PlacePing: Location Reminder

PlacePing reminds you of something when you arrive at a place, or when you leave it.

Save the pharmacy, the office, your parents' street. Write what you want to remember. The next

time you get there, your phone alerts you — on the alarm channel, over music, once per arrival.

Most apps in this category fail quietly. They look armed and simply never fire, and you only

find out when you have driven home without the parcel. PlacePing is built around that problem.

It tells you the truth about its own state

Every reminder shows whether it is really armed. If the system has disabled it — a permission

missing, location switched off, Google Play services unavailable, the registration refused —

the reminder says so in plain words instead of showing a hopeful green tick. The Reliability

screen reads the state of your phone right now, not from memory, and puts the fix next to each

answer.

It puts itself back together

Android silently drops geofences on restart and after an app update, and it does not always say

so — on one phone tested here, switching location off and on produced no signal at all. PlacePing

registers them again on every one of those events, every time you open the app, and every six

hours as a safety net.

One alert per arrival

Not one every few minutes while you are inside. Not a sound that keeps going after you dismiss

it. Optionally, wait until you have actually stayed a few minutes, so driving past does not set

it off.

Features

• Alert on arriving, on leaving, or both

• Every visit, or just the next one

• Active days and an hour range — outside them, an arrival is ignored

• Several places in one reminder, for every branch of the same shop

• Radius from 100 to 2000 metres, shown in metres and adjustable

• Alarm-style sound and vibration, optional spoken reminder, snooze

• Optional full-screen alert for the ones that matter

• Checklists that stay with a place

• Local backup you export and keep as a file

• Home-screen widget and a launcher shortcut for a quick reminder

• Nine languages, light and dark themes

Your places stay on your phone

PlacePing has no internet permission. Not "we promise not to upload" — it cannot. There is no

account, no analytics, no advertising, and no location history. You can verify this yourself in

the app's permission list.

What it cannot do — worth knowing before you install

• An alert can be a few minutes late. Android usually detects an arrival within two minutes,

and up to about six when the phone has been still.

• The smallest radius is 100 metres; below that Android misses arrivals too often.

• Precise location and "Allow all the time" are both required.

• Manufacturer battery managers can stop reminders, and an app that has been force-stopped

stays stopped until you open it again.

• At most 100 active places at once.

• Google Play services is required.

• There is no map and no address search, because there is no internet access. You add a place

from your current position, from a location shared out of a maps app, from a geo: link, or by

typing coordinates. Shortened map links cannot be opened.

• Chains are not matched automatically — add each branch you care about.

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