There's no app to learn. You talk; the bat remembers, reminds, and escalates — by the rules you set. Here's the whole manual.
Sign up, and the bat calls you. Just talk — deadlines, errands, the thing you've put off for three weeks, who should be told if you slip. Pauses are fine; it waits. Everything you say becomes tracked reminders automatically. That call is the entire setup.
Every reminder ends with reply commands. These work any time, from your phone's normal Messages app:
done 3 | Task 3 is finished. The bat stands down (and is satisfied). |
snooze 3 1d | Push task 3 back — use 4h, 1d, 2w, etc. |
list | See everything the bat is holding for you. |
quiet 10pm 7am | Set your quiet hours. Also: quiet off, quiet default. |
| anything else | Just ramble. New tasks, updates, "the car thing is handled" — it sorts it out. |
STOP | All messages stop immediately. START resumes. |
Reminders climb a ladder, each rung harder to ignore: a gentle text → a pointed text → a real phone call → a final warning → and only if you set it up, a message to your accountability partner. Overdue tasks skip straight to the call. Nag calls are short and to the point — under three minutes. Everything respects your quiet hours (9 PM–8 AM unless you change them).
Once a week — Sunday evening by default — the bat calls for a proper download: work, home, health, money, people you owe. It gives you up to 40 minutes and doesn't rush. Change the day, the hour, or turn it off entirely from your dashboard. You can also just call the bat anytime for the same treatment.
Tell the bat "if I skip this, tell Sarah" and Sarah becomes that task's stakes. First, Sarah gets one invitation text and must reply YES — nobody is ever contacted without agreeing. If a staked task dies, she's told the outcome (never your other tasks or details). The threat does most of the work; the bat rarely has to tell anyone.
Paste your calendar's secret link on your dashboard and the bat calls you ~20 minutes before meetings with other people on them. The good trick: end any event's title with * (or drop a 🦇 in it) and that event becomes a real commitment — it joins your task list and always gets the heads-up call. A dropdown on the dashboard switches between "meetings with others" and "everything timed."
Add family members (13+) from your dashboard. Each person gets one invitation text and joins only by replying YES — for teens, a parent adds them and attests consent, and the teen still confirms personally. Assign tasks from your dashboard ("what, and by when?") and the bat offers it to them: nothing lands on their list until they reply OK. You'll see who accepted, who passed, and everyone's open counts — the bat does the nagging so you don't have to.
Kids are text-only, always. The bat never calls a minor — reminders come by text, the weekly check-in is a text, and if an assigned task is about to die, the bat tells the parent who assigned it. That's a hard rule, not a setting. Family plans share 500 texts a month across the household.
Your personal link (from your signup page — keep it private) shows open tasks with Done / Snooze / Drop buttons, a box for brain-dumps, and three settings: quiet hours, the weekly call, and your calendar. That's all the settings there are, on purpose.
$15/month or $99/year: unlimited tasks, 100 texts and 50 reminder calls per month, one accountability partner, and the weekly report. The Sunday check-in is separate — it never counts against your calls. If you ever hit the call cap, calls pause until next month and texts keep going — no surprises, ever. Families: $29/month covers your household, you plus up to five members.
Reply STOP to any text and everything halts. Email bat@taskbat.com for help, account changes, or deletion — a human (and a bat) read it.