Comparison

Pentip vs Forget It

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

Head to head
About

Pentip

This app combines typed notes, handwriting recognition, and PDF annotation. It allows you to seamlessly switch between typing and drawing on the same page, with your annotations intelligently linked to your text. Import PDFs, mark them up, and fill out forms with support for multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Handwriting recognition and search
  • Type and handwrite on the same page
  • Drawings move with text
  • Smart Dark mode for reading
  • PDF import and markup
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Pentip is a notebook for people who take a lot of notes, and who write some of them by hand and type the rest. FIND WHAT YOU WROTE BY HAND Search your notes and Pentip reads your handwriting. It also searches typed text, floating text frames, the text inside any PDF you imported, and the values you filled into PDF form fields. Search your whole library, or find every match inside the document you have open and jump straight to it. Handwriting is recognised in all ten languages Pentip speaks, Arabic and Turkish included. Searching costs nothing extra. TYPE AND HANDWRITE ON THE SAME PAGE Type straight onto the page. Your text flows from one page to the next, the way it does in a word processor, instead of sitting in a small box you have to drag around. Then pick up your Apple Pencil and draw on that same page. There is no drawing mode to switch into: the Pencil draws, the keyboard types where the cursor is, and your finger scrolls. YOUR DRAWINGS MOVE WITH YOUR TEXT Every pen stroke remembers the line of text it was drawn beside. So if you come back weeks later and add a paragraph, the arrow you drew still points at the same sentence, even once that sentence has moved onto the next page. READ IN THE DARK WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR WORK Turn on Smart Dark and a light document is drawn dark while you read and write it. It is a viewing mode, so what you export is exactly what you made. TOOLS THAT FEEL RIGHT Pen, brush, highlighter and a precise eraser, all with Apple Pencil pressure and tilt. Hold at the end of a stroke and it snaps into a clean shape. Straighten lines with the ruler or turn it into a protractor to measure an angle. Squeeze an Apple Pencil Pro and a small palette of colours and sizes opens at the tip of the pen. WORK ON YOUR HANDOUTS Import a lecture PDF and mark it up like paper, or scan pages straight in with the camera. Tap a form field and type into it, in any script, right to left included. Select the text in the PDF itself to copy, look up or translate it. And if your lecturer sends a corrected version, swap it in and every note you made stays where it was. BUILT FOR BIG DOCUMENTS Notebooks of any length, page templates, five layers, and sections that hold several canvases in a single file. Star the ones you live in and they gather on a Favorites page. TEN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING RIGHT TO LEFT Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Text direction is set for each paragraph, so an Arabic note sits correctly next to an English source. Export to PDF or as an image, and sync across your devices with iCloud. Pentip runs on iPhone and Mac too. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pentip.app/privacy/

About

Forget It

Features
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Forget It is a simple calendar and to-do app for people who want to plan quickly, without getting lost in menus. It is designed to feel like writing in a paper planner, but with the smart features you expect from a modern app. Open your calendar, tap where you want to plan, and start typing. No complicated steps. No unnecessary clutter. Just a clear way to organize your day. With Forget It, you can write directly into your calendar, manage your to-dos, create your own categories, and keep track of tasks that are still open. When something comes back every day, week, month, or at your own interval, you can make it repeat. If your plans change, you can move one item or shift the whole series with a tap. Your completed items do not just disappear. You can search through finished tasks and events, view useful statistics, and bring old items back to your calendar or to-do list when needed. You decide how long completed items are kept. Forget It is built for focus. You choose which extra features you want to use. Keep it simple, or turn on more options when they fit the way you plan. Your planning stays private. Forget It does not use ads, does not track you for advertising, and does not store your personal planning data on our servers. Your data is stored locally on your device or, if you choose, synced through your own iCloud. Forget It is made for people who want a fast, calm and private way to plan their day. Key features: • Write directly into your calendar • Organize tasks and to-dos • Create your own categories • Plan repeating tasks and events • Move one item or an entire repeating series • Search completed items • Restore old tasks or events • View simple planning statistics • Choose how long completed items are saved • Store data locally or sync through your own iCloud • No ads • No tracking • No unnecessary clutter Forget It helps you plan like paper, but smarter.

Screenshots

Pentip4 screens
Forget It4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forget It at none against Pentip's 2. Forget It also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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. Pentip sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Forget It asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pentip ships an update every 5 weeks, Forget It every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Pentip versus Forget It: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPentipForget It
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKhalil KhalilJens Somers

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pentip

Subscriptions2
  • Pentip Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Pentip Pro Yearly7 Days trial$8.991 Year
None

Forget It

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pentip free?
Pentip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forget It free?
Forget It is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pentip or Forget It have ads?
Neither Pentip nor Forget It shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pentip or Forget It?
Pentip ships an update every 5 weeks, and Forget It every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pentip was updated on October 31, 2026 and Forget It on October 25, 2026.

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