Don't Forget vs Hardwire
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.
Hardwire
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Disciplined is the app for people who don't need another dopamine hit โ they need a system. Every morning, one quote. Not a feed of them โ one, chosen for the day, the same one on your Lock Screen, your home screen widget, and your notification. Sometimes calm and Stoic, sometimes blunt. You choose the voice. Then the system that keeps you honest: TASKS โ daily to-dos with priority and recurrence. Finish one, the next one already knows when to reappear. HABITS โ track up to 3 for free, unlimited with Premium. A heat map for every habit, so a 40-day streak isn't a number, it's a wall of colored squares you don't want to break. FOCUS โ a Pomodoro timer with Live Activity support: watch the countdown from your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island without opening the app. Every session is logged, even the ones you don't finish. JOURNAL โ a one-line morning intention, an evening reflection, a mood score. No pressure to write an essay. GOALS & STATS โ weekly trends, your strongest and weakest habits, badges earned from what you've actually done, not what you unlocked. WIDGETS โ this is where Disciplined actually lives. Small, Medium, Large, Lock Screen, StandBy โ every family, every size, all free, no exceptions. A widget you'd lock behind a paywall is a widget nobody puts on their home screen, so none of ours are. PRIVACY โ no account, no sign-in, no server holding what you write. Your tasks, habits, journal entries and focus sessions never leave your device. PRICING โ Disciplined is not a subscription. Premium is one purchase, forever: unlimited habits, the full quote library, 30-day focus history instead of 7, 12-week stat trends instead of 4, journal search, and every theme. Buy it once. Nothing renews, nothing to cancel, nothing to forget you're paying for. This is not a feed. It's not gamified for its own sake. It's the app version of someone who actually expects you to show up.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hardwire at every 3 days against Don't Forget's every 2 weeks. 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. Don't Forget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Hardwire sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Don't Forget ships an update every 2 weeks, Hardwire every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Don't Forget | Hardwire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francesco Leoni | Emircan Bakar |
In-app purchases
Don't Forget
- Lifetime$19.99
Hardwire
- Hardwire Premium$9.99









