The Pinnit app for Android allows you to search your notification history

The Android notification drawer could be each useful and distracting due to the sheer volume of notifications you receive. You need to higher manage notifications for individual apps through settings or configure your system to avoid missing essential updates. An app called Pinnit helps you view missed notifications with the notification history feature and likewise allows you to create custom notifications.

The app was created by an Indian Android developer Sasikanth Miriyampalli and designer from Brazil Eduardo Pratti. The application was there first launched in 2020 and allows users to pin their tasks to the notification bar in order that they do not forget about them.

Now, developers have provide you with a redesigned version of Pinnit with notification history as one among the primary features of the app. This allows you to view all rejected notifications and even search them. Search also allows you to sort notifications by newest and oldest. Additionally, you can filter out certain app notifications for a cleaner view. You may also view notifications using the date picker.

“The initial plan for the app was always to support notification history, but at the time we weren’t able to build it. However, we built a new version of the app from scratch to include this feature along with a dynamic theme and new user interface,” Miriyampalli told TechCrunch in an email.

The vision behind the app was that amidst a sea of ​​notifications, people often missed essential reminders and tasks.

Pinnit allows users to create a persistent notification they don’t need to forget from their existing notifications, without losing the unique content. The app also allows you to create a custom notification with a title and outline – identical to a reminder.

You can use this feature to pin a missed call or email that you want to reply to later via notification. You may also pin a notification of an ongoing sports match to track the rating with one tap. While custom notifications currently act mostly as to-dos, developers want to do more with them in the longer term.

Miriyampalli said that in the approaching months, developers plan to add recent features similar to location-based reminders, word filtering in notifications in privacy settings, app widgets and support for large screen devices.

Pinnit costs $1.99 one-time fee after 14 days of trial period.