For ADHD & neurodivergent brains · Free for macOS
The meeting alert you can't miss.
Small banners often don't land with ADHD brains. So Unforget takes over the entire screen — on every monitor, right before things kick off. For everyone who has ever missed a meeting because they wanted to finish “just one quick thing”.
macOS 14+ · ~5 MB · no sign-up · no cloud
Your calendar knows. You are somewhere else entirely.
Your meeting is calling. It sounds a little lonely.
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Stop reminding me (press and hold)
This is the real interface with the real lines from the app. Try the tones.
You didn't overlook the banner. You never saw it.
0 banners just drifted past you, and you read none of them. On an ordinary working day there are dozens.
Unforget takes the whole screen instead. Once. Exactly when it counts.
Three effects work against you — none of them is a lack of discipline.
Your brain is filtering everything out. Very successfully.
Banners are made for brains that notice interruptions. In hyperfocus you filter out exactly those signals — that's a feature, not a fault. Just at the wrong moment.
There are only two times: now and not now.
“In 15 minutes” reliably lands in the not now bucket — and disappears there.
The event only resurfaces once it's already running.
What arrives constantly stops being read.
Dozens of identical-looking messages a day train you to ignore them. The effect is called notification blindness — and it hits every brain, some sooner than others.
One alert. More only if you want it.
Out of the box Unforget speaks up exactly once: one minute before the event — and follows up once afterwards if you didn't react. Everything else is optional: the heads-ups at 5 and 15 minutes are switches you flip in the setup assistant. Click through all the stages here.
Full screen on every monitor
Now the screen belongs to the meeting
One minute before, Unforget takes over every screen at once — across full-screen apps too. This is the one alert everybody gets. The ring empties visibly so the remaining time stays concrete. One click takes you into the meeting; “Two more minutes” postpones the alert without losing it.
Twelve things that make the difference.
Every card unfolds. Everything is on board, nothing costs extra — there is no Pro version.
01 · CoreFull screen on every monitor
The alert appears on every connected display at once, across full-screen apps and in other Spaces. No hunting, no missing it — wherever you happen to be looking.
02 · GentleStages you pick yourself
The default is a single alert one minute ahead, plus one follow-up once the event is running. Quiet heads-ups at 5 and 15 minutes can be switched on individually — each stage is its own switch, not a fixed ramp.
03 · PracticalOne click into the meeting
Unforget finds the video link in the event — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and others — and shows the matching button with the provider's name. No digging through the invitation.
04 · ReliableSnooze that comes back
“Two more minutes” really means two minutes — and then the alert returns, with different wording. No silent dismissal that makes the event vanish forever.
05 · ConsideratePresentation guard
If you're in a video call or a conferencing app is active, you get a discreet banner instead of the takeover. The alert tries again shortly after — no embarrassing surprise in front of an audience.
06 · RareHard-stop alerts
When the next event is waiting right afterwards, Unforget speaks up five minutes before the end: “This meeting ends shortly — the next one is already waiting.” The classic remedy for meetings that extend themselves.
07 · AudibleSpoken announcement
On request Unforget reads out the title and time. Handy when you're not looking at the screen — or when hearing lands better with you than seeing.
08 · QuietQuiet hours
Freely chosen time windows in which no alert arrives — evenings, nights, weekends. On top of that you can pause everything from the menu bar for an hour or until the next morning.
09 · FastReminders in plain language
“in 20 min pizza out of the oven” or “at 16:30 call the accountant” — Unforget spots the time itself and creates the reminder. No date fields, no form.
10 · TidyCalendar and keyword filters
Deselect individual calendars and define keywords that never trigger an alert — “focus time” or “blocker”, say. All-day events and declined invitations stay silent anyway.
11 · PersonalThree tones
Plain, friendly or cheeky. Over a hundred rotating lines so the message doesn't become wallpaper. Iron rule: the joke is always about the situation, never about you. No guilt, no streaks, no wagging finger.
12 · DiscreetMenu bar instead of Dock
Unforget lives as a small bolt in the menu bar and shows the next event there. Prefer it in the Dock? Switch it over — you can have both at once. Three languages are built in: German, English, Spanish.
The difference isn't the volume. It's the surface.
One banner, top right, three seconds long. On exactly one of the three screens — and most likely not the one you're looking at.
Eight styles. Your colour. Your logo.
What motivates one person annoys the next. That's why Unforget ships with eight complete graphic styles, from strictly corporate to gloriously loud. Try them here: the preview on the right switches instantly, exactly like the alert does later in the app. The page itself stays as it is.
Black, green, geometric — the way it ships.
Your image stays in the browser: it is only read locally and uploaded nowhere. In the app the logo sits above the event in exactly the same way — handy for teams or school classes.
Save, stand up, shine. In exactly that order.
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Set up in under a minute.
No account, no email address, no registration. Four steps, then you can forget about it — in the good way.
Download and open
After launch Unforget settles into the menu bar as a small bolt — not into the Dock. If you can see the icon up there, everything is running.
Grant calendar access
A single system dialog asks for access to your events. Without it Unforget can't show anything — with it, it reads the next 48 hours of events, locally only.
Take it for a test drive
In the menu, click Show test alert. That way you immediately feel what the full-screen alert is like — and you know what happens when it counts.
Tune it to you
In Settings you choose the stages, the follow-up, the tone and quiet hours. If you like, enable launch at login — then Unforget is simply always there.
After that there's nothing left to do. Unforget speaks up on its own — and otherwise never.
What Unforget knows about you: nothing.
- No network entitlement. The app technically cannot send anything — it has no internet access.
- No account, no email. Nothing to create, nothing to confirm, nothing to lose.
- No tracking, no analytics. Neither usage data nor crash reports to third parties.
- Events stay local. Only what sits in your Calendar app is read — on your Mac, inside Apple's sandbox.
“No data collected”
That's the highest tier in Apple's privacy label — it means the developer collects no data whatsoever from the app. Unusual for a calendar app. For us it was a condition.
€0
No subscription. No trial. No cap on the number of alerts. Not later either, and not as a Pro version.
I know the problem from the inside.
I have ADHD myself. I know the feeling of stumbling into a meeting late for the third time in a week — even though the calendar was open the whole time.
Over the years I've tried a lot of apps. Most were too quiet, too expensive or too preachy. Unforget grew out of those experiences: a helper that does exactly one thing — and does it properly.
Neurodiverse people face enough friction as it is. An app that helps with that shouldn't also send an invoice.
That's why Unforget stays free forever. No Pro version, no crippled features. More apps in this direction are planned.
What people want to know beforehand.
Something still open?
rene@greenstein.design The answer comes from the person who built the app, usually within two working days.What does Unforget cost?
Nothing. No subscription, no trial, no cap on the number of alerts, no in-app purchases. Unforget stays free forever. If you feel like it, you can leave something via Buy Me a Coffee — voluntary, and it unlocks nothing.
Which macOS version do I need?
macOS 14 Sonoma or newer, on Apple Silicon and Intel. The app is around 5 MB and runs in the menu bar rather than the Dock.
How many alerts do I get by default?
Exactly one: one minute before the event. If you didn't react, Unforget follows up once shortly after the start. The heads-ups at 5 and 15 minutes are off out of the box — you switch them on individually in the setup assistant or later in Settings.
Which calendars are supported?
All of them, as long as they sit in the macOS Calendar app: iCloud, Google, Microsoft 365 and Outlook, Exchange, CalDAV and local calendars. Unforget reads them through EventKit — exactly the events you see in Calendar. There is no separate account connection.
Are my events sent anywhere?
No. Unforget runs in Apple's app sandbox and has no network entitlement — the app cannot send anything. No account, no cloud, no tracking. That's why the App Store says “No data collected”.
What happens while I'm presenting?
The presentation guard detects running video calls and active conferencing apps. Instead of the takeover you only get a discreet banner, and the alert returns a few minutes later. Your screen share stays clean.
Does it work with several monitors?
Yes — and that's one of the main reasons the app exists. The alert appears on all connected displays at once, across full-screen apps and in other Spaces.
Can I exclude individual calendars or events?
Yes. In Settings you can deselect calendars and define keywords that never trigger an alert, “focus time” or “blocker” for instance. All-day events and declined invitations stay silent automatically. Individual events can be muted straight from the menu.
Will Unforget bother me at night and on weekends?
Only if you want it to. Quiet hours suppress alerts in time windows you choose. On top of that you can pause everything from the menu bar for an hour or until the next morning.
Which languages does Unforget speak?
German, English and Spanish — including the lines, which are written separately for each language. On first launch Unforget adopts your system language; if it isn't among them, English is used.
How do I get rid of Unforget?
Drag the app to the trash. No background services, no system extensions, no hidden files — nothing is left behind.
Your next event is already in the calendar.
The only question is whether you'll see it.
Download Unforget, grant calendar access, click “Show test alert” once. The rest happens on its own.
Free · macOS 14+ · ~5 MB · no sign-up · no cloud