Comparison

LinkBay vs Keepout

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

Head to head
About

LinkBay

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LinkBay - Save Anything. Find It Later. LinkBay is the easiest way to save the links you find online and come back to them later. Articles you want to read tonight, tutorials to work through this weekend, recipes for Sunday, products to think about, ideas worth keeping. One place. Always with you. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Tap the Share button in Safari, YouTube, Facebook, or any app on your iPhone or iPad, pick LinkBay, and it's saved. Two taps. Or open LinkBay and tap + to paste a link yourself. ORGANIZE THE WAY YOU THINK Group links into folders, attach tags, and add personal notes. New saves are tagged automatically by source, so YouTube videos, Facebook posts, GitHub repos, and TikTok links sort themselves. You can also add your own tags, rename them, and browse any tag like a folder. FIND ANYTHING FAST Search across titles, source domains, tags, and notes. Results appear instantly as you type, even with thousands of saved links. Filter by folder, tag, content type, or date when you need to narrow things down. SYNCED ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your collection syncs through your personal iCloud account. Save on iPhone, find it on iPad. Automatic, private, no sign-up required. BACK UP AND RESTORE Export your entire collection to a single file you can save to Files, iCloud Drive, or send via Mail, Messages, or AirDrop. Import the same file on any device to restore everything exactly as it was. YOUR DATA IS YOURS No accounts. No tracking. No ads. Your links live in your personal iCloud private database. Only you can see them. The developer has no access to your content. DESIGNED FOR iOS Beautiful on iPhone and iPad. Smooth, fast, and feels right at home. VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, High Contrast, and Reduce Motion are all supported. PERFECT FOR - Saving articles, tutorials, and documentation to read later - Bookmarking recipes, products, and travel ideas - Organizing research by topic with folders and tags - Keeping work resources separate from personal links - Building a personal library of everything worth coming back to Download LinkBay and take control of your bookmarks. No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. Just your links, beautifully organized.

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

LinkBay4 screens
Keepout3 screens

Verdict

The call

LinkBay and Keepout are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LinkBay versus Keepout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinkBayKeepout
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJunaed Muhammad ChowdhuryAlex Richard Fiore

In-app purchases

None

LinkBay

No in-app purchases

None

Keepout

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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