Connection at your fingertips: A first look at the Agapé app's contributions to healthy relationships.Although a range of relationship enhancement interventions have shown benefits, programs involving trained facilitators are difficult to scale and self-directed programs tend to suffer from low rates of adherence (i.e., nonuse/disuse attrition).  The present study evaluated Agapé, a relationship wellness smartphone app optimized for broad dissemination through 4 years of persuasive system design driven by user feedback.  Agapé builds moments of connection by providing daily prompts to couples and then showing them one another's answers when both partners have responded.  To evaluate Agapé, a single-arm, pilot study followed 405 couples (n = 810 partners; 68% non-Latinx White; 50% female; Mage = 29; 50% cohabiting; 31% married; 33% dissatisfied/distressed) through their first month of using the app.  Agapé had high engagement (99%, completing M = 27 daily prompts dyadically) and 88% of couples provided follow-up data.  The results among completers supported the acceptability, feasibility, and utility of Agapé, suggesting that partners found the app easy (74%) and enjoyable (93%) to use, particularly if they perceived their partners to be responsive. 
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Connection at your fingertips: A first look at the Agapé app's contributions to healthy relationships.Although a range of relationship enhancement interventions have shown benefits, programs involving trained facilitators are difficult to scale and self-directed programs tend to suffer from low rates of adherence (i.e., nonuse/disuse attrition). 
Agapé app
Connection at your fingertips: A first look at the Agapé app's contributions to healthy relationships.Although a range of relationship enhancement interventions have shown benefits, programs involving trained facilitators are difficult to scale and self-directed programs tend to suffer from low rates of adherence (i.e., nonuse/disuse attrition).  The present study evaluated Agapé, a relationship wellness smartphone app optimized for broad dissemination through 4 years of persuasive system design driven by user feedback.  Agapé builds moments of connection by providing daily prompts to couples and then showing them one another's answers when both partners have responded.  To evaluate Agapé, a single-arm, pilot study followed 405 couples (n = 810 partners; 68% non-Latinx White; 50% female; Mage = 29; 50% cohabiting; 31% married; 33% dissatisfied/distressed) through their first month of using the app.  Agapé had high engagement (99%, completing M = 27 daily prompts dyadically) and 88% of couples provided follow-up data.  The results among completers supported the acceptability, feasibility, and utility of Agapé, suggesting that partners found the app easy (74%) and enjoyable (93%) to use, particularly if they perceived their partners to be responsive. 
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