Support

Help with ReminDIY

Mother Road Innovations, LLC · Oklahoma, USA

Email support@remindiy.com and it reaches the person who wrote the app. If you are reporting something that went wrong, it helps to say which phone you are using, what you had just done, and the version shown at the bottom of Settings.

ReminDIY is free on the App Store and Google Play.

Common questions

Why does an item say it has no due date?

Because it does not know what to count from yet. A job set to every 5,000 miles needs a starting odometer reading — either from the last time it was done, or from the vehicle itself. Enter a reading, or log the last service, and the target appears. It deliberately does not guess: counting from zero would put the job thousands of miles overdue the moment you entered a real reading.

How do I record a repair that isn't one of my jobs?

Open the thing and tap Log a repair — the alternator, a leaking pipe, a new starter. Give it a name, date, reading if it has one, and cost; it goes into the history, the spending totals and the PDF like any service. If it's something that will need doing again, switch on "Remind me to do this again" and it becomes a job counted from that repair.

I typed the wrong mileage. Can I fix it?

Yes. Open the item, tap through to the service history, and edit or delete the entry. The schedule recalculates, and if the odometer was set from the record you corrected, that moves too.

What counts as one asset?

One thing you own — a house, a truck, a tractor, a mower. You can add as many as you like, with as many maintenance items on each as you like. There is no limit and nothing to buy.

Will I lose my data if I change phones?

No, but do it deliberately rather than trusting it to happen. Settings has an export that writes everything to a single file — assets, maintenance items, service history, readings, fill-ups, costs, and your receipt photos and attached documents — which you keep wherever you like and restore on the new phone. Take one before you switch.

Your records also travel with whatever phone backup you already use, if you have one switched on. What ReminDIY does not do is sync between devices, because there is no account behind it: two phones each keep their own copy. The export holds up to about 25 MB of photos and documents, receipts first; if you have more than that, it tells you how many were left out. Automatic backups hold your records only, not photos.

What are the automatic backups?

A way back from a mistake. Every week (or daily, or monthly — your choice in Settings) ReminDIY saves a copy of your records on the phone and keeps the last five, or however many you set. If you delete the wrong thing or restore the wrong file, open Backup & restore and pick one. A restore always saves what's on the phone first, so even that can be undone.

They live on the phone, so they won't survive losing it or uninstalling the app — that is what the exported file is for. On Android you can also have backups saved to a folder you choose, on their own daily, weekly or monthly schedule — one on an SD card or one a sync app uploads, such as Google Drive, does outlive the phone. On iPhone they appear in the Files app under On My iPhone › ReminDIY, and are included in your iCloud Backup if you use it. Alerts will remind you when you have added records and haven't exported a file in over a month.

Is it really free? What is the catch?

It is free, with no limit and nothing to buy. There are no ads, your records never leave your phone, and nothing about you is sold. If you buy a part through one of the store links in the app — Amazon, or Advance Auto Parts in the U.S. — the store may pay us a small commission, which costs you nothing extra and is the only way any money changes hands — and the app works exactly the same whether that ever happens or not.

Does ReminDIY collect any data about me?

Your records never leave your phone. Since version 1.14 the app does use Google Analytics for Firebase to count installs, opens and how often maintenance gets added — that's how we tell which of our ads bring people who actually use the app. Those counts carry none of your records: no names, vehicles, notes, readings or costs. The privacy policy lists exactly what's sent.

What is the Alerts tab for?

For things the app needs from you, not for work that is late. Overdue and due-soon jobs live on the dashboard, where you can tick them off. Alerts is the other half: a meter it has never been given a reading for, an item with no due date set, a thing you added and never put any maintenance on, or records that haven't been backed up in a while. Each row opens the screen that fixes it, and clearing one is a "not now" rather than a "never" — it comes back. If you've turned on recall checks, new recalls appear here too; those stay cleared once you clear them.

I marked the wrong job done. Can I take it back?

Yes. Whether you tapped Mark done or swiped the job on the dashboard, a bar at the bottom confirms it and shows when the job is next due, with an Undo button — tap it and the job is back exactly as it was. If the bar has already gone, open the job's service history and delete the entry; the schedule recalculates.

Can I use kilometres and litres?

Yes — Settings has Distance units (miles or kilometres) and Fuel units (gallons or litres). Switching only changes how numbers are shown and typed; nothing you have already entered is altered. With both set to metric, fuel economy shows as L/100 km. A new install outside the U.S. starts in the units your country uses, and dates and money follow your phone's region.

What languages is it in?

English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. ReminDIY uses your phone's language — every screen, reminder and the service-history PDF — and falls back to English for any other. There is no separate setting; change the phone's language and the app follows. Jobs you added before keep the names they were saved with. Recall notices come from U.S. agencies and stay in English.

How do the recall checks work?

Turn on recall checks in Settings (U.S. only). About once a week while the app is open, ReminDIY asks NHTSA about your vehicles and the CPSC about mowers, generators and appliances, using only the year, make and model (or a VIN), or an equipment maker. A new recall appears under Alerts, with a notification and a link to the agency's notice. Equipment matches are shown as "possible" because the CPSC's list is matched by name — check that it applies to your model.

A check needs those details, so add them on the thing's Edit screen. It is a convenience, not a guarantee: for a vehicle, a VIN search on nhtsa.gov or a call to your dealer is the definitive answer. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is sent.

Can it remind me before a warranty runs out?

Yes. On a thing's Edit screen, add the purchase date and when the warranty ends — a date, a number of years, or a mileage or hours limit, whichever comes first. You get a reminder 30 days before the last covered day, and as a mileage or hours limit gets close. The serial number and specs live in the same place, ready for a claim or a parts order.

How do I share a service history, say when selling something?

Open the thing, drop down its services and tap Share service history (PDF). The report lists every service, the maintenance schedule and the fill-up mileage trail, and goes wherever your share sheet sends it — email, a text, a printer. Receipt photos aren't included, and the report notes that entries are as you recorded them.

Can a house job happen in the same month every year?

Yes. A yearly job on a home can be set to a month — "Every year in November" — and it comes due on the 1st of that month, whenever you last did it. The suggested gutter, air-conditioning, outdoor-faucet and furnace jobs come set up that way.

Why does a mileage job say "About 3 weeks away"?

Once a vehicle has a couple of weeks of readings, ReminDIY works out how much you usually drive and turns the miles left into a rough date. It's an estimate — the job is still due at the mileage, not the date — and it updates as you add readings. Hours-based jobs don't get one.

Can a job be "every 5,000 miles or 6 months"?

Yes. On anything with an odometer or hour meter, a job can have a calendar limit as well as a mileage or hours one, and it comes due at whichever arrives first. Many of the suggested jobs, like oil changes and brake fluid, are set up that way already.

Does it have a dark mode?

Yes — Settings, then Appearance. It follows your phone's light or dark setting by default, and you can override it there when the two disagree, without changing anything phone-wide. Both themes were checked colour pair by colour pair against the WCAG AA contrast standard, so text does not go faint in either one.

Can I keep receipts and manuals in it?

Yes. When you mark a job done you can photograph the receipt, or pick a photo you already took, and it stays attached to that service record. Manuals, warranties and diagrams attach to the thing itself rather than to a job, so the mower’s manual is on the mower. Both stay on your phone, and both are included when you export a backup.

Can I change when the weekly summary arrives?

Yes — the day and the time are both yours to set, in Settings under reminders. The summary is one notification listing what is coming up, separate from the per-job reminders, so you can have one and not the other.

I forgot to log some fill-ups. Can I add them now?

Yes. When you log a fill-up, change the date to the day you filled up — it can be any day up to today. After saving, "Add another fill-up" keeps that date so you can enter a stack of receipts in a row. Each one is checked against the fill-ups either side of its date, so a mistyped odometer still gets caught.

Can it fill in my vehicle's details from the VIN?

Yes. When you add or edit a vehicle, type its 17-character VIN and tap Fill in from VIN. The app asks NHTSA's free decoding service for the year, make and model and fills them in. Only the VIN is sent, only when you tap, and it goes to NHTSA, not to us. It needs a connection; everything else in the app works without one.

Does it work on iPad or a tablet?

Yes, from version 1.14. On an iPad or Android tablet the app uses the bigger screen, keeps its text in a comfortable column, and works upright or sideways. There is no sync between devices, so your records stay on whichever phone or tablet you enter them on — use an exported backup to move them.

Can I put the water heater inside the house?

Yes. When you add or edit something, set "Belongs to" to the thing it's part of — or open the house and tap Add a component. Components list under their parent and keep their own jobs and history. Archiving or deleting the house asks whether to take its components with it or leave them as things of their own.

I logged a job on the wrong thing. Can I move it?

Yes. Open the job and tap Move to another asset at the bottom. Its schedule and every past service go with it, and the app says how many first; Undo puts it back. A mileage or hours job can only move to something with the same kind of meter.

What are the shortcuts on the app icon?

Press and hold the ReminDIY icon on your home screen to jump straight to Log a fill-up or Update readings. They appear once you have something that uses them.

Can I track something that is not a vehicle or a house?

Yes — pick "other" when adding it, and set your own items and intervals. Anything with a service schedule works, whether it is counted in miles, running hours, or plain calendar time.

Delete your data

There is no account to close. Settings → Delete all my data clears every asset, its history and the automatic backups on the phone, and removing the app does the same. Individual items, service records and whole assets can also be deleted from inside the app at any time — or archived, if you'd rather keep the history.

Two things are left alone because they are yours, not the app's: backup files you exported, and, on Android, copies saved to a folder you chose. Delete those wherever you put them.

Something else

Feature requests are genuinely welcome — several of the things in the app now came from someone asking: support@remindiy.com