Don't Forget vs Texty Copy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Don't Forget
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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 ยท Pomodoro sessions with focus and break lengths you choose ยท Pause any time, and the timer doesn't keep counting while you're gone ยท On Mac, tasks pause when your Mac sleeps, locks or starts the screen saver, and resume if you're back soon ยท A check-in when a timer has been running for hours, so forgotten timers don't skew your day ยท 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 ยท iPhone: Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep your running task visible in any app, plus Home and Lock Screen widgets to start a task ยท Apple Watch: see your current task and timer, tick off steps, pause, complete, or start what's next, with complications for your watch face ยท Mac: lives in the menu bar, with a small floating window that keeps your task in view ยท iPad: a two-column layout with your tasks and details side by side ยท Your tasks sync across your devices through your iCloud account DON'T FORGET PRO A one-time purchase, no subscription: ยท Focus patterns: your best hours and days, and what keeps pulling you away ยท Time by folder: see where your focus goes across projects ยท 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.
Texty Copy
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Snap. Tap. Structured. Point your camera at text. Tap the words you want. They're on your clipboard. That's the whole app (apart from the rest of it). Not just plain text โ Texty Copy captures structured fields for books, business cards, addresses, quotes, receipts, or any mode you build yourself. No sign-ups. No tutorials. No "upgrade to unlock." You open it, it works. Quick mode Quick mode freezes and copies in one shot โ no tapping, no choosing. Sometimes it nails exactly what you wanted. Sometimes you get the barcode. Nailing the Snap โ Tap โ Copy combo never gets old. Free selection Don't want everything? Tap individual OCR blocks to pick exactly the text you need. Got a wall of blocks? Drag a dashed rectangle across them and grab them all at once. Long-press to select every block on screen. Cherry-pick, bulk-select, or mix the two โ the whole frozen frame is yours. Five built-in modes for real life: Text โ Grab anything. Paragraphs, labels, serial numbers, that Wi-Fi password on the back of the router. Book โ Point at a book. Title and author drop into separate fields, ready to paste into your reading list. Card โ Business cards become name, title, company, phone, email, and website. Each field, one tap to copy. Quote โ Capture a passage and its source. No more "I think it was from that one book." Address โ Street, city, state, zip. Sorted and formatted without you squinting at an envelope. POWER MODE โ Make your own Create custom scan modes with exactly the fields you need. Newspaper? Recipe? Invoice? Pick from built-in fields, add smart detectors for dates, prices, phone numbers and links, or write your own regex patterns. Your scanner, your rules. You can even add fields to the built-in modes โ want Currency on your Card scanner? Just add it. Smart detectors Five ready-made extractors that find things automatically: โข Date โ natural-language dates and times โข Currency โ prices in any format ($1,234.56, โฌ99, 1234 USD) โข Phone โ phone numbers โข Link โ URLs and web addresses โข Address โ full postal addresses in one line โข Actually there are more than five Add any of them to any mode with one tap. Custom wraps Add your own prefix and suffix to any copied text. Wrap in quotes, brackets, markdown โ whatever your workflow needs. Learn by doing A built-in Learn tab walks you through every feature with hands-on demos you can tap and long-press โ the lessons react like the real app. Three tiers: GO for the basics, GO HARDER for the power-user moves, and GO TO FULL POWER for custom modes, fields, and regex. Skim what you need, skip the rest. Private by design All text recognition and extraction happens on-device using Apple Vision. Custom fields, regex patterns, detector matching โ everything runs locally. Nothing leaves your phone. No servers. No accounts. No analytics. No data to leak because there's no data to collect. One price. No surprises. Pay once. Use it forever. No subscriptions, no feature gates, no "premium tier." Every feature, every mode, every update โ included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Texty Copy at every 2 days against Don't Forget's fortnightly. Don't Forget's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Don't Forget ships an update fortnightly, Texty Copy every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.
| Parameter | Don't Forget | Texty Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francesco Leoni | Michael Robinson |
In-app purchases
Don't Forget
No in-app purchases
Texty Copy
No in-app purchases








