Routine Life
Reminders at the right moment
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Traffic that says where it's slow and which road is quicker, weather alerts, a morning wake-up with a short brief, and one-tap "I'm here" places.
Most reminder apps fire at a time you typed in. Routine works out the moment for you.
Tell it once — type it or say it — and Routine reads your calendar, the traffic and the weather to speak up only when it matters: when it’s time to leave, when the road is slow, when a storm is coming, when you’re near the store, when you walk out the door. The rest of the day it stays quiet.
THE MOMENTS IT WATCHES FOR
Leave by — a 9:00 appointment with an address becomes a leave-by time that moves with traffic and rain, counted down on your Lock Screen.
Traffic — when your route is slower than usual it says where (“NY-14 is 12 minutes slow”) and names a quicker road if there is one.
Weather alerts — severe and extreme alerts from the issuing agency, in their words, with a link to the full notice. Minor ones stay quiet.
At the store — “get milk at Wegmans” waits until you’re actually there.
Leaving home — “bring the library books” fires as you walk out the door, not at 7:00 while you’re in the shower.
Morning wake-up — a real alarm that rings through Silent and any Focus. Tap Start my day for a short brief: the weather, your first thing, when to leave, what you said last night.
Morning note and evening check-in — one short note with the day’s plan; one quick question before bed.
EASY TO TELL, EASY TO CHANGE
Hold the mic and say “pick up the dry cleaning Thursday after work.” Quick adds cover the usual ones — trash night, meds, the furnace filter — in a tap or two. Tap any reminder to change the words, the moment, the days it repeats or the place. Standing somewhere? Tap I’m here and pick Store, Work, Gym or School, or say “Hey Siri, I’m at the gym.”
BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY
Routine budgets its interruptions: a few a day get through, important ones are allowed past the cap, low-key ones ride along in the morning note. Every notification has one-tap actions. The widget shows what’s next with a Done button.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no server of ours, no analytics. Your calendar, places, reminders and what you say to the mic stay on your iPhone. Understanding a sentence runs on the phone with Apple Intelligence. Weather, alerts and drive times come from Apple’s own services. Export everything as a file or delete it all from inside the app.
ROUTINE PLUS
The free app does the everyday work: reminders you can edit, leave-by times with traffic and weather alerts, the wake-up and brief, the morning note, the evening check-in, the widget and Siri.
Routine Plus adds the parts that need to know where you are and what’s coming: reminders at the store and when you leave home, a wake-up that moves earlier when your first drive is slow, a prep card before a meeting or test, the week review, and learning from your Done and Not useful taps. $2.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $39.99 once for life. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in Settings.
Privacy policy: https://kernan6580.github.io/routine-site/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
The developer, Daniel Kernan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Daniel Kernan
- Size
- 7.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Daniel Kernan