Comparison

Finishly vs Don't Forget

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

Head to head
About

Finishly

This productivity app helps you tackle tasks by connecting them to your personal motivations. It allows you to add reasons and images to your to-do items, providing visual and emotional prompts when reminders appear. Turn daunting tasks into meaningful actions with personalized encouragement.

Highlights
  • Add tasks with personal reasons
  • Include motivational images
  • Set task reminders
  • Personalized motivation prompts
  • Offline task management
  • No account required
Features
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Finishly is a to-do app that helps you start and finish tasks by reminding you why they matter. How it works: - Add a task. - Add your reasons for doing it. - Add an image that motivates you. - Set reminders. - Tap the sun icon to choose what you want to finish today. - When the reminder appears, you don’t just see the task — you see your own reason and image. Why it works: Normal to-do apps remind you what to do. Finishly reminds you why you wanted to do it in the first place. Instead of a generic nudge like “Exercise,” you can see: “Have more energy” “Feel better mentally” plus an image that pushes you to act. Instead of “Play with the kids,” you can see: “They grow up fast” plus a photo that makes the task feel important. Finishly helps turn tasks from boring items on a list into things that feel worth doing. It gives you personal motivation at the moment you need it most. No ads. No tracking. Everything stays on your device. No account needed — just open the app and start. Finishly is free to try. Premium unlocks unlimited tasks. If your to-do list isn’t helping you start, try Finishly.

About

Don't Forget

Features
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You start something. Something else pulls you away. An hour later you can't remember what you were doing before. Don't Forget is a task timer built for brains that switch. Instead of asking you to stop getting interrupted, it expects interruptions and keeps your place for you, so getting back takes one tap. HOW IT WORKS Start: name what you're working on and go. The timer runs and your task stays front and center. Switch: something urgent comes up? Tap Switch. Your current task is parked with its time saved, and a new one starts. Come back: a minute later, a gentle notification asks if you want to go back. Your parked task is waiting with its timer, steps and notes exactly as you left them. Resume in one tap. BREAK IT INTO STEPS Big tasks are easier to return to when you know the next step. Add steps to any task, focus on one at a time, and see how long each one really took. FOCUS THAT FOLLOWS REAL LIFE · Pomodoro sessions with focus and break lengths you choose · Pause any time, and the timer doesn't keep counting while you're gone · On Mac, tasks pause when your Mac sleeps, locks or starts the screen saver, and resume if you're back soon · A check-in when a timer has been running for hours, so forgotten timers don't skew your day · Fix the time afterwards with "stopped at" if you walked away and forgot to pause PLAN WITHOUT LOSING FOCUS Capture what's up next without breaking your current flow. Plan tasks with due dates and reminders, sort them into folders, and start the next one when you're ready. Finished something you do often? Run it again. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME WENT Honest statistics built from the time you actually focused: focus time, tasks finished, how often you were interrupted, and your sessions by day, week or month. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK · iPhone: Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your running task visible in any app, plus Home and Lock Screen widgets to start a task · Apple Watch: see your current task and timer, tick off steps, pause, complete, or start what's next, with complications for your watch face · Mac: lives in the menu bar, with a small floating window that keeps your task in view · iPad: a two-column layout with your tasks and details side by side · Your tasks sync across your devices through your iCloud account DON'T FORGET PRO A one-time purchase, no subscription: · Focus patterns: your best hours and days, and what keeps pulling you away · Time by folder: see where your focus goes across projects · Siri & Shortcuts: start, switch and complete tasks hands-free or from automations BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO SWITCH Many productivity apps assume you'll sit down with a list and work through it in order. Don't Forget is for people whose days don't go that way: people with ADHD, people who hyperfocus and lose track of time, and anyone whose work is full of interruptions. No streaks to break and no guilt. It remembers what you were doing so you don't have to. No account or sign-up needed.

Screenshots

Finishly4 screens
Don't Forget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Don't Forget at none against Finishly's 1. Don't Forget also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Finishly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Don't Forget asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Finishly ships an update every 10 days, Don't Forget fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Finishly versus Don't Forget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinishlyDon't Forget
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.5 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdin CubroFrancesco Leoni

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Finishly

One-time1
  • TaskCompletePro$9.99
None

Don't Forget

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Finishly free?
Finishly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Don't Forget free?
Don't Forget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Finishly or Don't Forget have ads?
Neither Finishly nor Don't Forget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Finishly or Don't Forget?
Finishly ships an update every 10 days, and Don't Forget fortnightly. Most recently, Finishly was updated on October 2, 2026 and Don't Forget on October 17, 2026.

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