Comparison

Topilo Notes vs Keepout

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

Head to head
About

Topilo Notes

Capture and organize all your thoughts and ideas effortlessly. This app allows for instant note-taking without titles, letting you structure your thoughts later. It offers a rich text editor, cross-device syncing, and a clean, minimal design.

Highlights
  • Instant thought capture
  • Structure in hindsight
  • Local and offline-first
  • Sync across devices
  • Rich text editor
  • Dark mode
  • Quick navigation
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Capture thousands of thoughts and make them all useful. A notes app reimagined for handling your every thought and idea while making it easy to process, organize and review them later. - Instant thought capture with title-less notes - Structure in hindsight - capture first, organize later And of course, all must have features in a modern note app included. - Local and offline-first - Sync across devices - Rich text editor with internal links, bullet lists, etc. - Dark mode - Minimal and clean design - Quick navigation dialog for fast browsing and tagging

About

Keepout

Features
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Keepout is a private notes app for iPhone and iPad. Your writing stays on your device, encrypted at rest, with local tools for connecting and understanding ideas. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • AES-256-GCM encryption protects every note at rest. • Your vault key stays in this device's non-synchronizing Keychain. • Opaque filenames keep note titles and links out of the file system. • There is no account, cloud sync, analytics, remote prompt processing, or plaintext search index. CONNECTED KNOWLEDGE • Link notes with familiar double-bracket wiki links. • Follow backlinks and suggested related notes. • Explore an interactive knowledge graph built with Apple's local sentence embeddings. • Search decrypted notes in memory while the vault is unlocked. LOCAL AI • Ask questions, summarize a note, and suggest connections without sending note text to a server. • Use Apple Foundation Models on supported devices. • Choose the optional MLX engine for local inference. Its compact model downloads once on first use; inference then stays on your device. FOCUSED WRITING • Open the transient action bar from the toolbar or with Command-K on a hardware keyboard. • Type / in the editor for headings, lists, tasks, quotes, code blocks, dividers, and links. • Switch to a centered typewriter view that hides the side columns and softly fades the page edges. • Navigate with touch or hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad. • Markdown syntax and link destinations stay visually quiet until the caret enters them. Keepout stores each encrypted note in a .md file so your vault remains a collection of Markdown documents without exposing their contents at rest.

Screenshots

Topilo Notes3 screens
Keepout3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Topilo Notes at 4 against Keepout's 2. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Topilo Notes versus Keepout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTopilo NotesKeepout
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon BengtssonAlex Richard Fiore

In-app purchases

None

Topilo Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Keepout

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Topilo Notes free?
Topilo Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Keepout free?
Keepout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Topilo Notes or Keepout have ads?
Neither Topilo Notes nor Keepout shows ads.

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