HandMade vs Keepnook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HandMade
Discover a world of crafts with instructional videos, inspirational images, and patterns for various hobbies like knitting, sewing, and jewelry making. Connect with a community to buy and sell handmade items.
- Instructional craft videos
- Inspiration gallery
- Downloadable patterns
- Buy and sell handmade items
- Community marketplace
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This app is created for people who do crafts of different sorts. Crafts such as crochet, knitting, sewing, working with metal, jewelry, clay, or other type of crafts… the app contains instruction videos for how to do different stitches, pictures for inspiration, and patterns to use to make different items. Also, the app contains a buy and sell function so any user of the app can sell things they have made or buy things other crafters have made.
Keepnook
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Keepnook is a notebook you keep with your hands. Paste in a photograph, write beside it, run a strip of tape across the corner. Turn the page like paper. It lives on your iPad. No account, no sign-in, nothing to log into - your notebooks are yours and they stay on your device. A real spread Two pages, side by side, the way a notebook actually opens. Write across the fold. Turn the page and watch the leaf lift. Draw with a pen that means it Pen, pencil, marker and highlighter, all pressure-sensitive with Apple Pencil. Rub something out and the ink is gone, not painted over. Photographs, cut how you like Place a photo, drag its sides to reshape it, or cut around a subject by hand. Round the corners, or give it a polaroid border. Tape, stickers and artwork Washi tape, drawn shapes, and illustrated packs you can add as they arrive. Tint the paper, change the ruling, or pick a texture. Bring your planner in Import a PDF and it becomes a notebook you can write on - a planner, a workbook, sheet music. Save a page as a picture Send a spread to Photos to print or keep. Your work is yours Export a backup any time, free, forever. Import it on another device. Nothing is locked behind anything. Keepnook Plus Three notebooks to start with. Plus adds as many as you like, opens the premium artwork, and unlocks print-quality export. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://keepnook.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HandMade at none against Keepnook's 2. HandMade also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). 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. Keepnook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. HandMade asks for nothing beyond the download.
HandMade ships an update every 5 days, Keepnook every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HandMade | Keepnook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pernilla Alagoz | Aliaksandra Valodzina |
In-app purchases
HandMade
No in-app purchases
Keepnook
- Keepnook Plus — Monthly$6.991 Month
- Keepnook Plus — Yearly$19.991 Year









