Comparison

Drive Notes vs Keeps

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

Head to head
About

Drive Notes

This app allows you to store and organize photos, videos, PDFs, and web links using your Google Drive. It offers rich text editing, location tagging, and custom reminders for enhanced organization. Advanced features include AI-powered keyword analysis and bookmark indexing.

Highlights
  • Google Drive integration for data storage
  • Upload local photos, videos, and PDFs
  • Save web links and YouTube videos
  • Rich text editing
  • Location tagging
  • AI keyword analysis
  • Custom reminders
Features
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Data Storage and Privacy Policy • Data is stored only on your local device and your Google Drive. This app does not provide server-side data storage. Please review Google Drive's privacy policy before using. • Data can be shared in real-time across different platforms via Google Drive, making data migration simple. Features • Local photos, videos, and PDF files can be uploaded to your Google Drive. • Keep links to web images and YouTube videos, and view them within the app. • Supports rich text editing and web content display. • Allows adding location information. • Provides imgBB image upload (be aware of potential personal privacy leaks, and be sure to understand imgBB's privacy policy before use). • Leverages Apple Intelligence for text analysis and bookmark indexing. • Provides custom reminder functionality.

About

Keeps

Track the true cost of your possessions by calculating their daily or per-use expense. Easily add items with photos, purchase details, and usage logs. The app offers smart suggestions and private, on-device data storage.

Highlights
  • Cost per day calculation
  • Cost per use tracking
  • Item photos and purchase details
  • Import from Amazon, PDFs, spreadsheets
  • On-device data storage
  • Smart suggestions with Apple Intelligence
Features
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Keeps is a home for the things you own — and an honest answer to what each of them costs you. Add an item with a photo, its price, and the day you bought it. Keeps divides the price by the days you've owned it, so a jacket you wear every week and a gadget you forgot in a drawer stop looking the same. Watch the cost per day fall the longer you keep something, and see when it will halve again. WHAT YOU OWN, IN ONE PLACE • Photos, purchase details, warranty dates, notes, and tags for every item • Categories you define, with your own icons and order • A collection you can search, filter, and sort by what it costs you WHAT IT REALLY COSTS • Cost per day, from the price and the days owned • Cost per use — tell Keeps how often you reach for something, or log uses yourself • Sold or retired something? Keeps counts what you got back • An overview of your spending by month and category ADD THINGS THE EASY WAY • Import Amazon orders, a receipt PDF, or a spreadsheet — photos and prices included • Paste any product page and Keeps reads the name, price, and photo • Review every purchase before it joins your collection; returns and duplicates are set aside MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOURS • Stage: Your original stays intact. You can change how it stands or reset your edits at any time. • Search the web for a better picture, right inside Keeps SMART, ON YOUR DEVICE • Describe an item and get a suggested name, category, and tags, powered by Apple Intelligence on supported devices • Ask questions about your collection and get answers from your own data PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your collection stays on your devices and, if you choose, in your own iCloud • No accounts, no ads, no analytics. Nothing is sent to us • Back up and restore your whole collection as a file Shortcuts and Siri: log a use, look up an item's cost, search, or add an item without opening the app. keeps:// links open any item. Feedback opens an editable email with your device model, OS version, and Keeps version/build. No diagnostic log or collection data is attached. Keeps Pro Keeps holds up to 30 items for free. Keeps Pro removes the limit. Importing purchases is part of Keeps Pro. You can review what a file contains first. Everything you’ve added stays yours, with or without Pro. Bought Keeps before it was free? Pro is already included. Keeps Pro · One-time purchase

Screenshots

Drive Notes4 screens
Keeps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Drive Notes at free against Keeps's paid. Drive Notes also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drive Notes ships an update every 4 days, Keeps every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Drive Notes versus Keeps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrive NotesKeeps
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB36 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSHENG GAOChen He

Customer experience

Drive Notes

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Keeps

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Drive Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Keeps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drive Notes free?
Drive Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Keeps free?
Keeps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drive Notes or Keeps have ads?
Neither Drive Notes nor Keeps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drive Notes or Keeps?
Drive Notes ships an update every 4 days, and Keeps every 2 days. Most recently, Drive Notes was updated on October 7, 2026 and Keeps on October 12, 2026.

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