Comparison

Kept vs Fly Notes

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

Head to head
About

Kept

This app helps you log and track when you performed specific actions without intrusive notifications. It provides a simple history of your activities, allowing you to recall details like when you took medication or watered plants. Syncs across devices and offers advanced features with an optional subscription.

Highlights
  • Task and tag logging with icons
  • Optional comments for logs
  • Individual and combined task history
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Apple Watch and widget support
  • Siri integration for task management
  • Offline functionality and privacy focus
Features
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Kept is a minimal app for logging and tracking when you did what. No hassling you with notifications or daily streaks, just a log of what you did and when. There are plenty of times in a day when you might find yourself asking; when did I: - Take my vitamins? - Water that plant? - Change the sheets? - Get a haircut? Kept keeps track of it all, so you don’t have to. Kept isn’t another to-do list, nor is it an extra reminders app. Kept will never tell you when to do things or add to an already growing heap of notifications that most people either clear away without checking or leave to pile up over days. Instead, Kept lets you know when you’ve got things done when you want to know it. Kept works seamlessly across all of your devices, with support for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Kept+ allows you to pay once, and get access to Pro features for everyone in your family. - Tasks & Tags: Add tasks with distinct titles and add an icon of a sketch, symbol, or emoji to distinguish tasks at a glance. Add tags to categorise, sort, and filter your tasks with ease, to easily find the task you’re looking for at a glance. - Logging: Log tasks quickly and easily, with optional comments for future reference or to remind yourself about something you did differently for the next time you go to log a task. With Kept+, you can also add an image and a location to your log, giving you extra clarity in the future. - History: With Kept, you can check either an individual tasks history, or the combined history across all of your tasks. See what comments you added previously, reference an image from a previous log, or check where you were when you completed a task. - Apple Watch: With Kept+, you can check and log tasks straight from your wrist without the need for your phone to be nearby. - Widgets: Keep track of your tasks and log them directly from your Home Screen without needing to open the app, with Kept+. - iCloud Sync: Kept syncs your data across all the devices you use it on, keeping your tasks and history up to date across all of your devices. - Deep iOS integration: Build shortcuts with Kept to log tasks in a way that works best for you, and use your voice to speak with Siri about your tasks, your history, to log a task or check when you last did something. - Accessibility: Features full support for VoiceOver and Reduce Motion. - Privacy first: Kept works completely offline, and all data stays on your device and in your personal iCloud, where it stays private and accessible only to you. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to reach out and let me know! hello@linussewell.com

About

Fly Notes

Features
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The capture app that files itself. Speak or type a thought, and ask your notes anything. INSTANT CAPTURE Take notes on the fly. Tap to type, hold to talk — your voice note is transcribed and saved before the thought slips away. A clean timeline keeps your day in order. ORGANIZED INSTANTLY No folders to keep up. Fly Notes tags and dates each note as you enter it, and plain words become structure: "remind me to pick up meds in 10 mins" becomes a reminder that fires on time; "todo work send the invoice fri 9am" lands as a dated to-do filed under Work. NEVER MISS ANYTHING Reminders fire even when the app is closed. To-dos keep score until you check them off. And for the things that truly can't slip, Pro alarms cut through silent mode and Focus (iOS 26). SEARCH IN SECONDS Find anything by just asking. "What gift ideas do I have for Dad?" Fly Notes searches everything you've saved and answers in plain language — with receipts: every answer links back to the exact notes it came from. ALWAYS WITHIN REACH Capture without opening the app: • Apple Watch — tap, talk, drop your wrist; your iPhone files it • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Control Center and the Action Button • Live Activity while you record • Siri & Shortcuts — capture or ask, hands free • Apple Reminders mirroring, automatic YOUR LANGUAGE Capture in any language. Search and Ask understand English out of the box — a free optional download adds 14 more: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes live on your iPhone — not on our servers. When you use Ask, or turn on cloud transcription, the text or audio for that request goes to one of our AI providers (currently Google Cloud, Groq, Together AI, DeepInfra, or Anthropic; a retry may go to another of them) to produce the result — through OpenRouter, Groq, and Anthropic. We only use providers that run under zero-data-retention terms or in safety retention mode: we tell you when, we don't store it, and they don't either — at most a copy kept only to fix errors, stop abuse, or review safety, and never to train AI. FLY NOTES PRO Capturing, filing, and searching are free. Ask comes with a free allowance — Pro raises the limits and adds iCloud sync across your devices and break-through alarms. Terms: https://flynotes.app/terms Privacy: https://flynotes.app/privacy

Screenshots

Kept4 screens
Fly Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kept at every 5 days against Fly Notes's every 2 months. Kept also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Kept sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.39 per month and Fly Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kept ships an update every 5 days, Fly Notes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Kept versus Fly Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeptFly Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB140 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLinus SewellINNOV8 VENTURES COMPANY LTD

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Kept

Subscriptions2
  • Kept+ Monthly7 Days trial$2.391 Month
  • Kept+ Annual$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kept+ Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

Fly Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Kept free?
Kept is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fly Notes free?
Fly Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kept or Fly Notes have ads?
Neither Kept nor Fly Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kept or Fly Notes?
Kept ships an update every 5 days, and Fly Notes every 2 months. Most recently, Kept was updated on October 31, 2026 and Fly Notes on November 5, 2026.

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