I made this for my father.

KeepMyPattern is a small, free tool run by one person. Here is how it started.

Hi, I'm Md Shakib Pramanik. I live in Bogura, Bangladesh.

My father uses a Redmi A5. For a long time it had no lock at all. He was worried he'd set a pattern and then forget it, and the fingerprint sensor wasn't much help either: he works with his hands, and the skin on his fingers is often rough or cracked, so the sensor doesn't always read it. A phone with no lock is open to anyone who picks it up, and that bothered me.

Paper didn't work for us either. Whenever a code was written down, the paper was lost or damaged within a few months, and often nobody wrote it down in the first place.

What I wanted was something sturdier than a scrap of paper: a clear picture of the pattern, with a number on every step and the phone's name on top, that can be kept in more than one place. KeepMyPattern makes that picture for anyone who needs one.

Who it is for

  • Parents and grandparents who use a pattern lock and worry about forgetting it.
  • Anyone setting up a phone for a family member.
  • People who just changed their pattern and want a backup they can trust.

How it treats your pattern

Everything happens in your own browser. The pattern and the phone name are never sent to me or to anyone else, and nothing is saved on the site. There are no accounts and no sign-ups. When you close the page, it forgets everything. You can read the details in the privacy policy.

What it is not

KeepMyPattern is not a way to get into a phone that is not yours. It only helps you remember a pattern you already know. This site will never publish ways to bypass a phone lock.

How the site pays for itself

The tool is free and will stay free. Later the site may show a few ads to cover its costs. Ads will never see what you draw or the name you type, and they will never sit next to the pattern board.

Say hello

If something does not work, or you have an idea that would help someone in your family, please write to me. You can also go straight back to the pattern lock tool.

You can also find me on LinkedIn.