The knot, counted
A single number, set once. Days, weeks, months, years — long-press to switch. Lives on the lock screen, the home screen, your Watch.
DateKnot is a couples app for iPhone that counts the days together, remembers every anniversary, and quietly suggests what comes next — on both your phones.
DateKnot is not a productivity app. It does fewer things than you'd expect, and each one tries to disappear once it's served you.
A single number, set once. Days, weeks, months, years — long-press to switch. Lives on the lock screen, the home screen, your Watch.
It knows what you've given before, what they've mentioned in passing, what fits the budget. Three ideas a week, never more.
Tap an emoji and a one-line note. They see it land, with a soft haptic. No metrics, no streaks — just a small hello.
CloudKit between you, end-to-end. Every date, every milestone, every photo — synced in seconds, gone if either of you taps delete.
Friday at noon, a nudge: three places near both of you, open at the right time, in your shared price range. Tap one and the reservation is held.
Five years comes around. The app already knows. A gentle reminder, a card you can sign, a count-up that turns the page on its own.
The HomeView is where you'll spend ninety percent of your time in DateKnot. Here's every piece of it.
A pill, not a guilt-trip. The number reminds you it's there; it never asks.
The counter is the whole point. Long-press to switch units; the rhythm of your relationship in three taps.
Anniversaries, birthdays, travel — pulled from your calendars, sorted by how soon, dressed in their own color.
Two avatars, one mark in the middle. Tap it and a small heart finds its way to them.
A 12-emoji vocabulary. The app suggests a one-liner when words are hard.
Either of you. Open the app, set your name, pick a knot color.
Share a link. They tap, they confirm — both phones light up at the same instant.
Could be your first kiss, your wedding, the night you decided. The count starts there.
It runs quietly in the background. You'll hear from it on the days that matter.
DateKnot has been in private beta with about two hundred couples since November. A few notes back.
We'd been counting on a kitchen whiteboard for six years. DateKnot is the first app that doesn't feel like a productivity tool wedged into our relationship.
I tried it for the anniversary reminder. I stayed for the mood strip. He's 4,000 km away for work and somehow I see him on it every morning.
It suggested a tiny ceramic bird for our 4th wedding anniversary. I have no idea how it knew. She loved it.
iPhone or iPad on iOS 17+ for now. The Android version is in private alpha and arrives in late summer. Until then, one of you can use the web view at dateknot.com/we — read-only but fully synced.
Everything is end-to-end encrypted over iCloud (CloudKit). We don't see any of it. No analytics on the inside of the app, ever. If both of you delete your accounts, the data is gone within 24 hours.
Three things: gift suggestions, date night ideas, and a soft draft of love-notes when you ask. It runs on-device for prompts and via Anthropic Claude for the final synthesis, with no persistent memory between requests.
Free for the counter, mood strip, and two-phone sync. Premium is $39.99/year or $1.99/week, with a seven-day trial. Both phones in a knot share one subscription.
You can untie the knot from Settings → Knot → Untie. The data archives to read-only on both phones, then deletes after 30 days unless either of you saves a copy. No notifications are sent.
Yes — the app doesn't assume romance. We have a small but loyal cohort of best-friends-since-school, siblings in different cities, and one set of grandparents counting up to their 60th.