Do I have to turn on notifications to use Dew?

No. Dew never shows a cold notification prompt when you open it. Quiet reminders can arrive in your Notification Center without you doing anything, and you only choose to turn on full reminders once you’ve seen the value — never before. You can also ignore them entirely; Dew works the same either way.

Can I make period reminders discreet?

Yes. Discreet mode hides cycle details on your lock screen — instead of “your period is likely tomorrow,” the reminder simply reads “A gentle reminder.” You can also rewrite the wording yourself and choose the time of day, so a reminder only ever says what you want it to.

Does Dew work if I’m pregnant, on the pill, or in menopause?

Yes. Dew 1.1 adds dedicated modes. Pregnancy shows your week and an estimated due date and pauses the cycle countdown; the combined pill follows your pack and shows your scheduled bleed; a hormonal IUD gives you a calm spotting-and-symptom log; and perimenopause tracks the trend as your cycles space out, rather than forcing a prediction.

What's new in Dew 1.1 — cycle modes & reminders you control

Dew now follows you through pregnancy, the pill, a hormonal IUD, and menopause — and we rebuilt reminders from scratch. Here’s everything in 1.1, and the honest why behind it.

Dew 1.1 is here — our biggest update yet, and the first one with a story worth telling. It started with a number we didn’t love, turned into a quiet rebuild of how Dew reminds you, and grew into support for the parts of life a 28-day calendar never accounted for. Here’s all of it.

We learned something uncomfortable

When we looked at how Dew was actually being used, one stat stopped us cold:

1 in 3

had reminders switched on.

Two-thirds of people never got a heads-up before their period — not because they didn’t want one, but because a cold “Allow Notifications?” on day one scared them off.

A nudge the day before your period is one of the most genuinely useful things a tracker can do. So why were most people missing it? Because the very first thing the app did was throw up a system “Allow Notifications?” box — which, on day one, is roughly the app equivalent of a stranger opening with “can I get your number?” Most people tap “Don’t Allow,” and on iOS that “no” is permanent. We were losing two-thirds of our reminders before anyone had seen what a Dew reminder even looks like.

Reminders, completely reworked

So we tore the whole thing out and rebuilt it around trust. Now Dew earns the reminder instead of begging for it — and when it does remind you, it does it on your terms. The same heads-up, your way:

Standard

Dewnow

Tomorrow is the day

Your next period is likely to begin tomorrow.

Discreet

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A gentle reminder

Tap to open Dew.

No cold pop-up. Dew never asks for notification permission the moment you open it. Quiet reminders just show up in Notification Center; you turn on the prominent ones only after you’ve seen the value.
Your words, your time. Write the reminder however you like and pick when it lands.
Discreet mode. Hide cycle details on your lock screen — a reminder can simply read “A gentle reminder” to anyone glancing over.
Only your cycle. Ever. No ads, no marketing, no “we miss you” spam — just the heads-up you asked for.

Dew now fits more of life

Your cycle isn’t always a tidy 28-day loop — and sometimes it isn’t a cycle at all. Tell Dew what to follow, and the whole home screen quietly adapts to where you actually are:

Pregnancy

Your week and an estimated due date. The period countdown quietly pauses.

On the pill

Your scheduled bleed — not a guessed period.

Hormonal IUD

A calm place to log spotting and symptoms while things settle.

Perimenopause

A gentle “your cycles are spacing out,” instead of a broken prediction.

Each mode is its own calm experience — no awkward “your period is 412 days late” when you’re seven months pregnant. (We’ve all seen an app do that. Not anymore.)

A few more quiet upgrades

Sharper predictions. If you have an Apple Watch, Dew can optionally use your wrist temperature to confirm ovulation and tighten the forecast — computed entirely on your device.
App lock. Open Dew with Face ID or a passcode, for one more layer of privacy between your cycle and anyone who picks up your phone.
Private intimacy logging. Log what you want, kept on-device like everything else.

Still yours alone

None of this changes the one thing that matters most. Everything in Dew still lives on your phone — synced only through your own private iCloud, with no account, no tracking, and nothing sold or shared. By design.

New here? The cycle guide is a calm place to start, and Dew is free on the App Store below.