Silent by design.
No notification-shade spam, no full-screen alarm to dismiss. Just a short gentle sound and done.
Mobile
GentleCue
The daily-routine reminder that just chimes — no notifications, no popups, no noise.
GentleCue is an offline-first Android app for daily routines — wake-up, prayer, medicine, study, water breaks. Set a time, pick a soft chime, and the phone plays it at the exact minute — even in Doze, even with the app closed. When the time passes, it re-arms itself for tomorrow. Nothing to clear, nothing to dismiss.
What it does
Add a time → pick a gentle chime → toggle it on → hear a short chime at the exact time every day.
Modules
| Module | What it handles |
|---|---|
| Cue List | One-screen home — all times with chime name, on/off switch, live next-cue summary card |
| Add / Edit Cue | Native time picker + 3 gentle chime chips with instant preview |
| Cues On / Off | Per-cue enable switch — schedule and cancel happens instantly in the background |
| Swipe Delete + Undo | Swipe to delete with snackbar Undo, delete from the edit dialog too |
| Sound Library | Full-screen library to preview all chimes before choosing |
| Onboarding | 3-step first-run guide with one-tap exact-alarm and battery-exemption hand-off |
| Attention Banner | Appears only when something is wrong — missing permission or battery kill risk |
| Exact Alarm Engine | One one-shot exact alarm per cue, re-armed daily, fires in Doze, survives reboot / time-zone change |
| Chime Player | Lightweight SoundPool playback (~2.3 s), no resident service, no wake lock |
| Local Storage | Room (SQLite) as single source of truth — no cloud, no account, no analytics |
What makes it different
Exact even in Doze.
Uses setExactAndAllowWhileIdle with a goAsync receiver — the chime fires at 4:00 AM with the phone asleep.
Stays in sync.
Only one place can schedule alarms, and the list renders straight from the database — a cue never looks on but fails to ring.
Feather-light.
Under 1 MB release APK, one DEX, no Hilt, no Firebase, no navigation library. Zero battery drain when idle.
At a glance
- Runs on
- Android 8.0+ (SDK 26 to 35)
- Needs
- nothing else — no server, no internet, no account
- Data
- stored locally on-device (Room / SQLite)
- Sounds
- 3 built-in gentle chimes, previewable anytime
Gentle reminders for the routines that matter.
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