Keep It 2.9 is now available. This version updates Keep It for macOS 27 Golden Gate, iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, allows pasting Markdown text into notes, adds twenty new Shortcuts actions and makes improvements to others, along with improvements to bookmarks import and search.

macOS 27 Golden Gate

Keep It has been updated for Liquid Glass on macOS 27 Golden Gate, ensuring that icons are only used in menus when relevant, and improves the appearance of date pickers in the saved search editor.  

Keep It automatically benefits from other macOS 27 changes such as sharper app icons, improved toolbar buttons, and the restoration of the separated sidebar, accent colors in the sidebar, toolbar backgrounds, and the tighter window corner radii of previous macOS releases.

iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

Similar to the Mac version, on iPad, icons are only shown in menus when relevant, and on both iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, Keep It benefits from changes to Liquid Glass, with improved buttons and sidebar appearance.

Notes

Paste Markdown as formatted text in notes by choosing Paste as Markdown from the Edit or contextual menu. This is useful, for example, when pasting text from sources such as AI agents. Your existing note styles will be used, same as when Keep It converts Markdown files to notes.

In addition, there are improvements when converting Markdown files that contain tables, and on iOS / iPadOS Keep It can now more reliably match header styles to its own note styles.

Shortcuts

Since Keep It 2.7, its Shortcuts actions have transitioned to a new architecture compatible with Spotlight on macOS Tahoe, and Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 Golden Gate and iOS 27 — this transition is completed in Keep It 2.9. 

There is a new “Find Items” action where you can build a search based on a set of filters with more flexibility than before, particularly for names and dates. The old version of this action is renamed to “Get Items (Legacy)” and will be removed in a future release. To supplement this there is a new “Get Items from Folder” action, which can get all the items in the folder and optionally its nested folders and bundles—the “Find Items” action will only match on the exact folder.

For lists, the new “Find Lists” action provides similar functionality, and will also replace “Find Folders” and “Find Bundles”. The old versions of these have all been marked as “Legacy”.

The monolithic “Set Properties on Item” action will be replaced with the following discrete actions, which are a much better fit when using natural language creation in Shortcuts:

• Rename Item
• Change Item Comments
• Change Item Source
• Add Favorite Item
• Remove Favorite Item
• Add Tags to Item
• Remove Tags from Item
• Change Label on Item

…and these will replace the functionality of “Set Properties on List”:

• Rename List
• Move List to List
• Change List Color
• Add Favorite List
• Remove Favorite List

There are also new actions for working with labels:

• Add Label
• Rename label
• Change Label Color
• Add Favorite Label
• Remove Favorite Label
• Find Labels

On all OS versions, actions in the Shortcuts app are now grouped by category.

Search

On Mac and iPad, it’s now possible to right-click chosen suggestions to show a contextual menu to modify them, and on iPad or iPhone to tap them and show the context menu. Also, when using the “contents:” keyword, a corresponding suggestion will be included in the list. 

On Mac, when a saved search is selected in the sidebar, its rules are no longer shown in the search field (that was a provision before Keep It had a saved search editor), and on iPhone, when you navigate back to the Lists view, the current search will be cleared.

More

Keep It can now better handle the import of large Bookmarks HTML files, improves Library Settings on iPhone and iPad, and shows a clearer and localized duration for movie and audio files in the items list. Finally, when importing from Apple Notes on macOS 27, Keep It can convert horizontal dividers.

Keep It for Mac 2.9 requires macOS 15 or later, and Keep It for iPhone and iPad requires iOS 18 or later. For all full list of changes, see the Release Notes:

• Keep It 2.9 Mac Release Notes
• Keep It 2.9 iPhone and iPad Release Notes

Keep It 2.8 is available today. This version includes improvements for scanning documents, linking to items and lists, the items list, and editing notes and text files in windows on iPadOS 26, along with new and improved Shortcuts actions.

Document Scanning

The default name for scanned documents now includes the date and time.

On Mac when importing from a scanner, there is now an option to show the Import View when scanning a document to set a name, tags and choose a location before the scan is added to Keep It’s library. 

On iPad and iPhone, when scanning with the document camera, the resulting scanned PDFs now always have OCR performed on them, when available.

Linking to Items and Lists

Linking to items and lists in notes, rich text documents and Markdown files is now much simpler — start typing the name of any list or item in Keep It’s library, and choose from the suggestions shown below the link field. 

When inserting links to items into a Markdown document, it’s also possible to insert a relative path to the item; links to image items in Keep It are always inserted that way.

Shortcuts

There is a new “Append Link” action for appending links to notes and other editable text files. This was already possible with the “Add Web Link” action, but as that is primarily for saving standalone web links, the feature got missed. 

The “Find Items” shortcut now has a “Match Name Exactly” option for matching items by their exact name, rather than a portion of it.

And More

There are a various refinements for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, including support for constraining the width of notes and editable text files in windows on iPadOS 26, which previously only applied to full-screen iPad apps. 

Across all versions, name generation for notes and web links has been improved, particularly in non-Latin languages, and Keep It can now show thumbnails for PDFs attached to notes in the items list.

Keep It 2.8 requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later, or iOS 17 / iPadOS 17 and later.

• Keep It 2.8 for Mac Release Notes
• Keep It 2.8 for iPad and iPhone Release Notes

Keep It 2.6 is now available. This version includes improvements for highlights and image attachments in notes, table editing on Mac, inserting dates, saving web links, encrypting files, and importing/exporting bookmarks HTML files.

Notes & Editable Text Files

Highlights in notes and rich text documents now match the new standard style provided by Apple in macOS Sequoia and iOS 18, but in Keep It 2.6 this will apply to all versions of macOS and iOS.

In Keep It for Mac, you can now add and remove rows within a table in notes and rich text documents, rather than just at the end of the table.

Since Keep It 1.6, Keep It has provided a “Show Small Images” feature that constrains the display size of image attachments in specific notes. In version 2.6, the feature has been renamed to “Constrain Image Sizes”, and now offers a choice of four different sizes, along with the ability to apply this setting to all notes.

Keep It 2.6 can now insert dates in ISO 8601 format anywhere in Keep It that you can edit text on Mac, and in notes, rich text, plain text, and Markdown files on iPad and iPhone.

Web Links

Keep It can now show a featured image in Reader mode for web links and saved web pages, and can include a featured image in web links saved in a minimal format.

When importing a bookmarks HTML file, Keep It can optionally now use the added and modified dates exported by Firefox and Chrome (added date only), and Keep It includes these dates when exporting a bookmarks HTML file.

Encrypted Files

On Mac, Keep It now lets you authorise to view an encrypted file with a companion device such as Apple Watch. When exporting a list or library that contains encrypted items on Mac, Keep It now allows authorisation with either Touch ID or a companion device, if available.

In addition, Keep It now provides an “Always require password” option in its Advanced settings on Mac and Settings on iPhone to disable authorizing with Touch ID, Face ID, or a companion device when viewing or exporting encrypted files.

And More…

Keep It for Mac can now import an exported Keep It library, preserving not only folders, files and tags as before, but also bundles, labels, saved searches, and favorites. There are also improvements automatically naming notes and rich text files with attachments, Compact Mode on Mac, the items list, search suggestions, saved searches, and importing folders on iPad and iPhone. See the release notes for a full list of changes:

• Keep It 2.6 for Mac Release Notes
• Keep It 2.6 for iPad and iPhone Release Notes

Keep It 2.5 is now available. In this version, Keep It has been updated to work with the latest versions of macOS, iOS and iPadOS, checklists in notes can be indented, and it’s now possible to choose custom highlight colors for notes, rich text files and PDFs. On Mac, there is now a Safari extension for adding a web link with a single click. On iPad and iPhone, integration with the Files app and document browsers has been updated to allow Keep It’s folders to be used as persisted locations in other apps.

Notes & Text Files

Checklist items in notes can now be indented, which also covers sharing notes to Keep It from the Notes app on Mac, and pasting copied checklists from notes into Markdown files.

Keep It has always offered a choice of colors for highlighting text, and you can now choose your own. This color will be stored in iCloud, and available across Keep It on Mac, iPad and iPhone. On macOS Sequoia, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Keep It will convert highlights to their nearest rich text equivalents. 

PDFs

As with notes, it’s always been possible to choose from a range of highlight colors for PDFs, and it’s now possible to choose a custom color that will be stored in iCloud and available across Keep It on Mac, iPad and iPhone. 

Locked PDFs can now be unlocked with user and owner passwords to allow restricted operations such as printing and copying text.

Integration

On Mac, Keep It now includes a Safari extension that allows you to save the current page to Keep It with a single click. 

On iPad and iPhone, Keep It’s Files app and document browser integration has been rewritten to use the latest version of Apple’s technology, which makes it possible to select any Keep It folder as a persisted location in other apps.

And More…

When searching, Keep It will now scroll to the first occurrence of a found word in notes and other editable text documents, PDFs, web pages and mail messages. The default Markdown editor style now uses the current accent color on Mac. Keep It’s app icon has been updated, with Dark Mode and tinted versions for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.

For a full list of changes, see the release notes:

• Keep It 2.5 for Mac Release Notes
• Keep It 2.5 for iPad and iPhone Release Notes

Keep It 2.4 is now available for Mac, iPad and iPhone. This version improves the display of notes and editable text items on Mac and iPad, importing and attaching photos and videos, inserting links into Markdown files, removing empty lists, and adds the ability to export bookmarks.

Photos and Videos

On Macs running macOS 13 or later, and on iPad and iPhone, it’s now possible to attach multiple photos and videos from your Photos library to notes and rich text files. On macOS 13 and later, add standalone photos or videos from your Photos library.

Constrain Width in Full Screen on iPad

On iPad, the width of notes, rich text and Markdown files (both editor and preview) can be constrained when the library split view or a separate editing window are made full screen. This option is on by default, but can be disabled for each file type if the old behaviour is preferred. Plain text files can also constrain their width in full screen, but this is off by default.

Markdown Links and Images

When inserting links to items in Markdown files, there is now an option to link to the item’s file (as a relative path) instead of inserting a Keep It-specific item link. It’s now also possible to choose a Keep It item when inserting a link to an image — in that case, the link will always be a relative path to the image file.

Lists

Confirmation will no longer be requested before moving empty folders to Deleted Items, or when removing empty bundles, labels or saved searches, but confirmation will always be shown for shared folders. The icon for the Recents list is now green.

And More…

The last-used settings will now be remembered when saving web links. On Mac, the format bars for notes, rich text and Markdown documents is now centred in editing windows. On Mac and iPad, see Quick Look preview for multiple selected items in the list. Set display margins for plain text files. Export a bookmarks HTML file of your web links, preserving the folder structure and any tags.

See the release notes for a full list of changes:

• Keep It 2.4 for Mac Release Notes
• Keep It 2.4 for iPad and iPhone Release Notes