Kept Notes is a fast, friendly notes app for people who want simple capture without giving up control of their data.
Apple Intelligence-powered Smart Capture: Using natural language you can entirely manage your notes - create, update, share, label, archive, and trash notes while keeping AI processing local and private on supported devices.
Jot down a thought, make a checklist, save a link, attach a file, add an image, sketch a quick doodle, or set a reminder — all in a clean, colorful notes experience designed to stay out of your way.
Kept is built around the idea that your notes should belong to you. Connect to your own Kept instance and keep your notes, uploads, reminders, labels, and settings on infrastructure you control.
What you can do with Kept:
• Create text notes, checklists, image notes, drawings, and file attachments
• Pin important notes so they stay at the top
• Organize with labels, colors, and background images
• Save links and generate rich link previews
• Attach PDFs, documents, ZIP files, and other useful files
• Set reminders for things you do not want to forget
• Search quickly and filter by note type, label, or date
• Share notes with other users on your instance
• Import notes from Google Takeout
• Export your notes when you need a copy
• Use backups to protect your data
Kept is designed to feel lightweight and familiar: open it, capture the thing, move on. No clutter. No heavy project-management system pretending to be a notes app. Just quick notes, visual organization, and ownership.
Important: Kept Notes requires access to a Kept server/instance. You can self-host Kept using Docker or a native install. Setup instructions are available at www.keepitkept.xyz.
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Features
- Added optional custom connection headers for mobile clients, useful for access gateways and reverse proxies that require header-based authentication.
- List/grid view preference now persists across sessions and devices.
- Newly shared notes now appear at the top of the recipient's overview so they're easier to find.
- Added an "Uncheck all checked items" action for checklist notes.
- Added a floating formatting bar for selected text on web.
- Added pull-to-refresh on mobile, with a more intentional gesture threshold and smoother cancel animation.
Fixes & Polish
- Fixed collaborator edits on shared notes not saving correctly.
- Fixed shared notes lingering in other logged-in sessions after a user unshared/removed themselves.
- Fixed mobile/selection delete on shared notes so it properly unshares instead of fake-trashing locally.
- Fixed list view alignment and indentation issues on web/mobile.
- Fixed indented checklist item handles so they move with their item.
Version 1.7.2
The developer, Eric Gillis, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Eric Gillis
Size
7.9 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
