Pinnit Android app lets you search through your notification history

The notification drawer on Android can be both useful and distracting because of the sheer number of notifications that come in. You have to manage per-app notifications better through settings or set up a system to avoid missing important updates. An app called Pinnit helps you look through notifications that you missed with its notifications history feature and also lets you create custom notifications.

The app is created by India-based Android developer Sasikanth Miriyampalli and Brazil-based designer Eduardo Pratti. The app was first launched in 2020 and lets users pin their tasks to the notification bar so they don’t forget about them.

Now the developers have come up with a redesigned version of Pinnit with notification history as one of the app’s main features. This lets you look at all your dismissed notifications and even search through them. The search also lets you sort notification by newest or oldest. Plus, you can filter out certain app notifications for a cleaner view. You can look at notifications through a date picker as well.

“The initial plan for the app was always to support notification history, but at that time, we were not able to build it. But we built the new version of the app from scratch to accommodate this feature along with dynamic theming and new UI,” Miriyampalli told TechCrunch in an email.

The vision behind the app was that there amid a sea of notifications, people often missed important reminders and tasks.

Pinnit lets users create a persistent notification that they don’t want to forget from existing notifications without losing the original content. The app also lets you create a custom notification in terms of title and description — just like a reminder.

You can use this to pin a missed call or an email you want to respond to later through notification. You can also pin a notification for an ongoing sports match so you can track the score in just a tap. While custom notifications mostly act like to-dos at the moment, the developers want to do more with them in the future.

Miriyampalli said that, in the coming months, the developers plan to add new features such as location-based reminders, word filtering for 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.