iPhone · iOS 26

The reminder that refuses to be ignored.

A Badger is a single-minded little agent you put in charge of one commitment. Its only job is to nag you — with alerts that escalate until you actually do the thing.

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It will annoy you until you do it. That's the entire feature.

A badger, dead set on getting your attention.

What it's for

The things that absolutely, positively must NOT slip your mind.

A normal reminder mentions a task once and gives up — which is exactly when the important ones slip. A Badger is for the handful that must have your attention.

Medication The dose you can't miss, even on a bad day.
Deadlines Invoices, filings, the form due by five.
Callbacks The dentist, the pharmacy, the call you keep putting off.
Chores with teeth Trash night, the leak, the thing you've rescheduled four times.

How a Badger works

One commitment. Climbing a ladder of alerts.

Each Badger climbs a ladder of alerts while keeping after you about your commitment. Every rung fires an alert that can hit harder than the last. Quiet notifications at the bottom; breakthrough alarms at the top. You choose the shape.

Armed & quiet

A soft notification. Easy to catch, easy to act on. If you do the thing here, the Badger never has to get out its claws.

Escalating

Ignore it and the alerts get more insistent: louder, more prominent, harder to swipe past without taking action.

Breakthrough

The top rungs can sound through Silent and Focus using Apple's alarm system, and simply repeat until you resolve it. There is no "gave up."

The BadgerMe list showing four Badgers: Water Plants (pending), Send Invoice at level 1 of 3, Call Dentist at level 2 of 3, and Take Meds at level 3 of 3, each with a paw icon coloured by heat. — Heat makes the ladder visible: sage → amber → red.

On your Lock Screen

It meets you where you already are.

A Badger doesn't wait for you to open the app. It rides the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island as a live countdown — and you can settle it right there.

Quiet, at first

The early rungs are ordinary notifications carrying a live countdown. Tap Done and the Badger is satisfied; tap Snooze and it steps back — no unlocking, no opening anything.

A BadgerMe Live Activity on the iPhone Lock Screen showing Send Invoice at level 1 of 3 with a one-minute countdown and Done and Snooze buttons. — Send Invoice · level 1 of 3

Loud, when it has to be

Keep ignoring it and the badger fires a full-screen alarm — sounding through Silent and an active Focus on Apple's alarm system, the same way a normal iPhone alarm does. One button ends it: I did it. Cancel it and the badger will be back with the next rung on the alert ladder.

A full-screen BadgerMe breakthrough alarm for Send Invoice showing a large red 'I did it' button and a slide-to-stop control. — The breakthrough rung · "I did it" marks it done

Privacy, in one breath

Nothing leaves your phone.

BadgerMe has no account, no cloud, and no server for your data to go to. Everything you create stays in the app's private storage on your device.

— No data collected, ever
— No accounts, no sign-in, no backend
— No analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs
— No tracking of any kind

This is not a growth strategy. It's just a helpful tool. Read the policy.

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