NoteDove press kit
A Home Screen widget for short notes from the few people you approve.
Everything here may be used freely in coverage of NoteDove. For anything else — a build to try, an interview, a question — email support@itotallyneedthat.com and the founder will answer.
Fact sheet.
What it is
An iPhone app whose Home Screen widget shows one short note at a time — text, a big emoji, or a photo — from the few people you have both agreed to. A note stays until it is replaced or cleared. No feed, no followers, nothing to scroll.
What's different
The note lands on the other person's Home Screen within seconds, phone locked and app closed: the widget is refreshed by a WidgetKit push, new in iOS 26, rather than by opening the app. Photos always arrive blurred and are revealed in the app.
Privacy
App Store privacy label: “Data Not Collected”. Notes go straight into the recipient's own iCloud, in fields CloudKit encrypts end to end. There is no server of ours in the middle, and even the arrival notification carries no content.
Price
Seven days of everything free, then $19.99 a year or $49.99 once. Every plan includes a Partner Pass, so one purchase covers both people. Extra Partner Passes $9.99.
Under-18 policy
Accounts iOS reports as under 18 cannot send or receive photos in either direction, and a minor cannot connect with anyone without a parent or guardian's approval.
Availability
Pre-order on the App Store from 13 October 2026; releases Thursday 5 November 2026. iPhone only, iOS 26 or later. Worldwide, English. Made by I Totally Need That LLC, Chandler, Arizona.
Facts above describe the shipping app. We ask only that coverage not describe NoteDove as “age-verified” — the under-18 rule relies on Apple's Declared Age Range, a good-faith signal, not a verification.
Demo video
Two iPhones on a table: invite, accept, a note landing, a photo arriving blurred and revealed, removal. 1080p, 4:10, no narration. Download the MP4 (19 MB).
Screenshots
App Store set, iPhone 6.9″ (1320×2868). Click any frame for the full-size JPEG.
About the company.
I Totally Need That LLC is an independent software company in Chandler, Arizona, building iPhone apps and web products. NoteDove is its first app in the couples category and was built by two people. It has no accounts, no analytics and no third-party code, which is why its App Store privacy label reads “Data Not Collected”.
Boilerplate, one line: NoteDove is a Home Screen widget for short notes from the few people you approve — it arrives in seconds, nobody including us can read it, and one purchase covers both of you. Pre-order now; launches 5 November 2026 on the App Store.
Ask the founder.
Replies within a day. Review builds available on request.
support@itotallyneedthat.com