On time
9:30
It rings and reads the reminder aloud.
Full-screen, big letters, a real bell for ten seconds — and a voice that says what it is: “Take your blood pressure pills.” You don't have to find your glasses.
Keep your days in order. Get reminded until it's done.
GranMemo helps you organize your work and your life — schedules, appointments, medicine, bills, the call you keep meaning to make. When the time comes it rings, says it out loud, and comes back 5 minutes later until you tap Done or Skip.
Big type, three buttons
No account needed
English & 中文
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GranMemoFriday, Aug 22
Next · needs your confirmation
9:30 AM
in 12 min · rings again in 5 min unless you tap ✓
💊 Blood pressure pills ✓
Today 4 items · 1 done
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Breakfast & vitamins7:30 AM · Daily · Bell + voice
Done
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Checkup with Dr. Lee10:30 AM · Once · Bell + voice
To do
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Pay the electricity bill2:00 PM · Monthly · Bell
To do
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Call Lily — her birthday6:00 PM · Yearly · Voice
To do
📌Today
📅Calendar
⚙️Settings
How a reminder works here
Most reminders tap you on the shoulder once. This one waits for an answer.
A notification you swipe away is a notification you forget. GranMemo treats every reminder as a small loop that only closes when you close it.
No answer?
9:35
It comes back 5 minutes later.
Until you confirm, the reminder stays at the top of your Today screen marked “still unconfirmed,” and it rings again. Missed it while on the phone? It catches you up.
Your call
Done
Three honest buttons. Nothing vague.
“Done” closes it. “In 10 min” or “In 1 hour” pushes it. “Skip today” skips this one time — tomorrow it's back to normal. No mystery “dismiss.”
Several things at the same minute? They line up on one card and ring one after another — you tick them off one by one. Confirm a late-night reminder after midnight and it's still recorded on the day it belonged to.
Organize work and life
Everything a day needs, and not one screen more.
Three tabs — Today, Calendar, Settings. Adding a reminder takes three steps: what, when, and how often.
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Schedules, appointments, and the things that repeat
One-off appointments or a standing schedule: daily, weekly on the days you choose, monthly, or yearly — something a regular alarm clock can't do.
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A month you can read across the room
Big date numbers, a dot on every day that has something. Tap a day to see its list, add right there. Hold the arrow to fly through months.
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Bell, voice, vibration — your mix
Pick text only, a bell, a spoken reminder, or all three. Write the reminder in English or Chinese and the voice reads it in that language. Preview any alarm before you save it.
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Text size that applies everywhere
Standard, Large, XL. Not just one screen — every label, every button, the whole app grows together. Touch targets stay big either way.
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No account. Works offline.
Open it and start. Reminders live on your phone and keep ringing with no signal. Nothing leaves the device unless you turn on Remote Help.
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Time the way people say it
“7:00 PM,” not “19:00.” The Today card says “in 25 min,” not a timestamp. Travel with it and reminders follow your phone's clock — no settings to touch.
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English and Chinese, side by side
Switch the interface in one tap. The Chinese edition, 记住啦, shows the lunar date on the Today screen — the detail many grandparents actually check first.
Four ways to see it
Pick the colors your eyes like.
Contrast is a personal thing. GranMemo ships four full themes — not just a dark toggle — tuned with older readers in the room.
9:30 AM ✓
StandardCalm blue on warm paper. The default.
9:30 AM ✓
Eye-careSoft greens for long days and tired eyes.
9:30 AM ✓
High contrastStrong red, near-black text, nothing subtle.
9:30 AM ✓
Bold inkHeavy brown type on rice paper — like a good book.
Remote Help
A helper can pitch in — from wherever they are.
Turn on Remote Help and a trusted helper can help keep your reminders up to date from their own phone or computer. Helpers can add, check and edit reminders — for family, friends, or anyone in need. The reminders simply appear — big, clear, and on time. Pairing always needs a 6-digit code confirmed on your phone.
It's off by default. You decide who can help, and you can switch it off any time.
Who it's for
Designed so a grandparent can run it. Which means anyone can.
Every choice — the size of the type, the number of buttons, the words on them — was made with older readers in mind. The result is simply an app that doesn't waste your attention.
≥ 56 pt
Minimum touch target. Buttons you hit on the first try, standing on a bus, without looking twice.
3 steps
From “Add” to saved. What to remember, which kind, when. No accounts, no wizards, no tours.
0 ads
No feed, no upsell, no streaks. A reminder app should be quiet until it has something to say.
Where things stand
Honest status, updated as we ship.
- Coming sooniPhone app on the App Store. Rings on the lock screen even when the app is closed, reads each reminder aloud, and works offline. English and Chinese.
- NextAndroid, widgets, and export for your doctor. Home-screen widgets, location-based reminders, emergency contact, and a printable history of what was taken and when.
Questions or ideas?
Tell us who it's for — yourself, a parent, a friend you help — and what you'd like it to do. We read every message.