Keep It 1.6 is now available for Mac, iPad and iPhone. This version introduces text recognition for images and scanned PDFs, the ability to create web archives on iOS, new Siri Shortcuts that work with the clipboard on iOS, plus other improvements to PDF editing, search, the Share extension, notes, text editing and more.

Text Recognition

Keep It can now recognize printed text in images and scanned PDFs. Keep It does this on the device using the latest machine learning, computer vision and image processing technologies for the most efficient and accurate results.

Keep It doesn’t modify PDFs or convert images to make them searchable, but rather indexes the text so that it can be found again, and stores that text in iCloud to save repeating the work on other devices.

Keep It has always been able to index the text in PDFs that have selectable text or had OCR performed on them already, and does not perform unnecessary text recognition on those, or on images that do not appear to contain any text.

Import Scans and Continuity Camera on Mac

Import PDFs or images from a scanner on Mac, and import standalone photos directly from your iPad or iPhone using Continuity Camera in macOS Mojave.

PDFs

To complement the above, it’s now possible to rotate and remove pages in PDFs on both Mac and iOS. Keep It can now also strikethrough and underline text in PDFs too.

Save Web Archives on iOS

Keep It for iPad and iPhone can now save web archives. Choose your preferred format (web archives or PDFs) in Keep It’s Settings, or change the default when saving individual links.

Notes

Notes can now contain dividers, and it’s also possible to show attached images at a smaller size. Keep It will also preserve dividers when importing from Evernote.

Text Editing

Insert the date and time in notes, rich text files, plain text files and Markdown documents. Customize the font for Markdown and plain text documents on iOS.

Share Extension

The Share extension can now create items in formats other than notes, based on the format of the default stationery. For example, if your default stationery is Markdown, the Share extension will create Markdown documents instead of Keep It notes when adding text. 

The Share extension can now append links and files as attachments to Keep It notes or suitable editable text files, will show up to five recent items and lists in the Share extension, and shows favorites above all the other items or lists.

It’s now also possible to show the comments field in the Share extension for links and files.

Siri Shortcuts on iOS

Keep It adds new shortcuts for adding a note or web link from the clipboard, and for appending the contents of the clipboard to notes and other editable text files (after you’ve pasted something).

And More…

Names in the item list or thumbnails now wrap for up to two lines. It’s now possible to search for items by generic types of media such as images, audio and movies rather than a specific file type.  View rich text files in Dark Mode on macOS Mojave.

For a full list of changes, see the Release Notes for Mac, and for iPad and iPhone.

Pricing & Availability

Keep It 1.6 is a free update for all existing customers. 

Keep It for Mac is available for $49.99 directly from Reinvented Software, and Together 3 users can upgrade for $24.99, unless they purchased Together 3 in its final 6 months on sale, in which case the upgrade is free. A 15-day free trial can be downloaded from this site.

Keep It for Mac is also available from the Mac App Store, offers a free trial and a choice of one-time purchase for all Keep It 1.x releases for $49.99, or an upgrade from Together 3 for $24.99 (or free if Together 3 was purchased in its final 6 months on sale). Alternatively, choose from yearly or monthly subscriptions at $19.99/year or $2.49/month.

Keep It for iPad and iPhone is available separately from the App Store with a choice of yearly or monthly subscriptions at $9.99/year or $1.49/month.

Keep It 1.5 is now available. This version adds support for Dark Mode on macOS Mojave, Siri support, highlighted search results, the ability to see unfiled items, and the Mac app is now scriptable. Searching on iPad and iPhone has been improved with suggestions, the ability to combine terms, save the current search, and to find text and step through each occurrence in a variety of file types. Both Mac and iOS apps also benefit from improvements to the item list, Markdown editing and previews, PDFs, and plenty more besides.

macOS Mojave

Keep It for Mac will support Dark Mode and accent colors on macOS Mojave, which is due out next Monday. For Dark Mode, the content of notes, plain text files, and Markdown files using built-in preview and editor styles will automatically switch to a dark appearance, and there are options to override that, and always use a light appearance for notes and Markdown files.

Siri Shortcuts

On iPad and iPhone, Siri can now create notes in Keep It, append text to notes, and search for items. Keep It makes viewed items available for shortcut predictions in iOS 12.

Search Suggestions on iOS

When searching on iPad and iPhone, Keep It will now show suggestions above the keyboard, and can tokenize terms in the search field, allowing complex searches to be created. Tapping a suggestion will add it to the search field, tapping and holding on a suggestion will show alternative ways to match results. It’s now possible to save the current search on iOS.

Highlight Search Result

When searching, Keep It can now highlight the found text in the content of notes, rich and plain text files, Markdown files, PDFs and web pages on both Mac and iOS.

Find Text

On iOS it’s now possible to find and step through each occurrence of a particular word or phrase in notes, Markdown files, rich and plain text documents, PDFs and web pages. On Mac, which could already do that for most file types, it’s now possible to step through occurrences of text in web pages, and finding text in PDFs has been improved to highlight all occurrences at once, and show the number of results.

Lists

There is now an optional “Unfiled” list that shows items which haven’t been filed into a folder or bundle, along with a “No Label” list to show unlabelled items.

It’s now possible to see and work with favorite lists on iOS by tapping the icon above the Lists view. Tapping a favorite list will show that list, and favorite lists can be rearranged and removed here too.

Item List

The item list has been redesigned to provide greater flexibility and make better use of space. It’s now possible to show no preview lines in the item list; the date is now on the same line as the summary, and can be hidden if not required. It’s now also possible to always show the item’s Kind at the start of the summary, and on Mac tooltips will be shown when hovering the mouse over a name that is too long to be shown in its entirety. On macOS Mojave, the date will be shown in the system accent color.

Markdown

You can now paste and drag (on Mac and iPad) links into Markdown files, and drag Keep It items to create links to those items. Markdown previews will now include syntax coloring for fenced code blocks where the language is indicated.

AppleScript

Keep It for Mac is now scriptable, so it’s possible to manipulate pretty much everything in the library, add files and web links, create notes from text, attach files, get highlighted sections, and export.

Other Changes

You can now see when a PDF highlight has an associated note. On Mac, it’s now possible to use bookmarklets that override the defaults to save links in specified formats, and there are new keyboard shortcuts and improvements for organizing items on iOS. See the release notes for Mac and for iOS for a full list of changes.

Pricing & Availability

Keep It 1.5 is a free update for all existing customers.

Keep It for Mac is available for $49.99 directly from Reinvented Software, and Together 3 users can upgrade for $24.99, unless they purchased Together 3 in its final 6 months on sale, in which case the upgrade is free. A 15-day free trial can be downloaded from this site.

Keep It for Mac is also available from the Mac App Store, offers a free trial and a choice of one-time purchase for all Keep It 1.x releases for $49.99, or an upgrade from Together 3 for $24.99 (or free if Together 3 was purchased in its final 6 months on sale). Alternatively, choose from yearly or monthly subscriptions at $19.99/year or $2.49/month.

Keep It for iPad and iPhone is available separately from the App Store with a choice of yearly or monthly subscriptions at $9.99/year or $1.49/month.

When Keep It was originally released on the App Store and Mac App Store last year, there was a discount for anyone who subscribed within the first 12 weeks, as well as a month-long trial. 

That introductory pricing is now set to end, and over the next few months those who have remained subscribed since then will be offered to renew at the current prices, which have been in effect for everyone else since December 2017. In USD that’s $9.99/year or $1.49/month for iOS and $19.99/year or $2.49/month for the Mac.

If you choose not to renew your subscription, the app will stop working once your current subscription expires. You will be able export all your data using the relevant buttons on the subscription sheet, or can follow the instructions on the apps’ support pages:

• Keep It for Mac Support: How can I export all data from Keep It?
• Keep It for iPad and iPhone Support: How can I get a copy of all data stored in iCloud?
  

Keep It for Mac is 30% off for Club MacStories members until September 28, along with a host of other apps and services, in celebration of its third anniversary.

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Keep It 1.4.2 for iPad and iPhone now supports x-callback-urls that can be used with apps such as Drafts and Workflow (to become Shortcuts on iOS 12).

The functionality is broadly the same as using Keep It’s Share extension:

• Add a note
• Add a new item from data (e.g. an image)
• Append text or an attachment to a note
• Save a web link

It’s also possible to pass additional parameters to specify whether a web link should be saved for offline, to specify a destination folder or bundle, and tags for the created items.

Full documentation is available here, and linked on Keep It’s support pages.