counters going up.
No. One share lifts the limits of whoever paid, and two shares lift the couple’s limits for both of you — so one of you can cover the other. A share follows the person and not the couple, which means it survives a parting.
Entirely. The deck, the plans, the memories, the map, the calendar, the goals and the garden all work with nobody else in them, and the question of the day becomes a would-you-rather. Everything you wrote alone follows you the day your partner joins, and stays yours.
Yes, for most of it. The map shows both of you wherever you are, the question of the day, the daily sentence and the mood need no shared room, and a time capsule is made for waiting. Only the deck assumes you are going out in the same town — and it still works for each of you separately.
That is the one thing Pomia was built for. The deck reads real venues and dated events around you — from Google Places, OpenStreetMap, OpenAgenda and Ticketmaster — and ranks them against what the two of you have liked before. Of the eleven couple apps we compared, none of the others does it.
On servers in Frankfurt, in the European Union. There is no advertising, no data broker and no tracker in the app. Your position is only shared if you switch it on, and only with your partner. Deleting your account is one gesture inside the app, and it is immediate and final.
Not yet. It is an iPhone app first, coming to the App Store soon, and Android comes after. The app and this site are both in six languages, down to the widgets and the notifications.
Those two are built around talking: a question a day, a chat, a shared album. Pomia is built around doing — it picks a real outing near you, gives it a date, and keeps it as a memory once you have lived it. It also has the daily question, but that is the side dish rather than the meal.
Real outings around you, memories on a map, one question a day. Free to start, hosted in Europe, no ads.
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