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Nice alternatives
Nice is built around counts for each encounter, and keeps most of them, its lock and most of its widgets in Premium. People look elsewhere when they want closeness as a whole in the log, or widgets that do not show what they are.
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Date night
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.
Start with Silk
Silk logs closeness as a whole, from holding hands to a date night, and its widgets read as a habit tracker. Nice is an intimacy tracker with more counters for each entry and iCloud sync.
- You want cuddling, a deep talk and a date night in the same log as sex.
- You want widgets that read as a habit tracker.
- You want nothing to sync: Silk has no account and no cloud.
4 alternatives to Nice
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Silk our pick
Silk is a private intimacy and relationship tracker for iPhone. It logs every kind of closeness in one tap, shows your rhythm and patterns over time, and puts widgets on your Home Screen that read as a habit tracker.
Built for: people who want a private record of their intimate life, with one partner, several or solo. How you pay: free with one partner and a 30 day history; Premium is an annual or monthly subscription.
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xTracker
xTracker is an intimacy calendar for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. It logs when, where, how and with whom, with an STI tracker, a period tracker, a map of locations and a group calendar you can share with partners.
How you pay: a monthly or yearly subscription or a lifetime purchase, needed for all content, the calendar features and backup.
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Aphrodite
Aphrodite is a sex tracker and calendar for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. It records partners, location, duration, protection, positions, mood and a rating for each entry, with charts by week, month and year, templates for quick entries and an optional iCloud backup.
How you pay: Premium by monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase.
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HookBook
HookBook is a private sex tracker, dating calendar and sexual health journal for iPhone and iPad. It keeps partner albums of photos and videos, and tracks protection, PrEP, DoxyPEP and STI screenings with reminders.
How you pay: HookBook Plus, bought in the app.
At a glance
| App | Built for | Where it runs | How you pay |
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| Silk | people who want a private record of their intimate life, with one partner, several or solo | iPhone, on your device with no account | free with one partner and a 30 day history; Premium is an annual or monthly subscription |
| Nice | people who want detailed counts for each encounter | iPhone and iPad, in English and German | free with one partner and one custom activity, and every stat for the first 30 days only; Nice Premium is monthly or yearly |
| xTracker | people who want a detailed calendar of encounters, shared with partners if they choose | iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, in 13 languages | a monthly or yearly subscription or a lifetime purchase, needed for all content, the calendar features and backup |
| Aphrodite | people who want every detail of an encounter recorded | iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, in 7 languages | Premium by monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase |
| HookBook | adults who date and want partners, protection, PrEP and screenings in one record | iPhone and iPad, in 7 languages | HookBook Plus, bought in the app |
What Nice is
Nice is a private sex and intimacy tracker for iPhone and iPad. It records the date, activities and partners for each entry, adds duration, ratings, orgasms, locations, photos and videos in Premium, and can sync through your own iCloud or share a journal with a partner.
How to choose
Start with what you want to remember. If it is the whole relationship, from a long talk to a date night, pick the log that counts closeness as well as sex. Then think about where you will log it. Silk does it in one tap, from a Home Screen widget that reads as a habit tracker.
Questions
What is the best alternative to Nice?
Silk, if you want a log of closeness as a whole, with Home Screen widgets that read as a habit tracker. Silk logs closeness as a whole, from holding hands to a date night, and its widgets read as a habit tracker. Nice is an intimacy tracker with more counters for each entry and iCloud sync.
What is better than Nice?
If you want a log of closeness as a whole, with Home Screen widgets that read as a habit tracker, Silk is the better fit. It is built for people who want a private record of their intimate life, with one partner, several or solo.
Why do people look for Nice alternatives?
Nice is built around counts for each encounter, and keeps most of them, its lock and most of its widgets in Premium. People look elsewhere when they want closeness as a whole in the log, or widgets that do not show what they are.
More comparisons
We make Silk. What we say about the other apps comes from their own pages, read on 11 November 2026: Nice on the App Store, xTracker on the App Store, Aphrodite on the App Store, HookBook on the App Store. Spotted a mistake? Write to support@silkbetweenus.com. Each name belongs to its owner, and Silk is not affiliated with any of them.
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