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Persistent reminder app for AndroidReminders that don’t let go.

It takes over the whole screen when something is due, and comes back every five minutes until you complete it or skip it.

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  • No account
  • Works offline
The Nimits alarm taking over an Android screen: “Dentist appointment” at 19:12, ring 1 of an every-five-minutes loop, a countdown to the next ring, and Hold to complete, Snooze and Skip today.

If you don’t answer

07:30It rings
07:35Rings again
07:40And again
Untilyou Complete or Skip

01 Swipe it away onceAn ordinary reminder slides off. Nimits takes the screen.

07:30 · An ordinary reminder

Dentist appointment
Swiped away, half asleep.

17:45

Wait. Was the dentist today? Missed.

07:30 again · Same morning, with Nimits

It takes the whole screen and will not swipe away.

Ignore it and it comes back every 5 minutes, until you complete or skip it.

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02 Three alarm modesYou pick how hard each one insists.

Default

Persistent

Rings every 5 min until completed.

Light touch

Once

One notification, no re-ring.

Nudge

Gentle

Two nudges, then marks itself missed.

Snooze is capped. Snooze it and it comes back sooner. Run out of snoozes and Nimits records a miss. It is never quietly dropped.

Categories are just labels. They never change how a reminder rings.

  • Appointments
  • Bills
  • Chores
  • Exercise
  • Hydration
  • Kids
  • Medication
  • Pets
  • Work
  • + your own

03 Inside the appIt does not stop at one alarm.

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Recorded on a real phone. No sound.
The Nimits alarm over the lock screen: “Dentist appointment” at 19:12, ring 1 of an every-five-minutes loop, rings again in 4:44, snoozed 0 of 5, and Hold to complete, Snooze and Skip today.

Full screen, every five minutes

Until you answer. Hold to complete.

The Today screen in dark: 4 of 14 completed with a bar for each ring, Needs you 3 with Feed Bruno missed and Short walk ringing, each with Complete and Skip, then Up next and today’s routines.

What needs you comes first

Missed and ringing at the top, each with its answer attached.

The new-routine screen: “My Bedtime routine, every day, keeps ringing until completed”, three steps at 21:30, 21:45 and 22:00, and Save routine.

Build a routine, step by step

Write it as a sentence; each step rings on its own.

Reminders by day: Thursday picked in the week strip, the afternoon folded to 4 completed, 1 missed and 1 skipped, then the evening with two due now, a line at the current time, and the evening routine’s four steps.

Your day, morning to night

What rang, what was missed, and what is still to come.

Reminders by reminder: Active 9 and Routines 2, each row with its repeat and time, Persistent or Once, and when it next rings.

Every reminder in one list

Each with its repeat, its alarm type and its next ring.

An afternoon routine: next ring tomorrow 13:03, three steps all completed today, 100% on time, 14 of 14 full days and a bar for each of the last 14 days.

See how each routine went

Every step today, and the last two weeks.

The History screen: 4 missed in the last 30 days, 94 of 95 and 410 of 414 completed on time, a month of squares with a few red misses, the two reminders that need attention, and three alarms that did not reach the phone.

The month at a glance, misses and all

The last 30 days, including any alarms your phone blocked from ringing.

The snooze screen: “Snooze Dentist appointment until…”, 5 snoozes left, eight times from 19:17 to 20:42, and Snooze until 19:17.

Snooze to a clock time

Pick when it comes back, and how many snoozes are left.

04 FeaturesSmall decisions that stop things slipping.

  • Missed and overdue, first

    Missed and overdue sit at the top in red, each with Done and Skip beside it, and the rest of the day waits below in clock order.

  • Home-screen tiles

    Tiles for what needs you, the day, the week and a routine, with Done and Skip that take two taps, so a stray touch records nothing.

  • Skip is a real answer

    It sits right next to Complete, and what you skip is left out of your figures rather than counted against you.

  • Snooze is capped

    A set number of snoozes, and the screen tells you which one you are on. An uncapped snooze button is just a slower dismiss.

  • Repeats that fit real life

    Daily, weekdays, the days you pick, every 2 weeks, every 3 months, yearly, or the last day of the month. A quiet heads-up beforehand if you want one, and one task can hold several steps that ring in turn.

  • Answer from the notification

    Done, Snooze and Skip sit on the notification, so you can answer without opening the app. Undo for ten seconds after.

  • Back up, move phones

    Save your reminders and their history to a file, by hand or every week, and restore them on a new phone. The file goes where you choose.

  • Share a reminder

    Send one as a link or a QR code. It opens on the other phone as a draft to check and save, and its history never travels with it.

  • Say it instead of typing

    Tap the microphone and speak a reminder in English. You check what was heard before anything is saved, and Nimits records nothing.

  • Offline, no account

    No sign-up, your reminders never leave your phone, and Android itself schedules every alarm, so it rings in aeroplane mode.

05 Use it forAnything you can’t afford to half-remember.

06 Why I built Nimits

“Some of their alarms silently never rang. I only found out after something had already been missed.”

I’m a parent, and I built Nimits to keep track of my kids’ schedules, and to see, at the end of the day, what got done and what didn’t.

The reminder apps I tried were full of ads, and some of their alarms silently never rang.

So Nimits keeps ringing until someone answers it, and keeps a record of what was done, skipped or missed. If the phone stops an alarm from ringing, History says so rather than staying quiet. And there are no ads.

— The maker of Nimits, JiSquare Apps

07 FAQQuestions, answered.

Something else? hello@nimits-reminder.app

Is Nimits free?

It is free to download and has no ads.

Why not Google Tasks or the Clock app?

A task app posts one notification, and once you swipe it away it is gone. A clock alarm rings until you turn it off, but it cannot tell whether you did the thing. Nimits takes over the screen like an alarm and keeps coming back every five minutes until you mark it complete or skip it, and it keeps a record of which.

Does Nimits show ads?

No. There is no advertising anywhere in it, and it does not sell or share your reminders, because it never receives them.

Does it need an internet connection?

No. There is no account, your reminders never leave the phone, and Android schedules the alarms, so it rings with no signal at all. The only thing it ever sends is anonymous crash reports and diagnostics, never anything about a reminder.

What happens if I ignore a reminder?

A Persistent one takes the screen again every five minutes until you answer or run out of snoozes, then records a miss. Gentle nudges twice. Once posts one notification and stops.

Can I answer a reminder without opening the app?

Yes. Done, Snooze and Skip are on the reminder’s notification, and Undo is there for ten seconds after. A connected watch can show the reminder too, but not every watch shows its buttons.

How do I move my reminders to a new phone?

Settings › Backup and restore › Back up now saves your reminders and their history to a file. Open Nimits on the new phone and restore from that file. The file goes where you choose and never passes through Nimits.

Can I send a reminder to someone else?

Open it and tap Share to send a link or show a QR code. On their phone it opens as a draft they check and save. It carries what the reminder is and how it repeats, never your history.

Does it ring when my phone is on silent or Do Not Disturb?

It rings on the alarm channel, at your phone’s alarm volume, the way a clock alarm does, so muting calls and notifications does not mute it. Nimits asks to be let through Do Not Disturb. If you say no, Do Not Disturb decides, and Nimits adds no silencing of its own.

Can I add a reminder by speaking?

Yes, in English. Tap the microphone and say it, for example “call the dentist tomorrow at 10am”. Your phone’s own speech service turns the words into text. With its offline English, which most phones already have, that happens on this phone. Nimits records nothing, and you check what was heard before anything is saved.

Can reminders repeat?

Every day, Monday to Friday, weekly on the days you pick, every 2 weeks, every 3 months, every year, on the last day of the month or on, say, the second Tuesday. A monthly reminder set for the 31st rings on the last day of shorter months, so February is not skipped.

Will it ring in the middle of the night?

If you set it for then, yes. Nothing is ever held back to a more convenient hour. Set that one reminder to Gentle if you want it quieter.

Why did an alarm not ring?

Usually the phone stopped it: a battery manager, or a permission that was never granted. Nimits checks its own permissions and says so on the home screen, with a link to the setting that fixes it.

Which Android versions does it run on?

Android 8.0 and newer.

Get Nimits for Android.

Free to download · No ads · No account · Works offline · Android 8.0+

Get it on Google Play
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