Near & Dear puts birthdays, anniversaries, and trips on your home screen as countdown widgets. Choose how early each date appears, and let your upcoming events take turns. Add a countdown to your iPhone Lock Screen, too.
A birthday next month. A trip next week. Give each date its own time to shine.
Add a birthday, anniversary, or one-off plan. Repeat it every year when it’s a tradition.
Choose how early each countdown appears. A week for dinner plans, a month for a birthday.
Add a widget to your home screen once. Events appear when their window opens and rotate as more dates get close.
Turn on the morning digest for one notification with your upcoming dates, at your chosen hour. Or leave it off and let the widget do the reminding.
Keep your nearest countdown on the Lock Screen. Choose a circular, rectangular, or inline widget to see the date you’re looking forward to, right by the clock.
Try the Lock Screen preview Lock Screen widgets are available on iOS.Choose a size, a layout, and a theme. See how the app’s updated widgets fit your home screen. Typography follows your layout automatically.
More themes, personal photos, and photo effects in the app. Fonts are set by the layout.
The date is just the beginning.
Keep the people, plans, and memories
behind it close, too.
Birthdays, yearly traditions, and once-in-a-lifetime plans. See your special dates together in one calm calendar.
That little bookshop you loved.
Dinner at our usual place.
And a whole day, just us.
Save gift ideas, little notes, and keepsake photos. They stay private, even when you share the date.
Send a special date—or a whole collection—to your favorite people. They can import it into their own Near & Dear.
On your home screen. In a quiet little widget.
A reminder that something good is on its way.
Birthdays, anniversaries, annual traditions, and one-time dates like holidays, trips, or a big milestone. Set how far in advance each countdown appears, and keep your most important dates pinned.
This view shows Near & Dear for iPhone, with Home Screen widgets and circular, rectangular, and inline Lock Screen widgets. Switch to Android at the top of the page to see its features.
Yes. Choose from six layouts—Classic, Bold Number, Stamp, Minimal, Mirror, and Banner—then pick a color theme or your own photo. Typography is set automatically by your layout. Preview wide and square sizes, and add photo effects in the app. The preview above shows a few of the possibilities; the final appearance depends on your device and widget size.
Your events, widget designs, and keepsakes are stored locally on your device. When you choose to share a date, private keepsake notes and photos aren’t included. You don’t need an account to start adding dates.
Share a single date or export a collection using your device’s share sheet. The recipient can import the file into Near & Dear. It’s a copy of the dates you send; later edits don’t automatically sync between devices.
MAKE ROOM FOR WHAT MATTERSGive it a little space on your home screen.
