Why are reminders a paid feature?

In EasyRoutine a reminder is not a separate feature: it is a setting on an activity's scheduled time. Planning schedules ahead is what Premium pays for, so reminders come with it. Everything about recording what you did, including logging, notes, the AI photo scan and the calendar, stays free.

Reminders sit on top of a schedule

To remind you, an app has to know when something is supposed to happen. In EasyRoutine that is the schedule: weekdays or a date, and a clock time, set per activity in the Plan tab. The reminder is one more setting on that time, Notification, with a choice of on time or a few minutes before.

Without a schedule there is no time to ring at, so there can be no reminder. That is why the two are sold together: the Premium paywall lists exactly three things, No ads, Schedule planning and Activity notifications.

EasyRoutine Plan tab for a Daily routine with times and reminder bells for morning pills, vitamin D, a walk and floss — The Plan tab, where schedules and their reminders live, is part of Premium

What stays free

The free plan is a complete log, not a trial:

Unlimited routines, activities and logs.
Logging by tap, several at once with Log, or back-dated to when you actually did it.
Notes and a red, amber or green flag on each log.
The AI photo scan that logs an activity from a photo.
The day, week and month calendar, the Day streak and totals.
Sync across your phones.

If your main question is "Did I already do this today?" or "When did I last do that?", the free plan answers it. The free plan shows a banner ad at the bottom of the calendar and profile screens.

EasyRoutine week view with logged entries for morning pills, vitamin D, a walk and floss across the week — Logging and the calendar work on the free plan

Reminders without paying: the workaround

If you only need a nudge for one or two things, you do not need Premium. Use a free tool you already have for the nudge and EasyRoutine for the record:

Set a repeating alarm in your phone's clock app, or a repeating event in your calendar app, for the time you want.
When it rings, open EasyRoutine and log the activity.

You lose the link between the two (the alarm does not know whether you logged it), and you will not see planned entries on the calendar. For a handful of reminders that is often fine. Premium becomes worth it when you have several activities on different days and times and want each to show up as planned on the calendar and remind you on its own. The current price for your country is on the pricing page.

If you already had Premium

When Premium ends, your schedules are not deleted and their reminders keep going off. You can still remove them, but adding or changing plans needs Premium again, and logging carries on as before. If you subscribe again later, the Plan tab opens with your schedules as you left them. Reminders explains in more detail what a reminder needs.