Keep It Mobile vs Transcriptionist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Keep It Mobile
This app is a powerful notebook and document organizer for mobile devices. It allows users to create and edit various file types, scan documents, manage PDFs, and archive emails. Organize everything with folders, tags, and color-coded labels for easy retrieval.
- Create and edit notes, rich text, plain text, and Markdown files
- Scan documents and edit PDFs
- Archive emails and save web links
- Organize with folders, tags, and color-coded labels
- Search across file names, content, and dates
- Share items via iCloud
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Keep It for iPad and iPhone is a powerful notebook and document organizer that can be used on its own or in conjunction with Keep It for Mac, available separately. Keep It can create and edit notes, rich text, plain text and Markdown files, scan documents, edit PDFs, archive emails, save web links in a variety of formats, preview and search just about any kind of file, and organize these in a variety of ways. All the files, folders and tags you store in Keep It are available in the Files app, can be opened and edited in other applications, and shared with other Keep It users via iCloud. Notes, Documents and Everything Else • Create notes with styles, checklists and attachments that look good and read well on all your devices • Create and edit rich text, plain text and Markdown files • Adjustable display margins and word count available in all Keep It’s text editors • Scan documents, add photos or videos, and save any kind of file to Keep It’s library • Edit PDFs, play movies, and preview everything else with Quick Look • Save web links for offline viewing as PDFs or web archives • Create templates or empty files in any format using stationery • View and work with mail messages and their attachments • Merge multiple items into a single note Organize • Use folders to organize things hierarchically • Swipe right on a folder to focus the sidebar on it and its children • Add tags to items and filter items with one touch using the Tag Filter • Use color-coded labels to quickly identify items • Use bundles to collect items together and see them in more than one place • See favorite items, and add lists to the Favorites Bar • All lists can have their own sort settings and colors Works With Other Apps • Add text, links, and files to Keep It using its share extension • Access and manage all the files, folders and tags you add to Keep It in the Files app • Open files for editing in other apps from within Keep It or their document browser • Share items in Keep It to other apps using the Share sheet • Drag text, images, links, files and mail messages to Keep It • Automate Keep It with Shortcuts Search • Search for items by their names, kind, content, dates, tags and more • Combine suggestions to create complex queries with ease • Step through found text in notes, editable text documents, web pages, and PDFs • Save searches to the sidebar for reuse Keep It on iPad • Use Quick File to file items quickly using a keyboard-friendly interface • Use Quick Open to quickly navigate to any list or item by typing its name • Constrain the width when editing notes or text files in full screen mode • Annotate PDFs and images and add sketches to notes with Apple Pencil And More… • Use the Recents list to see things you’ve added or viewed lately • Share folders and items with other Keep It users via iCloud • Encrypt any file with a password • Copy clickable links to items and lists in Keep It • See items that link to the current item and navigate between them SUBSCRIPTIONS Use of Keep It Mobile requires a paid subscription that you can purchase in the app. A choice of monthly and yearly subscriptions is available, and these include a free trial. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account following the free trial, unless you cancel the subscription at least 24-hours before the end of the trial period. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of Use: https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/ios/terms.html
Transcriptionist
This app converts audio and video soundtracks into text with timestamps. It supports multiple languages and can identify individual speakers. Transcripts can be exported in various formats or used to extract audio clips.
- Speech to text conversion
- Speaker identification
- Timestamped transcripts
- Multiple export formats
- On-device processing
- Custom export formats
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Transcriptionist quickly and privately converts speech from audio recordings — and video soundtracks — into text. Writing up notes for a meeting? Creating transcripts or subtitles for a podcast? Looking for just the right clip to cut out of a long recording? Or quotes for a news article? Need to remember what happened on game night? Or just want to remind yourself of what was said, without listening to the entire recording? Transcriptionist can help — in nearly 100 languages. Import the audio into the app, tap the transcribe button, and it will start to fill in the text that was spoken. Each piece is shown with a timestamp, and you can jump straight to the matching point in the recording to listen back to the original audio — at up to 2x speed. If each speaker was recorded with their own microphone, Transcriptionist will track who said what, when — and you can solo individual voices to pick out what someone said, even if another person talked over them. Copy and paste quotes into an article you're writing, or export the entire transcript in a range of formats, including PDF, HTML (web page), Markdown (blog post), SRT and VTT (subtitles), as well as formats suitable for importing into other apps — you can even create your own custom text-based formats with the built-in easy-to-use visual editor. If you edit podcasts with our popular Ferrite Recording Studio, you can send your finished Ferrite projects direct to Transcriptionist — along with chapter markers — and each track will be kept separate so you can identify who's speaking. You can also select paragraphs and export their audio in a choice of formats, suitable for editing in Ferrite or other apps — perfect for when you find the quote or highlight you needed. Transcription takes place on your device, not on our servers, so no audio or text is sent to us, and subscribers can make as many transcripts as they like — we don't charge per-minute or per-transcript. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.wooji-juice.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Keep It Mobile at 641 against Transcriptionist's 18. Keep It Mobile also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Keep It Mobile sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Transcriptionist sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Keep It Mobile against 4.4 for Transcriptionist. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Keep It Mobile has 641 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Keep It Mobile's written reviews are positive against 54% of Transcriptionist's.
Keep It Mobile ships an update fortnightly, Transcriptionist every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Keep It Mobile | Transcriptionist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (641 ratings) — better | 4.4 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.8% of reviews — better | 53.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 641 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Harris | Wooji Juice Ltd |
Customer experience
Keep It Mobile
Transcriptionist
Bugs and requests
Keep It Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notes randomly disappearing after sync
- Inability to delete items from 'All Items' view
- Typing cursor issues and UI lag
- Unreliable 'Save for Offline' functionality
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to edit note dates
- Improve photo and image handling
- Implement web clipping and article saving
- Add Dropbox/Google Drive sync options
- Introduce a one-time purchase option
Transcriptionist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Keep It Mobile
- Keep It for iPad and iPhone14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Keep It for iPad and iPhone14 Days trial$19.991 Year
Transcriptionist
- Transcriptionist (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.491 Month
- Transcriptionist (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Questions
Is Keep It Mobile free?
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