Comparison

Count Money ! vs Kept

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

Head to head
About

Count Money !

Practice counting money with adjustable difficulty and problem counts. Progress through levels to master financial skills. This app is designed for educational purposes.

Highlights
  • Practice counting money
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Select number of problems
  • Progress through levels
  • Master financial skills
Features
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Count Money ! is a great way to practice counting money. Select the difficulty level and number of problems in the "Settings" screen. Progress through the difficulty levels until you master counting money. If you like this app, please consider giving it a rating. Your support will help keep the updates coming! Thank you for your support!

About

Kept

Features
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Prop your phone up and study. Kept counts the time you were actually at the desk — and hands it back as a 15-second video you can post. HOW IT WORKS 1. Type in what you're working on, or don't. 2. Prop the phone up and point the front camera at your chair. 3. Tap Lock in, and study. 4. When you stop, you get your score, a ring showing exactly where the hours broke, and a timelapse with all of it burned in. WHAT THE RING SHOWS The ring is the session. Amber is time you were at the desk. The gaps are where you left. A notch is where you picked the phone up. Every session comes out as a full circle, whether it ran 25 minutes or four hours — the number in the middle is the part that changes. THE CAMERA NEVER LEAVES YOUR PHONE Every frame is analyzed on the device itself. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is kept on a server, and there is no account to create. Faces in the exported video are blurred automatically, and that is on by default. NO CAMERA? USE THE SIMPLE TIMER The Simple Timer is a plain study timer with no camera and no score. It does not make a video. It is free, and there is no limit on it. WHAT'S FREE Kept is free to use. On the free plan you get two scored sessions a week, and your videos carry a KEPT.STUDY watermark. Free clips can be shared the day you make them; keeping them is part of Kept Pro. KEPT PRO Kept Pro takes the KEPT.STUDY watermark off your videos and opens up the rest of the app. • Yearly — $44.99 per year, after a 7-day free trial • Monthly — $7.99 per month, no free trial Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase. If you buy a subscription during a free trial, the unused part of that trial is forfeited. FOR PARENTS Kept is a study timer. The camera does one job: it tells whether the student is sitting at the desk. All of that happens on the phone. No video, image or frame is ever uploaded, there is no account, no messaging and no feed. Faces are blurred automatically in anything the app exports. That blur is on by default; it can be turned off in the app. IF YOU ARE ASKED TO APPROVE A PURCHASE Kept Pro is the same study timer. It removes the KEPT.STUDY watermark, lifts the two-scored-sessions-a-week limit, and lets clips be kept on the phone instead of clearing at the end of the day. It does not add an account, a feed, messaging or uploads — where the video goes does not change. You can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kept.study/privacy

Screenshots

Count Money !4 screens
Kept4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Count Money ! at none against Kept's 2. Count Money ! also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Kept's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kept sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Count Money ! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Count Money ! ships an update every 12 months, Kept every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Count Money ! versus Kept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCount Money !Kept
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (525 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings525 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHorizon Business, Inc.TAKASHI WATANABE

Bugs and requests

Count Money !

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Incompatible with iPad Pro
  • App crashes or performance issues on certain devices

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add more coin amount variations (e.g., $0.78, $0.98, $0.57)
  • Include dollar bills in addition to coins
  • Support for international currencies and countries
  • Add 50-cent pieces to coin options
  • Toggle-able total amount display on screen
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  • Difficulty level settings or progression
  • Coin selection pile feature for varied solutions
  • Remove or reduce ads in the app

Kept

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Count Money !

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Kept

Subscriptions2
  • Kept Pro Monthly: Study Video$7.991 Month
  • Kept Pro Yearly: Study Video7 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Count Money ! free?
Count Money ! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kept free?
Kept is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Count Money ! or Kept have ads?
Count Money ! shows ads; Kept does not.
Which is updated more often, Count Money ! or Kept?
Count Money ! ships an update every 12 months, and Kept every 3 weeks. Most recently, Count Money ! was updated on November 13, 2026 and Kept on November 6, 2026.

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