Keep It Downloads
Download a 15-day trial of Keep It here, which can be converted to the full version after purchase. Other downloads, including versions for older versions of macOS, are available at the bottom of the page.
Version 1.11.10
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
January 21, 2022
Changes
- Fix a crash that could occur when generating thumbnails for the items list.
- Fixed an issue where some mail items couldn’t be found by their attachments’ content.
- Added Format > Font > Strikethrough to the menu for rich text documents.
- Fixed an issue automatically naming web links created in the app that are not saved for offline.
Version 1.11.9
Download: KeepIt_1.11.9.dmg (26.4 MB)
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
January 18, 2022
Changes
- Fixed performance issues generating thumbnails for web links.
- Fixed an issue importing notes from ENEX files with attachments whose names include multiple consecutive spaces.
- Smart quotes and dashes are now disabled by default in plain text files. To change that, use the Edit > Substitutions menu to change the settings while viewing a plain text file.
- Fixed an issue where the tag filter may appear active after removing all the items with the selected tag(s).
Version 1.11.8
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
January 4, 2022
Changes
- When renaming an item to have a different file extension, it no longer matters whether the extension was previously hidden.
- Choose whether to include headers and footers when printing web pages, Markdown previews, and mail messages on macOS Big Sur and later.
- Fixed an issue where Keep It notes may not be searchable in Spotlight.
- Fixed an issue where Markdown syntax coloring in edit mode would not be updated immediately when using the menus or format bar.
- Fixed an issue where word count wasn’t working for Markdown documents.
- Fixed an issue where the Markdown editor would not be shown when a plain text file is renamed to have a Markdown file extension, and vice versa.
- Reload a Markdown preview by choosing Markdown > Reload Preview when it is visible.
- Fixed an issue exporting items with the same name from a bundle using the File > Export menu item.
- Fixed an issue opening an item link when a search is active and Keep It is set to select new items in the list.
- Fixed an issue where the add and remove buttons may not be visible when editing a saved search on macOS Monterey.
- Fixed an issue where Keep It may not be able to identify shared items when using a saved search.
- Fixed an issue dragging items to notes to insert links.
- Fixed an issue where an item’s comments and source URL would not be available in the Shortcuts app.
Version 1.11.7
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
December 7, 2021
Changes
- Fixed an issue where duplicate items could be created when dragging an image from some web browsers and Keep It is set to save web links for offline.
- Fixed an issue where viewing an item in a particularly deep folder could cause the window to resize when the Where field is shown in the Info view.
- Fixed an issue where the content of Markdown files may not be searchable when Panic’s Nova is installed.
- Fixed an issue pasting links into plain text files.
Version 1.11.6
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
November 16, 2021
Changes
- When editing a note, choosing Format > Bulleted List / Numbered List / Dashed List from the menu will now toggle that list style on or off.
- Fixed an issue where it wouldn’t be possible to add people when sharing an item or folder on macOS Monterey.
- Fixed an issue where an error message about folder depth could be wrongly shown when saving to iCloud.
Version 1.11.5
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
October 21, 2021
Shortcuts
Keep It now supports the Shortcuts app in macOS Monterey, and supports all the same shortcuts as Keep It for iPad and iPhone. These are described below in alphabetical order.
- Add Files to Keep It: Adds the specified files. Optionally specify a destination, tags, and whether to convert text files to notes. Returns the created items.
- Add List to Keep It: Add a folder or bundle. Returns the folder or bundle.
- Add Text to Keep It: Creates a new item from the text. Optionally specify a destination, format, style for the next (notes only), and tags. Returns the new item.
- Add Web Link to Keep It: Adds a web link. Optionally set a name for the saved web link, choose whether to save it for offline and in what format, the destination and tags. Returns the new item.
- Append Text to Keep It Item: Append text to a note or editable text item in Keep It. For notes, choose the style of the text to add. Returns the item.
- Attach Files to Keep It Item: Attach a file to a note or editable text item. Returns the item.
- Find Keep It Bundles: Find bundles by name and / or parent. Returns the bundles.
- Find Keep It Folders: Find folders by name and / or parent. Returns the folders.
- Find Keep It Items: Find items by name, filename comments, source, tags, the presence of attachments, kind, list, label, date added / created / modified, or a range of dates.
- Find Keep It Labels: Find Keep It labels by name.
- Get Keep It Item: Get a specific Keep It item, optionally by its item link or identifier. Useful for integrating shortcuts with other automation methods such as AppleScript or x-callback-urls.
- Get Keep It Label: Get a specific Keep It label, optionally by its identifier or URL. Useful for integrating shortcuts with other automation methods such as AppleScript or x-callback-urls.
- Get Keep It List: Get a specific Keep It list, optionally by its identifier or URL. Useful for integrating shortcuts with other automation methods such as AppleScript or x-callback-urls.
- Get Text Content from Keep It Item: Gets the plain text content of any note or editable text item in Keep It.
- Open Item in Keep It: Opens the specified item in Keep It.
- Open Keep It List: Opens the specified list in Keep It.
- Remove Keep It Item: Removes the specified Keep It item either from the library (and to Deleted Items), or from the specified bundle.
- Set Properties on Keep It Item: Set properties such as name comments, source URL, favorite, tags, bundles, folder, or label on an item.
- Set Properties on Keep It List: Set properties such as name, parent, or favorite on a list.
Other Changes
- Fixed an issue where web archives may not show any content on macOS Monterey.
- Fixed an issue with the notification shown when importing a single file by moving it.
- Fixed an issue adding or editing attachments on notes shared with you.
- Added a “label” parameter to the “add” x-callback-url. Previously label identifiers could be passed in the “list” parameter, but will no longer be accepted there.
Version 1.11.4
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
October 5, 2021
Changes
- Fixed an issue where customized note styles and colors would not be used on macOS Catalina.
- Fixed an issue changing the format of bulleted or numbered lists in notes and rich text documents.
- Fixed an issue where progress wasn’t updated while deleting from iCloud.
- Fixed an issue importing image attachments in notes from ENEX files in future versions of macOS.
Version 1.11.3
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
September 24, 2021
Changes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing some notes or rich text documents that contain links (really this time).
Version 1.11.2
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
September 23, 2021
Changes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing some notes or rich text documents that contain links.
Version 1.11.1
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
September 22, 2021
Changes
- Fixed an issue where applying updated note styles would not affect the text at the cursor position, or apply to empty notes.
- Corrected a typo in the name of the Format > Font > Adapt Colors for Dark Mode menu item for notes and rich text documents.
- Improved performance when deleting thousands of items from iCloud.
- Improved handling of hashtags.
Version 1.11
Requirements
macOS Catalina 10.15 or later.
Released
September 20, 2021
Summary
- Convert PDFs and images to attachments on notes
- Optionally use hashtags in text files
- Improvements for importing and converting text files
- Improvements for editing notes and rich text documents in Dark Mode
- Improvements to share extension, Markdown previews, and more
Notes
- After choosing Format > Styles > Edit styles from the menu, if changes to the default styles are saved, Keep It will ask whether to apply those styles to the note.
- Choose Format > Styles > Reset Styles in Note from the menu to reset the style of the selected text, or the entire note, to the current defaults (applies to notes created with Keep It 1.11 and later only).
- When notes are exported as HTML, text in the Title, Heading, and Subheading styles will be exported as h1, h2 and h3 respectively (applies to notes created with Keep It 1.11 and later only).
- Attached PDFs are now shown inline by default.
Notes & Rich Text
- Choose Format > Font > Adapt Colors for Dark Mode from the menu to toggle whether colors will be automatically adjusted to make them legible in dark mode (on by default, only effective when dark mode in use).
- Hold on the Option key and choose Format > Text > Always Show Ruler from the menu to always show the ruler in either notes or rich text files (depending on the format of the file being edited when the option is chosen).
Markdown
- Specify custom HTML for the
<head>section a preview in Markdown Settings: when a Markdown document is being viewed, choose Markdown > Settings from the menu and click Advanced.
PDFs
- Added PDF > Convert to Note menu item. When chosen Keep It will confirm that you want to convert the PDF to an attachment on a new note. The original PDF will be moved to the system Trash. Encrypted items that are being viewed cannot be converted.
Images
- Added Image > Convert to Note menu item. When chosen Keep It will confirm that you want to convert the image to an attachment on a new note. The original image file will be moved to the system Trash. Encrypted items that are being viewed cannot be converted.
Sidebar
- Hold on the Option key and double-click folders to expand / collapse them instead of focusing on them.
Items
- Items in editing windows can now be moved to Deleted Items using the Item > Move to Deleted Items menu item.
- It’s now possible to select “Apply to all” when choosing to replace, keep both or skip while moving items between folders and an existing item is found with the same name.
Tags
- Added Tags preferences, which now includes the “Import Finder tags” and “Update Finder tags” options that were previously in Advanced preferences.
- Added the option “Use hashtags in text files” to Tags preferences. When enabled, hashtags in notes, rich text, plain text and Markdown files will autocomplete, and become clickable to begin filtering for that tag. The hashtags will be used as the item’s tags when the files are saved. Keep It will offer to extract hashtags from existing notes and text files.
- Hashtags can contain alphanumeric characters and underscores. When converted to Keep It tags, the leading hash will be removed and underscores will be converted to spaces. By default, Keep It will only allow all-numeric hashtags (like Apple Notes, but unlike social media) if the “Allow numeric hashtags” option is enabled in Tags preferences.
- When filtering tags, the number of items found will be shown in the window subtitle on macOS Big Sur and later, and in the status bar on macOS Catalina.
- Hold on the Option key to access the Item > Replace Tags menu item.
Imports
- Import bookmarks from an HTML file, such as those created by web browsers, by choosing Keep It > Import > Bookmarks from the menu. Folders and tags in the bookmarks file will be preserved.
- In Imports preferences, the Text Files pop-up is set to “Convert to notes” click the action (…) button next to the pop-up to set whether to include HTML and plain text files in the types that are converted (on by default, which this was the behavior prior to this version).
- In Imports preferences, click the action (…) button next to the Text Files pop-up to access the “Import hashtags as tags” option. When enabled, hashtags in rich text, plain text, and Markdown files will be converted to Keep It tags when the files are first imported, regardless of the “Use hashtags in text files” option in Tags preferences.
- When using the Add Files sheet, there is now an “Import hashtags as tags” option to override the setting in Imports preferences.
Share Extension & Import View
- Recent notes are now shown in the Where pop-up for links, images, and other files.
- Icons are now shown next to notes or other editable text items in the Where pop-up on macOS Big Sur and later.
Search
- Saved searches can now match favorite items without needing to target the Favorites list.
AppleScript
- Added “current item” to get the current item that is in the frontmost library or editing window.
- It’s now possible to set “selected group” or “selected items”.
General
- Fixed the appearance of the Add Tags icon shown in the toolbar and when multiple items are selected.
- The maximum depth of folders on iCloud has been removed.
- New app icon.
History
- Version 1.10
- Version 1.9
- Version 1.8
- Version 1.7
- Version 1.6
- Version 1.5
- Version 1.4
- Version 1.3
- Version 1.2
- Version 1.1
- Version 1.0
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Older Versions
- Keep It 1.8.21 — requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra and later.
- Keep It 1.4.8 — requires macOS 10.12 Sierra and later.
Apple Notes Importer
Use this to import from Apple Notes (requires Keep It 1.9 and macOS 10.15 or later):
Install PDF Service
Use this to install the "Save PDF to Keep It" print service:
PopClip Extension
Update Finder Comments
This will install a script that Keep It can use to update Finder comments. See the Support page for more information: