Keep It Mobile vs Excerpt
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
Excerpt
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Turn your audiobooks into usable notes. Capture the passage you just heard, transcribe it into editable text, and export your highlights into the tools where you think, write, study, and remember. Highlight spoken ideas in one tap When something stands out, tap once to save the moment. Excerpt clips the audio around that point and turns it into a text highlight, so the ideas in your audiobooks are no longer trapped in playback history. Review, edit, and organise Highlights are grouped by chapter and separated into fresh and archived notes. Search your highlights, edit the transcript, adjust clip timing, or replay the original audio excerpt in isolation. Read Along Add an epub file of the same book, and on-device text-to-audio matching means you can open the ebook chapter to read your highlights in context, and even extend them, and create new highlights by highlighting the ebook text. Built for serious listening Listen with variable speed from 0.5× to 2×, chapter navigation, configurable skip intervals, background playback, and lock-screen controls. You can also create a highlight from the skip-back control, making it easy to capture something immediately after you hear it. Export your knowledge Send highlights to Readwise, or export them as Markdown, HTML, CSV, or JSON. Excerpt keeps your notes structured by book and chapter, ready for writing, research, study, or review. Bring your own audiobooks Import your own audio files and keep your library organised in one place. Excerpt supports chapter navigation and preserves the structure that makes long-form listening easier. Browse public-domain classics Search and download public-domain audiobooks from Librivox directly inside the app. Excerpt can fetch, unzip, and assemble multi-part recordings into a continuous audiobook with chapter markers. Private by design Excerpt is built around your own library, your own notes, and your own listening history. Audio highlights and transcripts stay part of your personal audiobook workflow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Excerpt at none against Keep It Mobile's 2. Keep It Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Excerpt asks for nothing beyond the download.
Keep It Mobile ships an update every 2 weeks, Excerpt every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Keep It Mobile | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (642 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 642 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Harris | Sean Laidlaw |
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
Excerpt
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
Excerpt
No in-app purchases









