Love at your fingertips: Valentine’s Day apps

Are you single, dating, or married? Could your Valentine’s Day plans use a little treatment from the digital doctor? Here are five special apps that are sure to lift your spirits and love life.

1. Couple – Relationship App

Don’t want too many social media distractions on your special day? Download the Couple-Relationship App. This free app is an intimate space where a couple can preserve all their precious moments privately, and for posterity.

In this app, you can add only one person with whom you can share videos, audio clips, photos, and stickers. As a couple, you can plan your important dates, share locations, and find venues such as restaurants for an intimate evening out. There is an option to share to-do lists and set reminders for special dates, too.

On Couple, you can access your shared timeline anywhere and anytime, both on the Web and your mobile. This app is perfect for a long-distance relationships, too.

Platform: iOS, Android

2. 30 Day Relationship Challenge

If you need some spark in your relationship, you should take up the 30 Day Relationship Challenge. Here is your opportunity to show your significant other how much they mean to you.

How this app works: This app offers 30 different activities that motivate you to do something special/romantic for your significant other over the next 30 days. If you successfully complete the challenge, you are assured of a stronger relationship. While the suggestions are ordinary, doing it for a prolonged period can really have a significant impact. If you are not comfortable with any of the tasks, be creative and add custom activities.

Platform: Android

3. Fingle

Fingle Gameplay Trailer from Game Oven on Vimeo.

Fingle, a cooperative two-player iPad game, can make you lucky in love if you know how to break the ice. Invite that special someone to play this two-player puzzle, where you are assured of lingering contact. Further, there are also chances to get up close and personal. It’s a fun app to spice things up at a boring party or liven things up on a blind date.

How to play: In this game, two players drag up to five buttons of one colour to matching targets; their movement makes it impossible to avoid contact, creating intimate moments with intertwined fingers — just the icebreaker you needed.

Platform: iOS (for iPad)

4. Love Messages

Let’s get back to basics. Sharing sweet nothings via text message is common, but so crucial on this day. Share the most romantic messages with your loved one with Love Messages. This app features hundreds of love messages and Valentine’s Day SMSs, all of which you can directly share via chatting apps.

Moreover, there are love quotes and love status messages for you to update on your social media pages. The database is available offline, too.

Platform: Android

5. DateEscape

Now the spoiler, or saviour, depending on how you look at it. Imagine being stuck on a horrible date with no way out. DateEscape helps you depart from dull dates with ease by assigning seemingly real fake calls and texts to your phone.

Or you can bring an element of jealousy to your date by setting up an attractive member of the opposite sex to (fake) call you or text you — all within this app. However, this app isn’t free.

Platform: iOS