dear. vs Kindly Kept
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- Guided camera capture
- Photo library import
- Image editing tools
- Organize by occasion, date, tags
- Searchable memories
- Gallery, timeline, people views
- iCloud sync
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | dear. | Kindly Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | dearly LLC | HCE Digital LLC |
Customer experience
dear.
Kindly Kept
In-app purchases
dear.
No in-app purchases
Kindly Kept
No in-app purchases







