Personal · kept on your devices
Forget About It
Keep the thought before it slips away.
Anyone can use itPublicly available
Available on the App Store, version 1.0. Free for iPhone with an Apple Watch companion; works offline
Verified 2026-09-10 · 1 sources
- Public release, devices, and journal features
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forgetaboutit/id6804360983 — public US listing and Apple Lookup API, checked 2026-09-10
The human problem
A thought can disappear before you reach somewhere to write it down. The fragments you do save can be just as hard to find again.
The thesis
Make capture quick enough for the moment, then let the day become something you can read back.
Where it actually stands
- Capture by text or speech on iPhone, or speak, scribble, or type on Apple Watch.
- Watch captures queue offline and sync when your iPhone reconnects. Your words stay separate from the app's interpretation.
- The app has no account, analytics, or server. The journal stays on your devices and can be exported from Settings.
Decisions and tradeoffs
Preserve the original words.
The app's reading of a day belongs beside the captures, without replacing them.
Keep the journal on device.
Private memories should not need an account or a server to be useful.
What building it taught me
Fast capture only helps when you can return to what you kept. Both ends of that path matter.
What isn't true yet
- No cloud account or server recovery of a journal.
- The journal is excluded from backups; save your own copy from Settings.