Android closed beta

ADHDreminder

Most reminder apps were built for brains that do not need reminding. This one was not.

ADHDreminder keeps important reminders alive after the first ping. They come back on a pattern you choose, with honest ways to say "not now" or "stop" without pretending the task is done.

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Android only
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ADHDreminder is in a closed Android test. Google makes the route slightly more ceremonial than it needs to be: join the tester group, opt in, then install from Google Play.

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Seeing a "not found" page? That is normal until you have joined the tester group and opted in to the test.

Please stay opted in and keep the app installed for at least a couple of weeks. Feedback on what nags well, what becomes annoying, and anything confusing, missing, or broken is genuinely useful.

The reminder is not always the hard part.

A notification can arrive while you are busy, stuck, hyperfocused, tired, or simply not ready to switch tasks. If one swipe makes it disappear forever, the system has failed at the exact moment you needed it.

It arrives at the wrong moment.

Acting immediately is not always realistic. The reminder still needs a route back to you.

One swipe makes it vanish.

A task can be seen, dismissed, and genuinely forgotten in the same ten seconds.

"Later" needs a return route.

Good intentions are not a schedule. The task needs to come back without being rebuilt from scratch.

Predictable pings become wallpaper.

Slight variation in the timing helps repeated nudges avoid settling into an easy-to-ignore rhythm.

It keeps coming back. You stay in control.

Each reminder can re-fire on a pattern you choose. The app stays persistent, but the user decides what persistence means and when it should stop.

Choose the shape of the nudges.

Pick Slows, Steady, or Deadline, then tune the timing. Keep an even drumbeat, change the spacing over time, or spread a set number of nudges before a deadline.

"Not now" is not done.

Push the next nudge out without clearing the task or pretending it was handled.

Stop means stop.

"Seriously, stop" switches the reminder off and leaves it dormant, ready to bring back later without marking it complete.

Missed, not morally failed.

If a deadline passes, the reminder fires once more, records the miss, and stops. Useful history, no guilt speech.

See what happens after the ping.

From the notification choices to the re-notify pattern, the useful part is what happens after a reminder appears.

Optional paging

Let someone nudge you without handing them the controls.

Pair with someone by code or QR, accept the connection explicitly, and let their page arrive as a real reminder on your phone. You decide how persistent that person's pages are allowed to be. The sender cannot turn the nagging above the level you accepted.

Mute a sender silently or unpair at any time. When you deal with a page, it clears for the sender too, with a quiet confirmation that it has been handled.

Explicit pairing and acceptance
Receiver-controlled persistence
Silent mute
Unpair at any time
Minimum delivery data only

Useful when a normal alarm is not the right shape.

ADHDreminder includes a few different ways to keep ordinary life from slipping, without turning every small task into a project.

Time Since

Count up from the last time you did something, keep a run history, and optionally turn the timer into a reminder once it has been too long.

Sounds that mean something

Choose from the sound library, keep favourites near the top, import your own audio, or type a phrase and have the phone speak it.

Repeats that respect the calendar

Use one-off reminders, selected weekdays, or every N days, weeks, months, or years. Monthly and yearly repeats use real calendar dates and handle daylight-saving changes.

A reminder app has one job: still be there.

ADHDreminder uses exact alarms to fire through Doze, re-arms reminders after a reboot, notices when notifications are switched off, and warns when a phone's battery manager may throttle it. Reminder sounds are designed to work even when the app itself is closed.

Exact alarms
Re-arms after reboot
Notification checks
Battery-manager guidance
Background sounds

Android still controls the final delivery path, and some phones need a permission or battery setting changed. The app explains those requirements plainly rather than pretending any app can override every system setting.

No account. No ads. No audience.

Reminders, timers, sounds, and settings stay on your phone. Paging sends only what is needed to deliver a page between people who explicitly paired, over HTTPS. The only other data that may leave the device is an anonymous crash report if something breaks.

Android only. This is a reminders and organisation tool, not treatment, therapy, or medical software.

For the ordinary things that keep slipping.

Bins, laundry, replies, forms, watering plants, leaving on time, calling someone back, or remembering the thing you cannot do right now. Small tasks do not need a whole productivity system, but they may need another chance to reach you.

Put the bins out
Move the laundry
Reply to the message
Water the plants
Leave on time
Call them back

Try reminders that do not give up after one ping.

Join the closed Android beta, use it for the tasks that usually disappear, and tell me where the app helps or gets in the way.

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ADHDreminder is built by one person and is free during the beta. Donations help cover testing, hosting, and the less glamorous work required to keep a small app moving.