Whenomatic: Phone Automation

Ігор Василенко

About this app

Whenomatic is phone automation without programming or long setup: routines, auto tasks, macros and triggers. A rule reads like a plain sentence: "when the car stereo connects, open the navigator". Start from a ready-made recipe, build your own from simple blocks, or just describe it in words.

WHERE TO START

Ready-made recipes are grouped by everyday situations: the car, home and work, night and morning, the phone in your hand. Pick one that fits, adjust it, turn it on. For example:
• The car stereo connects — the navigator opens.
• 11 p.m. — quiet until seven in the morning.
• Battery below 20% and not charging — turn off what drains it.
• You get home — put the sound back.

YOUR OWN RULE, LIKE A SENTENCE

A rule is "when" and "then": an event and the steps after it. A step is an action, a check such as "only while charging", or a branch. The editor shows the whole rule as one sentence before you turn it on. No permissions up front: the app asks for one when a rule needs it, and says why.

You can try a rule right away, without waiting for the event: "Dry run" shows what it would do right now, without really doing it.

JUST SAY IT

Describe what you want in one sentence and the assistant drafts the rule. The draft is shown as steps: read it, adjust it, and only then turn it on.

5 assistant requests are included; after that you can add your own Google Gemini API key. The assistant is not available in every country — in particular, it does not work in Russia or Belarus — and it is for users aged 18 and over. Everything else in the app works without it.

EVERYTHING IN SIGHT

All your rules are on one screen: what is on, and when each will run next. Every run is in the journal, step by step. If a rule did not run, the journal says why — which check said no, or which permission is missing — and if a rule that used to work goes quiet, the app tells you.

WHAT IS NOT HERE YET

Honesty first, so you don't install this for something it can't do. This version has no:
• SMS: reading incoming messages or sending them by a rule
• calls and USSD by a rule: dialling, answering, hanging up
• notifications from other apps as a trigger
• geofences and background location
• "which app is open" as a trigger
• photos and video
• steps and sleep from fitness sensors
• incoming webhooks, and plugins for other automation apps
• taps inside other apps (no Accessibility service), root or shell commands
Android 13 and newer only.

PRIVACY

Rules run on your phone, and what the phone reads stays on the phone. Only four things leave it: what you send to the assistant, the rounded coordinates a weather step asks about, whatever your own rules send to addresses you entered yourself, and anonymous usage statistics — which parts of the app are used, never what your rules contain; you can turn them off in Settings. Secrets stay in encrypted storage and never appear in the journal, an export or a backup. No ads, no account, no third-party trackers.

WHY THE APP ASKS FOR TWO UNUSUAL THINGS

• A permanent notification: Android only keeps an app awake for background work while it shows one. Without it your rules stop when the screen goes off.
• Battery optimisation exemption: it is offered, not required, and only from a rule that needs to run on time.

What’s new

What's new in 1.1:

• The app may ask you once to rate it — only after your rules have worked for a few days.
• Anonymous usage statistics show us which parts of the app are used, never what your rules contain. Turn them off in Settings → Data.
• A clearer store page.
• No ads, no account, no subscription. Rules stay on the phone.