How can I help?

No.

• Nestwerk has no sign-up and never asks for an email address or a password.
• Open the app and get started.

Nothing. If you like, you can support Nestwerk with a one-time contribution in Settings.

Just the way you'd say it: Dentist Friday 3 pm or Take out the trash every Tuesday 7 pm.

• Nestwerk highlights the day, time and repeat in green while you type.
• Repeats work the same way: weekdays at 7 am, Monday to Friday, every weekend or Sundays.
• Add alarm, and it rings instead of just sending a notification.
• Alarms need iOS 26; on earlier versions you get a regular notification.

On iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. With iCloud sync turned on, the tasks are the same on every device signed in to the same Apple Account.

Everything without a date.

• It gets its own section in the list, with new entries at the top.
• You decide the order.
• iPhone and iPad: drag the handle on the right.
• Mac: drag the row with the mouse.

Yes, within limits.

• Nestwerk first reads in the language set in the app.
• If it finds nothing there, it tries the other nine: Zahnarzt am 5. Dezember works in the English app too.
• The set language is the most reliable: if you mix two languages in one sentence, only the details in one of them count, and short forms like at 9 only work in the set language.

No.

• Alarms are available on iPhone with iOS 26 or later.
• On iOS 18, iPad and Mac you get a regular notification at that time.
• It follows your notification, sound and Focus settings.

Tap the microphone at the bottom and just start talking, for example: “Pick up Emma from gym at 4 pm, new task, buy bread, new task, call Grandma tomorrow, add”.

• Each task appears on its own line.
• Saying add creates them all.

With with and the name: Swimming with Emma.

• Or put the name at the end: Lunch me 12 pm.
• The person has to exist in Nestwerk.

Yes.

• After add, a short two-second countdown runs.
• Tap it to cancel and keep editing the lines.

You speak in the language set in Nestwerk. These words start a new task, create everything or set an alarm:

Nestwerk only recognizes speech on the device and never sends anything away. If the speech model is missing, add a keyboard in that language under Settings › General › Keyboard and keep Dictation turned on. iOS will then download the model.

With Apple Intelligence, Nestwerk also understands everyday sentences in dictation and Siri: Next Tuesday after kindergarten, dentist with Emma becomes a task with the day and person.

• Lists in a sentence become subtasks.
• You can also pick a Genmoji as the picture for a family member.

No.

• It's a bonus: without Apple Intelligence, Nestwerk recognizes the day, time, repeat and person with its own rules, just like when you type.
• Apple Intelligence is available on iPhone 15 Pro and later, turned on under Settings › Apple Intelligence & Siri.
• It also needs iOS 26 and a language Apple Intelligence supports.
• Russian, Ukrainian and Polish are not supported yet; in those languages Nestwerk uses its own rules.

No.

• Nestwerk uses the language model that runs right on your iPhone.
• It needs no account and no internet, and nothing you say leaves the device.

Not yet. iCloud sync only connects devices signed in to the same Apple Account.

• Sharing across different Apple Accounts is planned.
• I'll only name a date once it's done.

No.

• You add people yourself, with a name, a color and optionally a photo.
• Nobody needs an app, an account or an invitation.

Yes, with iCloud sync: it connects all devices signed in with the same Apple Account.

• Turn it on under Settings › On all devices.
• Devices with different Apple Accounts each keep their own list.

Topics organize the tasks of one person: work, family, school.

• You create them in that person's view.
• Rename, recolor and reorder them with the pencil button at the top right.

Every person has a color.

• The circle in front of a task shows whose it is.
• If a person has topics, each topic gets a color too.
• You only see the topic color on that person's page, so you can tell their topics apart.

• iPhone and iPad: touch and hold the task and choose Person or Topic.
• Mac: right-click the task, or drag it onto a person or a topic in the sidebar.
• If the person changes, a topic that belonged to the previous person is removed.

The watch app comes with the iPhone app. If it's missing: open the Watch app on your iPhone and tap Install under Available Apps.

See and check off today's tasks, filter by person at the top. A swipe on a task shows the note and subtasks, and you can check those off too.

Touch and hold the Home Screen, then Edit › Add Widget › Nestwerk. Touch and hold the widget to pick a person and Today or All.

Yes.

• One tap on the circle crosses the task out, a second tap brings it back.
• The other devices show it once Nestwerk has been opened on this device.
• Tasks with an alarm are checked off in the app, so the alarm is really off.

On your device.

• Nestwerk has no server of its own.
• If you turn on iCloud sync, it's also stored in your own iCloud, which means with Apple, not with me.

Only those for features you use, and only the first time: notifications for reminders, alarms on iOS 26 and later, microphone and speech recognition for dictation.

• You pick photos one at a time; the app never sees your library.
• Nestwerk doesn't need contacts, calendars or location.
• If you decline something, everything else keeps working.

Settings › Backup › Save creates a file with everything.

• Save it in Files or send it to yourself.
• You restore it in the same place.

Pull down on the home screen to sync right away. Settings shows whether your data has already been sent to iCloud.

Settings › Feedback opens a prepared email.

• At the end are the app version, iOS version, device model, language and appearance.
• No tasks, no names, no notes.
• You see everything before you send it.