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.
Most of the reviews misunderstand the goal of this app. This is great a way to escape having all of your personal notes stored on cloud servers. I have long awaited a true alternative to Google Keep, and Kept Notes is it. The only ways I could see this majorly improved are:1. Live sync/Offline Drafts. If you create a new note and forget to close the note before you exit the app, it’s as if that note never existed. I have lost information this way a few times.2. Adding a drawing to an existing note can make the text within completely inaccessible.*Note: I have noticed that the currently available version of the app is not as up to date as the GitHub release. My issues may already be resolved once the newest app update is released.
A ridiculous way method to set up
AtJa80
For some reason, this app requires a convoluted server set up that is impossible to get working instead of just using iCloud like a normal app.
FEATURES:
- Improved reliability in poor-signal environments: if saving takes too long, Kept now falls back to offline-first saving and syncs changes in the background.
- Added Foldable Resolution support (three column layout, major UI fixes - bring on the Duo baby!)
- You can now add collaborators while creating a new note.
- Added visual UI prompt for Checklist/Drawing/Image note types when creating new note
- Added support for nested tickboxes – you can now go four layers deep, not just one.
- Notes created while on a label page will now auto-append that page’s label to the note.
- Added ability to delete all checked items
- Added ability in user settings to toggle from default behaviour of auto-removing reminders to instead continue to show them, but as grayed out. Default remains auto-removal.
- Added optional SSO login with OpenID Connect, including support for providers like Google, Authentik, and Pocket ID.
- Added optional MCP Support for AI integration
FIXES:
- Resolved dark mode formatting issues
- Improved spacing for notes without titles
- Fixed reminders incorrectly firing immediately when scheduled more than a month out.
Version 1.8.1
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
8 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.