# Bond > Relationship wellness for couples: assessments, a daily check-in and guided exercises, grounded in the Gottman Method, EFT and Nonviolent Communication. Bond is a relationship wellness app for couples. Sixteen evidence-informed assessments, a two-minute daily check-in, guided exercises and shared progress — with safety support on every plan, including free. Bond is a wellness tool, not a clinical or crisis service. It does not diagnose, does not assess whether a relationship should continue, and says so on every AI-generated screen. It draws on the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment theory, Nonviolent Communication and the five love languages. Safety support lines are available on every plan including the free one and are never paywalled. They are listed at https://bond.manus.space/safety. ## Pages - [How Bond works](https://bond.manus.space/how-it-works): The baseline assessment, private individual insights, pairing, the daily check-in, sixteen assessments and shared progress. - [Pricing](https://bond.manus.space/pricing): Free, Premium at $14.99/month and Premium+ at $24.99/month, monthly or annual, seven-day trial, one subscription per couple. - [About Bond](https://bond.manus.space/about): What Bond is, the research frameworks behind it, how privacy works, and what it refuses to do. - [App vs therapy](https://bond.manus.space/compare/couples-therapy): An honest comparison of couples therapy and relationship apps, including when an app is the wrong tool. - [Safety and support](https://bond.manus.space/safety): Crisis and domestic abuse support lines by country. ## Frequently asked - **What is Bond?** Bond is a relationship wellness app for couples. It combines sixteen evidence-informed assessments, a two-minute daily check-in, guided exercises and shared progress, so you can see how you two actually operate and act on it. It draws on the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment theory, Nonviolent Communication and the five love languages. - **Is Bond a replacement for couples therapy?** No. Bond is a wellness tool, not a clinical service. It does not diagnose, it does not treat, and it will not tell you whether your relationship is healthy enough to continue. What it does well is the work between sessions: noticing patterns, keeping a small daily ritual, and giving you language for things that are hard to say. Many people use it alongside a therapist. - **Do we both have to use it?** No. Everything in Bond works for one person. You sign up and get your own space immediately; when you are ready, you share a six-character pair code and the two of you get a shared space instead. Nothing you wrote while using it alone becomes visible to your partner afterwards. - **Can my partner see what I write?** Only what you deliberately share. Check-in notes, reflections and your individual assessment answers stay private to you. Your partner sees a shared result only for assessments you have both completed, and a reflection only if you marked it for them. Bond's AI writes its insights from your scores and counts, never from the words you typed. - **How much does Bond cost?** Bond is free to start and the free plan is genuinely usable: the onboarding assessment, the Love Languages assessment, partner check-ins, the foundational learning modules and three guided exercises a month. Premium is $14.99 a month and unlocks all sixteen assessments with AI analysis, the full library and the monthly deep dive. Premium+ is $24.99 a month and adds conversation analysis, advanced analytics, shared goals and therapist sharing. One subscription covers both partners. - **Is the safety information paywalled?** Never. Crisis support lines, the safety note and every safety feature sit on every plan including free, and no entitlement check can ever gate them. Bond is not a crisis service — if you or someone you care about is in danger, please contact a local emergency number or a support line directly. - **How does Bond handle our data?** Message text, check-in notes, reflections and assessment answers are never logged and are never sent to an AI model. Insights are generated from derived numbers — scores, bands, counts and streaks — only. You can export or delete your account at any time, and deleting your account removes your own content. - **Can a relationship app replace couples therapy?** No. An app cannot replace couples therapy, and Bond does not try to. Therapy offers a trained third person, accountability, and the ability to work with trauma, abuse and mental illness — none of which an app can provide. What an app can do is the work between sessions: keeping a daily ritual, measuring where things stand, and giving you language for hard conversations. - **Is Bond cheaper than couples therapy?** Substantially. Couples therapy in the United States typically runs $100 to $250 per session, and most approaches recommend weekly or fortnightly sessions. Bond Premium is $14.99 a month and Premium+ is $24.99, and one subscription covers both partners. That does not make it a substitute — it makes it something you can use every day rather than once a fortnight. - **When should we see a therapist instead of using an app?** See a professional if there is any physical or emotional abuse, if either of you is struggling with addiction or a mental health condition, if you are in a crisis such as an affair that has just been disclosed, or if one of you wants to leave and the other does not. In all of those situations an app is the wrong tool, and using one can delay the help that is actually needed. - **Does Bond work alongside therapy?** Yes, and that is how it is designed to be used. Premium+ lets you share selected reflections with a clinician under consent you both control, so a therapist can see what happened between sessions rather than relying on recall. Either partner can withdraw consent at any time and access ends immediately. - **Will using an app make us avoid the real conversation?** It can, if you use it to keep score or to raise grievances you would otherwise have said out loud. Bond is built to reduce that risk: individual answers stay private, a shared result appears only when you have both completed the same assessment, and every insight ends in a specific thing to try rather than a verdict about your partner. ## Guides - [Why Bond measures before it advises](https://bond.manus.space/blog/why-bond-measures-first): Every relationship app gives advice without knowing anything about you. Here is what changed when we inverted that, and the three constraints it forced on the build. - [Relationship check-in questions that actually go somewhere](https://bond.manus.space/blog/relationship-check-in-questions): Thirty questions for couples, sorted by how much they will actually open up — from a two-minute weekly check-in to the ones you save for a long evening. - [The goal isn't never fighting — it's repairing](https://bond.manus.space/blog/repair-is-the-goal): Happy couples argue about the same things as unhappy ones. What separates them is how fast and how well they repair afterwards. Here is how repair actually works. - [The love languages, the useful version](https://bond.manus.space/blog/love-languages-useful-version): The five love languages are a decent lens and a bad rulebook. Here is what to keep, what to drop, and the two mistakes almost everyone makes. - [Nonviolent Communication in an argument: a four-step script](https://bond.manus.space/blog/nonviolent-communication-script): Observation, feeling, need, request — the NVC structure, translated out of jargon and into sentences you can actually say mid-argument. - [How to run a daily relationship check-in that doesn't feel like homework](https://bond.manus.space/blog/daily-relationship-check-in): A two-minute daily check-in keeps small things small. Here is a format that survives real life, plus the three mistakes that make couples abandon it. - [Attachment styles in relationships: what they actually predict](https://bond.manus.space/blog/attachment-styles-in-relationships): Attachment theory explains why the same argument keeps returning. What the four styles mean, and what actually changes insecure patterns. - [The Gottman Four Horsemen: what they are and what to do instead](https://bond.manus.space/blog/gottman-four-horsemen): Criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling predict relationship breakdown. Here is what each one actually looks like, and the specific replacement for it.