Comparison

Story Wiki vs Keepout

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

Head to head
About

Story Wiki

Organize your creative universe with a searchable notebook for characters, locations, and lore. Link entries with wiki-style connections and create custom templates. Export your worldbuilding to PDF and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Wiki-style connections and backlinks
  • Custom templates with custom fields
  • Export to PDF
  • Full accessibility support
  • Dark Mode
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Story Wiki is a quiet, reliable notebook for your creative universe. Built for writers, game designers, and worldbuilders, it helps you organize characters, locations, lore, and events in one searchable place. It is fully accessible, exportable, and never asks you for a monthly fee. Features: • Connect your universe: Link related entries and jump through your world with wiki-style connections and backlinks. • Custom layouts: Create reusable templates with custom fields for characters, species, or magic systems. • Export to PDF: Turn your entire wiki, or a hand-picked selection of entries, into a polished PDF for printing or sharing. • Fully accessible: Built natively to support Apple's VoiceOver, strict keyboard navigation, and extra-large Dynamic Type text. • Dark Mode: Switch to a high-contrast dark theme across all menus and sheets. • Stay synced: iCloud automatically keeps your writing updated across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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

Story Wiki3 screens
Keepout3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keepout at none against Story Wiki's 1. On price, ads, device support 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. Story Wiki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Keepout asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Story Wiki versus Keepout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStory WikiKeepout
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColin WrightAlex Richard Fiore

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Story Wiki

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99
None

Keepout

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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