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Is there any mac/iOS app or feature I can use to alert me every five minutes?

I need an app or a feature on Mac, iPhone, or iPad that will send me a push notification or some kind of alert every five minutes.


I would rather not set up a million calendar alerts or alarms, as I will have to be using this a lot.


It will need to run in the background, especially if it's an ios app.


I would rather not use an iOS app that makes noise but doesn't send a push notification.


An iOS app is preferred, but anything works.


System alternatives will be accepted as well.


And no, I cannot simply ask Siri to do it, as I have tried in the past, and she says she can't do alerts that frequent.


Thank you for the help!

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Mar 9, 2014 10:24 PM

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Mar 10, 2014 12:10 AM in response to sittiponder

You could do this using AppleScript on your Mac.


See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3718520/how-do-i-write-applescript-that-will- give-me-an-hourly-popup-alert for the basic code to do the repeating alert.


Combine it with this for a Notification: http://macosxautomation.com/mavericks/notifications/01.html


Quite simple really...

Mar 10, 2014 5:26 AM in response to sittiponder

sittiponder wrote:


That app

Okay. I simply gave a link to one app.

There are hundreds of other apps. Did you search for interval timer as I suggested?

See my first sentence. 😟

That app doesn't give push notifications


You didn't indicate this was required, just that you'd "rather not".

Do you know what Push notifications are? The "push" comes from a server, not the app. ;/

Is there any mac/iOS app or feature I can use to alert me every five minutes?

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