Productivity · Mobile · 2023

Pointify

Productivity through strategic notifications.

A notification-driven productivity app. Schedule prompts that send you back into the partner apps you actually use — rather than yet another inbox to check.

Pointify productivity app: notification scheduling and partner-app launcher screens
Shipped in 2023
Pointify productivity app: notification scheduling and partner-app launcher mockup

Notifications

Trigger surface

iOS · Android

Platforms

2023

Shipped

Productivity through strategic notifications.

The story

How it came together.

Problem

Productivity apps assume you'll come back to them. Most users don't. The behaviour that compounds is opening the right tool at the right time, not aggregating tools into one more app.

Approach

Built a scheduling layer that fires push notifications launching into pre-configured partner apps. Pointify is the trigger, not the destination.

Outcome

An invisible-by-design productivity app — users get prompts that route them straight into focus tools, study resources, or workouts, without Pointify itself competing for attention.

What people said

Product Reviews.

Honest takes from people who actually use the product.

Mira S.

Counterintuitive idea executed well. I set Pointify to nudge me into a language app every evening and a meditation app in the morning. Both habits stuck after the first month.

Owen P.

Self-improver

I've tried every habit-tracking app. Pointify is the first one that doesn't try to be the destination, which is why it actually works.

Sasha M.

The notification UX is the whole product, and it's tuned really well. No spam, no pleading copy, just a clean prompt that opens the right app.

Henrik J.

Student

Set up nudges for my study app, workout app, and journaling app. Pointify itself I open maybe once a month, which is the point.

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