Live on the App Store
Pingy
A reminder app built around how an ADHD brain actually works.
- Year
- 2025 — 2026
- Role
- Designer & developer
- Stack
- React Native · Expo · TypeScript · Notifications API
The idea
Most reminder apps ping once and give up. Pingy keeps coming back — nudging you on the interval you choose until you tap 'I did it'. No snooze, on purpose. Live on the App Store.
The problem
A fixed 9:00 AM reminder gets dismissed at 9:00 AM and forgotten by 9:01. For an ADHD brain, a single polite ping is easy to bounce off — what's missing is the follow-up.
How it works
Tell Pingy what you keep putting off and how often it should come back. It nudges on that cadence — the copy escalating from 'whenever you're ready' to 'this is the 12th time' — until you mark it done, right from the notification. Quiet hours keep it silent overnight. Everything lives on the phone: no account, no backend, zero data collected.
Where it's at
Live on the App Store — and rebuilt end to end in 2026: a warm 2.0 design with light and dark themes, editable reminders, and notification scheduling that works with iOS's 64-notification budget instead of silently running into it.
The screens
What it does
No snooze — that's the point
The friction is the feature. A reminder keeps coming back on its cadence until you tap 'I did it'; a missed nudge is never quietly dropped.
Nudges that escalate
Notification copy grows more insistent the longer a task is ignored — from 'whenever you're ready' to 'this is the 12th time' — and breaks through Focus as time-sensitive.
Quiet hours
Define a window where Pingy stays silent — nothing gets scheduled inside it, and the cadence picks back up in the morning.
Collects nothing
Reminders live in on-device storage. No account, no analytics, no crash reporting — the privacy policy says 'no data collected' and the code makes it true.