Is Dear Dew private? Does my cycle data go to a server?

No server is involved. Dear Dew runs on Apple's on-device intelligence, and the only things it can speak from are your own logs, already on your phone. Your questions, your answers, and your data never leave the device — there's no account, no cloud AI, and nothing for anyone else to see. It's also honest about its limits: it's a small on-device model, it can make mistakes, and it tells you so.

What can I actually ask it?

Anything about your own cycle and what you've logged: what you log most, how long your cycles have been running, what happened on a specific day or across a stretch of days, what tends to cluster before your period, what self-care has helped. It can look up any date in your history. It politely declines things outside your own data — it's a window into your logs, not a general chatbot, and it never replaces a clinician.

Which iPhones can use Dear Dew and voice logging?

Dear Dew needs Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or newer on a recent iOS). Voice logging needs on-device dictation for your language. On phones without them, the buttons simply don't appear and everything else in Dew works exactly the same.

Is the premenstrual journal a PMDD diagnosis?

No — and it's careful not to pretend to be. It's a one-tap daily rating (1–6) of how hard the day felt. After a few rated cycles, Dew tells you honestly what shape it sees: ratings that rise before your period, a steady baseline that worsens premenstrually, or no clear pattern at all. You can export the day-by-day record as a clean PDF to bring to a clinician — prospective daily ratings are exactly the kind of evidence they ask for. The diagnosis is theirs to make.

What does calendar sync actually put on my calendar?

Only if you turn it on, Dew creates its own calendar (named "Dew") in your calendar account and writes a few gentle events ahead: your expected period, the fertile window if you track it, and lower-energy days. A discreet mode swaps every title for a neutral one only you understand. Turn it off and Dew removes everything it wrote. Nothing else in your calendar is read or touched.

Did anything change about my privacy?

The promise is unchanged: everything lives on your phone, synced only through your own private iCloud, with no account and no tracking. This release doubles down on it — the new intelligence answers on-device, voice transcription is hard-wired to never use a server, and the year-book is built entirely from your local data. You pay with nothing, least of all your data.

What's new in Dew 1.1.2 — ask your own cycle anything

Months of quiet logging deserve more than charts. Dew 1.1.2 lets you ask your own history questions — out loud if you like — and gives the hard days a journal of their own. All of it on your phone, none of it anywhere else.

Dew 1.1.2 is here. 1.1.1 was about trust you could see — showing the prediction’s real track record. This one is about something warmer: after months of logging, your history should be able to talk back.

Dear Dew — your cycle, in conversation

There’s a moment every tracker owner knows: a question forms — “when did I last feel like this?”, “what usually helps my cramps?”, “how long have my cycles been running lately?” — and the answer is somewhere in your own data, behind five taps and a chart you have to squint at.

So we gave Dew a quiet new tab. Ask in plain words, and Dew answers from your own logs — your symptoms, moods, notes, cycles, self-care — streaming back like a text from a friend who happens to have read your journal. It can look up any day you’ve ever logged, or a whole stretch of them.

Dear Dewon your device

What do I log most before my period?

Looking at your logs, cramps come up most often — usually in your luteal days — with headaches and low energy close behind. Warmth is the self-care you’ve logged most on those days.

Every answer is drawn from your own entries, computed on your iPhone. Nothing is sent anywhere — and Dew says so when it isn’t sure.

Three rules hold it steady. It speaks only from your own entries — never generic internet advice about what “most women” feel. It never invents a number — every figure in an answer is checked against your actual data before you see it. And it’s honest about being small — it runs entirely on your iPhone, it can make mistakes, and it says so right in the chat.

Say it, don’t type it

Some days the last thing you want is a form. Now you can tap the mic and just say how you feel — Dew listens, transcribes on-device, and fills the day in as chips you confirm with a glance. Nothing is saved until you say so.

Log by voice

“Pretty tired today, cramps in the morning, took a warm bath and felt better.”

→ fatigue · cramps · warmth — filled in as chips for you to confirm. Transcription runs on-device only; your voice never leaves the phone.

A journal for the hard days

If your weeks before a period feel genuinely dark, the hardest part is often proving the pattern — clinicians ask for daily records, not memories. Dew’s new premenstrual journal is a one-tap daily rating of how hard the day felt. After a few rated cycles, it tells you plainly what shape it sees: ratings that rise before your period, a baseline that worsens premenstrually, or no clear pattern — it will say that too, because honesty is the point. And it can export the whole day-by-day record as a clean PDF for a clinician visit.

New ways to follow

Two more chapters of life, first-class. A trying-to-conceive lens puts your fertile window front and centre and adds ovulation-test logging — a positive LH test and a temperature-confirmed ovulation now sharpen what Dew shows you (and what you can ask it). And perimenopause tracking got deeper: instead of going quiet as cycles space out, Dew now shows where you are in the transition and how your gaps are trending — the spacing-out is itself the story, so Dew tells it.

And a little more

Your cycle, on your calendar

Period, fertile window, and low-energy days as quiet events in a Dew calendar of your own — with a discreet mode that keeps titles neutral.

What helps you

Log the small things you do for yourself — warmth, rest, movement — and Dew quietly notices which ones your hard days actually ease after.

Seasons

Four hand-made papers — spring, summer, autumn, winter — so the app can feel like the time of year, or stay on classic oat.

A year you can hold

Your Story now binds into a Year in Rhythm book — a hand-drawn PDF of your months, made entirely from what you logged.

Still yours alone

Everything above runs and stays on your device. The chat answers on-device; the voice never reaches a server — that’s hard-wired, not a setting; the journal, the calendar events, the year-book are all built from data that never left your phone. No account, no tracking, nothing sold or shared. By design.

Curious how the prediction itself works? We wrote the honest version here. Dew is free on the App Store below.

And if there's something you wish Dew did — or something that's not quite right — we genuinely want to hear it. Since we don't track you, your words are the only way we learn. Tell us what you think. It's two minutes and completely anonymous.