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

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

The app was created by an Indian Android developer Sasikanth Miriyampalli and Brazilian designer Eduardo Pratti. The app first launched in 2020 and allows users to pin their tasks to the notification bar so they don’t forget about them.

Now, developers have come up with a redesigned version of Pinnit with notification history as one of the main 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 can 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 important reminders and tasks.

Pinnit allows users to create a persistent notification they don’t want to forget from their existing notifications, without losing the original content. The app also allows you to create a custom notification with a title and description – just like a reminder.

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

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

Pinnit costs $1.99 as a one-time fee after a 14-day trial period.