Crushh App Is Gone
Here's the Best Alternative
Crushh launched in 2017 to score how much your contacts liked you from their texts, and vanished from the Play Store in 2019. If you are looking for what happened or what to use instead, this is the short version.
Key takeaways
- Crushh read the SMS threads on your phone and gave each contact a 0–5 interest score. It was removed after Google restricted SMS and call-log access in 2019.
- Modern tools work from a chat export instead, which is why they can cover WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram and more.
- MosaicChats covers Crushh's metrics (reply time, initiation, emoji, trends) and adds sentiment, personality, compatibility and an assistant that explains the results.
- Delulu AI and DoubleText are worth a look for screenshot-based or offline-only analysis.
Remember Crushh? Thousands of people used it to turn a confusing text thread into a number. Then it disappeared, and searches for "Crushh alternative" have been running ever since.
What was Crushh?
Crushh launched in 2017 as one of the first apps to analyze texting relationships algorithmically. It read the messages already on your phone and, according to its own description, used machine learning that improved as it learned each contact's patterns. It measured:
- Engagement scores: a 0–5 rating of how interested each person was, compared side by side
- Reply times: how quickly each of you answered
- Message patterns: who initiated, who sent emoji, who shared photos
- History: a chart of how the scores changed over time
- Call logs: folded into the overall engagement picture
Why did Crushh shut down?
The timeline
2017
Crushh launches on Android and builds a following for its data-first take on texting.
2018
The Mei messaging app launches with Crushh's algorithms built in as a feature.
2019
Google restricts Play Store apps from reading SMS and call logs. Crushh operated with user consent and on-device, but the category itself was cut off. The standalone app is removed; the features survive only inside Mei.
The irony is that Crushh was privacy-conscious by the standards of its day: analysis ran on the phone and contacts never knew. The problem was the access model. Any app that reads your inbox directly is one policy change from disappearing, which is why every serious tool since works from an export you make yourself.
What Crushh got right, and what it lacked
Why people loved it
- A score in seconds, on a scale anyone understands
- No manual work: it read what was already there
- A history chart to watch a relationship change
- Data to check a gut feeling against
What it could not do
- No sentiment: it counted messages, not what they said
- No personality or compatibility reading
- SMS only, no WhatsApp, iMessage or Instagram
- A score with no explanation of what to do about it
Crushh answered "how much?" It never answered "why?" or "now what?" That gap is what language models closed; our guide to how AI analyzes relationship patterns explains the difference.
MosaicChats as the alternative
MosaicChats starts where Crushh stopped. You export a conversation and upload it (or paste it), and the dashboard returns:
What you get
Everything Crushh measured
Reply-time distributions, who initiates, message and emoji counts, and an activity heatmap, all tracked over the life of the chat. Our piece on response-time psychology explains how to read them.
A sentiment timeline
Each person's emotional tone plotted week by week, so a cooling-off shows up as a line rather than a feeling.
Personality and compatibility
MBTI estimates for each of you, an attachment-style report, love languages, and a 0–100 compatibility score.
Myrah
An assistant with the analysis in front of her. Ask what a dip means or how to raise it, in one of four voices: The Coach, The Caring Friend, The Roaster, or The Gay Bestie.
The extras
A word cloud, song, film, book and gift recommendations drawn from the conversation, auto-detected memorable clips, and a piece of AI artwork for the relationship.
Every platform, free to start
WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, Messenger, Telegram and Snapchat exports. The free plan includes up to 50 uploads a week; see the step-by-step guide for export instructions.
Feature comparison
| Feature | MosaicChats | Crushh (2017–2019) | Delulu AI | DoubleText |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentiment timeline | ✗ | Limited | ✗ | |
| Reply-time tracking | ✗ | |||
| Personality (MBTI) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Compatibility score | Basic | ✗ | ✗ | |
| AI assistant | ✗ | ✗ | ||
| ✗ | ✗ | |||
| iMessage | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Instagram DMs | ✗ | ✗ | ||
| Trends over time | ✗ | Limited | ||
| Word cloud | ✗ | ✗ | ||
| Free tier | ✗ |
Other alternatives worth a look
Delulu AI
Screenshot-based: upload images of a chat and get an AI read on attraction, trust and consistency across 13 metrics.
Best for: a quick take on a situationship without exporting anything.
Limits: tedious for long threads, no timing statistics, no personality analysis.
DoubleText
Analyzes WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram exports for double texting, reply times and message ratios, and processes offline.
Best for: basic metrics with local-only processing.
Limits: no sentiment, no personality, no assistant.
For a wider survey, see our comparison of chat analysis tools.
Try the Crushh alternative
Export a chat from any supported platform, upload it, and get the scores Crushh gave you plus the explanation it never could.
Crushh was early and it was right about one thing: a text thread contains an honest record of interest. What it lacked was any way to say why. If you missed it, the tools that replaced it do the same job from an export you control, and go a good deal further.
Frequently asked questions
What happened to the Crushh app?
Crushh launched on Android in 2017 and read the SMS threads already on your phone to score how much each contact liked you. In 2019 Google tightened Play Store policies on apps that access SMS and call logs, and the standalone app was removed. Its algorithms lived on for a time inside the Mei messaging app.
What did Crushh actually measure?
A 0–5 engagement score for each person, reply times, who initiated conversations, emoji and photo sharing, and a chart of how those changed over time. It worked on SMS and call logs only.
What is the closest alternative to Crushh?
MosaicChats covers everything Crushh did, reply times, initiation, emoji, trends over time, and adds a sentiment timeline, a 0–100 compatibility score, MBTI and attachment-style estimates, a word cloud, and Myrah, an assistant that explains the results. It works on exported chats from WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, Messenger, Telegram and Snapchat.
Is MosaicChats free?
Analyzing chats is free (up to 50 uploads a week). The free plan includes five Myrah messages a week; a Pro plan raises that to 200 and lets Myrah read your full chat.
Does it work with SMS like Crushh did?
Not by reading your phone directly; no modern app can do that on the Play Store. It works from an export, and an iMessage export from a Mac includes SMS threads. You can also paste a conversation directly.