Skip to content
Timelee home

A reminder that calls you

The reminder you can't swipe away

Pick how each reminder reaches you: a full-screen alarm, a call inside the app, or a real phone call to your number. Set it to Critical and Timelee runs all three — alarm, then the app call, then a phone call ten minutes later if you still haven't answered. Android, iOS and the web, in 32 languages.

Start with GoogleSee how delivery works
Someone looking at a phone that has just started ringing

You didn't forget. You dismissed it.

You read the reminder. You swiped. Ten minutes later you could not say what it was. That is not a memory problem, it is a delivery problem — and a notification only ever gets one attempt.

  • It arrived with thirty other things

    Every notification on your lock screen gets the same half-second, whether it's a game asking you to come back or the tablet you take at six.

  • The swipe beat the reading

    You cleared it before you were awake to it. The reminder was delivered. It was even seen. It still failed.

  • The phone was on silent

    Silenced for the meeting, the ward round, the sleeping baby. The reminder fired into an empty room and the app considered its job done.

  • The phone wasn't with you

    Charging in the hall, in a bag, in the van, in a locker. A notification fired on a device nobody was holding.

  • It got snoozed until it vanished

    You pushed it back once, then again, then a third time, and at some point you cleared it instead of doing it. Snooze is supposed to buy you ten minutes. It bought you nothing.

  • You were told, and both hands were full

    Someone said it to you while you were driving, cooking, or holding a box. You meant to write it down. By the time your hands were free, so was your memory of it.

Choose how loud each reminder is allowed to be

Every reminder carries its own delivery setting. Most of them should be quiet. A couple a week shouldn't be — and nothing escalates unless you asked it to.

  1. notif_type 1

    Regular

    A standard alarm at the time you set, with a tone you chose from 33. Right for the bins, the parking meter, the stretch break.

  2. notif_type 2

    App Call

    The phone rings full screen, like an incoming call, inside Timelee. You look at a ringing screen before you dismiss it — that's the difference. Marked Recommended in the app.

  3. notif_type 3Recommended

    Important

    The alarm first. If you don't acknowledge it, the app call follows. Two chances, and no call credit spent.

  4. notif_type 4Premium · uses credits

    Phone Call Only

    A real phone call placed by Timelee's servers to any number you've verified. No app needed at the other end, which is why it also works to remind somebody else.

  5. notif_type 5Premium · uses credits

    Critical

    All three, in order: alarm, then the app call, then a real phone call ten minutes later if it's still unacknowledged. The one you use for the flight, the tribunal, the dose.

The call comes from outside your phone

The first two rungs are still your phone talking to you, and your phone has a hundred ways to stay quiet: silent mode, a focus schedule, a battery saver that closed the app, a screen face-down in a bag.

A phone call doesn't depend on any of that. Timelee's server dials your number the way a person would. It rings when the phone is locked, when Timelee is closed, and loudly enough that you hear it from the next room — including when you're at a laptop and your phone is in a coat.

  • Your pre-text, then "This is your reminder", then the title, then your post-text
  • A male or a female voice, chosen once and used for every call
  • Only numbers verified by a one-time code can ever be called
A phone ringing on a kitchen counter

Not everything you need to remember is a to-do

Fourteen kinds of reminder, each with its own form rather than one generic box with the wrong fields in it.

  • Tasks and to-do lists

    The everyday list, with priorities, categories, tags and a day-by-day view.

  • Medication

    Medicine name, type, colour and a photo of the box, with a dose count and a next-dose prompt.

  • Call someone

    Attached to a person, so the callback you promised actually happens.

  • Location

    Fires when you arrive somewhere, or when you leave — not at a fixed time.

  • Birthdays and anniversaries

    Pulled from your contacts, with a birth year so it can tell you the age.

  • Voice and picture

    Say it or photograph it, when typing is the slow way to capture something.

  • Bucket and grocery lists

    A searchable grocery catalogue in English, Hinglish and Hindi, ringing as one list.

  • Repeating reminders

    Daily, weekdays, weekends, or the exact days you choose — not just "weekly".

  • Timers

    Count down to zero or count up from now, with a name so you know what finished.

Set one up in about a minute

The form asks three things. None of them are complicated.

  1. Pick the kind

    Task, call, place, medication, birthday, timer and more — fourteen kinds, each with its own form.

  2. Choose how loud it's allowed to be

    A normal alarm for most things. Critical for the two or three a week that genuinely can't be missed.

  3. Timelee does the rest

    It rings, and if you don't answer, it climbs — the app call, then a real phone call — and stops the moment you respond.

Control over the ring itself

A reminder that shouts at everything gets muted, and then you are back where you started. So the loud channels are opt-in per reminder, and the quiet ones are tunable.

Set a pre-alarm for a heads-up before the real one. Turn on nag and it repeats at an interval you choose until you acknowledge it. Configure snooze rather than accepting someone else's nine minutes. Pick from 33 tones in six groups.

  • Repeat daily, weekly, on chosen weekdays, or until a date you set
  • Pre-alarm, nag and snooze configured per reminder
  • Four priority levels, categories with live counts, and free-form tags
Someone setting an alarm on a phone

Open it and you already know what's late

  • Three counts up top: Overdue, Today, Completed
  • Five tabs below, each with a live count: Overdue, Today, Tomorrow, Later This Week, Later
  • Switch to the priority view and the same list regroups into First, Then and Later
  • Filter to one category and every count recalculates
  • Focus mode gives you one reminder at a time — Enter to finish, S to skip, Esc to stop

It works where you are

It works where you are
FeatureAndroidiOSWeb
Create and edit any reminderYesYesYes
Alarm and in-app call deliveryYesYesNo
Real phone call deliveryYesYesNo
Capture a photo or a voice noteYesYesPartial
Location remindersYesYesPartial
Buy call creditsYesYesNo
Google Calendar alongside your remindersPartialPartialYes

Setting a reminder up is a keyboard job. Delivering it is a pocket job. Timelee splits them deliberately: the web dashboard is the comfortable place to plan, and your phone is the thing that reaches you.

Reminding someone else is the harder problem

A reminder to yourself fails quietly — you just miss it. A reminder to somebody else fails twice: they miss it, and you don't find out until later.

Share a reminder with a person, or assign it inside a team you've made. It reaches their phone as a push notification and they accept or decline it, so you can see the difference between sent and acknowledged. When it genuinely can't wait, point a Phone Call Only reminder at their verified number — they don't need Timelee installed at all.

  • Pending, accepted or declined, visible to you
  • Works on someone who has never opened Timelee, via Phone Call Only
  • Teams group people so you can assign without hunting for a number
Two people looking at the same phone screen

Five more settings most reminder apps don't have

None of them are loud by default. You turn on the ones you need.

  • Pre-alarm

    A heads-up 5 minutes to 5 hours before the real one. Stack more than one.

  • Pinch Me

    Timelee's nag setting. Re-rings every minute, 15 minutes, hourly or daily, until you mark it done.

  • Snooze

    Set the length per reminder, from 5 minutes to a day — or switch it off entirely.

  • Repeat ends

    Once, after a count, after a date, or never — so nothing keeps ringing after it's over.

  • Priorities

    Four levels, and a second view of your list sorted by First, Then and Later.

  • Categories and tags

    Seven built-in categories plus your own, and free-text tags for the rest.

The app speaks 32 languages, four of them right to left.

Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu and Persian flip the whole interface, not just the text. Your reminder emails and calls follow the language you chose, not the one your server guessed.

What it costs

Reminders, alarms, repeats, pre-alarms, nags, categories, tags, sharing and the web dashboard are the free core. Real phone calls use call credits, bought inside the Android or iOS app — there's no web checkout. Current rates are shown in the app, not here.

Common questions

What makes Timelee different from other reminder apps?

Delivery. Other apps have one way to reach you — a notification. Timelee lets you choose per reminder: a full-screen alarm, a ringing call inside the app, or a real phone call to your number. Set one to Critical and it runs all three in order.

Does the phone call work if my phone is locked or the app is closed?

Yes. The call is placed from Timelee's servers, so it doesn't need the app running, the screen on, or the phone unlocked.

Can anyone make Timelee call my phone?

No. A number has to be verified with a one-time code before Timelee will ever call it, and you can remove a verified number at any time.

Can I get reminders by email?

On repeating reminders, yes — email is one of the delivery options there. It isn't available on every kind of reminder.

Can I do everything from the web?

You can create and edit every reminder kind from the web, including medication, place and shared reminders. Some of them only fire on your phone — a geofence has to be watched by a phone, and tones play there too. The form tells you which is which.

Will Timelee send me desktop notifications in the browser?

Only a finished timer raises a browser notification, and only while the tab stays open. Everything else rings on your phone.

Does Timelee sync with Google Calendar?

It reads it. Connect your Google account and your events appear next to your reminders. Timelee doesn't write to, change, or delete anything in your calendar.

Pick one reminder this week that you can't afford to miss

Make that one Critical. Leave everything else on a normal alarm. That is the whole method.

Start with GoogleSee how delivery works

Keep reading