Remember every birthday.
With time to actually care.
Your phone reminds you on the day. Too late to do anything. Getcandl reminds you 7 days out, with gift ideas, your budget, and a log of what you gave last year.
Free for up to 5 people · Pro from €3.49/month · Cancel anytime
The problem
You care. Your phone
just doesn't help you show it.
Your parents, your best friends, your partner: they deserve better than a last-minute text. You know this. But your calendar doesn't.
A notification at 9am on the day your mum's birthday isn't a reminder. It's a panic. By the time you've seen it, the gift window has closed, the restaurant is fully booked, and you're texting "happy birthday!" feeling vaguely terrible about yourself.
It's not that you forgot. Your system failed you. There's a difference between not caring and not having the infrastructure to care. You'd like a quiet, reliable system that removes the anxiety of forgetting the people who matter most.
Did you give your dad a whisky tasting or a book? Your sister flowers or a spa voucher? Without a record, you either repeat yourself or spend twenty minutes anxiously texting family members asking what you did last time. That's not a nice problem to have.
How it works
Three reminders.
All at the right time.
Getcandl isn't just a reminder app. It's a preparation app. The reminders are timed so you can actually do something meaningful, not just send a late text.
Add each person's birthday, your relationship to them (parent, partner, close friend, colleague), a few interests, and a rough budget. Takes 2 minutes per person. You don't need 300 contacts. Just the 10–30 people you'd genuinely feel bad missing.
Your first reminder arrives with enough time to actually shop, book a restaurant, or order something personal. Getcandl suggests ideas calibrated to the relationship and their interests. Not generic Amazon picks.
If you've already logged something as sorted, this reminder is silent. If not, it nudges you again. Still enough time for next-day delivery or a same-week reservation.
A warm on-the-day reminder, plus a one-tap prompt to log what you did. This takes 10 seconds. Next year, you'll thank yourself. No repeated gifts. No blank memory. A growing record of how you show up for the people you love.
Features
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
7 days, 3 days, and on the day. Each reminder is calibrated to what you can still realistically do. The 7-day reminder is the one that changes everything. It's the only one with enough lead time to matter.
Suggestions based on who the person is to you, what they're into, and what you want to spend. Your mum gets different ideas than your work colleague. Your partner gets different ideas than your best friend. Budget is always respected.
After each birthday, log what you did in one tap. Getcandl surfaces this the following year so you never repeat a gift. Over time this becomes a personal relationship archive: a record of how you've shown up that exists nowhere else.
Every birthday repeats automatically next year. No maintenance, no re-entering dates. Set up once and it works forever. You'll have reminders firing for the right people on the right timelines without touching the app again.
Your relationship data doesn't fuel an algorithm, doesn't get shared, and isn't monetised. Getcandl is a personal tool. Your contacts, their interests, your gift history: it's yours. We're funded by subscriptions, not data.
Works in your phone's browser. Add to your home screen in one tap for a native app feel. Email reminders too, so even if you don't open the app, the birthday still reaches you on time.
What people say
The quiet relief of
never forgetting again
"Missed my dad's 60th because I was convinced it was the following weekend. He said it was fine. It was not fine. Been using Getcandl ever since and honestly the 7-day heads up is everything."
"My mum is a nightmare to buy for and I kept blanking on what I'd already given her. The gift log is the bit I didn't know I needed. I just check what I did the last two years and go from there. Simple."
"I have ADHD so birthdays were genuinely stressful. Not because I didn't care, I cared a lot, but my brain just can't hold a date AND remember to actually do something about it. Getcandl basically does that bit for me."
Pricing
Less than the cost of one
forgotten gift. Per year.
Getcandl Pro costs €34.99/year. Less than a panic-bought bunch of flowers delivered same-day. And it replaces the anxiety of forgetting forever.
Try it with the 5 people whose birthdays matter most to you. No card, no time limit.
Unlimited people, gift suggestions, history log, and everything else. The full thing.
EU VAT included · Cancel anytime · Your data is yours and always exportable
The next birthday that matters
is sooner than you think.
Add five people for free. Set it up in 10 minutes. Never send another rushed last-minute text to someone you love.
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