Memory Tree vs Kept
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Memory Tree
This app allows families to create private, shared timelines to preserve memories. Add photos, voice notes, and stories to document life year by year. AI features help you find past stories, keeping your family history organized.
- Create personal and shared timelines
- Add photos, Live Photos, and voice notes
- Record typed stories and milestones
- Browse photos by timeline
- Compare family members side-by-side
- Invite relatives via QR codes
- AI-powered memory search
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Memory Tree is a private family journal for preserving the stories behind your photos and the moments you never want to lose. Create personal, shared, and managed timelines for yourself, children, parents, grandparents, and the people you love. Add memories by year with photos, Live Photos, typed stories, meaningful milestones, and original voice recordings. VOICE-FIRST STORYTELLING Speak naturally in English, Chinese, or both. Memory Tree can turn a longer conversation into clear memories organized by year. Review and edit every result before it is added to your timeline, while keeping the original recording available in each relevant year. A TIMELINE FOR EVERY LIFE Capture one small moment or several years at once. Browse memories chronologically, revisit photos by person and year, and compare loved ones at the same age or in the same year. BUILT FOR FAMILIES Invite relatives with a QR code and keep everyone connected through shared timelines. Family updates can take you directly to the newest relevant photo or year. A CALM, PRIVATE HOME FOR MEMORIES Your timeline is designed around the people you choose. Memory Tree keeps family history organized in one thoughtful place, with optional gentle reminders that help you begin without feeling pressured.
Kept
This app provides a private digital space to store and organize small paper items like tickets, receipts, and keepsakes. It allows users to capture items with their camera or import them, arrange them on personal canvases, and add notes for context. The focus is on slow, mindful collecting rather than rapid organization.
- Capture paper items with camera
- Import items from Photos
- Arrange objects on personal canvases
- Add notes to items
- Optional iCloud sync
- No account required
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Kept is a quiet place for the little paper things you do not want to lose. Save tickets, receipts, cards, labels, and small keepsakes as a private visual collection. Capture an item, let Kept trim it into a clean object, then place it on a canvas that feels more like a memory board than a folder. What you can do: - Capture paper keepsakes with the camera or import from Photos - Keep unplaced items in a simple pool until you know where they belong - Arrange objects on personal canvases - Browse, rename, and revisit collections - Add small notes to remember why each item mattered - Keep your collection local first, with optional iCloud sync through your private iCloud account Kept is for slow collecting, not inbox zero. It is built for the ticket from a first show, the receipt from a tiny cafe, the card you nearly threw away, and the small proof that a day happened. No account is required. Kept does not run ads, does not use third-party analytics SDKs, and does not collect your personal data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Memory Tree at every 3 days against Kept's every 2 weeks. Memory Tree also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Memory Tree against 5.0 for Kept. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Memory Tree has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Memory Tree ships an update every 3 days, Kept every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Memory Tree | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zhihan Yin | 蓉 杨 |
Customer experience
Memory Tree
Kept
In-app purchases
Memory Tree
No in-app purchases
Kept
No in-app purchases









