Nightstand Alarm and Reminders
A bedside display designed for nighttime use — power-efficient, sleep-friendly, and always readable.
Nightstand Alarm and Reminders turns your iPhone or iPad into a calm, glare-free bedside clock and puts your alarms, reminders, medications, and a quick night journal in one place. It runs fully on your device — no account, no network, no tracking — so you get peaceful, power-friendly nights without giving anything away.
It’s a free app for iPhone and iPad.
Read the full User Guide → Privacy Policy Support
Quick Summary
A quick, scannable look at what the app does.
Bedside Clock (Night Mode)
- Full-screen clock: large dim text on a black background, made for a dark room.
- The time slowly drifts across the screen to prevent OLED burn-in.
- Status bar and home indicator are hidden for a clean, distraction-free face.
- Tap or long-press to reveal controls; they auto-hide after about 6 seconds.
- Works in any orientation and re-centers when you rotate the phone.
- Jot a quick journal note straight from the dark clock.
Clock Customization
- Show/hide seconds, 12- or 24-hour time, show/hide the date.
- Brightness from 15% to 100%.
- 12 text colors ranked by OLED power use (deep red is the default and easiest on the battery; blue uses the most power and is the most sleep-disrupting), plus a custom color picker.
- 18 font families, size 60–220 pt, weight and italic, and drift tuning — with a live preview and a one-tap Reset to lowest power.
Alarms
- Time, label, and flexible schedules: Once, Daily, Weekly by weekday, Monthly by day-of-month, or Custom specific dates.
- 8 gentle built-in tones (for example, “Dawn” rises slowly) with preview.
- Full-screen ringing alert with Stop and Snooze; volume follows the device ringer.
- Enable/disable each alarm; swipe to delete.
Reminders
- Three ways to schedule: Once, Repeats (calendar rules), or a Sequence of specific dates.
- Each reminder is a plain nudge or an accountable task with a deadline, expiry, and optional evidence.
- Group related reminders into Categories (like “Knee recovery”), with a month calendar, a due list, and adherence reports.
- Color coding, 8 built-in tones plus custom audio, and “Ring until stopped” escalation for critical items.
Medications
- Dose-focused reminders with frequency shortcuts and an on-time dose window instead of a single instant.
- Mark taken (records the exact time), Skip, or Snooze each dose.
- A floating dose bubble drifts over the app when a dose is due — tap it to jump straight there.
- Adherence chart and a 4-letter color tag per medication. Dose alerts break through Focus and Do Not Disturb.
Journal
- Quick bedside notes grouped by night, newest first.
- Capture from Night Mode without a Face ID prompt.
- Full-text search that shows the matching line; edit or delete anytime.
Privacy
- Optionally anonymize medication names on the lock screen.
- No Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, App Intents, or activity donations — everything stays on-device.
Privacy at a glance
- Fully offline. The app makes no network connections.
- No account. Nothing to sign up for.
- No tracking, ads, or analytics. There are no third-party SDKs.
- Your data stays on your device. Optional backups go to your own iCloud Drive or a JSON file you export and control. The developer never receives any of it.
Learn more
- Extended User Guide — everything about the clock, alarms, reminders, medications, journal, and settings.
- Support — where to find help, and a short FAQ.
- Privacy Policy — the full details.
Questions? Start with the User Guide — it is also built into the app, behind the ? on every screen — then the Support page.