Agent - do not disturb & more
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Update: It's $3.99 one-time payment to unlock everything, after a one week free trial. It's free for users that already had the app in September 2015. Please not that if you uninstall the app, and install it again or move to a new device, you will have to purchase the app even if you had the app before September 2015.
Agent automatically saves your battery, silences your phone during meetings, remembers where you’ve parked, auto-responds when you’re driving and allows only urgent calls and messages through when you’re sleeping.
★ Drive Agent is triggered by bluetooth and motion sensing (activity detection). It can be configured to read SMS messages aloud, respond with voice, auto respond to texters and callers to let them know you’re driving (editable message) & only respond to your own hand-picked list
★ Battery Agent triggers at a percentage you choose. It helps conserve battery by giving you the option to turn off bluetooth, dim your screen and reverts back to normal settings automatically when you charge your phone. Will also let you know how much battery it saved you.
★ Parking Agent remembers where you parked, based off your speed or bluetooth connection. Will remember your last five parking spots
★Meeting Agent syncs with your calendar to silence/ put your phone on vibrate when you don’t want to be disturbed. It can be configured to activate for busy events only, gives you the ability to specify your working week so that it only syncs with your calendar on days and times you prefer, works with shared calendars and auto responds to selected contacts during these "busy" events.
★ Sleep Agent will silence your phone automatically when you go to sleep. You can configure sleep times for different days of the week, minutes of inactivity before activating, auto response to selected callers and texters during your sleeping hours, list of contacts that can wake you & Bluetooth, autosync, wifi and mobile data deactivation.
App Permissions Explanation:-NEW Reroute outgoing calls: For our new status sharing feature which will be released in the next few weeks. we won't actually re-route calls but users have the option to have a notification pop up if you call another agent user and they are in a meeting or sleeping (ie one of the agent states are active). You will both have the option to opt into this status sharing feature.
- Send SMS: We use this when auto-responding to texts whilst you are driving (if selected), or when you are sleeping for emergencies.
- Read SMS: When driving Agent will read out your text messages to you to prevent distraction. We don't know the contents of any messages.
- Read Contacts: This is so that the app can determine whether a contact is in your address book or not (an option for who is allowed to contact you when busy)
- Precise Location: Parking Agent requires this to store your parking location.
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Reviews (29)
I have had this app forever. When got new phone had to pay despite having it forever. In sleep mode I have very specific numbers marked. I don't have allow unknown numbers nor do I have allow repeat calls. It is 3am & a number NOT even in my list (wrong number) was allowed to ring through & wake me up! Once awake, I can't get back to sleep. That's why I broke down & paid for the app. What's the purpose of paying for this app if anyone can call & wake me up?
Sadly this once-excellent app is now behaving eccentrically under Android P (Nokia 7.1). I've had no response to my email to the developer, who seems to have lost interest on the basis of the date of the last update. I've uninstalled it and am now using Android's Do Not Disturb for overnight and calendar events.
thanksYou brought MotoX functionality to all android phones! I sill have my Moto X but have moved on and missed it's meeting and driving features which you capture perfectly. the only iss is that you have to open the app after each reboot . wish it could auto start! bought it!
Totally failed when needed. It randomly removed people from my white list and then also unchecked the option to allow repeat calls through, so when my aging parents were locked out at night, they couldn't get a hold of me.
Great idea but it doesn't always activate itself at night or when driving even though GPS is on. Almost a year since any updates.
Has been great till changing my phone, now asking me to pay again when I have already done so! Emailed them for help but of course no reply! Dissatisfied
incompatible with Google hangouts and made my phone too slow.
I have used Agent for several years with total success. Thank you!
I use it daily to turn the ringer off while I sleep.
Useful and easy to use..
Love it for driving
From the 5 stars you can see l LOVED this app past tense, not since l upgraded my phone & now expected to pay for it when had for free on my old phone for 2 years, sent email with no response like a lot of other reviews I've read. No feedback what so ever.
It seems like it works for new events created on the calendar, but when existing events that are set to busy (I have a recurring event that has been in my calendar for 3 months and repeats twice a week) starts, it doesn't silent my phone. I'm currently using the trial, but if that could be fixed, I'd be very happy to buy the full version and change the rating to 5 stars.
I used this app for 3 years with no issues. switched smart phones and had to pay for the app and now it works maybe 25% of the time. I only use the meeting agent and it often misses meeting that I have labeled as "busy" in my calendar while it catches entries that I have labeled as "free". I have sent help requests 2 times with no reply back. I can't recommend this app as it is now.
Exactly what I was looking for. Something to manage my DND time, and auto reply txt when I'm driving. It truely is "set it and forget it"; it always works without me having to think about it. Also, when it reads texts aloud through your car's Bluetooth system, it makes you car think it's a phone call, so you don't have to keep the sound system set to Bluetooth all the time like other apps make you. The best part is how good it is on battery; I've tried other automation apps but they constantly run and kill my battery. This is well worth the money I recommend it to everyone.
After last update, sleep agent starts but doesn't silence phone... Using Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. [edit after response from developer] To be honest, I haven't got the foggiest idea what settings you're talking about here. Agent app has all the permissions set that it asks for. Furthermore, I've read more people are having the same issue with the Agent app not working since the last upgrade of it. Bit basic and not nice to put the problem at the (paying) user side, when in fact the upgrade of the
Text messages weren't read when I was driving. No auto reply text was sent to anyone when I was driving. Update: from two stars to four. It's better now, but still a little glitchy. Occasionally it still won't activate when I start driving but when it does, it send auto-replies as it should. Also, When it comes out of sleep mode, occasionally it won't turn my Ringer volume back up. It just stays on vibrate or very low until I manually turn up the volume.
I only use the sleep and battery agents at present but they are remarkably useful. Looking forward to the other agents once I have a car again. It's a real shame that IM's like Hangouts and WhatsApp can completely bypass the app. New features in Android L have made this fairly obsolete now, but I think that's a testament to how good this app is.
Used to love it, but suddenly stopped working. Seemed to start late, like it wasn't reading the right time zone - now just doesn't start at all. Specifically referring to meeting action. Contacted developer twice. No response. Unacceptable for a paid app. Update: it is over a month later. Still not working, phone calls coming through in the middle of appointments. SO FRUSTRATING!! Still no help from anyone.
Every phone should have this built in! Samsung, get up to speed, give these guys a billion dollars for their app & just build it in. 😊 Great app. Install it immediately. It's just not safe driving without it. Completely voice activates your phone reading and sending texts. Automatically knows when you are driving. Settings for what to do when you are sleeping, in meetings & more. No phone is complete without it.
*Updated 11/17 - I used to love this app to no end & told many about it. I installed it March 2014 after seeing it in the arena on AAA. Once it was set I didn't have to do intervene for daily activities. It silenced at bedtime and kicked back on in the morning. It went into Meeting mode as it should five minutes before (LOVE that feature) then popped out as scheduled. When it paired with the bluetooth in the car it went into drive mode. Recently it began to have issues. It always thought it was still in "Sleep" mode and had to manually dismiss it. Drive ran into issues too & it felt like I was fighting the app. So after a factory reset & a fresh set up I realize the app is now $4. That's fine I'd gladly buy it, but others here say they too are having issues. I don't wish to spend $4, have it still not work right, then pay another $4 if I should upgrade my phone this fall. (which it seems people are being told to do) I wish there was a way for the star rating to say I love it but something's not right. A one star is I hated it, but I did love it. Just not how it is today.
App used to work flawlessly for me, but now it has a terrible flaw. Ever since my HTC 10 updated to Nougat, whenever Agent goes to sleep, it messes with my wifi connection. It turns off, as it should, and then when the sleep time is over, there are issues. I'll see that the wifi symbol is on, but I'm not connected to wifi. I attempt to put in my credentials, and I get Failed to Save Network. If I reboot the phone, then I find that wifi is off; turning it back on restores everything as it should (resetting network settings works for that too). The most important thing about this app for me is the sleep option so that I can get important texts or calls at night, and have everything else be silent, but now I can't use it because of the wifi thing (and if I reboot, I lose the notifications that I *do* need to stay up, or that come up quietly when the sleep period is over).
I've used Agent for years. It's reliable and provides a granular control that in just dont get using Nougat. Well done guys.
A useful app for me, but lately I've been getting a notification icon saying that it needs permissions and to click to correct. When I do so, I get a message that says, "Unfortunately, the process com.android.settings has stopped." Eventually, that notification will come back and the same things happens.
Timeriffic does better for free. Can't stand an app that charges you for each device and even if you reinstall. Normally you reinstall if you have an issue. Make a normal app in library and you'll get more stars for not ripping people off
A very very good app. It still needs some work and I haven't seen any changes in it since I got it. I have a Note8 it works fine and functions with it. But there are a number things I would like them to update to bring it into the *Modern Age*.
This app should be on every phone. I rely on every one of the features and haven't been let down yet. The auto-reply is great; I wish it worked across apps beyond SMS (Hangouts, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger)
I upgraded my phone, however, it doesn't upgrade to the pro version which I have on my old phone. I sent an email regarding this issue, but I got no responds.
This app user to be brilliant, but it seems to depend on the make and model of phone. Since switching from a Pixel 2 to a Huawei P20, it unloads from memory and you have to relaunch every day for it to work, and hsve it running as an active app. No longer running in the background.