Every feature, explained

What each plan includes, and what is available today

In both plans

Speaks your alert aloud, even on silent

LoudNow announces the matching notification through the alarm volume, so it plays on ring, vibrate and silent, and through Do Not Disturb as long as alarms are allowed there — which is Android's default. Set Do Not Disturb to block alarms too, or turn the alarm volume down to zero, and it has nothing left to be loud with — the app notices both and says which one it is. Allowing alarms in Do Not Disturb, or using it instead of total silence, keeps the quiet and lets a phrase through.

You choose what is said

Six switches, each on its own: the alarm tone, who it is from, the phrase, the message itself, vibration and the camera light. Turn the message off and nobody nearby hears what was written; turn the spoken parts off entirely and the alarm sounds without a word. Set them once as your default, and give any single phrase its own — some words deserve more discretion than others. The notification on your screen always shows the full message.

Senders, and phrases that belong to them

Only the people and apps you add can make LoudNow loud. Add people from your contacts, by name, or by number, and apps such as TradingView or a glucose monitor. Every phrase belongs to one sender, so “help” from your daughter wakes you and the same word somewhere you did not ask for stays silent. Tap a sender to see and edit their phrases.

A group chat as a sender

A group can be a sender in its own right, which is the case where you cannot know in advance who will write — the on-call rota, the class parents, the five people one of whom might say the thing you are waiting for. Add the group by its exact name as the chat shows it, and a phrase inside it fires whoever wrote it. The alert names both: “Dan in Site team”, because the author alone does not say which conversation and the group alone does not say who. Naming those five people one by one instead would make them loud everywhere else too, which is not what was asked for.

Ready-made packs

Six lists of useful words to start from: Family Safety, Caregiver, On-Call, Trading, Home Security and Health/Glucose. Open a sender and tap a word to make it one of their phrases. Packs are in English; your own phrases can be in any language.

“What did I miss?”

A list of every alert LoudNow raised in the last 7 days, grouped by day, showing which phrases matched. Where one sender has sent a run of messages, they are gathered under that sender rather than listed one by one. Notifications that did not match are never stored.

Repeats until you respond

An alert repeats every 15 seconds until you open LoudNow, tap Stop or swipe the notification away. It stops by itself after 30 minutes.

Repeat louder

If you do not respond, each repeat gets louder, vibrates harder and flashes more, up to full alarm volume. You choose when it starts: after 15, 30 or 60 seconds. Your own volume is restored afterwards.

Extra on-device voices

Choose a different voice from the ones installed on your phone, and hear a sample before you pick. Only voices that work offline are shown.

Vibration and camera-light flash

With every repeat your phone vibrates and the flashlight blinks, so you notice it even across the room. The flash is slow enough to be safe for light-sensitive people, and both have their own switch.

Ways to stop an alert without looking

Shake the phone three times, or turn it face down for a second — a phone that was already face down keeps sounding, so it cannot be silenced by sitting on a table. A volume key, the Stop button, swiping the notification away or opening LoudNow all work too.

LoudNow’s own alarm tone

Four seconds of two alternating pitches, because the ear stops noticing a steady one. It is what every alert sounds like unless you choose otherwise.

It checks that it can still hear

Every 15 minutes LoudNow confirms it can still see your notifications, and says so at once if it cannot — an app like this fails silently, which is the worst way for it to fail. Once a day it also posts a short “still watching” note, so you have seen it working without opening anything. If a sender goes completely quiet for a day, it says which app’s own settings to check.

Webhook relays Coming soon

Forward a matched alert to a web address you set, for example a home-automation system that turns on the lights, or a shared channel for a care team. Nothing is sent unless you set it up.

Free

2 phrases, any language

A phrase is one word or several, like “call me now”, and counts as one. Write it in any language or script. Everything in both plans works with it.

Pro $4.99, once

Unlimited phrases

Room for a phrase per person or per situation: family, a parent’s fall detector, work, trading.

Let one sender through entirely

A sender with no phrases at all, for when you cannot guess the words — a group during a shift, a ward, a sitter for one evening. Everything from them is read out; everything else on the phone stays as quiet as before. It is deliberately the quieter kind of alert: it speaks on the alarm channel like any other, but raises no full-screen takeover and no camera flash, because a conversation is not an emergency and fifty messages should not mean fifty takeovers. A run of them arrives gathered under that one sender.

Choose the alert sound

Any alarm already on your phone, instead of LoudNow’s own tone.

A sound for each phrase

So a fall detector and a work alert do not arrive sounding the same — you know which it is before you look. A phrase with no sound of its own follows the one in Settings.

Time-of-day rules

Make a phrase active only on the days and hours you choose, to the minute, for example work alerts Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 17:30, or “fall detected” every night from 22:00 to 07:00. Outside those hours the phrase stays silent, but the match still shows in “What did I miss?”.

What each phrase says

Choose what LoudNow says for a phrase instead of the standard announcement, for example “Check your trading app” for a margin call, or “{sender} needs you now”. You can use {sender}, {app}, {phrase} and {message}.

All future features

Features we add later are included, at no further cost.

Pro is a single payment of $4.99 through Google Play. It is not a subscription: nothing renews, nothing lapses, and there is nothing to cancel. Nothing is ever deleted — if it lapses, every phrase, sound, schedule and wording is kept and comes back with Pro. Until then you are on Free: one phrase, which you choose yourself rather than the app choosing for you, speaking at any hour with the standard announcement and LoudNow’s own tone. Until you have chosen, nothing alerts you, and the app says so on your phone rather than going quiet. Back to pricing