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Irk’d is coming soon for iPhone and iPad. It is designed for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 or later; alarms need iOS or iPadOS 26 or later. A release date has not been announced, and a download link will appear on the Irk’d page when it is available.

The free app includes Nagatha, up to 5 active reminders total across Home and Work, the Mild, Persistent, and Relentless tiers, the deadline ramp, steps, exact-time reminders, Cry Uncle!, system alarms, Siri, and iCloud sync and sharing. Irk’d More is an optional subscription that adds Nagbert, Nagnus, and Pingston, up to 20 active reminders total (including up to 10 place reminders), repeating nags, custom profiles, profile locks, the option to choose Unhinged, and character app icons. Completed reminders and individual steps do not count toward the limit.

Irk’d More is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription through the App Store. Apple shows the price before you confirm and handles refunds. Settings → Irk’d More shows your status and has Manage subscription and Restore purchases. Cancel in your Apple Account’s subscription settings to stop the next renewal. You keep access for the time you already paid for. If Irk’d More ends, existing reminders and settings keep working and the free limits apply to new additions.

A pain tier sets how often a nag pesters you about each active random reminder: Mild is about 2 nudges a day, Persistent about 5, Relentless about 12, and Unhinged about 24. You choose a tier for each nag within a profile, and new profiles start on Persistent. Every reminder inherits the tier, and you can give any single reminder its own override from its editor. Turning an override off resumes inheriting. Choosing Unhinged is part of Irk’d More, though a deadline can push any reminder there.

Random nudges land at varied times inside your nagging hours, which start at 9 AM to 9 PM and can be changed per profile. Overnight windows work too. If you add a reminder partway through the day, you only get the nudges still left in that day. Reminders set for an exact time or a place can fire outside the nagging hours, because you asked for them specifically.

First check whether Cry Uncle! is on: the flag beside Settings turns green and shows when the quiet ends. Otherwise, Irk’d schedules its nudges as local iOS notifications, which the system limits to a rolling queue. Irk’d keeps up to 60 queued, including any exact-time and place triggers, and refills the queue when you open the app, act on a notification, or iOS allows a background refresh. Settings shows how far ahead nudges are queued, and a notification asks you to reopen the app when the queue runs out. Also check that notifications are allowed for Irk’d and that a Focus mode is not holding them back.

Yes. You can still save, finish, and delete reminders. Turn notifications back on for Irk’d in your device’s Settings to receive nudges. System alarms have a separate permission.

Tap the white flag on Home, beside Settings, or use Settings → Notifications, and every nag on the device goes quiet for four hours, in every profile. Random, deadline, and arrival nudges in that time are skipped, and anything set for a time inside it goes off when the quiet ends. Reminders you add or edit during the quiet wait too. Place reminders pause as well; if any are waiting, you get one notice at the end asking you to open Irk’d so they can switch back on. Tap the flag again to end the quiet early. Cry Uncle! stays on the device where you set it and is not synced. System alarms still ring.

It waits until the later of its original time and the end of your snooze. If you snooze a 6 PM reminder until 2 PM, it still nudges at 6 PM. A snooze that ends at 7 PM pushes the nudge to 7 PM. Any system alarm you set stays on its own schedule.

On iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, a reminder with a set time, either an exact reminder time or a deadline with a time, can also ring a system alarm, at that moment or 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes before. Turn it on under Make some noise when you save the reminder, or choose Alarm on this device from the reminder’s menu on Home. Irk’d asks for alarm permission the first time. Alarms ring through Silent mode, Focus, nagging hours, snoozes, and Cry Uncle! Stopping an alarm does not finish the reminder. Alarms are free, are set separately on each device, and are not shared with people you share a reminder with.

Deadlines are a day by default, due by the end of that day, and you can add a time. As the deadline approaches the frequency ramps up: at least Persistent within 7 days, Relentless within 24 hours, and Unhinged within the final 2 hours and once it is overdue. The ramp works on every plan, never lowers a higher tier you chose, respects your nagging hours and snoozes, and stops when the reminder is done or deleted. Each reminder has a switch to opt out of the ramp. The wording changes too, from everyday lines to approaching, urgent, final-four-hours, and overdue lines.

Yes. Answer Yes to the list question on the first page of a new reminder and add up to 50 steps, such as a shopping list under “Go to the store.” Steps never nag on their own and do not count toward your reminder limit. Home shows how many are done and expands them for ticking off; finishing the last one finishes the reminder, and finishing the reminder ticks off the rest. You can rename, remove, and drag steps into a new order in the editor.

Turn on Repeat on the second page of the editor with Irk’d More. Choose every day, selected days of the week, every two weeks, monthly, every three months, or yearly, with one to eight rounds per cycle. Mark each round Done to stop its nudges. The count starts over on the next scheduled day. For overnight nagging hours, rounds after midnight count toward the day the window started, until the window ends. For example, a 1 AM check-off in a Friday 10 PM to Saturday 6 AM window counts toward Friday. Repeating nags use random nudges and count as one active reminder. Saving an existing list or reminder with a deadline as recurring asks you to confirm removing its steps and deadline.

Place reminders are part of Irk’d More, up to 10 at a time. Choose the place where the task needs to happen using Apple Maps search, then pick a radius from 1 to 5 miles. When Irk’d can get your location, search results are listed nearest to you first. The radius is a straight-line distance, not a driving distance. When iOS detects your arrival, your nag can keep nudging you at random for up to three hours, the gaps growing a little longer and the lines a lot sharper, until you mark the reminder done or snooze it. With Always and Precise Location on, leaving the area ends the run and re-arms the reminder for your next visit; otherwise the app notices you have left the next time you open it. A snooze pauses for an hour and re-arms the reminder too, and if you arrive again during the snooze the run picks up when the pause ends. If you are already inside the area when you save, the nagging starts immediately. iOS filters boundary crossings and can take a few minutes to notice an arrival.

Free setup can continue without a location prompt. When you save a nearby reminder, Irk’d can ask for While Using the App. iOS can then deliver the first arrival nudge, with follow-ups queued when Irk’d next runs. For start and stop while the app is closed, allow Always and keep Precise Location on. You can review the current mode in Settings → Nearby reminders. Apple Maps may use your current area to find nearby search results. Irk’d keeps arrival activity on this device.

Each nudge shows the app icon, your reminder title, and your nag’s line. When relevant, the subtitle includes the due date, steps left, or the repeat schedule and progress. Editable reminders in unprotected profiles include Done and Snooze actions. Protected reminders show generic text and prompt you to unlock the profile in the app.

Yes. In the Done list, tap a reminder’s checked box to put it back on your To Do list. Steps that were ticked off at the moment it finished open again; ones you finished earlier stay done. Unchecking a single step brings the reminder back with just that step open. On the free plan, a full To Do list asks you to finish something first or try Irk’d More.

Comic Burst is the default icon. With Irk’d More, Settings → App icon also offers Match active nag or one of the four characters. Match active nag follows whoever is on duty in your current profile. iOS shows a confirmation when the icon changes, and the choice stays on this device rather than syncing. If Irk’d More ends, the icon you chose stays.

Yes, on every plan. Say “Nag me with Irked”, “Add a nag in Irked”, or “Irked, nag me”, and Siri asks what to remind you about. “Show my nags in Irked” or “What’s nagging me in Irked” opens your list. An exact-time action is also available in the Shortcuts app. On iOS 27, try “Add a reminder in Irked to change the filter by tomorrow evening.” A date without a time becomes an all-day deadline. If Siri opens Apple Reminders, ask to use a different app, then say “Use Irked.” Daily and weekly repeats said to Siri become repeating nags if you have Irk’d More. Protected profiles stay out of Siri, so add those reminders in the app.

Profiles keep separate lists, nags, pain tiers, and nagging hours. Home and Work are free and keep nagging even when you’re viewing another profile. Choose All profiles on Home to see your unlocked lists together. Irk’d More adds custom profiles and device-specific locks using Face ID, Touch ID, or a 6- to 12-digit passcode. Locked lists stay hidden until unlocked, and notifications use generic text for protected profiles.

From the lock screen, choose Forgot your passcode? Reset this device… and review the confirmation. This clears reminders, preferences, and profile locks on this device and takes you back to setup. Your synced iCloud data and other devices stay intact. The reset clears the passcode along with the local data.

On any plan, turn on sync during setup or in Settings → iCloud & sharing. Review the changes and approve the first merge. You can share an individual reminder by iCloud invitation and choose view or edit access. If an upload fails after a successful download, incoming changes stay on your device and your own changes stay queued. Irk’d retries temporary failures, and Sync now is available in Settings. If you change iCloud accounts, sync pauses to keep the accounts separate.

Use Clear all done on Home to remove completed reminders, or use Settings to delete a custom profile or reset the app. Reset app lets you choose this device only or also erase your synced Irk’d data. Review the scope before you confirm. Manage your subscription separately in your Apple Account.

Nudges include a line from your nag. If you want fewer nudges, choose Mild or shorten the profile’s nagging hours.