Comparison

Mintofu vs Kept Archive

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

Head to head
About

Mintofu

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One app for every idea โ€” from a quick note to a marked-up PDF to a sprawling mind map. Mintofu brings your notes, tasks, PDFs, mind maps, and calendar together in one beautifully designed app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Capture a thought, mark up a PDF, manage your to-dos, plan your day, map out a project, and stay focused with a built-in timer โ€” all in one calm, private place, with no clutter and no account required. Start free today and bring your whole world into one app. WHY MINTOFU Your thinking doesn't stay in neat boxes โ€” but most apps do. You end up juggling a notes app, a to-do app, a PDF reader, a mind-mapping tool, and a calendar, copying between them and losing context at every hop. Mintofu was built the other way around. Everything lives in one place, and every piece of content can become any other. Your tools finally move at the speed of your thinking. PRIVATE AI, BUILT IN Apple Intelligence works right inside your notes, tasks, mind maps, and calendar โ€” draft and brainstorm, proofread, rewrite, and summarize, or translate in a tap โ€” and it powers the conversions between them. Everything runs on your device, so your ideas never leave your hardware. FREE FEATURES - Notebooks to organize your notes, ideas and plans by project or topic - Rich-text notes with live Markdown, custom fonts, highlights, drawing, and attachments - One-tap translation for any note or selection - Audio Notes โ€” record voice memos, keep typing while you record, and transcribe them to text - PDF Documents โ€” read and mark up PDFs in any notebook: highlight, write with Apple Pencil, or fill in forms; scans become searchable - Full calendar โ€” month, week, day, and timeline views, plus a productivity heatmap - Public holidays for your region, shown across every calendar view - Live sync with your device calendars; export events as .ics - Tasks with priorities, due dates, subtasks, tags, time tracking, and reminders - Natural-language dates like "next Friday at 3pm" - Smart Lists, Eisenhower Matrix, Focus Queue, and burndown charts to stay on track - Built-in Focus timer and achievement badges - Mind maps on an infinite canvas โ€” import Markdown, convert to notes or tasks in a tap - Kanban boards and dashboards (Overview, Kanban, and Post Board) - Widgets for Quick Capture, Notes, Mind Maps, Calendar, Tasks, and Dashboards - Version History โ€” Mintofu keeps earlier versions of your notes, mind maps, tasks, and events, private on your device - Private, on-device AI throughout, via Apple Intelligence - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac โ€” fully offline-first - Export to PDF, Markdown, and PNG, or share anywhere - Available in 40 languages, with right-to-left support, VoiceOver, and keyboard shortcuts MINTOFU+ Everything above is free. Upgrade only if you want more: - Unlimited notebooks, mind maps, and audio notes - Unlimited AI generations and translations - Public holidays for multiple regions - Compare and restore any earlier version - Unlimited PDF documents - Monthly, annual, or one-time lifetime PERFECT FOR - Students capturing lectures and planning study sessions - Professionals juggling projects, meetings, and deadlines - Writers and researchers organizing notes, ideas, and drafts - Visual thinkers who brainstorm and plan with mind maps - Anyone building a daily-planning and focus routine that sticks - Privacy-conscious people who want no account and no tracking - Apple users who want one beautiful app across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Bring every idea, task, and plan into one place. Privacy Policy: https://www.mintofu.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.mintofu.ai/terms

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Kept Archive

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You save things all day. A restaurant someone mentioned on Threads. A workout you meant to try. An article you will read later. Then you forget which app you saw it in, and by the time you find it the post is gone. Kept fixes the second half of that. HOW IT WORKS Tap Share in any app and choose Kept. That's it. Kept saves a snapshot โ€” the text and the picture โ€” onto your phone. Not a link that rots. When the author deletes the post six months later, or makes their account private, your copy is still there. It works from anywhere iOS can share: Threads, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, RED, Safari, Notes. Text, links, photos and videos. IT SORTS ITSELF Everything lands in one timeline, newest first, the way you already read. Kept also reads what you saved and files it under sixteen topics โ€” food, travel, fitness, tech, money, design, home, pets and more. That happens on your phone, by looking at the words. Nothing is uploaded to do it, and you can change any topic by hand. Add your own note to anything. Why you kept it, what it reminded you of. Your notes are searchable with everything else, and they sit with the thing they belong to. Group related things into collections. Places to eat. Ideas for the flat. Things to buy. COMPLETELY PRIVATE There is no account. There is no server. There are no analytics and no crash reports. Nothing you do in Kept is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere to send it. The only time Kept touches the network is when it fetches a snapshot, and then your phone asks that website for the link directly โ€” exactly as if you had opened it yourself. Nobody sits in between. That also means nothing to sign up for, nothing to cancel, and nothing to leak. WHAT IT COSTS The first 30 things you save are free, with every feature switched on โ€” snapshots, topics, notes, collections, search, iCloud backup, export. After that, one payment unlocks unlimited saving for good. No subscription, no monthly fee, nothing to remember to cancel. Pay once and the app is yours. If you decide not to pay, nothing is taken away. Everything you already saved stays readable, searchable and exportable, forever. THIRTEEN LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Kept follows your phone unless you pick a different one. ABOUT VIDEO A video file you share straight to Kept is stored whole on your phone. A video behind a link is only downloaded where that platform's terms allow it โ€” public Telegram channels and ordinary web pages. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, X, RED and Reddit do not allow offline copies, so for those Kept keeps the title, the thumbnail and the link. WHEN A SNAPSHOT FAILS Some pages need a login. When Kept cannot reach the original, it keeps the link and the text you shared anyway, marks the item, and you can try again later. Nothing is ever lost because a fetch failed. YOUR COPY, YOUR FILES Export everything to a zip whenever you like โ€” items, notes, tags, collections and every picture and video, in one file you keep yourself. Import reads it back and only fills in what is missing, so an old backup never undoes today's work.

Screenshots

Mintofu4 screens
Kept Archive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Kept Archive at 15.0 against Mintofu's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Mintofu sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Kept Archive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Mintofu versus Kept Archive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMintofuKept Archive
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size167 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMintofu AI Inc.Nexa Limited

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mintofu

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

Kept Archive

One-time1
  • Unlock Kept$19.99

Questions

Is Mintofu free?
Mintofu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kept Archive free?
Kept Archive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mintofu or Kept Archive have ads?
Neither Mintofu nor Kept Archive shows ads.

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