Comparison

SaveIt vs Ki

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

Head to head
About

SaveIt

Organize your digital life with a minimalist, privacy-focused app. Save links, notes, and bookmarks with zero tracking and no ads. Enjoy rich visual previews and intuitive organization for a clutter-free experience.

Highlights
  • Save links and notes
  • Zero tracking and ads
  • Rich visual previews
  • Intuitive organization with tags
  • Secure hidden mode with Face ID
  • Seamless iCloud sync
  • Apple Watch app
Features
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SaveIt keeps everything you want to save in one place. Add a link, write a note, or capture what's in front of you, and it's there on every device, ready when you need it. Saving links and notes is free, with no limits. So are tags, search, Archive, Hidden Mode, and iCloud sync. FREE, ALWAYS • Save unlimited links, with a title, icon, and preview added automatically when available • Write notes in Markdown, styled as you type and drawn right on your cards • Save from any app with the Share sheet, or scan a QR code to save where it points • Organize with tags, and narrow any list by kind, date, or the words inside • Archive what you're done with: out of your lists, but never deleted • Hidden Mode locks private items behind Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID • Find anything with fast search, or with Spotlight from the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, and Finder • A widget, Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action button put a new note, link, or search one tap away • Ask Siri to save a link or a note, and on iOS 27, to find and open what you saved • Sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro with your own iCloud, with your notes on Apple Watch • Export notes as text, Markdown, or PDF, links as QR codes, and whole selections to a folder as real files • Your items stay private: on your device and in your own iCloud, never on our servers SAVEIT PRO When you want to keep more than links and notes, Pro unlocks the rest. Save anything • Images, videos, audio, and files of any kind, kept in your own iCloud • Take a photo or video, record a voice memo, or start from a blank image, right in the app • Search inside your media on device, so the text in a photo or a PDF can be found Stay organized • Feeds keep the views you use most in the sidebar, sorted and styled the same on every device • Reminders on any saved item, so nothing slips away • Detailed stats on when you save and what you come back to Make it yours • Accent colors and custom app icons • Premium note fonts, for all your notes or just one • Icons and colors for your tags, and your own thumbnails for any link or media item SaveIt Pro is a yearly subscription, with a free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Either way, it covers all your devices. Links and notes are the heart of SaveIt, and they're yours for free, along with Hidden Mode and sync across your devices. Pro is there for the day you want to save everything else. -- Questions or ideas? Email disfordave@proton.me Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://saveitbydave.com/privacy

About

Ki

Capture, organize, and connect all your learning in one place. This app allows you to save notes, links, code snippets, and ideas, then link them together to build a web of knowledge. Find anything fast with full-text search and visual knowledge graphs.

Highlights
  • Capture notes, links, quotes, code snippets, and ideas
  • Organize with color-coded tags and custom topics
  • Connect notes with bidirectional linking
  • Visualize knowledge with interactive graphs
  • Full-text search and saved searches
  • Quick capture via floating button and widgets
  • Review workflow for managing notes
Features
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Ki-note is your personal knowledge base. Capture, organize, and connect everything you learn — all in one place. CAPTURE EVERYTHING • Notes, links, quotes, code snippets, ideas, and references • Quick capture with a floating + button from anywhere in the app • Save source URLs and titles for web content. You can share links from Safari to Ki-note! • Tag code snippets with their programming language (Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust) • You can insert notes, text, links, into Ki-notes using the Share functionality • You can insert notes using voice in the Control Center widget or using a shortcut with Siri ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Tags — color-coded labels to categorize your notes • Topics — group related notes under a single theme with custom icons • Smart Collections — automatic filters like Inbox, Favorites, Reading Queue, Unreviewed, Quotes, Ideas, Links, Untagged, and Unlinked • Configurable Quick Access dashboard on the home screen • Pin, favorite, and archive notes • Review workflow — track notes from Inbox → Unreviewed → Reviewing → Reviewed CONNECT YOUR KNOWLEDGE • Link notes together to build a web of ideas • Bidirectional linking — see which notes link to and from each note • Interactive Knowledge Graph — visualize all your notes and their connections • Customizable graph settings for colors, forces, and display options FIND ANYTHING FAST • Full-text search across all notes • Save frequently used searches for quick access • Browse by tags and topics • Filter by note type, status, or collection BUILT FOR YOU • 100% free — no ads, no subscriptions, all features unlocked • Local-first — your data stays on your device with SwiftData • Localized in 6 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese • Light and dark mode with customizable themes • Optional one-time tip to support development Ki-note is designed for students, researchers, developers, writers, and anyone who wants to build a personal knowledge base that grows with them.

Screenshots

SaveIt4 screens
Ki4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ki at every 2 days against SaveIt's every 4 days. Ki also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.1). SaveIt's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. SaveIt sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Ki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SaveIt against 5.0 for Ki. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SaveIt ships an update every 4 days, Ki every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SaveIt versus Ki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaveItKi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.118.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeokwoo HongJuan Casanueva

Customer experience

SaveIt

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ki

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SaveIt

Subscriptions1
  • SaveIt Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • SaveIt Pro (Upgrade to Lifetime)$19.99
  • SaveIt Pro (Lifetime)$29.99
1 purchases

Ki

One-time1
  • Buy me a coffee$0.99

Questions

Is SaveIt free?
SaveIt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ki free?
Ki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SaveIt or Ki?
SaveIt and Ki are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do SaveIt or Ki have ads?
Neither SaveIt nor Ki shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SaveIt or Ki?
SaveIt ships an update every 4 days, and Ki every 2 days. Most recently, SaveIt was updated on October 31, 2026 and Ki on October 31, 2026.

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