Comparison

dear. vs Kindly Kept

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

dear.

Digitally preserve and organize your cherished cards. Scan them to create a digital collection, sort by various criteria, and even generate PDFs. Never lose a memory again, even if you decide to discard the physical card.

Highlights
  • Scan and store cards digitally
  • Organize cards by year, event, or category
  • Create and share PDF collections
  • Edit card details and images
  • Create user profiles and card collections
Features
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Open a sweet birthday card and don’t know what to do with it? Throw it away? Keep it in a box under your bed where it’s never to be seen again? Organize and preserve those memories with dear. Scan and keep all your cards in one place. Organize cards by year, event, holiday, category, person, or any other way you can think of. Create and share PDFs for your scans. Now you don’t have to feel bad about tossing that birthday card from Aunt Sally. To get started begin with the following steps:   • Create a user profile   • Create your first card collection   • Create and scan your first cards   • Upload a collection image   • Edit a Card in the following ways:        • Scan new images        • Update the "from" field        • Update the description field Thank you for using dear. Please email support@thedearapp.com with feedback or any questions.

About

Kindly Kept

Digitally preserve cherished paper keepsakes like cards and artwork. Save multiple images per item, add details, and organize them for easy retrieval through various views. Keep your memories without the clutter of physical items.

Highlights
  • Guided camera capture
  • Photo library import
  • Image editing tools
  • Organize by occasion, date, tags
  • Searchable memories
  • Gallery, timeline, people views
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Kindly Kept is a warm, private archive for the paper memories you want to save without keeping every physical item. One-time purchase. No subscriptions or in-app purchases. Capture greeting cards, kid art, ticket stubs, boarding passes, and other small keepsakes. Save multiple images for each memory, add the details that matter, and revisit them through search, people, timeline, and gallery views. Calm, personal, and organized, Kindly Kept is made for families, sentimental savers, collectors, downsizers, and anyone who wants to preserve meaningful memories without storing boxes of paper forever. Features include: - Guided camera capture for fronts, insides, backs, and extra details - Photo library import - Crop, rotate, reset crop, and image adjustment tools - Multiple senders and recipients - Occasions, dates, tags, notes, and treasured markers - Search across saved details and recognized text - Gallery, timeline, people, and recently added views - Full-screen image viewing and memory montage playback - Example memory for new users - iPhone and iPad support - No Kindly Kept account required Your archive is saved in the app’s private storage on your device. When iCloud is available, eligible archive data can sync through your private iCloud account across your Apple devices. iCloud synchronization requires available storage in your Apple Account; additional storage purchased from Apple is separate from Kindly Kept. Keep the memories. Make room for what comes next.

Screenshots

dear.4 screens
Kindly Kept3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: dear. at Free against Kindly Kept's $2.99. dear. also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

dear. is free to download; Kindly Kept costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for dear. against 5.0 for Kindly Kept. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: dear. has 40 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dear. ships an update every 2 months, Kindly Kept every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
dear. versus Kindly Kept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterdear.Kindly Kept
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (40 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings40 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdearly LLCHCE Digital LLC

Customer experience

dear.

All ratings40 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Kindly Kept

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

dear.

No in-app purchases

None

Kindly Kept

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is dear. free?
dear. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kindly Kept free?
Kindly Kept costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, dear. or Kindly Kept?
dear. and Kindly Kept are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 40 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do dear. or Kindly Kept have ads?
Neither dear. nor Kindly Kept shows ads.
Which is updated more often, dear. or Kindly Kept?
dear. ships an update every 2 months, and Kindly Kept every 6 weeks. Most recently, dear. was updated on October 16, 2026 and Kindly Kept on October 18, 2026.

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