Unattended by design, forgotten in practice
A kiosk in a lobby or a self-checkout terminal is built to run without supervision — which also means nobody is watching for signs it needs a restart.
Where a phone gets picked up, glanced at and occasionally restarted just by being handled, a kiosk sits in the same spot, running the same app, for as long as it's left plugged in. The first sign of trouble is often a frozen screen a customer reports, or doesn't.
RebootMonitor gives that silent device a voice: a visible uptime, a history, and a reminder when it's overdue.
Runs 24/7
No sleep, no idle screen-off — kiosks accumulate uptime faster than almost any other device type.
Fails publicly
A frozen or sluggish kiosk is a visible failure to customers or visitors, not a private inconvenience.
No daily user
Nobody uses it the way they'd use a personal device, so nobody notices it needs attention.
Easy to overlook remotely
A kiosk can look "online" in a management console while quietly running for months without a restart.
What RebootMonitor adds to a kiosk
Whoever services the kiosk — cleaning staff, a store manager, a technician — can check its status in seconds.
A reminder that reaches the person nearby
- After 7 days without a restart, a notification and app badge appear on the device.
- The reminder stays silent for the first 7 days after installation and clears itself after the next reboot.
- Runs independently of whatever kiosk or launcher app is running in the foreground.
Lightweight enough for locked-down hardware
- Works fully offline — reboot detection and history never depend on a network connection.
- Only two permissions:
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETEDandPOST_NOTIFICATIONS. - No account, no background network activity, nothing that could conflict with a locked-down kiosk profile.
On a fully locked single-app kiosk, RebootMonitor needs to be reachable to be useful. It works best alongside a multi-app kiosk mode or Managed Home Screen setup — see our Intune deployment guide for a worked example.
Frequently asked questions
Does RebootMonitor work in single-app kiosk mode?
It needs to be reachable by whoever maintains the kiosk, so it works best in a multi-app kiosk or Managed Home Screen setup where staff can open it alongside the main kiosk app.
Will it interfere with the kiosk application?
No. RebootMonitor runs independently, only reacts to the device restarting, and does not take over the screen or block the kiosk app in any way.
Can staff be alerted without unlocking the kiosk?
The reminder appears as a standard Android notification and an app icon badge, visible to anyone with access to the notification shade or the app itself.
Does this need a network connection to work?
No. Detection, history and the reminder are all handled locally on the kiosk, so it keeps working even if the device is offline.
Give your kiosks a way to ask for a restart
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