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Your life, in dots.

Keep your days. Share what you choose.

Dot keeps the small things from your days: the song you kept replaying, the film you finally watched, lunch with an old friend. Each one is a dot.

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A day in Dot

One ordinary Tuesday.

Coffee with Bob, lunch with Mia, a run by the river, the same song again before bed. None of it was big. You kept it anyway.

  1. 07:12Woke up18° · clear, only you
  2. 08:40Blue Bottle CoffeeWith Bob, shared with friends
  3. 12:303 photosLunch with Mia, shared with friends
  4. 18:30Ran by the river5 km, only you
  5. 20:15A thoughtWritten down, only you
  6. 22:10Sea of DreamsOberhofer · again, only you
  7. 23:40Went to sleep16° · cloudy, only you

Posting

Tap +. Pick what it was.

Pick a Thought, a photo, a place, a workout, a film, a song or a book. Add a line or a rating out of ten if you want. Most dots take a few seconds.

Check in
Touch and hold to check in where you are. Tap to write something first.
Music
With an Apple Music subscription, pick from the songs you played recently.
Wake up and sleep
Two taps a day mark when each day starts and ends.
Your list
Put the kinds you use most at the top. Hide the rest.

Pages

Everything gets its own page.

Each place, film, show, song, podcast, book and game has a page with all your dots about it: who you were with, and what you thought each time.

A café, three times
Blue Bottle CoffeeCafe · ShanghaiVisited
  • Mar 2024With Bob, the first time8/10
  • Jun 2025With Alice and Mia9/10
  • Sep 2026On your own, with a book9/10
FriendsBob, Alice and 2 more friends have been here
A film, twice
MovieIn the Mood for Love2000 · 1h 38mWatched
  • Mar 2024Watched8/10
  • Sep 2026Watched again. Liked it more.10/10
FriendsCharlie and Alice watched it too

Privacy

Private, until you choose.

Most of the time you just want to remember something. Sometimes you want to tell someone.

Each dot is either just for you or shared with your friends. You decide each time, and can change it later.

  • PrivateOnly you can see your profile and your dots.
  • PublicAnyone with your link can see your profile. Only friends see your dots.

You listened to

Only you
SongSea of DreamsOberhofer · Time Capsules IIListened

Again. Third night in a row.

Only you can see this dot.

Friends

When you share, it’s with friends.

The dots you share show up on your friends’ Home, newest first. They can react or reply.

On a friend’s Home

You visited

18°
with
Blue Bottle CoffeeCafe · ShanghaiVisited

Coffee with Bob before work.

Seven reactions, or a reply
Adding a friend
You
@you

Show someone your Dot Code, or let them find you by username.

Looking back

Scroll back to any Tuesday.

Your days stay in order, each one from waking up to going to sleep. The places you’ve checked in are on a map. A year from now, this Tuesday will still be there.

Why we’re making Dot

Most of a life happens on days like that Tuesday.

They’re easy to forget, and nobody else will keep them for you. Dot is where you keep them, and share some with the people who were there.

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Keep something from today.

Start with one dot. Dot is in private beta on iPhone. It is free during early access. We plan to introduce a paid membership later, with 3 months’ notice.

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Will Dot always be free?

Dot is free during early access. We plan to introduce a paid membership later. We’ll give you 3 months’ notice, and free users can still view their own content.

How do I cancel Dot Member?

On your iPhone, open Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions, choose Dot Member, then tap Cancel Subscription. Cancel at least 24 hours before your current period or free trial ends, or Dot Member renews automatically. After you cancel, you can keep using Dot Member until the current period ends. Apple explains the steps in Cancel a subscription from Apple.