Catch-Up Week and a Smarter Daily Reminder

People rarely quit tracking on purpose. They miss a day, then two, and by day four the gap feels too big to fill. So they don't open the app, and the habit is gone.

This update is about those gaps. The daily reminder is now on by default, learns when you actually log, and knows how long you've been away. And a new catch-up screen turns "I missed a week" into a minute of tapping.

The reminder, now on by default

The daily reminder has always been off until you found it in Settings, and most people never did. It's now on for new accounts, and this update switches it on for existing ones too. If you'd never turned it on, you'll see a one-time card on Home, "Daily reminder is on", with Change time and Turn off buttons. If you already had it on, your time is kept.

It still only fires on days you haven't logged anything, as it has since July. Log your lunch and you won't hear from it that evening.

It learns your hour

It starts at 9 PM. Once you have five entries from the last 60 days, it moves to one hour after the time you most often log. It never goes earlier than 8 AM or later than 10 PM. If you log over breakfast, you'll get it mid-morning on the days you forgot. If you set a time yourself in Settings, that time sticks and Pocket Clear stops adjusting it.

It knows how long you've been away

"Don't forget to log today's expenses" is useless on day four. The message now depends on how many days are empty:

• One day: "Yesterday is still empty. Add what you spent in a few taps."
• Two to six days: "3 days unlogged, about ₹1,400 of your usual spending. Fill them in?" The amount is your average daily spending over the last 30 days, times the days missed. Tapping it opens catch-up.
• Day seven: "We'll stop after today. Tap whenever you want to pick the habit back up."
• After that: nothing, until you log again.

A reminder that goes quiet after a week sounds like a step backwards. It isn't. A week of nagging from an app you've stopped opening doesn't bring you back. It gets the app deleted.

One notification a day, at most

The separate streak reminder is gone, folded into this one. You get one local notification a day at most, and none on days you've logged.

Catch-up week

Once you have five entries, Home shows a card such as 3 days missing this week whenever two or more of the previous six days are empty. Today doesn't count; an empty morning isn't a gap yet. Tap Fill them in and you see the last seven days side by side: how many entries each has, what you spent, and which are empty.

Tap an empty day and the sheet shows your usual entries as suggestion chips: the coffee, the metro card, the grocery run. One tap saves one, with that amount, on that day. The sheet stays open, so filling in a day is three or four taps. Before you have enough history for suggestions, pick a category and type an amount.

Catch-up is also where the reminder takes you from the second empty day, and where the Sunday weekly summary opens when your week has two or more empty days. On the free plan, while you're under 50 entries, an occasional Sunday email links straight to it too.

Starting with a real week

The same idea runs backwards for new accounts. When you sign up, one onboarding step asks you to log this week's spending: a few taps to add what you remember from the last few days, so your first report shows a real week instead of one lonely coffee. You can skip it.

Right after that, Pocket Clear asks "Want a nudge at 9 PM?" Tap Turn on reminders and your phone asks for notification permission, so the reminder can actually reach you. Not now is fine too.

Nothing leaves your phone

The reminder decides what to say on your phone, from your own entries. The same goes for the days missing, the suggestion chips and the hour it learns. None of it needs a server to read your transactions. On the free plan your entries stay on your phone.

Details in the help centre: Daily Reminder and Catch-up Week.