Custom notification snoozing is the whole reason this app exists

The feature I care about more than anything is custom snoozing from the notification itself. Plenty of reminder apps let you snooze a reminder, and Android even has native notification snoozing, but the problem is always the same: you get a handful of preset durations that almost never match real life.

My classic example is being at the gym at 4:40 p.m. when a reminder comes in to pick up milk. If I leave the notification sitting there, I’m just hoping I remember to look at my phone when I leave. If I snooze it for 15 minutes, it fires too early. If I pick one of the longer presets, it fires too late and I probably forget the milk entirely.

That is why Remy Reminders lets me snooze for exactly how long I need, directly from the notification. I don’t have to open the app, edit the reminder, change the time, and save it again while I’m already in the middle of something else.

Why I finally needed something beyond Memorigi

I used Memorigi for over 5 years, after first featuring it back in January of 2020 in my top Android app series. I stuck with it because it had the one thing I couldn’t find anywhere else: custom snoozing via a notification.

But Memorigi had two big problems for me. First, it doesn’t work on iOS, which is rough because I often switch to iPhones for review purposes and then have to rebuild my reminders from scratch in the stock iOS reminders app. Second, whenever I booted up an older phone, I’d get flooded with outdated Memorigi notifications because the app didn’t cross-sync reminders in the background.

Add the fact that Memorigi hardly gets updates these days, and it started to feel like I was clinging to an app that had solved one problem beautifully but hadn’t kept up with how I actually use devices.

The four things I wanted Remy Reminders to get right

Before Remy Reminders existed, I had a very specific brief in mind for my perfect reminder app. It wasn’t about cramming in every productivity feature imaginable. It was about getting the core reminder experience right in a way that actually matches how I use my phone.

• A clean and fluid interface that makes creating tasks dead easy.
• Custom snoozing directly from the notification itself.
• Powerful recurring reminder options for almost any schedule.
• Cross-device background syncing across iOS, Android, and the web.

That last point was the all-important feature Memorigi never had. I wanted to create, snooze, or complete a reminder on one device and have that change sync across every other device without needing to open the app.

Creating reminders is simple, but recurring reminders are the real win

Inside Remy Reminders, creating a task starts with the plus button. If I just want a simple checklist item, I can type something like “empty bins” and hit the tick. But if I actually need a notification, I tap the calendar icon and set the date and time from the reminder interface.

The date picker lets me move through months and years, and the time picker defaults to 5-minute increments. If I need more precision, I can switch that to minute increments instead.

Recurring reminders are where it becomes properly useful for me. Remy Reminders can repeat a reminder however often I want: every minute, every 2 minutes, every 2 hours, every 2 days, every 2 weeks, every 2 months, or even every 2 years. The point is that I can set up recurring reminders once and then almost never need to reopen the app again, except for the occasional one-off task.

The snooze pop-up does not make you reopen the app

When a Remy Reminders notification arrives, I can mark the task complete straight from the notification. But the better bit is hitting snooze, which opens a small self-contained interface for setting a completely custom snooze duration.

The snooze UI has preset options at the top, and those get replaced with my own custom snooze durations as I use the app. I can quickly increase or decrease the amount by intervals of 1 or 5, then switch the duration between minutes, hours, days, and weeks. Every change shows exactly when the new reminder is going to fire.

On Android, if I have a very specific time in mind, the big number in the middle is actually a text field. So if I want 59 minutes exactly, I can tap it, type 59, set the slider to minutes, and snooze the reminder for exactly that long from the moment I hit the button.

Cross-device syncing is what makes Remy feel different

The coolest part of Remy Reminders is real-time cross-device syncing. If I create a new reminder on one phone, it shows up almost instantly on the others. If I type the reminder text on one device, the other devices update pretty much immediately.

The same applies to notifications. I can create a reminder on an Android phone, set the time from an iPhone, and have the notification appear on every device at pretty much the exact same time. If I snooze it on one device, the notification disappears from the others because that snooze has synced across.

When the snoozed reminder fires again, it reappears on all devices. If I then complete it on another phone, that reminder is marked as complete everywhere I’m using Remy Reminders. That is the kind of syncing I wanted all along: not just a to-do list that eventually catches up, but a reminder system that behaves like one shared brain across devices.

The web version matters if you manage tasks from a computer

Remy Reminders also has a web version, which means I can manage my entire to-do list from a computer if that’s where I happen to be working. I can create reminders, mark them as complete, and keep everything synced with the app versions in real time.

That matters because reminders are only useful if they follow me across the devices I actually use. For my setup, being able to move between iOS, Android, and the web without rebuilding my reminders is a massive part of the appeal.

The setup options are more privacy-friendly than I expected

Remy Reminders gives you four sign-in options: email, Apple, Google, or anonymous login. The anonymous option is there for anyone who doesn’t want to enter personal information at all. It creates a secret recovery phrase that you can save somewhere safe and use later if you want to sync reminders to another phone or recover your data.

The onboarding also lets you choose a default snooze time, confirm your time zone, and pick one of six themes: moss, Swiss, rose, ocean, void, and signal. My favorite at the moment is the green moss option, but the broader point is that the app feels clean without feeling sterile.

A few small settings make Remy more reliable day to day

The settings menu has the expected theme options, completion sound toggles, default snooze duration, and a 12-hour or 24-hour time format switch. There’s also a simple logout option and an easy way to completely delete your account, which I really appreciate from a privacy perspective.

One setting genuinely excited me during development: Remy can keep notifications visible on your lock screen even on phones that don’t normally allow for that, like Hyper OS, Oxygen OS, or Color OS. For a reminders app, that kind of reliability is not a small detail. If a reminder disappears too easily, the whole system starts to fall apart.

My Remy Reminders verdict

Remy Reminders is literally the perfect end game reminders app for me personally. It solves the exact pain points that pushed me away from Memorigi: no iOS support, no proper background cross-syncing, and the frustration of reminders getting out of sync across old devices.

The big qualifier is that Remy Reminders is built around a very specific philosophy. If you just want a basic checklist, it can do that, but the real reason to use it is custom notification snoozing, powerful recurring reminders, and syncing that works across the devices you actually carry.

We still want feedback on what features would make Remy Reminders better for everyone else. But for the way I use reminders, this is already the app I was trying to build for myself.