What is new in ReNotify 1.7
This update started as an email. A user wrote in with three things he was missing, explained exactly how he uses notifications every day, and all three are now in the app. If you have ever wondered whether writing to a small developer is worth it: this is what it looks like when it is.
The history starts with your apps
Until now the history was one long chronological list. That is fine on a quiet day and useless after a busy one, when four hundred entries from a dozen apps sit between you and the message you are looking for.
Now the history opens as a list of apps. Each row shows the app icon, its name, when its last notification arrived, and a counter with how many entries are stored. Tap an app and you see only its notifications. Tap back and you are in the overview again.
Search did not change and deliberately stays global: type anything and ReNotify looks across every app, title, and message at once. Grouping is for browsing, search is for finding.
A widget for your home screen
The second request, and the one we liked most: your latest notifications, visible without opening anything.
The widget lists your most recent entries in the same design as the app, light and dark, and it does the one thing that makes ReNotify ReNotify: tap an entry and it goes straight back into your status bar. Tapping the header opens the app. Resize it to whatever fits your home screen.
The widget is free. No Pro required.
Only the apps you choose in your status bar
The third request was the most interesting one, because it is the opposite of what ReNotify normally does. Instead of bringing notifications back, it keeps them out.
The funnel icon in the top bar now has two modes. Record is the filter you already know: apps you switch off are never written to your history, a privacy control that stays free. Status bar is new: switch it on and only the apps you picked may keep their notifications in the status bar. Everything else is pulled out the moment it arrives and is archived in your history instead, marked as blocked, so nothing is lost. You still read it, just later and on your terms.
Two things are worth knowing before you turn it on. It starts with an empty list, which means enabling it without picking any app clears your whole status bar, and the app says so in the sheet. And some notifications are never touched, no matter how you set the filter: calls, alarms, navigation, media players, and notifications from running services. Cancelling those can break the app they belong to, we learned that from a beta tester whose music player stopped mid-song.
The status bar filter is part of Pro, like rules. The 7-day trial unlocks it with everything else.
Also new since the last update
Version 1.6 shipped together with this one, so a few more things are waiting for you:
- Delivery per notification. Four switches behind a small gear: banner on top of the screen, sound, vibration, flashlight. Not one global setting any more, but a choice for each notification and each rule.
- Rules got a clearer builder, and they never touch calls, alarms, navigation, media, or running services.
- Select mode now works in the Snoozed and Rules tabs too, and the resend icon in the history is finally an unmistakable replay arrow.
One honest note about resend
A notification's tap target is a PendingIntent, and Android throws it away when the source app cancels it or your phone restarts. No app can save that to disk, which is why saved links in notification loggers eventually stop opening the right screen.
ReNotify keeps the original tap target of recent notifications in memory for about six hours, and the blue flash icon in the history shows which entries still have it. Inside that window a resend takes you exactly where the original did. Outside it the notification still comes back with its full text, but tapping opens the source app rather than the specific item. We would rather write that down here than let you discover it.
Get the update
ReNotify 1.7 is rolling out on Google Play now. If you already have the app it arrives on its own; the history keeps everything it recorded so far.
And the offer stands: if something is missing for the way you use your phone, write to us at mahere@appxpose.app. That is where this update came from.