Keep It is a notebook and organizer, ideal for writing notes, saving web links, storing documents, images, or any kind of file, and finding them again.
Keep It integrates with the Files app, can edit files in a variety of formats, and show previews of pretty much everything else. Organize with folders, labels, tags and bundles. Keep It’s powerful search works with most standard file formats, and includes text recognition for images and scanned PDFs. With iCloud, access your Keep It library across multiple devices, and share items and folders with other Keep It users.
Available on iPhone and iPad, and as a separate app for Mac, Keep It is the destination for all those things you want to put somewhere, confident you will find them again later.
New in Keep It 2
Keep It 2 adds Quick Open and Quick File on iPad, minimal web pages, the ability to reorder lists in the sidebar, a redesigned items list, favorites at the top, a streamlined UI for editing and viewing items, improved text formatting controls, improved search, improved PDF viewing and Markdown previews, improved linking between items, the ability to duplicate items, tags in the Files app, and more. See What’s New In Keep It 2 for a full list.
Notes, Links and Everything Else
Make Notes
Create notes with built-in styles that look good and read well on all your devices. Notes can contain checklists, bulleted and numbered lists, dividers, links, sketches, images, and other attachments.
Add Anything
Any kind of file can be created from stationery, added to Keep It in the app or while working in other apps. Documents can be opened for editing in any other application that can open that kind of file. Any item can be encrypted with a password.
Save Web Links
Save web links to Keep It, view them in the app, open them in your browser, save them as PDFs or web archives for offline reading, or convert them to editable notes.
Preview and Edit
Keep It generates thumbnails and summaries for most files, can edit its own notes, Markdown, rich and plain text documents, add highlights and notes to PDFs, and show images, web pages and most other documents.
iCloud
Everywhere
Keep It can store everything in iCloud and make it available on your iPad, iPhone, and Mac too, with Keep It for Mac.
Share Folders and Items
Keep It can share top-level folders and individual items with other Keep It users via iCloud. Participants will see all changes automatically.
Organize
Folders
Folders let you organize items and bundles hierarchically, when needed. Select a folder to see everything it contains. Swipe right on any expandable folder to focus on it. Use drag and drop to rearrange folders, bundles and items.
Labels
Use labels to color-code items for quick visual recognition. Labels are listed at the top-level on iPhone or sidebar on iPad, so you can quickly see everything with a particular label.
Bundles
When you need to gather things into one place, make a bundle. Items can be in more than one bundle at a time, and when you remove the bundle, everything else stays where it was.
More Lists
Use the Recents list to see things you’ve added or viewed lately, with the latest shown at the top. Favorites provide quick access. Deleted Items are automatically removed after 30 days.
Search and Filter
Search
Keep It can search the content of most files, and can recognize text in scanned PDFs and images, and prominent features in images. While searching, suggestions appear as you type, allowing you to narrow down results to exactly what you need. Save searches for later reuse.
Tag Filter
Keep It’s Tag Filter makes finding things by their tags easy, and works with search and the selected list. Choose a tag to see all the tagged items and any other relevant tags; choose another tag to drill down further.
Where You Need It
Share
Add web links, text, photos and videos from within other apps with Keep It’s Share extension, available in most apps. As you do, you can choose to append text to an existing note, specify tags, and choose a destination folder or bundle.
Works with Other Apps
Keep It integrates with the Files app so you can access everything in Keep It from within other apps. Drag and drop files, text and links to Keep It on iPad. You can also copy clickable links to items for use in other apps, and automate with Shortcuts or x-callback-urls.
What’s New in Keep It 2 for iPad and iPhone
Organize
- Manually reorder folders, bundles and saved searches in the Lists view
- Filter folders and bundles while organizing
- See and assign Keep It tags in the Files app
- Use Quick File on iPad with a hardware keyboard to quickly move items to a folder or add them to a bundle
- Set a color when creating folders or bundles
- Duplicate folders, bundles and saved searches
- Search for and create folders and bundles in the Share extension
- Choose Keep It folders as persisted locations in other apps
Items
- See favourite items at the top of the list
- Redesigned list view shows larger thumbnails and longer names
- Icon view shows document thumbnails by their width
- Duplicate individual items in the list
- Action menu provides quick access to functions for editors and previews
- Merge items into a single note
- Convert rich text, plain text, web pages, mail messages, and Markdown files to notes
- See items that link to the current item (backlinks) in the Info view or Show In menu
- Resize the tag filter on iPhone
Search
- See instant search suggestions to go beyond searching with text
- Find items with checklists and highlighted text
- Find images by their prominent features
- Redesigned saved search editor
- Use Quick Open to quickly go to any list or item by typing its name
- When searching by content, the first found occurrence will be scrolled into view
Notes & Text Editing
- Redesigned format view shows note styles, fonts, colors etc in one place
- Edit underline, strikethrough, and paragraph settings for saved note styles
- Adjustable display margins for notes, rich text, and Markdown documents
- Easily insert a link to another Keep It item or list
- See task lists in Markdown previews
- Constrain width in full screen on iPad
- Indent checklists items
- Choose custom highlight colors for notes and rich text documents
Web Links
- Reader mode for web links and saved web page
- Save web links in a minimal format
- Convert minimal format web pages to editable notes
PDFs
- Navigate PDFs by thumbnails, or the document outline (if available)
- Reorder, rotate, and remove pages in the thumbnails view
- Select, highlight, and copy text in scanned PDFs on iOS and iPadOS 16 or later
- Choose custom highlight colors for PDFs