How Revenir works
Three screens and that is it. This is everything inside the app: what you see on each one, and what it is for.
The main screen
It is the first thing you see when you open the app, and very nearly the only thing. The settings wheel sits at the top right. In the middle, the logo and — if you have written one — your own phrase.
Below that, the only thing that really matters: the time of the next bell, in large type, and how long is left. The status line tells you whether it is on, off or paused.
The big button turns it on and off. The one underneath stops the bells for anywhere between 1 and 24 hours, and they resume by themselves: for a meeting, a cinema, a journey. And right at the bottom, the link to the notes.
Once you turn it on the app closes and there is no need to come back. If you like, the next bell stays in view in the notification bar.
Settings, from top to bottom
They open with the wheel at the top right. It is one single screen, with no tabs and no menus: you scroll to the end and that is all of it. Everything saves itself — there is no save button.
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Sound
Bowls and bells are included, and the button at the top brings in any audio file you have on your phone. Android shows you its own file picker and only grants us the one file you choose: we never ask for general storage permission.
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Interval type
Fixed or random. Fixed rings at an exact spacing, from 1 minute to 2 hours. Random picks an unpredictable moment between a minimum and a maximum. Random is the one that stops the mind getting used to the sound and anticipating it, which is the whole point.
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Quiet hours
A stretch of the day when it must not ring; from 20:00 to 9:00, say. During that time the app does not even wake the phone.
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Reliability
Alarm mode uses Android's exact alarms: the bell arrives on time even if the screen has been off for hours, at the cost of an alarm icon in the status bar. Plus two boxes so it keeps quiet when the phone is on silent or in airplane mode.
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Theme, colour, background and phrase
Light or dark theme, thirteen calm palettes and, if none of them convinces you, a hue of your own. Of that one you pick only the hue: the app works out the rest, so that text on top stays readable whichever you choose. For the background, a soft gradient or a photo of your own. And a short phrase under the logo. All of it stays on the phone and disappears if you uninstall the app.
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Language
Spanish, English or French. Out of the box it follows the phone’s language, and it can be changed for Revenir alone without touching the rest of the phone.
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System status
A summary of what Android is currently allowing the app: notifications, exact alarms and battery saving. If any of them says “Pending”, the button underneath takes you straight to the system setting you need to change. It is the first place to look if a bell does not ring.
A colour you choose
Thirteen calm palettes and, if none of them convinces you, any hue on the wheel. These two are real screenshots of the app, untouched, with two different hues.
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You pick only the hue, and there is a reason
One colour on its own is not enough: it takes one for the button, another for the text and another for the background. You pick yours and the app works out the rest, so everything stays readable.
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Checked across all 360, not by eye
All three hundred and sixty have been checked one by one, with a photo background and without one, in the light theme and the dark one. And because saturation is fixed, none of them turns garish: it still looks like Revenir.
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The language is separate
Spanish, English or French, as the last row of that panel shows. Out of the box it follows the phone’s language, and it can be changed for Revenir alone without touching the rest of the phone.
The notes
A blank sheet and nothing else. No lists, no tags, no dates, no word count. For whatever you want to write down when the reminder rings and something is worth keeping: where you were, what you found, a line you have read.
It saves itself into its own file, inside your phone. The app has no way of getting it out of there even if it wanted to: it has no internet permission.
If a bell does not ring
It is nearly always the same thing: the system has killed the app in the background to save battery. Xiaomi, Huawei, Samsung and Oppo are particularly aggressive about this.
Look at System status first, at the end of the settings. If battery saving shows as pending, the button takes you to the system list where you can leave Revenir out of it. The app does not request that permission by itself — it is one of the ones Google restricts — so it has to be done from there.
If it still fails, write to us at hola.quitar-esto@revenir-nospam.es and we will look into it. It is the kind of fault that only gets fixed with help from the person suffering it.
Two minutes of setting up and that is it
Free, no ads and no account.
It is not published on Google Play yet. The download link will appear here as soon as it is.