Comparison

Extra 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

Extra

This app transforms your email inbox into a proactive personal assistant. It intelligently surfaces important daily information, helps you act on it, and organizes your life's communications.

Highlights
  • Daily brief of important items
  • Proactive alerts for deadlines and events
  • Actionable insights from messages
  • Organized communication grouping
  • Draft replies and schedule events
Features
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Meet Extra - your life’s inbox. Your life already runs through your inbox: plans, travel, packages, bills, events, and conversations. Extra turns that overwhelming stream into a personal, proactive inbox for your life. It shows you what matters today and helps you take the next step. • Know what's important today. Extra gives you a calm daily brief with the things worth your attention. • Never miss what matters. Catch deadlines, travel changes, plans, packages, and important moments before they slip. • Turn details into action. Draft replies, schedule events, and handle the next step without digging through messages. • Keep life organized, quietly. Extra groups the noise so the important stuff is easy to find.

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

Extra4 screens
Don't Forget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Extra at none against Don't Forget's 1. Extra also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Don't Forget's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, 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. Don't Forget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Extra asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Extra ships an update weekly, Don't Forget every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Extra versus Don't Forget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExtraDon't Forget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (399 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings399 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuildForever, Inc.Francesco Leoni

In-app purchases

None

Extra

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Don't Forget

One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Extra free?
Extra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Don't Forget free?
Don't Forget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Extra or Don't Forget have ads?
Neither Extra nor Don't Forget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Extra or Don't Forget?
Extra ships an update weekly, and Don't Forget every 3 weeks. Most recently, Extra was updated on October 30, 2026 and Don't Forget on October 28, 2026.

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