Dear Dates
Birthday

Robin's birthday is on Friday — he turns 40.

✦ A milestone year, so the nudge came a month early instead of a week.

A calendar that counts. Save a birthday, a wedding, the day the dog arrived — give it the year it started and it comes back every year with its number attached.

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Free for as many dates as you like, kept on your device. Online backup and family sharing are £0.99 a month.

How it counts

A day and month makes it repeat. A year makes it count.

Leave the year out and the date still comes back — it just has no number. Put it in and Dear Dates works out what to call it, and gives every kind of date its own colour.

Birthday
turns 40

Ages worked out from the birth year. No year saved? “Birthday · every year”.

Anniversary
10th · Tin

Paper, wood, crystal, silver, golden, diamond — the traditional gift comes with the year.

Remembrance
6 years without

Counted quietly. No celebration, and it can stay off your lock screen.

Streak
3 years strong

Running, sober, sending the Sunday text — with a check-in you confirm weekly, monthly or yearly.

✦ Milestones

The years people actually mark get an earlier nudge.

Every decade, plus 1, 13, 16, 18, 21 and 65 for birthdays. The 1st and then every five years for everything else. A month's warning instead of a week.

18th 21st 40th birthday Crystal · 15th Silver · 25th Golden · 50th Diamond · 60th
Three steps, one preview

You see exactly how a date will read before you save it.

What kind of date, when it started, what it should carry. Step two shows the finished line — the number, the badge, the day it next lands — and asks for the year in the words that fit: “year of birth”, “the year it started”, “the year they died”.

  • Eleven kinds of date. Birthday, anniversary, remembrance, gig, trip, moved home, work, pet, appointment, streak, something else — each with its own colour.
  • One-offs welcome. A booked appointment turns up once, with its time, and doesn't count anything.
  • People attached. Add whoever a date belongs to, from a name you've saved before or a new one.
Also just a calendar

A glance at the month tells you what kind of week it is.

Named colour blocks, not dots — you can read whose birthday it is without tapping. Use it for everything: appointments, trips, the gig you've had tickets for since March.

Look back

Search titles, people, notes and year entries — or filter to milestones only.

People pages

Every date someone appears on, what they're turning, how long you've been together.

Home-screen widgets

The next date and its number, without opening anything.

Send a message

A tap from the date to the text you were going to forget to send.

On this day

Add a memory. It comes back every year that follows.

“Zoom, three countries, Jo cried.”
Jo & Marcus · 2021 · fifth anniversary · Wood

Write a line about how a year went and it sits in the date's own history, newest first, down to the day it started. Tap any year to record what happened.

Year-by-year history Notes that repeat This week, other years
Gentle by default

Some dates want a number. Some want to be left alone.

You decide what each date says, how loud it is, and whether it counts at all.

Hide the count

Keep the date, drop the number

Leave the year out, or turn the count off. The date still arrives every year — it just doesn't tell you how many.

Your words

Call them what you call them

“Mum”, “Grandpa”, “Nan Edie”. Set the name once and it reads that way on every date they're on.

Quietly

Skip a reminder, keep the date

Remembrance dates can stay in the calendar and off your lock screen. Nothing announces itself if you'd rather it didn't.

Add a memory

One note, every year after

“Make the lemon cake. Ring Mum in the morning, not the evening.”

Written once, there whenever the date comes round.

Remembrance
Remembering Nan Edie today.
Six years without — or no number at all, if you’d rather not see one.
Yours, and only yours

No account needed. No analytics. No password.

Dear Dates works offline from the moment you open it — your dates live on your device, and reminders are scheduled on the phone itself.

Want them on more than one device, or shared with the family? Sign in with a six-digit code we email you — there's no password to make up. Changes made offline queue up and sync when you're back.

Freeforever, on your device

Unlimited dates, milestones, reminders, memories, widgets, the lot. No trial, no card.