diff --git a/src/hooks/__tests__/useIsActive.test.tsx b/src/hooks/__tests__/useIsActive.test.tsx
index 168b4841..1eb05e7f 100644
--- a/src/hooks/__tests__/useIsActive.test.tsx
+++ b/src/hooks/__tests__/useIsActive.test.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { RawParams } from '@uirouter/core';
 import { makeTestRouter } from '../../__tests__/util';
+import { UIView } from '../../components';
 import { useIsActive } from '../useIsActive';
 
 const state1 = { name: 'state1', url: '/state1' };
@@ -52,6 +53,24 @@ describe('useIsActive', () => {
     expect(wrapper.find('div').props().className).toBe('notactive');
   });
 
+  it('works with relative states', async () => {
+    const parent = { name: 'parent', component: () => <TestComponent state=".child" params={null} exact={false} /> };
+    const child = { name: 'parent.child', component: () => <div /> };
+    router.stateRegistry.register(parent);
+    router.stateRegistry.register(child);
+    await routerGo('parent');
+    const wrapper = mountInRouter(<UIView />);
+    expect(wrapper.find('div').props().className).toBe('notactive');
+
+    await routerGo('parent.child');
+    expect(
+      wrapper
+        .update()
+        .find('div')
+        .props().className
+    ).toBe('yesactive');
+  });
+
   it('updates when the desired state changes', async () => {
     await routerGo('state2');
     const wrapper = mountInRouter(<TestComponent state="state1" params={null} exact={false} />);
diff --git a/src/hooks/useIsActive.ts b/src/hooks/useIsActive.ts
index d29d8557..3dc8c573 100644
--- a/src/hooks/useIsActive.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/useIsActive.ts
@@ -1,28 +1,39 @@
-import { StateService } from '@uirouter/core';
+import { StateDeclaration } from '@uirouter/core';
 import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import { UIRouterReact } from '../core';
 import { useDeepObjectDiff } from './useDeepObjectDiff';
 import { useOnStateChanged } from './useOnStateChanged';
 import { useRouter } from './useRouter';
+import { useViewContextState } from './useViewContextState';
 
-function checkIfActive(stateService: StateService, stateName: string, params: object, exact: boolean) {
-  return exact ? stateService.is(stateName, params) : stateService.includes(stateName, params);
+function checkIfActive(
+  router: UIRouterReact,
+  stateName: string,
+  params: object,
+  relative: StateDeclaration,
+  exact: boolean
+) {
+  return exact
+    ? router.stateService.is(stateName, params, { relative })
+    : router.stateService.includes(stateName, params, { relative });
 }
 
 export function useIsActive(stateName: string, params = null, exact = false) {
-  const { stateService } = useRouter();
+  const router = useRouter();
+  const relative = useViewContextState(router);
   // Don't re-compute initialIsActive on every render
-  const initialIsActive = useMemo(() => checkIfActive(stateService, stateName, params, exact), []);
+  const initialIsActive = useMemo(() => checkIfActive(router, stateName, params, relative, exact), []);
   const [isActive, setIsActive] = useState(initialIsActive);
 
   const checkIfActiveChanged = () => {
-    const newIsActive = checkIfActive(stateService, stateName, params, exact);
+    const newIsActive = checkIfActive(router, stateName, params, relative, exact);
     if (newIsActive !== isActive) {
       setIsActive(newIsActive);
     }
   };
 
   useOnStateChanged(checkIfActiveChanged);
-  useEffect(checkIfActiveChanged, [stateService, stateName, useDeepObjectDiff(params), exact]);
+  useEffect(checkIfActiveChanged, [router, stateName, useDeepObjectDiff(params), exact]);
 
   return isActive;
 }