The photos and the chat are already on the phone. The missing piece is one packet someone else can follow.
That is the job of Bona Fide. The App Store subtitle is "Proof of relationship packet." You import the photos and messages you already have. Bona Fide builds a dated, labelled evidence packet you can export as a PDF and file. "File" here means you file that PDF. The app does not submit it, and it cannot say whether a filing will be approved. The seller is Rene Fandida. The store page says the app is only for iPhone and requires iOS 17.0 or later.
What the packet is
Your photos already tell the story. Bona Fide puts them in order. The current description is an organizer, not a filing service. Import your photos and messages. Everything happens on your iPhone. No account, no upload, no server.
People already have the material. Years of photos. A chat that runs longer than anyone will read. What they do not have is one document a stranger can open and follow without you sitting next to them. The packet is that document. It is dated, so the order is visible. It is labelled, so a page says what it is. It is a PDF, so it leaves the phone as a file rather than as a camera roll only you can scroll.
What comes out, in the listing's words, is a finished document:
A cover page.
An index of every exhibit.
Your evidence in date order, each one numbered, dated, and captioned.
You can export that as a PDF, print it, or save it to Files. Three ways out, same document. Print it if someone wants paper. Save it to Files if you want it on the phone. Export the PDF when you are ready to hand it over. The packet is something you can hand to a person. It is not an application, and it is not a decision.
Bona Fide organizes and formats documents. It does not give legal advice and cannot tell you whether a filing will be approved. Requirements vary by agency and change over time. Check your agency's current guidance or speak to an immigration attorney. The listing names formats for USCIS marriage-based, UK Appendix FM, and Canada IRCC filings, in English or French. That is a format list, not a set of instructions. This article does not explain how to file any of them.
Making a pile readable, before you ever open an app, is a wider job. How to organize relationship evidence so somebody actually reads it is that essay. This piece stays on what version 1.0 says the packet contains.
The app organizes what you already have. It does not file the visa, and it does not judge the evidence.
Photos on a timeline
Bona Fide reads each photo's date and location and places it on a timeline automatically. The story is the order, not a folder of lookalike shots. A stranger can follow a sequence: this month, then that one, then the trip, then the ordinary weeks. They cannot follow a camera roll, because a camera roll is sorted for the person who took the pictures, not for the person reading them later.
Photos without dates go to a queue so you can set them yourself. Nothing is guessed. If the phone does not already know when a picture was taken, the app does not invent a day for it. You set it, or it waits in that queue until you do. A guessed date would put the photo in the wrong place in the story, which is worse than leaving it unset.
Then you caption. Add who, where, and what to any exhibit. Swipe between them to caption a whole packet in one sitting. Who was there, where you were, and what the photo is, in your words, on that exhibit. The listing does not describe a longer form than those three. A caption is not a legal argument. It is the label that stops a reader guessing which weekend a photo belongs to.
When you export, those captions sit with the evidence in date order. Each exhibit is numbered, dated, and captioned. The cover and the index are how someone else finds a page without scrolling a camera roll on your behalf.
WhatsApp date ranges, not the whole log
Import a WhatsApp export and pick the date ranges worth including: the month you met, the year apart, the weeks around the engagement. Those are the listing's examples. They are ranges you choose, not the entire chat from the first hello to last night.
Each range becomes its own labelled exhibit with a page count you can see before you commit. You can look at how long that slice is before it joins the packet. That page count is the reason to cut. If a range is already long, narrow it before you commit, instead of hoping a reader will find the useful week inside a pile. A focused excerpt gets read. A three-thousand-page dump does not.
How to think about a chat as evidence, outside this app, is in how to submit WhatsApp messages as relationship evidence. The version 1.0 point is narrower: pick the ranges, see the page count, and leave the rest out.
Your photos and messages are read on your device and never leave it. There is no account and no server. The same privacy section says you can delete everything in one tap from Settings. How the app treats that material is also in the Bona Fide privacy policy.
You can build the entire packet and page through the finished document for free. Payment unlocks export only. You will know exactly what you are buying, because you have already paged through the document and seen the order, the captions, and the length. This article will not name a price.
Other Culi writing lives on the Culi blog. Related Bona Fide notes are under Bona Fide resources.
FAQ
What happens to a photo with no date?
It goes to a queue so you can set the date yourself. Nothing is guessed. The app does not invent a date the photo did not already have.
Does the whole WhatsApp chat go in?
No. You import a WhatsApp export and pick the date ranges worth including. Each range becomes its own labelled exhibit, with a page count you can see before you commit. A focused excerpt gets read. A three-thousand-page dump does not.
Can you read the packet before you pay?
Yes. You can build the entire packet and page through the finished document for free. Payment unlocks export only. You see the document before export is unlocked.
Does Bona Fide file the visa or say the evidence is enough?
No. You export a PDF and you file it. Bona Fide organizes and formats documents. It does not give legal advice and cannot tell you whether a filing will be approved. Check your agency's current guidance or speak to an immigration attorney.
Put the photos in order. Keep the chat to the ranges that matter. Read the finished packet on the phone. Then decide, yourself, whether to export it.
Bona Fide on the App Store
This article was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor before publishing.