One question a day

Feel closer to your partner

The couples app that you play together. One question a day for the two of you. You both answer, and neither of you sees the other's answer until you have both had your say.

The daily question and your streak
are free to play

The Ottermates home screen for a couple, showing their two otters, a 14 day streak and today's question ready to open

Both partners' answers to the daily question revealed side by side, with reactions underneath

The Hot Takes question pack in Ottermates: 50 questions of loud, harmless arguments, with three ways to play

Quick and easy

How it works in 3 steps

Get the app, both of you

One of you starts and sends a link.

Answer one question a day

In your own time. Whoever answers first
waits, and nobody can peek.

Reveal together

Both answers open at once, and your
shared streak ticks up a day.

The reveal

Neither of you sees anything until you have both answered

This one rule is what keeps the answers honest. There is no peeking at what your partner said and then softening yours to match. You answer for yourself, they answer for themselves, and then you both find out at the same moment.

A couple's shared 14 day streak, with the week's calendar, their collected pebbles and two kelp saves in hand

Your streak

The streak belongs to both of you, not to one of you

A day only counts when you have both answered. Keep it for a week and you bank a save for the week life gets in the way. Milestones drop a dated pebble into your collection, so the streak leaves something behind instead of just a number.

The packs shelf, with the First Raft pack open on the card stack

Question packs

And if you want more than the daily question

Eight packs pick up where the daily question stops. First Raft to find your rhythm, Long Distance for different time zones, Deep Dive for the ones you sit with, Hot Takes for arguing about pizza. Each mixes four kinds of card, and the first three of every pack are yours to play in full, reveal included.

Our answers: every question the couple has both answered, kept together and colour coded by the pack it came from

Everything you said

Your answers stay, and they get better with time

Every question you have both answered is kept together in one place, and you can anchor the ones worth keeping. Reading back what you each wrote months ago is the part couples tell us they did not expect.

The questions

Four kinds of question, so it never gets samey

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Languages

Pick your otter: choosing the shade that feels most like you

Say it in your own words, and both answers open side by side. Guess what they said, and find out how well you actually know each other. This or that, with a match reveal when you both picked the same side. Finish the sentence, half a thought each.

What you get

One question a day •

Nobody peeks •

Eight question packs •

A shared streak •

Four kinds of card •

Your answers kept •

Fourteen languages •

Free every day •

App screens

This is the whole app

Swipe through every screen you will actually use.

Today's question hidden under a scratch card, waiting to be revealed

Both answers revealed together, each on its own card, with reactions

The couple's home screen with their streak calendar, pebbles and kelp saves

Inside the Hot Takes pack, showing its artwork and the ways you can answer

A question card from a pack, ready for one of you to answer

Our answers, the couple's whole history kept in one place

Choosing your otter, the one that looks like you

Questions and answers

The things couples ask us first

For the daily reveal, yes: you each answer on your own phone so neither of you can see the other's answer first. Packs also have a one-phone mode you can pass back and forth, which needs nothing from your partner at all.

No, and that is on purpose. Instead of a countdown you have to remember to cancel, the daily question and your streak are free, and every pack lets you play its first three cards in full.

Yes. One of you subscribes and both of you get everything. You do not each pay, and it does not matter which of you it is.

It works especially well. Answering apart and revealing when you are both done is how the app already behaves, so time zones are not a problem. There is a Long Distance pack written for exactly this.

No. Until you have both answered, each of you only sees that the other one is done. That rule has no exceptions, because the moment it does the answers stop being honest.

Not much. Every week you keep the streak going you bank a save, and a missed day spends one automatically. Nobody gets a guilt notification about it.

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