Comparison

Don't Forget vs Excerpt

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

Head to head
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.

About

Excerpt

This audiobook player allows you to highlight spoken passages as text, automatically linking them to the original ebook text. It offers hands-free highlighting via various devices and integrates with note-taking apps. Enhance audio quality and sync your library across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Highlight spoken audio as text
  • Link highlights to original ebook text
  • Hands-free highlighting (Lock Screen, headphones, Siri)
  • Sync ebooks with narration
  • Export highlights to Markdown, CSV, JSON
  • Search all highlights
  • Audio enhancement
Features
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Excerpt is an audiobook player that lets you highlight what you hear, the way you would highlight an ebook. Tap the highlighter and the last 30 seconds are saved as text, while the book keeps playing. THE AUTHOR’S EXACT WORDS A transcript mishears names and drops punctuation. Link the book’s epub and Excerpt finds the passage you heard, so each highlight uses the sentence as the author wrote it. HIGHLIGHT WITHOUT TOUCHING YOUR PHONE Take a highlight from the Lock Screen, your headphones, the Action button, your Apple Watch or Siri. Useful when you are driving, running or washing up. READ ALONG AS YOU LISTEN With an epub linked, the ebook follows the narration sentence by sentence. On iPad the page opens beside the player. SEND HIGHLIGHTS TO YOUR NOTES Export a book’s highlights as Markdown for Obsidian, send them to Readwise, or share them as HTML, CSV or JSON. SEARCH EVERY HIGHLIGHT The Vault searches the highlights from all your books at once, on your device. SHORTCUTS AND SIRI More than 30 actions for the Shortcuts app, and links that open any highlight. YOUR OWN FILES, OR FREE LIBRIVOX BOOKS Import m4b and mp3 files, download books from your Audiobookshelf server and keep your position in sync with it, or search LibriVox for free public-domain audiobooks, many with a matching ebook. CLEAN UP LOW-QUALITY AUDIOBOOKS The Enhance model restores muffled, compressed narration on your device. Compare it with the original before you apply it. The original is always kept. ON EVERY DEVICE Books and highlights sync through your own iCloud to iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There is no account to create. EXCERPT PREMIUM Excerpt is free to use. Premium is an optional subscription that adds Whisper transcription models, an ebook match for every book, and AI clean-up of transcripts. Privacy Policy: https://octetmediteranee.eu/excerpt/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://octetmediteranee.eu/excerpt/terms

Screenshots

Don't Forget4 screens
Excerpt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Excerpt at none against Don't Forget's 1. Don't Forget's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Excerpt asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Don't Forget ships an update every 3 weeks, Excerpt every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Don't Forget versus Excerpt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDon't ForgetExcerpt
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB167 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancesco LeoniSean Laidlaw

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Don't Forget

One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99
None

Excerpt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Don't Forget free?
Don't Forget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Excerpt free?
Excerpt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Don't Forget or Excerpt have ads?
Neither Don't Forget nor Excerpt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Don't Forget or Excerpt?
Don't Forget ships an update every 3 weeks, and Excerpt every 2 months. Most recently, Don't Forget was updated on October 28, 2026 and Excerpt on October 31, 2026.

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