Donate version (premium)

The donate version is a one-time purchase that removes ads and adds email reminders.

What is included

• No ads — the app is fully ad-free.
• Email reminders — get notified by email in addition to on-device notifications.

How to purchase

This page covers app version 2.10.0.2 or later. If your Donate screen shows a Purchase backup section, this is the right page; otherwise see Older app versions.

Open Life Reminders, open the menu and tap Donate (remove Ads). This opens the Support Life Reminders screen. Choose a donation and follow the Google Play flow. The payment may take a few minutes to be processed. It is a one-time payment and you can donate more than once.

Save your purchase to a Google account

Save your purchase so that Premium comes back after a reinstall or on a new phone:

1. Open the menu and tap Donate (remove Ads).
2. In the Purchase backup section, tap Save my purchases.
3. Pick your Google account.

You should see “Your purchases are saved on” followed by your email address. That message confirms the backup was recorded; it does not by itself confirm that Premium can be restored (see Problems for older donations).

• Your Google account’s email address identifies the backup. It is stored with your purchase records (purchase token, order ID, date). Nothing else from your Google account is kept.
• Linking does not turn on sync. It is a separate step, even if sync is already on.
• The app also shows a Save your purchase dialog at startup. Save links your account, Later asks again later, and Continue without an account opens Continue without an account?, a warning that your purchase will be lost if you reinstall or change phones. Tap Continue without an account again to stop future prompts, or Save to link after all.
• Before reinstalling or changing phone, save your purchase now while Premium is active.

Restore your purchase

After a reinstall or on a new phone:

1. If the first-launch setup shows the Already a donor? slide (once per install, only when the app is not already Premium and no account is linked), use it. Otherwise open Donate (remove Ads) and tap Restore my purchases.
2. Pick the same Google account you saved with.

On success you will see “Premium restored: your purchases are saved on” followed by your email address. If you only see “Your purchases are saved on …”, the backup was recorded but Premium was not restored: see Problems.

Linking does not always bring Premium back. Premium is restored for in-app donations that Google verifies. If you donated through the old “Life Reminders Donate” app (before 2021) or PayPal, linking is not enough; see the problems below.

Problems

• Premium is active, but the app keeps asking me to save my purchase. That is expected. Premium active means Premium is on this phone only. The Save your purchase message does not ask you to confirm Premium; it asks you to save a copy of your purchase to a Google account. As long as the Purchase backup section still shows Save my purchases, nothing is saved. Tap it and pick your Google account: once your account is linked, the message stops, the button disappears and the section shows “Purchases saved on …” (or “Backup pending on …” with Retry if there is no network). If you would rather not save it, tap Continue without an account in the message, then Continue without an account again to confirm. Premium stays active on this phone, but it cannot be restored after a reinstall. This choice is only offered in the message, not on the Support Life Reminders screen.
• No purchase found for [your email]. Possible causes: the purchase was never saved before the reinstall; you donated through the Donate app or PayPal; or you picked a different account. The app does not offer to change the account at that point. Email [email protected] with your proof of purchase and the email of the Google account you want to use.
• A purchase from this phone is already linked to the account … Tap Choose another account, or Contact support. There is no unlink option in the app; support can transfer it.
• Backup pending. “Backup pending on …: it will be done the next time the server is reached.” Tap Retry once you have a network.
• The network is unavailable. Please try again. Check your connection and try again later.
• Former donors (Donate app before 2021, PayPal). The Donate app still works while it is installed. If you lost it, email [email protected] with your proof of purchase and the Google account email to use, and the purchase will be added manually.

For the full story, see the blog post Save your donation to your Google account.

Promo code

If you have a promo code, see Using a promo code.

Older app versions

For app versions 2.9.7.7 and older, see Restore donate version (legacy).