The invention discloses a message reminding method, a message reminding device and a message reminding terminal, and belongs to the technical field of mobile communication. The message reminding method comprises the steps of obtaining a communication message from a sender, detecting whether linkman information corresponding to the sender is contained in a pre-stored address
list or not, when the detection result is that the linkman information corresponding to the sender is not contained in the pre-stored address
list, adding one to a number of messages to be processed, wherein the number of the messages to be processed is displayed in a first position of an icon corresponding to a
message type of the communication message, and when the detection result is that the linkman information corresponding to the sender is contained in the pre-stored address
list, adding one to a number of messages to be processed, wherein the number of the messages to be processed is displayed in a second position of the icon corresponding to the
message type of the communication message. The effects that the message reminding terminal can carry out reminding at different positions according to whether the linkman information of the sender is stored, therefore a user can conveniently learn the fact that the communication message is a message sent by a good friend or a junk message, and useless operations are avoided are achieved.