A reed goes off long before you notice. reeDminder shows you when.
The free reed log for clarinet and saxophone players — and for oboe and bassoon. Reeds, rotations, ratings, notes, and a recording of how it actually sounded.
A reed that sang on Saturday can feel stuffy by Tuesday, and the one you were saving turns out to be finished. Most players track it on sticky notes, in a notebook, or not at all.
reeDminder keeps the record for you. Start a session and it offers the next reed in your rotation — play it or pick another, and it logs what you actually played. Rate the reed when you stop, and the history builds itself.
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The next reed, already chosen — start a session and reeDminder offers the next reed in your rotation. Override it whenever you like; it records what you played, not what it suggested.
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Catch a reed on the way down — every reed carries its average out of ten, and once you have rated it three times, the average of your last three sessions. By the time the second number reads 4/10, the first still says 6.2/10.
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Learn your brand and strength, not just your lucky reed — ratings average across every reed in a rotation set, and a set is one brand and one strength, so a pattern emerges across the whole set, not just one lucky reed.
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Break-in runs on its own track — while you have broken-in reeds available, a reed still breaking in is not offered as your next one. When none are ready, it falls back to the break-in rotation rather than leaving you with nothing.
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The same reed on different setups — instruments and mouthpieces can be tracked separately, because a reed does not behave the same on all of them.
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Hear it, not just read it — audio from your sessions, filed with the reed it belongs to.
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On the stand as well as in the case — reeDminder runs on iPad, with the whole rotation and one reed's full history on a single screen.
Want the detail first? How reeDminder works, in full.
- Is it free?
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Yes. reeDminder is free, there is nothing to unlock, and there are no ads.
- Do I need an account?
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No. There is no sign-up, no login and no email address to hand over. Open the app and start.
- Where is my data kept?
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On your device, in the app. reeDminder has no servers and never transmits anything you record — there is nothing on our side to look at, because nothing ever reaches us.
That does not mean your history is trapped on one phone. If you back your device up, to iCloud or to a computer, reeDminder is included along with everything else — that is iOS doing it, not the app. You can also export your whole history yourself at any time: it writes a single file and hands it to the share sheet, and where it goes from there is up to you.
- Does it work on iPad?
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Yes, and it is built for it rather than stretched to fit — the whole rotation and one reed's full history sit on a single screen.
- Is there an Android version?
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Not yet. It is being worked on, and there is no date to give you that would mean anything.
- Does it do oboe and bassoon?
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It tracks them, and players use it that way. Be aware of where it starts, though: reeDminder's model begins when a reed exists, and if you make your own, everything up to that point happens outside the app. If you scrape and adjust, tell us what would have to be in it — that conversation is more useful to us right now than another install.
Free, and it works offline. reeDminder never sends your data anywhere — the only way out is a backup file you export yourself.
- reeDminder runs on iPhone and iPad, and needs iOS 16.4 or later.