Two ways a notes app can remind you
Every app on this page reminds you at a time. The difference is where the reminder lives, and that decides what happens when the alert goes off.
On the note. Google Keep, Evernote, Notion and Scribelet attach the reminder to the note or to a line inside it. When it fires, you land on the context: the client's request, the form's details, the reason you wrote it down. Nothing to look up.
In a separate app. Apple Notes hands the reminder to the Reminders app. OneNote hands it to Outlook. The reminder app is often better at alerting (Apple Reminders can fire at a place), but the note itself shows nothing, and you rely on a link back to find the details.
Todoist and Day One sit at the edges. Todoist is a task manager where each task can carry notes. Day One is a journal whose reminders prompt you to write, not to act.
Most searches for a notes app with reminders are really asking what works on the phone in your pocket without a subscription.
- iPhone and Mac: Apple Notes with Reminders, both installed and free. Day One's free plan covers journaling reminders.
- Android: Google Keep is free and tied to your Google account. Notion, Todoist and Day One also have free plans on Android.
- Windows: OneNote is free, but the reminder path needs a licensed Outlook. Notion and Todoist run on Windows on their free plans.
- Several platforms at once: Keep, Notion and Todoist cover web, Android and iPhone. Scribelet covers web and iOS, with Android in development.
Journaling apps with reminders
A journal reminder does a different job. It is not about one item; it is about showing up to write. Day One builds the habit around that prompt and includes it on the free plan. If you would rather keep your journal next to your other notes, a daily note works the same way: one note per day, one reminder at the hour you actually have five minutes. The danger with either is the same as with any reminder: an alert you dismiss every night trains you to ignore it. Move it to a time you can keep.
How reminders go wrong
Reminders fail in predictable ways. They fire at the deadline instead of at the moment you can act. They fire on a device you are not holding. They pile up until the list is noise. And they outlive the reason for them: a reminder about a meeting that moved is worse than none.
The fix is a weekly sweep. Open whatever list your app has (Reminders, Keep's reminders view, Notion's inbox, Scribelet's Tasks view) and delete, move or finish everything in it. It takes ten minutes and keeps the next alert worth reading.
How we chose these eight
We included apps that someone searching for a notes app with reminders is likely to consider, across notes apps, a task manager and a journal, and read each vendor's own pricing or help pages in October 2026. Where a price was not shown, the entry says "check current pricing". Scribelet is our product; it is listed once, with its limits stated the same way as the others.
Where Scribelet fits, honestly
Scribelet treats a reminder as part of the sentence: you write the commitment, add @remind with a date and time, and get a push in your local time. That suits people who type their notes and want commitments collected in one Tasks view. It is not the right pick if you need a reminder at a place (Apple Reminders does that), if you are on Android today, or if you would rather not type dates into your notes. Diego and Nadia from the examples above are better served by Keep and Apple's apps.
Put the reminder on the line that needs it
Write a commitment in any Scribelet note, add @remind with a date and time, and get a push reminder in your local time. Open tasks from every note collect in one Tasks view. Free to start.
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