Pensieve vs Let Me Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pensieve
Easily capture fleeting thoughts, ideas, and to-dos by emailing them to yourself. This app provides quick capture tools like audio recording, photo attachments, and text pasting, ensuring your ideas are saved without interrupting your flow. It prioritizes user privacy with no data mining or ads.
- Audio recording with speech-to-text
- Built-in camera for photo attachments
- Attachment picker for photos and files
- Quick paste for text, links, and images
- Email from Apple Watch
- Share extension for in-app capture
- Customizable email formatting
- Offline capture
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If you’ve ever emailed yourself, Pensieve is for you. Just capture, send, and remember! Pensieve is the perfect Idea Inbox companion, a Magic Warp Zone for your mind. Ideas, to-dos, and inspiration pop into your head throughout the day, often at the wrong time and in the wrong place. You want to capture those thoughts somehow, but you’ll forget to check your other notes app, texting yourself won’t work, and writing an email is clunky. You need to get these ideas out of your mind and off of your phone now, so you can get back to what you’re doing and stay in the moment with a clear head. You need a powerful, easy-to-use tool that can teleport your thoughts from here and now to the time and place where they belong. You need an idea warp zone. You need Pensieve, the notes app you'll actually use. == Features == Powerful capture tools, deep customization, and lightning-fast email delivery: • Record audio memos and get automatic speech-to-text transcripts. • Built-in camera that attaches photos as soon as you take them. • Attachment picker with quick access to your photo library and files. • Quick paste button for emailing yourself text, links, and images. • Email yourself from your Watch using the Pensieve watch app. • Email yourself from within other apps using Pensieve Share. • Custom rules put you in control over how emails from Pensieve are formatted. • With the power of Pensieve you can send to multiple inboxes with one tap. • Works offline. Capture thoughts without the internet and send them later. == Privacy & Security First == Pensieve is committed to your privacy and security. The app doesn't contain any of the icky practices of big tech or other companies! - NO data mining. - NO advertisements. - NO attention-grabbing tactics. Only respect for you and your time, attention, and data. Learn more at https://privacy.pensieve.io. == Get in Touch == Tweet to @PensieveTweets with questions, feedback, etc. == Terms == By using Pensieve you agree to the Pensieve Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Let Me Focus
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Let Me Focus helps you see what matters today and give one task your full attention. PLAN YOUR DAY • Today, Overdue, and Upcoming keep every task in its place • Add a task in seconds, with a time, a reminder, a color, and a symbol • Repeat tasks daily, on chosen weekdays, weekly, monthly, or every few days • Reminders with Complete and Snooze right from the notification • Changed your mind? Undo a completed or deleted task with one tap FOCUS ON ONE TASK • Start a 15, 25, or 45-minute focus session from any task • Take a 5-minute break when the timer ends • Follow the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and pause or complete without opening the app • Pause or resume from Control Center SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Monthly totals with the change from last month • Daily chart, your best day, and active days • Focus history: minutes per day and your focus streak ALWAYS AT HAND • Home Screen widgets show today's tasks and let you complete them • A calendar widget shows the days you got things done • Ask Siri to add a task, complete a task, or start focusing • Find your tasks in Spotlight • Reuse an earlier task to start a new one quickly YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY • No account needed • Optional iCloud sync keeps your iPhone and iPad up to date • Export and import backups at any time • Deleted tasks wait in Recently Deleted until you empty it MADE FOR EVERYONE • Designed for iPhone and iPad • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, and dark mode support One list. One task. Let Me Focus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pensieve at Free against Let Me Focus's $0.99. Pensieve also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months) and device support (4 vs 2). Let Me Focus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads 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
Pensieve is free to download; Let Me Focus costs $0.99 up front. Pensieve sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Let Me Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pensieve ships an update every 6 weeks, Let Me Focus every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pensieve | Let Me Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (82 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Window Seat Labs, LLC | mysteryfiles.nl |
In-app purchases
Pensieve
- Boost Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- All Access Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Boost Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- All Access Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Let Me Focus
No in-app purchases









