Dear: Stay in Touch
Stay close to people you love
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your friends appreciate hearing from you more than you think.
Dear sends you a gentle nudge when it's time to reach out to someone you care about. You pick the people and how often. Dear handles the rest.
No more guilt about the text you keep meaning to send. No more realizing it's been six months since you talked to someone who matters. Just a quiet daily reminder that showing up is simple and it counts.
HOW IT WORKS
Add the people you want to stay close to. Choose how often you'd like to reach out to each one: once a month, every few months, every six months, or once a year. Each day, Dear suggests someone to contact. Tap to text, call, or video chat. That's it.
15 NARRATORS
Dear doesn't talk like a task manager. Choose from 15 unique narrators that shape how your nudges sound.
Dear and Friendo are free and trilingual (English, French, and Spanish). Premium narrators include Sherlock, Emily Brontë, Dracula, Nonna, Haiku, Noir, and Mom Text in English, Marcel Proust, Cyrano, and Le Renard in French, and Don Quijote, El Mar, and La Abuela in Spanish. Each premium narrator is an optional add-on.
YOUR CIRCLE
See everyone you care about in one visualization. It's your relationships at a glance, not a to-do list.
BUILT FOR PRIVACY
No accounts. No ads. Your friends and contacts never leave your device. Your relationships are yours alone.
DEAR+ (OPTIONAL)
The free version holds up to 15 people. Upgrade for unlimited friends with a monthly or yearly plan. Add individual narrators, or unlock all 13 premium narrators together. Want everything? Dear+ gives you unlimited friends, all narrators, draft messages, and every future feature in a single one-time purchase.
DEAR FRIEND (PATRON TIER)
Want to support Dear directly? Dear Friend (a one-time patron tier) includes everything in Dear+ plus a badge, credits listing, and narrator voting. Built without investors or ads, sustained by people who believe in it.
WHY IT MATTERS
Loneliness affects 1 in 4 people worldwide (WHO, 2023) and increases the risk of premature death by 26%. Research shows that people consistently underestimate how much their friends appreciate hearing from them. Dear is built on that insight. A small text today could mean more than you think.
Dear was built by someone who cares deeply but needed a little help showing it.
Privacy Policy: https://dearnudges.com/privacy.html
• Added Control Center and Action button
• Siri and Shortcuts support
• Tap a widget to open that person
• Onboarding is now translated
The developer, Elsewhere Index LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Elsewhere Index LLC
- Size
- 23.4 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 30 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlimited Friends $2.99
- Everything Bundle $39.99
- Unlimited Friends $14.99
- Sherlock Voice $0.99
- Nonna Voice $0.99
- Big Tip $20.00
- Small Tip $3.00
- Generous Tip $10.00
- Dear Friend $100.00
- El Mar $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Earl Hoover. All rights reserved.