SavedIt vs Cairn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
SavedIt
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Your social companion for everything you save. Save posts, recipes, links and places from any app, then find them in your own words. Tap Share in any app. AI reads your saves and gives you the places, how-tos and things to buy. When you need something, describe it and SavedIt finds it. What you get from a save Save a travel video and get the places in it, on a list and on a map. Save a cooking video and get the recipe, with the ingredients and steps written down for you. Describe it in your own words. Search the way you remember, not the way you filed. "That pasta with the lemon" or "the rooftop place from last summer" is enough. If nothing matches, SavedIt tells you plainly. It saves by itself After you tap Share and pick SavedIt, your save is done in 3 seconds. You don't need to open the app to save. Ask Keeper Keeper is the helper inside SavedIt. Ask it about your own saves: "what was that ramen place?" or "which recipes did I keep for this week?" Read it properly Open a saved article or PDF in a clean reader, without the clutter of the page it came from. Notes and reminders Add a note and a reminder so a save comes back at the right moment, not buried under next month's saves. Collections you can share Group saves into collections for a trip, a dinner party or a room you are planning. Invite friends to add saves and like the ones they want most. Free, with Plus when you want more Saving is free and has no limit, and so are SavedIt Sense (it knows why you saved it), word search, maps, notes and shared collections. Plus is an optional subscription that gives you more of the smart features: ⢠Keeper: 300 questions a month about your saves, and Think deeper for hard plans ⢠Magic read: places and recipes from up to 500 videos a month ⢠Magic search: search by describing, with no monthly limit (fair use) ⢠Import: up to 20,000 saves from other apps made smart each month ⢠Auto-file: each new save files itself into the right collection ⢠More room: 10 GB for screenshots, photos and files It renews automatically until you cancel it in your App Store account settings. Yours Your saves are private by default. Export them any time. Delete your account for good if you ever want to. Use SavedIt on your iPhone and on the web. Questions or ideas? We read every message: contact@saveditapp.com Terms of Use: https://saveditapp.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://saveditapp.com/legal/privacy
Cairn
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You make the promise. Cairn helps you keep it. Cairn blocks the apps that pull you away, and you decide in advance how hard it is to get back in. Not a dashboard, not a report on how bad last week was. A commitment device. THE UNLOCK LADDER Every block has a price you set when you're clear-headed, and pay when you're not: ⢠Confirm: one tap to say you mean it. ⢠Cooldown: wait it out, then a short window. ⢠Effort: a puzzle, a long passphrase, or ten pushups. ⢠In stone: no way through. It opens when it was always going to open. The top rung is only offered where a block ends on its own: a schedule that closes, a daily limit that resets, a place you can walk out of. A hard block that never lifts isn't a commitment, it's a trap with app deletion as the only key, so Cairn won't offer it. The same price applies to every way out. Turning a block off, deleting it, and editing it all cost what opening it costs. A lock you can undo by flipping a switch isn't a lock. FOUR WAYS TO BLOCK ⢠Hard block: on until you turn it off. ⢠Scheduled: a window on the days you choose. ⢠Daily limit: after 30, 60, or 120 minutes, it closes for the day. ⢠At a place: holds while you're at the gym, the office, or any set location. Plus Focus sessions and a Vacation mode that stands everything down. THE TRAIL One stone for each day you keep every block. Seven stones make a week. Cairn counts the day you resisted, not just the day you slipped, and a day it can't be sure about stays blank rather than being awarded to you. A quiet day under your limit earns its stone like any other. WE CAN'T SEE A THING Cairn has no account, no servers, and no analytics. Not "we don't sell your data"; there is no data. You pick apps in Apple's own Screen Time picker, and Cairn only ever receives an anonymous token. It can't read which apps you chose. Neither can we. If you set a daily limit, iOS counts the minutes on your device and tells Cairn only that a limit was crossed. Never how long, never which app. PAY ONCE One payment. No subscription, no ads, no upsell. Free for a month first, and when the month ends nothing is held hostage: every block you made is still there, and nothing on your phone stays blocked because you didn't pay. WHAT CAIRN WON'T DO It won't stop you deleting it. That's deliberate. iOS lets you remove any app, and a blocker that pretended otherwise would be lying. Cairn is a commitment device, not a cage. Pair it with iOS Screen Time restrictions if you want that door closed too. Be where you are.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: SavedIt at 3 against Cairn's 1. SavedIt also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. SavedIt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Cairn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SavedIt | Cairn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tanmay Gupta | Dennis Hodgson |
In-app purchases
SavedIt
- SavedIt Plus Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
- SavedIt Plus Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year
Cairn
- Cairn Unlock$19.99









