Comparison

iWorkUntil 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

iWorkUntil

This app visualizes remaining time as a grid of blocks, making it easy to see your progress at a glance. It's designed for focus sessions, study time, and managing workdays, especially for those who benefit from visual cues over numerical displays.

Highlights
  • Visual countdown timer
  • Time as a filling grid
  • Customizable duration or range
  • Theme selection
  • Corner display for minimal obstruction
  • No ads, notifications, or accounts
Features
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iWorkUntil turns the time you have left into something you can actually see — every minute is a visible block, the grid fills as time passes, and one glance tells you where you stand in the day, the session, or the workday. Built for anyone who'd rather see time than read it. Especially good for ADHD focus sessions, deep-work blocks, study time, and any moment where "how long left?" is the question that matters. No accounts. No ads. No notifications. No streaks to break. No AI nagging. Just time, made visible. WHAT IT DOES • Visual countdown — your time as a grid of blocks that fills as it passes • Pick a duration (e.g. 25 minutes) or a range (e.g. 9 to 5) • Each block represents a slice of your time — at a glance, you know where you are • Choose a theme that fits your screen • Lives in the corner — never in the way WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone who loses track of time when they're focused • Visual thinkers who do better with shapes than with numbers • Pomodoro and deep-work sessions that need a clear stop signal • Workdays, homework, study breaks, screen-time wind-down • Cooking, exercise, meetings, presentations — anything time-boxed WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • No notifications. No dings. No dopamine traps. • No accounts, no logins, no data collection. • No ads, no subscriptions, no upsells. • No AI, no streaks, no guilt. A visual countdown that shows you time, instead of telling you about it. Available in 11 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Slovenian.

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

iWorkUntil4 screens
Don't Forget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iWorkUntil at none against Don't Forget's 1. iWorkUntil also leads on update cadence (every 8 days 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. iWorkUntil asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iWorkUntil ships an update every 8 days, Don't Forget every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
iWorkUntil versus Don't Forget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriWorkUntilDon't Forget
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid KlauszFrancesco Leoni

In-app purchases

None

iWorkUntil

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Don't Forget

One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is iWorkUntil free?
iWorkUntil 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 iWorkUntil or Don't Forget have ads?
Neither iWorkUntil nor Don't Forget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iWorkUntil or Don't Forget?
iWorkUntil ships an update every 8 days, and Don't Forget every 3 weeks. Most recently, iWorkUntil was updated on October 28, 2026 and Don't Forget on October 28, 2026.

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