Remind Me Faster 4+
Quick-entry for Reminders
Nick Leith
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Quick-entry for Apple's Reminders app.
Remind Me Faster is designed to add a reminder with as few taps as possible. Open the app and you're typing. Add a reminder and you're ready to type the next. The interface is optimised for the moment something crosses your mind.
It works with and complements the built-in Reminders app that's already on your iPhone or iPad. Added reminders can be viewed in the built in Reminders app.
• Set time or date notifications with as little as one tap
• Natural language date detection
• Set location triggers for reminders with a couple of taps
• Tap list to choose another, or swipe left/right to quick switch
• Set priority: • ! !! !!!
• Lock Screen launcher, share sheet extension, and URL scheme support
• Alternative app icons
Remind Me Faster is indie-made, lightweight, ad-free, and does not track you. Most functionality is available free of charge, with some extra features available as one-off purchases.
What’s New
Version 5.0
Version 5.0 brings three new features, a lot of polish, and significant under-the-hood modernisation.
Features:
• Share Sheet extension - Share text or website URLs to Remind Me Faster. The text / URL will be pre-filled in the notes field.
• Show unsaved reminders on Lock Screen - For those times when you get distracted before saving a reminder. This feature uses Live Activities to nudge you to finish entering it. Enable in settings.
• Enhanced URL scheme - The URL scheme now supports specifying a list, title, notes, and priority. When used alongside the natural language date detection, this can also allow the URL to set dates for your reminder. See details in settings screen > URL scheme/
Polish & improvements:
• A new animation accompanies ‘adding’ a reminder.
• New animations for incrementing selected date, location, priority, and switching lists.
• Custom date picker is redesigned to be more thumb-reachable, animate quicker, and show reminder title while entering a date. The calendar greys out dates in the past, letting you more quickly orientate yourself when choosing a date. The time picker now uses 5 minute granularity instead of 1 minute, so picking a time is quicker.
• Selected repeating option now shows more clearly in the main view.
• ‘Last used’ default list option now sticks even after force closing the app
• In-app purchases are enabled for family sharing.
• Slight improvements to voice over. Still not complete, so not yet good enough. Will keep working on this.
• Support for ipad cursor button highlighting.
• Improved ‘button shapes’ accessibility.
• Added a mastodon contact link.
• Subtle gradient backdrop used in light mode.
• Updated icon for Reminders app shortcut.
• Preset time buttons that have already passed on the current day will now only fade the text slightly, instead of the whole button.
• You can now dismiss the list of lists by tapping the blank space.
• Slightly updated the view that shows when you have no lists.
• The reminder field no longer animates downward slightly upon typing the first letter. That was a bug. Sorry it took so long to fix.
• Fixed a bug where day presets become out of sync if used after midnight without a force quit
Modernisation:
Ideally you won’t notice this, but for those interested, a lot of development time for this release went into adopting the swiftUI lifecycle, StoreKit 2, and AppStorage.
Ratings and Reviews
Incredible app
I just want to preface this review by saying that I almost never give reviews, but this app is just so good I have to support it. I am a very forgetful but very “fast paced” person, so having an app that allows me to set reminders in mere seconds is an absolute lifesaver, and saved me a lot of money so I didn’t have to buy a virtual assistant or something. The only sort of feature I can really suggest is a home screen widget with minimal controls/ options so quick, preset time reminders can be jotted down even faster. But honestly that’s not even necessary because the app is already extremely fast and easy to use. On top of the fact thag it’s just very aesthetically pleasing and minimalist. Thank you developer for this fantastic app, I would say your “labor of love” has paid off. Hope this app blows up someday as it should.
Literally life-changing
As someone who struggles with ADD/ADHD, things often slip from my mind almost as soon as they appear. ANY friction between thinking of something and having it on my to-do list makes it less likely that that thing or idea will get remembered and addressed, and Remind Me Faster is the best tool I've found for elminating friction between my brain and my to do list. This app has made a significant difference in my life.
Remind Me Faster looks great, is super fast and lightweight, and it seems to be rock-solid and reliable, even using it on an M1 Mac. I super appreciate the small but high-value in app purchases, especially the different icons. The developer has been kind and responsive. I cannot recommend this app enough for anyone who uses a to-do system based on Reminders.
Awesome
I’ve had huge unfixable bugs with Reminders since a system upgrade 5 years ago. The keyboard freezes, there is like a 1 minute lag before a list opens, etc. I can’t find a suitable replacement yet after downloading a dozen reminder apps. I downloaded this a couple of years ago and originally gave it 4 stars because it didn’t have ability to set repeat reminders or be specific about a day and time. They have made upgrades in all these areas and now the app is perfect! It allows me to bypass my buggy app. I have ADD and sometimes just waiting for that app to open correctly I’d forget what I was setting the reminder for, lol. I live and die by my reminders app and this app solved a problem that bedeviled me for a couple of years.
Developer Response ,
Hi there! Thanks so much for the feedback.
It is actually possible set a reminder in advance, like you’ve described. There are multiple ways:
1. When you set a time you can keep pressing +24h to increment the days, into the future.
2. You can tap the three dots button to bring up a full calendar view, allowing you to pick whichever date or time you like.
3. You can use the natural language feature to type the date, like “xyz next Wednesday” - although this option is an in-app purchase.
Thanks for the feedback in repeating reminders too! I’m working on this for the next release, so keep an eye out for that :).
I hope this helps.
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
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Information
- Seller
- Nick Leith
- Size
- 7.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Nick Leith
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Natural Language Input $1.49
- Custom Time Presets $0.99
- App Icon Set $1.99
- Tip jar $1.99
- Tip jar $3.99
- Tip jar $0.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.