I'm going with the spellbook, although I don't actually think I would perform any of the spells in it, if they are like the ones in the drama. I think I would have a really hard time tearing and burning pages from an antique book, but it would still be cool to have.

The app does not interest me in the slightest. Generally, it's the SML who doesn't tell the FL that he likes her (until it's too late anyway) and I am immune to second male leads, both in dramas and in my own life. Plus, my real-life male lead has already spoken up and told me he likes me, so I'm all set.

The Love Alarm made everybody miserable in the drama, even when they didn't want to use it in the first place.

So I choose the spell book. I have control on it.

I'd definitely go with the spell book, wheater or not to use it it up to me.

An app would either make me disheartened to find my crush does not like me or uncomfortable finding some creep did.

I don't need an app to tell me that no one likes me. I already know that.
But a book full of spells? That's actually useful. I could keep my family healthy, etc.

I'm going with the spell book for one reason: It should have a spell for my own academic excellence. I tend to understand and retain any sort of memory, academic or not, except for the ones pertaining to the academic programme I'm in.

While it's nice to have an alarm go off each time someone who likes me pops within my perimeter, it'll burden me with indecision, especially if more than one person who meets my checklist rings the alarm. I love focus in my love life. And to know this and that likes me...It'll be the death of me :)

Nah, that app is for kids, I'm old enough to just ask if I like someone - and if I don't, why should I even care? While spellbook offers way bigger range of possibilities - becoming healthier, getting rich, saying bye to skin imperfections, seducing hotties, cursing enemies, wreaking all kinds havoc! So exciting))) Hard to find a career more cool than a dark witch. Lifelong membership card for sordid pagan open air parties is included, I hope? Ah, it's been a while since I've attended one... Damn you, covid and other muggle troubles!

Spell book 100%. As others have said, what if nobody likes you, or not the right people anyway.

But if there are spells to make you rich, good-looking, intelligent, etc, then you might find some people starting to like you even if you didn't resort to an actual love spell.

But mostly, at my age I'd be thumbing thru it to find spells for youth, health... Which might also help make someone like you.

I have a rant and a half stored up about how creepy that app is. The only thing it would do is out the people who were decent enough to keep their mouths shut and their 'likes' to themselves unless disclosure was appropriate.

A spell book would be fun, though - as a way to explore the origins of beliefs about magic and the magical properties of various ingredients, as well as about whether there's a placebo effect for magic. If I'm convinced a spell can help me pass an exam, will that help my self-confidence - or discourage me from studying?

inherit the book and be evil.

Easy one: Have an app that tells you when someone nearby likes you.
No more paying for drinks for the wing man.

Spell book for me. You can pick and choose which ones to use and hope they turn out right. ( Just so there's no spell ON the book which makes it hard to use.) As you get older you can pretty much tell who's a friend and who's a foe and choose who you care to spend your time with or not. Best friends are still around when you get old enough to appreciate them!

This was an easy choice. Spell book! Think of how many creative and interesting things you might find in there! What you might be able to do? Besides, you could have a spell to tell you who likes you. Spell book please, more versatile!

Spell book — definitely! Although I wouldn’t necessarily be interested in using it. The app is just too creepy. I don’t need to know if someone “likes” me — whatever that means in the app world. Plus we saw how that worked out in the show. The spell book — which gets burned up in the process of being used — seems to be less destructive for society in general.

Most of the time I'm a bit torn between the two, but this one was pretty straightforward for me- I'm already married, and at this point I'd really rather not know if anyone else likes me or not... romantically or not. Can you imagine having a non-romantic alarm for your kids? What if it didn't go off? I think I'd just worry myself into oblivion trying to make sure I was well liked

Spell book all the way. Healing of so far unhealable diseases? Check. Good luck spell? Check & check & check. Clear skin spell? Check & no more money for random skincare (brought to you by PPL)! Love spell scares the hell out of me though (what have we learned from all stories & dramas addressing this topic?!) and would be burned unused. (While wearing an adorable white gown, if I must!)

The app does not appeal to me in any possible way, which is why I didn’t even bother to watch the drama…

I'm a magnet that attracts really creepy men sooooo I would never choose the app even if I got paid for it 😅

Spell book and then be the evil medieval witch.

So you mean that I can curse people !? How can something compete with the ability to put a spell on somebody else ?
If there's a price to pay, high probability, I'll go straight to hell. Worth it if I can cause a fly invation in chatty coworker's home or induce nightmare to the entiteled file cutter or generate a stone in the shoe of this overexigeant customer or... Yes, you can call me vindicative. But I'm also ready to do good deeds like helping people find lost things, revitalize a field (this will become in needs in the next years), cure unordinary illnesses...

I'll live out my Hogwarts dream with the spell book please!! Plus could use it to help myself and also help others, while that app solves no-ones problems and probably will create half a dozen instead.

Almost all comments here are for the spell book, but the vote so far indicates 38% opt for the app. Hello, where are you guys? I'd love to hear your rationale :-)

I chose the app because if it were in real world, I could use it to avoid the "arranged marriage" stuff in my part of the world. Most of my friends would choose it too because we are all stuck in the same rut. Asking someone directly is fine, but the hardest part in that is the aftermath of getting rejected, so an app in that scenario would come in handy to guide us from asking disinterested people, especially the people who we delude ourselves into thinking as having interest in us because we mistook their kindness or genorosity for affection/flirt. A love spell can also do the work, but that's just manipulation.

The spell book no question, I’ll use it to cure all my chronic illnesses 😉

But the commentary of the app intrigues me. Is the app just physical attraction? Apps like Tinder? And no offensive to anyone who uses these apps, but the fact that algorithms are what determine love these days is horrifying imo. And algorithms themselves are notorious for their bias from some dude bros in Silicon Valley.

Tho I’m curious about the Love Alarm app, can it tell the difference of perceived attraction as in what society deems as ‘acceptable’ therefore indoctrinating us what to think is attractive or does it go further? Beyond Lookism? The app would definitely cause harm especially for closeted Queer people. But would it be able to determine someone like myself, realise I have attraction to the same gender as well? Especially when heteronormativity is so prevalent?

And I really can’t see Love Alarm go beyond physical attraction? For all my romantic life I grew attracted to the person I got to know, and not in a romantic settings like dates but in communal settings or genuine friendships that later developed into crushes.

I’m not a conventionally attractive person at least by society’s standards, so even if Love Alarm notified me that someone near my vicinity likes me, I genuinely question that? While I look able-bodied I’m not, I have scars that I cover up with clothing, which is a side effect of my chronic illness Hidradenitis Suppurativa, which basically causes painful abscess’ in private areas. So would they still like me knowing this information they previously had no knowledge of? This isn’t to say that people with disabilities and chronic illnesses can’t find love or be loved. It’s just apps like Love Alarm or Tinder and such are very limited to physical attraction and that’s not the end and be all for love or attraction in general imo.

Anyway thanks for reading my Ted Talk😅

I don't think the love alarm would ring for me, unless it records the local pigeons who absolutely love chasing me like in a cheap Hitchcock remake.

I'm going with the spellbook. They had me at Fair Skin spell lol

The spell book for me. Even if I wanted to know if someone was interested in me (I don't), I'd always be worried about the app collecting my private data.

I wouldn’t touch that spell book with a ten foot pole. It’s obvious it’s full of unintended consequences, even if you are ok with going to the dark side. I’d probably lose my adorable two year old nephew or see my career go up in smoke. Not worth it for some perfect skin!

For that reason, love alarm was my gut reaction, but after reading everyone’s comments, I realized it would probably make me miserable. However, that is a misery that probably doesn’t require losing my first born niece or my job. I also just got my own amazing apartment anyways.

Im going with the spellbook as I dont necessarily have to use it.

Can i just say how much I despised the concept behind Love Alarm? I mean, relying on an APP to express your feelings to another person??? My god that just frustrated me to the core. It didnt make me swoon/kicking-my-feet-giggling-to-myself.
Everything just felt orchestrated and ingenuine, like you HAD to refer to the darn app to believe that the other person likes you, No thanks.