Impossible to ignore.

iPhone reminders with a countdown you can see.

A Live Activity keeps your approaching reminder on the Lock Screen and in Dynamic Island on supported iPhones. Add a Monster alarm when you need an interruption, or a birthday nudge when someone deserves a call.

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Free download · iPhone with iOS 26 or later · Optional Pro subscription.

Made by one person · No account · Your reminder text stays on your phone

Nudge Monster countdown on Dynamic Island

You spoke to her the day before. About the birthday. And you still forgot.

Knowing isn't remembering. A notification you swipe away at a red light is the same as a notification you never got.

Three things

The first one is the reason I exist.

Reminder countdown on the iPhone Lock Screen

Live Countdown™

Keep the deadline in sight

See an approaching reminder on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Swipe it away and it comes back. Monster mode treats a dismissal as a question, not an answer. The countdown returns to your Lock Screen, and marking the task done is the only thing that ends it.

Set up a Live Activity countdown →
Nudge Monster reminder settings

Monster Mode™

For the ones you can't miss

Choose Monster mode for a system alarm that can sound through Silent mode and Focus when alarm permission is enabled. Start with a harmless test reminder to check your setup.

Birthday reminder in Nudge Monster

Birthday Watch™

Remember. Then reach out.

Add birthdays from the Contacts you allow and get a nudge the night before. Pro gift reminders give you an earlier heads-up to plan something thoughtful.

Call or WhatsApp them straight from the reminder pop-up. Open the call or chat while the person is still on your mind.

Set up birthday reminders →

Notice your patterns

The Hall of Shame

Every reminder you ignored, kept in one place. Not to punish you, to show you the pattern.

What it keeps for you

12 days

On-time streak

9 of 11

Nudges answered this week

23 days

Longest run without a miss

Example figures from a test device.

Nudge Monster settings and reminder statistics

For the reminders you mean to act on.

Bring live countdowns, optional Monster alarms, and birthday preparation together in one iPhone app. Try it with one upcoming task and see whether this way of remembering suits you.

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iPhone. iOS 26 and later.

What leaves your phone

No account. No tracking. Task names never leave your phone.

Starting a countdown remotely uses a push service with device delivery tokens, random identifiers, scheduling times, and technical delivery records. Your reminder text and contact details are filled in on your phone rather than sent to that service.

Read the privacy policy →
Task names, notes, contacts, birthdaysNever leave the device
Push service storesDelivery & scheduling data
Account or sign-inNone
Analytics, trackers, adsNone
BackupYour own iCloud

Free does the job. Pro does more of it.

Export stays free whether you pay or not. Getting your own birthdays out of an app is not something to charge for.

Free, forever

  • Unlimited reminders and birthdays
  • Standard notifications on all of them
  • One live countdown
  • Monster mode on three reminders at a time
  • On-time statistics
  • Export and import

Pro

  • Monster mode on everything
  • Five live countdowns at once
  • Home Screen widget
  • Repeating reminders
  • Gift reminders
  • Full history
  • Automatic iCloud backup

Why I built it

Reminders don't fail because you didn't know.

I missed my sister's birthday this year, a day after we had spoken about it on the phone. I knew. I just wasn't thinking about it when it counted. That gap between knowing and remembering is the entire reason the app exists.

Made by one person

Stop missing the things you actually care about.

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