Keep It Mobile vs Pinmate for Pinboard
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
Pinmate for Pinboard
This app acts as a fast and efficient companion for the Pinboard bookmarking service. It allows for quick sharing of URLs from any app, offline reading of cached content, and offers advanced tools for managing and checking your bookmarks.
- Share extension for any app
- Offline access to cached feeds
- Smart search and filtering
- iCloud settings and favorites sync
- Broken-link and metadata checker
- Export bookmarks in multiple formats
- macOS keyboard-friendly interface
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Pinmate is your fast bridge to Pinboard. Share any URL from Safari or other apps, fill in title, description, and tags, then save instantly. Your personal feed, popular links, and network are cached locally, so there's always something to read - even offline. New in 1.6: app language picker (restart required), new/unread summary chips with quick reset, card action buttons, relative time display, and an optional feed preload on login. Highlights: - Share extension: grab links from any app, auto-fill page metadata with a live status indicator, and gate saving until it's ready. - Smart filters: search title/URL/tags, filter unread, favorites, or private; FROM_ tags can open a user's feed or act as normal tags. - iCloud settings sync: optionally store settings (including API token) in iCloud and restore on a new device. - iCloud favorites sync: starred/pinned items are preserved across reinstalls. - Local network: build a local list of people from user feeds, merge it into your Network feed, and manage members in one place (with source badges). - Recent feed: a dedicated tab powered by Pinboard's recent RSS. - Broken-link checker: scan your own feed for 404s with a countdown, intensity (low/mid/high), delete in bulk with stop control and progress. - Metadata checker: pick fields (tags/description/title/all), scope (missing-only or all), intensity, optionally fill placeholders, and update per item or all at once with a countdown and stop control. - HTTPS upgrade tool: scan HTTP bookmarks, check if HTTPS works, upgrade one-by-one or all at once, and optionally delete links without a working HTTPS variant. - Export hub: from the Tools menu export all bookmarks to HTML, JSON, CSV, or Markdown (shared/toread included) with a progress banner and share sheet. - Feed summary: toggle the top card (last refresh + entry count) on/off, applied to all feeds (including user feeds). - Feed chips: new/unread counters in the summary card; tap to reset new items or mark all unread as read. - Card actions: quick unread/private/star buttons plus a menu for edit/share/copy/import. - App language: choose a preferred language in Settings (applies after restart). - User-Agent setting: choose Pinmate or Safari for metadata/tag fetching (used everywhere, including debug analysis). - One-tap pinning: mark favorites or reading list in a flash. - App icon badge: choose none, unread, or starred counts. - Offline cache: personal, popular, and network feeds stay available for quick access. - App group sync: shared links wait in the app, even when you open it later. - macOS: keyboard-friendly feeds with arrow scrolling, Enter to open, and Command-R refresh. - Languages: German, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, and Polish. For whom? Pinboard users who want speed, offline convenience, and a polished iOS and macOS experience. Pinmate keeps your bookmark inbox light, your favorites within reach, and makes sharing from iPhone, iPad, and Mac effortless.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Keep It Mobile at Free against Pinmate for Pinboard's $3.99. Pinmate for Pinboard's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 57%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Keep It Mobile is free to download; Pinmate for Pinboard costs $3.99 up front. Keep It Mobile sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Pinmate for Pinboard asks for nothing beyond the download.
Keep It Mobile ships an update fortnightly, Pinmate for Pinboard every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Keep It Mobile | Pinmate for Pinboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (641 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Harris | Marco Janssen |
Customer experience
Keep It Mobile
Pinmate for Pinboard
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
Pinmate for Pinboard
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
Pinmate for Pinboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Keep It Mobile free?
Is Pinmate for Pinboard free?
Do Keep It Mobile or Pinmate for Pinboard have ads?
Which is updated more often, Keep It Mobile or Pinmate for Pinboard?
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