Comparison

Mapable vs Kept

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

Head to head
About

Mapable

Capture thoughts, voice memos, photos, and links effortlessly. This app uses AI to automatically organize, tag, and link your information, visualizing it as an interactive mind map. Ask natural language questions to retrieve answers from your entire knowledge base.

Highlights
  • Instant capture (text, voice, images, URLs)
  • AI auto-tagging and linking
  • Interactive knowledge graph visualization
  • Natural language search
  • Daily journal with prompts
  • Goal tracking and todo management
Features
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Mapable is a calm second brain that organizes itself. Throw in a thought, a voice note, a screenshot, a link or a TikTok. Mapable files each one into a few clear topics, draws them as a map, and answers when you ask. No folders. No tags. No setup. CAPTURE ANYTHING • Thoughts, voice notes, photos and screenshots, links • TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube videos: Mapable watches them and remembers what's inside, down to the moment • Share from any app with the share sheet, or dictate anywhere with your voice IT ORGANIZES ITSELF • Every note lands in one of a few stable topics, automatically • Your topics are drawn as a topographic map: each topic is a hill that grows as you add to it • Related notes link up on their own ASK YOUR NOTES • Ask in plain words: "where was that ramen place?" • Get an answer in your language, with the notes it came from, even "the moment at 0:21 in that TikTok" YOUR DAY, IN ONE PLACE • Today: your calendar, todos, rituals, and a note resurfaced from a while ago • It noticed: Mapable spots todos, dates, goals and habits inside your notes and suggests them. Nothing is added without your tap • Grow: goals drawn as summits, rituals with streaks, and the people named in your notes • Evening check-in: your mood as weather, plus a few words • Weekly review: what grew this week, as a map you can share MADE FOR BUSY HEADS Students, readers, makers, parents, and anyone whose reading list makes them feel guilty. Use it as a brain dump, a voice journal, a recipe keeper, a bookmark manager, or the place where saved TikToks finally get watched again. SIX LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and Italian. Mapable replies in your language. IN THEIR WORDS "honestly I just throw stuff in and forget about it, then a week later it's sitting exactly where I'd have put it. bit spooky" (John) "asked it where that restaurant was that I saved months ago and it just knew" (Lina) "my reading list used to make me feel guilty. now I actually go back to it" (Dennis) "I never stick with notes apps. still using this one" (Irina) FREE AND PRO Mapable is free: 5 notes a day, 3 Asks a week and 1 video a week. Mapable Pro removes the limits: unlimited notes, Asks and videos. Mapable Pro is $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.mapable.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.mapable.dev/terms

About

Kept

Features
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The career log book that keeps your resume ready. Don't rebuild your resume in a panic every application season. Log things as they happen — the job, the volunteer shift, the club, the award, the paper you published — and a clean, professional PDF resume is always one tap away. LOG AS YOU GO • 28 item types: jobs, internships, research, shadowing, volunteering, leadership, athletics, publications, presentations, patents, and more • Log hours in seconds, or set a weekly schedule ("this role is 12 hrs/week") and hours count themselves • Save every supervisor's name and contact before you lose them • Publications, posters, book chapters, and shipped apps get properly formatted citations — automatically, from the facts you enter HOURS, PROVEN • Printable hours report with signature lines — built for NHS, Bright Futures, and school service requirements • A references sheet, built automatically from the supervisor contacts you've already saved • Every session dated and noted, with a CSV of the raw log RESUME IN A TAP • The resume is a live view of your log — always current • Keep multiple tailored versions from one log — a research-heavy CV and a summer-job resume, each with its own sections and included items • Reorder sections to match what you're applying for • A simple cover letter tool — you write it, the app handles the formatting • 2 free templates (plus 3 more and accent colors in the one-time Template Pack) • PDF export, unwatermarked, free forever — plus a plain-text export for online application forms • Full iPad support with a two-pane editor YOURS, PRIVATE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • No account. No cloud. No AI. No tracking. Your resume and your log never leave your phone except in files you share yourself. • Back up to Files or iCloud Drive whenever you want — still no accounts, still nothing sent anywhere but where you choose. • Free forever. The optional Template Pack is a one-time purchase — never a subscription, and your data and exports are never locked.

Screenshots

Mapable4 screens
Kept4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Kept at none against Mapable's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

Both are free to download. Mapable sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Kept sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 7 level
Mapable versus Kept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapableKept
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB2 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperAlexis RaimbaultWilliam Lawrence

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mapable

Subscriptions2
  • Mapable Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Mapable Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
1 purchases

Kept

One-time1
  • Template Pack$4.99

Questions

Is Mapable free?
Mapable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kept free?
Kept is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mapable or Kept have ads?
Mapable shows ads; Kept does not.

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