Comparison

Essential Launcher vs Don Forgetto

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Essential Launcher

This app offers a minimalist home screen experience designed to reduce distractions and limit screen time. Customize your interface with only essential applications to promote focus and productivity.

Highlights
  • Minimalist home screen
  • Reduce distractions
  • Limit screen time
  • Customize essential apps
  • Clean, intuitive interface
  • Dark and light modes
Features
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Essential Launcher is a minimalist home screen launcher that helps you focus and reduce distractions. Customize your home screen with only essential apps to cut down on mindless scrolling and limit screen time. The clean, intuitive interface is easy to use, and it supports both dark and light modes for a seamless experience. Perfect for those looking to boost productivity and simplify their digital life. Download today and regain your focus. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2q86lW5MKWbM4hDaeGUx59BKQpUAEE6AX-rF2nNiFo End User License Agreement (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C3C-AGsoerPLP0E0VjLOxl6qFjQ7DFztrHqGkkEh4t0

About

Don Forgetto

Features
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Don Forgetto is a voice-first task app for people who think faster than they type. Open the app, say what you need to remember, and Don Forgetto turns it into a task with live on-device transcription. You can keep typing while you speak, edit the text freely, set a reminder, and place the task on a visual urgency × importance heatmap instead of digging through priority menus. Your task list becomes a front page. Search your notes, sort them by reminder, priority, age or name, filter by area or status, and choose your layout: the list, the full task map, or both at once. Open any task to edit its text, replay the original audio, adjust its reminder, mark it done, or move it on the heatmap. Reminders come to you. A reminder can repeat on a cadence you choose, and when one fires it appears as a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — with a countdown, the tasks queued behind it, and buttons to snooze or mark it done without opening the app. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets put your priority heatmap, your next reminders, and a one-tap voice capture a glance away. The whole app speaks your language. Interface and transcription are fully localized in English and Polish. On supported devices, FORGETTO, the private on-device assistant, can help you search, summarize, create, and reprioritize tasks conversationally. Features: • Voice-first task capture with live transcription • Hybrid typing and speech in one editable note • Urgency × importance heatmap for visual prioritization • Repeating reminders with a clock-style picker • Live Activity reminders on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with snooze and mark-done • Widgets: priority heatmap, upcoming reminders, activity, and quick voice capture • Full task map with zoom, clusters, unfiled tasks, and quick previews • List, map, or side-by-side layouts • Sorting, keyword search, and filters by area, priority, and status • Completed tasks kept out of the way until you want them • Audio playback with waveform view • iCloud sync across devices • On-device assistant on supported Apple Intelligence devices • Fully localized in English and Polish • Newspaper-inspired design with light and dark appearance Don Forgetto helps you catch the thought before it disappears, then gives it a place, a priority, and a reminder.

Screenshots

Essential Launcher4 screens
Don Forgetto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Essential Launcher at Free against Don Forgetto's $0.99. Essential Launcher also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). Don Forgetto's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Essential Launcher is free to download; Don Forgetto costs $0.99 up front. Essential Launcher sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Don Forgetto asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Essential Launcher ships an update every 11 days, Don Forgetto weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Essential Launcher versus Don Forgetto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEssential LauncherDon Forgetto
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (36 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings36 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrik RacskaiPAKUMI SP. Z O.O.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Essential Launcher

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Discounted$0.991 Month
  • Annual Discounted3 Days trial$3.991 Year
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
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  • Annual3 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime FreeFree
  • Lifetime$5.99
None

Don Forgetto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Essential Launcher free?
Essential Launcher is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Don Forgetto free?
Don Forgetto costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Essential Launcher or Don Forgetto have ads?
Neither Essential Launcher nor Don Forgetto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Essential Launcher or Don Forgetto?
Essential Launcher ships an update every 11 days, and Don Forgetto weekly. Most recently, Essential Launcher was updated on November 5, 2026 and Don Forgetto on November 10, 2026.

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