Bell Alerts

Bell Alerts turns any bell into a notification. When a bell rings — a school bell, a dinner bell, a shop door, a gate — everyone following it gets a push on their phone within a second, with the sound they chose for that particular bell. No sirens, no shouting down the hall, no wondering whether you missed it. FOLLOW A BELL Someone sends you a code, you paste it in, and that bell now rings on your phone. Nothing to sign up for and no account to create. A SOUND PER BELL Give each bell its own tone from a dozen built in, or set it to vibrate only, to silent, or to mute. A muted bell still records every ring in the app — you just aren't interrupted by it. DISAPPEARING RINGS A bell that rings on a schedule doesn't need to sit in your notifications all afternoon. Set a bell to clear itself after five seconds, a minute, an hour — or instantly. RECENT RINGS, AT A GLANCE The app opens on a plain feed of what rang and when, grouped by day. A ring that was called back afterwards shows as canceled rather than vanishing, so the record stays honest. WIDGETS Put recent rings on your home screen. The larger widget adds two of your own bells as ring buttons — each takes three taps within three seconds, so a bell can't go off because your phone brushed something in your pocket. PA ANNOUNCEMENTS Where the bell system also makes spoken announcements, those arrive as audio you can play from the notification and replay from the app afterwards. TWENTY THEMES Ten light palettes and ten dark ones. Follow your phone's Dark Mode or ignore it and pin the app to whichever you prefer. The widgets follow along. MOVING PHONES Export your bells to a file and import it on another phone — including between Android and iPhone, which share the same format. WHAT YOU NEED Bell Alerts receives bells published by a Bell Alerts server, which is software a site runs itself. If nobody has sent you a bell code, there is nothing for the app to receive yet — ask whoever runs the bells where you are.