Plex Photos vs Kept
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plex Photos
Access and view your personal photo libraries from anywhere. Relive your favorite moments with curated highlights, chronological timelines, and organized library browsing. Requires a Plex Media Server with a photos library.
- Recommended photo highlights
- Chronological timeline view
- Browse by folders and albums
- Access personal media libraries
- Seamless remote viewing
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Important: A Plex Media Server with access to at least one photos library is required to use this application. Plex Photos is your dedicated app for viewing your personal media photo libraries, providing a seamless and intuitive way to relive your favorite moments. Whether you're at home or on the go, Plex Photos lets you access your personal photo collection with ease. Currently Supported Features: - Recommended View: Discover curated highlights from your photo library, bringing your best moments to the forefront. - Timeline View: Explore your photos in a chronological format, making it easy to travel back in time and revisit memories from specific dates. - Library View: Browse through your entire photo collection organized by folders and albums, making it simple to find and view exactly what you're looking for. Note: This is the first Plex Photos release and will receive regular updates over the coming months. We're committed to adding new features, improving performance, and enhancing your overall experience. We value your feedback and encourage you to share your thoughts with us in the forums as we continue to develop and refine the app.
Kept
This app acts as a private vault for your memories. Capture photos, assign ratings, and add notes to easily recall specific items like wines, paint colors, or dishes you enjoyed. All data remains securely on your device.
- Private photo vault
- Rating and note system
- On-device storage
- No account or sign-up required
- Searchable memory archive
- Optional location tagging
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Some things are worth remembering. Kept is a private vault for the things you try. Snap a photo, give it a rating and a note, and find it again months later — the wine you loved, the paint colour that was right, the dish worth ordering again, the plant that actually survived. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE • No account. No sign-up. No password to forget. • No cloud sync, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. • Your photos and notes never leave your device. SIMPLE BY DESIGN • Snap: take a photo, rate it, add a note in seconds • Vault: everything you've kept, searchable when you need it • Add a place to a memory if it matters — only when you ask for it WHY IT EXISTS Photos alone don't remember why something mattered. A rating and a line of context turn a picture into something you can actually use later. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kept at 100% against Plex Photos's 4%. Kept also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). Plex Photos's advantage is ratings volume (294 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kept holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plex Photos has 294 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of Plex Photos's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kept's.
Plex Photos ships an update every 5 months, Kept every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plex Photos | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (294 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 3.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 294 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plex Inc. | Frederic BASSAN |
Customer experience
Plex Photos
Kept
Bugs and requests
Plex Photos
Reported bugs
4 issues- Buttons not responding to touch
- Vertical videos shown in landscape
- Photos disappearing or not loading
- Rotation issues causing app freezes
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to sync photos from mobile devices
- Implement HEIC format support
- Improve video playback controls
- Allow organizing photos into albums
- Integrate with cloud storage services
Kept
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Plex Photos
No in-app purchases
Kept
No in-app purchases
