HarborKeep vs KeepCue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HarborKeep
Organize critical family information, including medical records, legal documents, and emergency contacts, in a secure private vault. Easily store notes, photos, and files, and access them quickly when needed. Information is protected on your device and can sync across Apple devices via iCloud.
- Private life vault
- Family records organization
- Emergency information storage
- Medical notes and insurance details
- Secure notes and login details
- Attach documents and images
- Sync across Apple devices via iCloud
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When something goes wrong, the right information should be easy to hand over. HarborKeep keeps your family's important records private on your iPhone and iPad, and turns the essentials into a one-page sheet someone else can use. PRINT AN EMERGENCY SHEET One page for the fridge or a sitter: the emergency number, your address and helpful household information, who to call, the people who live with you and their allergies and conditions, medications, doctors, and the home plan. Fields you mark private are left out, and the page explains when details could not be included. YOU CHOOSE WHAT GOES ON IT Start with the Emergency Sheet Guide, or pick each detail yourself. Add contacts from Apple Contacts without giving HarborKeep access to your whole address book, reuse contacts you've already saved, or type them in. Your address and each household member are separate choices, and each medication can say who takes it. Preview the page, then print, AirDrop, message, or save it to Files. ONE PLACE FOR WHAT MATTERS Keep insurance, identification, medical contacts, medications, legal papers, pets, and household records organized with categories, favorites, and related records. Pin what matters to the Emergency tab. Set optional reminders before policies and IDs expire, with notification text that keeps details private. PHOTOS AND DOCUMENTS THAT WORK FOR YOU Scan documents, extract text, and search what's inside them. Review photo tags and suggested dates, and decide what to apply. Analysis runs on your device. YOUR DATA, YOUR COPIES Create encrypted backups for free, and keep an offline recovery kit with them. The kit can open supported backups on a computer without HarborKeep, within documented size and format limits. Save a Readable Copy as PDFs and files you can open anywhere, with the option to leave out designated private fields. Review your copy before sharing. Recover deleted records from Recently Deleted for up to 30 days. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your records are encrypted before they're stored and protected by Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. Sync across your devices using the same Apple Account with iCloud and iCloud Keychain turned on. HarborKeep has no separate account, no ads, and no third-party tracking. ALSO INCLUDED Formatted notes and drawings with Plain, Lined, Grid, or Dots paper, share-sheet capture with Shared Inbox, encrypted drafts that survive interruptions, a password and passphrase generator, and AutoFill for saved logins. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL ONE-TIME UPGRADE Records, search, the emergency sheet, the Household Profile, encrypted backups, readable copies, and up to 12 attachments per record are free. HarborKeep Pro is a one-time purchase that adds unlimited custom category photos and up to 25 attachments per record. No subscription.
KeepCue
This app helps users establish structure and flexibility in their daily planning through cue-based routines and visual timelines. It allows for time blocking and task management, with preset routines for various parts of the day.
- Cue-anchored routines
- Visual timeline view
- Quick task creation
- Break tasks into subtasks
- Preset routines for morning, afterwork, and night
- Flexible time blocking
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KeepCue is a day planner with a visual timeline that shows your calendar alongside. You can add your own tasks, activities, and routines. It comes with helpful ready-made routines that you can easily add to your planner. For those of us who need structure, routines, and flexibility in planning. VISUAL TIMELINE WITH YOUR CALENDAR See your work and personal life at a glance, alongside your existing calendar events. Your schedule and free time in one view: find the time you didn't know you had, fix an overlap you didn't intend, or swap an activity just for this week. KeepCue can show any calendar your Apple Calendar app can access, including iCloud, Google, Outlook, Holidays, Birthdays, and subscribed calendars. KeepCue only reads your calendars, and what it reads stays on your device. ADD YOUR OWN TASKS, ACTIVITIES, AND ROUTINES • Add activities and routines, anchored to time and real moments. • Unlimited one-time activities. Up to 3 repeating activities free. • Repeat daily, on chosen weekdays, or every few days or weeks. • Break anything overwhelming into a checklist of smaller steps. • Customize each activity with your selection from a variety of icons and colors. • Choose how completed activities look: a color tint, dimmed, or a strikethrough line. FLEXIBLE CUE-BASED ROUTINES Let your cues guide you back on track. Instead of fixed times, anchor activities and routines to approximate time blocks plus something that already happens in your daily life, e.g., when you wake up, when you walk through the front door, when you close your laptop. A cue is something that already happens in your day that you can tie to your routine, something that tells your brain the routine starts now. KeepCue provides 60+ cue ideas to get you started. READY-MADE ROUTINES KeepCue comes with real, helpful routines for morning, afterwork, night, and weekends that you can easily add to your planner. Morning: Core, Full Afterwork: WFH Afterwork Transition, Post-shift Recovery Night: Minimalist, Wind-Down, Work & School Weekends: Sunday Reset, Weekend Recovery DARK MODE KeepCue goes by your iPhone's settings, whether Light or Dark mode. There are also dark and tinted app icons, for when you customize your Home Screen icons to Dark or Tinted. REMINDER NOTIFICATIONS Get a reminder when an activity is about to start, or 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes before. Reminders cover your KeepCue activities only, not your calendar events. Tapping a reminder opens the activity's details. Completing an activity clears its reminder. HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS • Small widget: the activity you're on, or the next one. Also works in StandBy mode. • Lock Screen widget: see what's next on the Lock Screen. • (Pro) Next activities medium widget: a short list of activities coming up today. • (Pro) Checklist widgets: choose a routine and check off its steps right on the widget. You can add more than one checklist widget. PRIVACY No ads, no account, and your data is never sold. Your activities and routines stay on your device. FREE AND PRO KeepCue has a generous free tier with no time limit. It includes the visual timeline with your calendar, ready-made routines, up to 3 repeating activities, unlimited one-time activities, cues, checklists, reminders, and the small and Lock Screen widgets. An optional upgrade to KeepCue Pro adds the next activities and checklist widgets, unlimited repeating activities, and every future Pro feature. Choose monthly, yearly, or lifetime. Monthly and yearly renew automatically until you cancel. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with access forever. All plans support Family Sharing. Early users: If you first downloaded KeepCue before version 2.7, you have KeepCue Pro for life, including every future Pro feature. No purchase or code is needed. Thanks for being early. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Reach out at support@keepcue.app Website: https://keepcue.app Terms of Use: https://keepcue.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://keepcue.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HarborKeep at 5.0 against KeepCue's 4.5. HarborKeep also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). KeepCue's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. HarborKeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and KeepCue sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HarborKeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
HarborKeep ships an update every 9 days, KeepCue every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HarborKeep | KeepCue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C. Ray Carroll LLC | Start in June LLC |
Customer experience
HarborKeep
KeepCue
In-app purchases
HarborKeep
- Secure Import & Export$3.99
KeepCue
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$8.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99









