Be the friend who remembers birthdays without the spreadsheet.
Wavepal keeps every birthday in one place and gives you a heads-up in time to plan, not a notification while the party is happening.
Free up to 10 people. No card.
How birthdays get missed.
Facebook used to do this job.
Then you (or they) left, and a decade of birthday reminders quietly left with it. Nobody appointed a replacement.
The calendar tells you too late.
A morning-of alert is fine for a text. It’s useless for a card in the mail, a gift, or dinner plans that needed a reservation.
Your phone’s version is all or nothing.
Turn on the birthdays calendar and every birthday saved in your contacts shows up: your dentist, a landlord from 2019, all of them. The only way out is deleting the date from people you’d still like to keep it for.
The DIY system is you.
A hand-built birthday calendar or spreadsheet works exactly as long as you keep maintaining it. Which is the job you were hoping to hand off.
How Wavepal does birthdays.
- A heads-up with room to plan.
- Wavepal nudges you before the day, so “Hugo turns 42 on Saturday” arrives while there’s still time to do something about it. A second reminder comes the morning of, for the actual call.
- The birthday comes with the person attached.
- A calendar knows the date. Wavepal knows the date, the gift idea you jotted down in March, the kids’ names, and when you last talked. All of it on one page, right when the nudge lands.
- You choose whose birthday gets a reminder.
- Every birthday you add has its own reminder toggle. Keep the reminder on for the people you want to show up for, and uncheck it for the ones where you just want the date on record, no notification attached.
- Anniversaries and key dates too.
- Anniversaries, the day Juliet moved to Portland, the week Desmond runs his marathon. If a date matters to someone you love, it can live on their page and come back around on time.
- More than a once-a-year app.
- Birthdays are the easy win. Wavepal also nudges you to keep in touch the rest of the year, at a pace you pick per person, so the birthday call isn’t the first call since the last birthday.
Fair questions.
- Can Wavepal import birthdays from Facebook or my contacts?
- No. There’s no importer today; Wavepal starts small on purpose. Adding a birthday takes a few seconds, and ten minutes with your existing list covers everyone you actually buy cards for.
- Will it remind me in time to actually plan something?
- Yes. You get a heads-up ahead of the day, not a morning-of scramble. Enough runway to order the gift, book the table, or just write something better than “hbd!!”.
- Can I save a birthday without being reminded about it?
- Yes. Reminders are per birthday, not all or nothing. Uncheck the reminder and the date simply lives on their page for whenever you want it, with no notification on the day.
- Can I track anniversaries and other dates too?
- Yes. Birthdays and key dates both live on a person’s page, so a wedding anniversary or a “one year since the move” works the same way.
- Do my friends see any of this?
- No. Wavepal is just for you. There’s nothing for them to join or install, and nobody ever finds out an app reminded you. The credit is all yours.
- How much does it cost?
- Free up to 10 people, no card required. Past that, Pro is $5/mo billed annually, or $10 month to month.
Be the friend who remembers.
Add your first few people in minutes. Wavepal takes it from there.
Free up to 10 people. No card. Nothing for your friends to install.