Family reminders shared across phones

Yes. Buzzley puts your household in one sharing group: you invite people by email, choose for each reminder who sees it, and can set a reminder for someone else so it rings on their phone. If it isn't done in time, the people you picked get a notification. One subscription covers the group.

How a Buzzley sharing group works

Every account starts with its own group. To share, you invite people into yours.

1. Open Sharing group in the app and tap Invite member.
2. Enter the person's email address and tap Invite. They get an email and see the invitation under Incoming invitations after signing in to Buzzley. An invitation expires after 7 days.
3. When they tap Join, their devices move into your group.

The group owner's plan covers everyone in it. Members don't need their own subscription, but they share the plan's device slots: Core has 2, Plus 5 and Pro 12. Two parents with one phone each fit in Core. Add a teenager's phone or a tablet and you need Plus. If someone leaves the group, their devices move to a group of their own and they need their own plan.

Choose who sees each reminder

Each reminder has a Visibility setting:

• All devices: syncs to everyone in your group. Use it for shared things like "Bins out Tuesday night".
• My devices only: syncs only to your own phone, tablet and the web app.
• This device only: never syncs and stays on the phone you made it on.

Reminders other people shared appear on your devices too, but only their owner can edit them.

Set a reminder for someone else

The most useful family feature is Who is it for?. Pick a member of your group and the reminder rings only on their phones, not on yours. You still own it, so you can change the time or the text later.

Use it for a child's "Pack your swimming kit", a partner's "Call the garage" or a parent's evening tablets. The page on reminders for someone else has the step-by-step.

Hear about it when something is missed

Under If missed, tell, pick the people who should hear about a miss, then choose when it Counts as missed after: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours after the due time. If nobody marks it done by then, they get a notification such as "Dad hasn't done: Evening tablets".

Some details:

• A snooze moves the deadline. Dismissing the alarm doesn't count as done; tapping Done does.
• Turn on Also tell them when it is done if they want to know it went fine.
• Missed alerts only go out for reminders with Visibility set to All devices, so nobody hears about a reminder they can't see.

This works for caring at a distance as well as under one roof. The medication reminders page shows the setup many families use for an older parent.

Make the important ones hard to miss

For reminders that matter, set Notification style to Alarm. On Android it rings through silent mode and Do Not Disturb and fills the screen when the phone is locked. On iPhone it rings through silent mode and Focus with iOS 26 or later; older iOS versions get ordinary notifications. Each person's phone needs Buzzley allowed to ring: the app's Alarm not ringing? screen checks the settings on Android.

What a sharing group is not

• Not a shared to-do list. Each reminder has one owner. Members see shared reminders and can complete the ones meant for them, but they can't edit someone else's.
• Not a family calendar. There are no shared calendars or meal plans. Buzzley offers a private calendar feed of your own reminders that you can add to Google Calendar or Outlook.
• One group per person. Joining another group means leaving your current one.

If you are weighing a family plan from a to-do app, the Buzzley vs Any.do comparison sets the two side by side.

Common questions

Does everyone need a Buzzley account?

Yes. Each person signs in with their own account, which is how reminders reach the right phone. They don't need their own subscription while they are in your group.

How many people can be in a group?

As many people as the owner's plan has device slots: 2 on Core, 5 on Plus and 12 on Pro. Every member takes at least one slot, and all the members' phones together have to fit in them.

What does it cost?

There is no free plan. The 7-day trial has every Plus feature and needs no card. Core is $2.99 a month, Plus $5.99 a month or $39.99 a year. See plans and prices.