App help
How to use the Couple Tools app: getting started, your account, and the lists, events and chat you share. Ideas and advice for life together are in Learn.
Start here
- AboutWhat Couple Tools doesA private space for the two of you: a shared feed, chat, tasks, events and notes, synced between both phones, with privacy when something is just for you.
- How toTasks and listsYour shared to-do list: add tasks, give them to yourself or your partner, set due dates, and keep them in lists so nobody wonders who was doing what.
- How toChatPrivate messaging between the two of you, with no ads or algorithms: send messages and photos, reply, react and mention things you’ve saved.
- AboutWays couples use Couple ToolsWorked examples that combine tasks, events, notes and chat: the weekly shop, planning a party, a typical week, a trip, and keeping up with family and friends.
Browse by topic
- Getting startedWhat Couple Tools is for, finding your way around, and how couples use it day to day.3 articles
- Staying in touchThe feed, chat and @mentions: keeping each other in the loop.3 articles
- Organizing life togetherTasks, events and notes: what needs doing, when, and what you both need to remember.3 articles
- Settings and your accountSigning in, your partner, your subscription, your settings and your data.2 articles
- Browse allEverything in app help, by topic.11 articles
What's new
All changes- ImprovedA warmer website, and App helpcoupletools.com takes the app's warm colors, with line icons and easier reading. Help is now called App help, so it's clear it's about using the app, and the guides on life together stay in Learn.
- NewLearn, on coupletools.comGuides for couples, backed by research and written in plain words, are now in one place on the website, with topics, sources you can open where you're reading, and lighter articles alongside.
- NewHelp, rewritten, with search for the whole siteHelp on coupletools.com is organized into four topics, describes the app as it is now, and has a search that finds help, guides and articles at once. What's new lives here too.
Can't find what you need?
Tell us what you were looking for, and we'll answer you and add it to app help.