You can actually turn off the notification dots, at least in the iPhone app. If you go to the "Menu" tab you can long press on any of the categories and you'll

You can actually turn off the notification dots, at least in the iPhone app. If you go to the "Menu" tab you can long press on any of the categories and you'll get the option to turn off notification dots. I didn't know about this until reading your post and poking around in the app to see if it was possible.