Comparison

High Shelf vs Keptcase

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

Head to head
About

High Shelf

Features
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Your movies, shows, books, games, and music — all in one place. High Shelf is the home for everything you've watched, read, played, and listened to. Rate it, review it, and build a collection that actually reflects your taste. Track what you're into. Remember what you loved. Know what's next on your list. What you can do: Log movies, TV shows, books, games, and albums Rate and review everything in your collection Build a shelf of your all-time favourites See your taste at a glance with stats and activity Follow friends and discover what they're into One app. Every medium. Your entire cultural life, collected. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://highshelf.app/privacy.html

About

Keptcase

Catalog your physical media collection, including movies, music, books, and games. Easily add items by scanning barcodes, track their value, and organize them beautifully. Discover new items and share your collection with others.

Highlights
  • Barcode scanning for item entry
  • Live market value tracking
  • Organize by media type (movies, music, books, games)
  • Track item condition and history
  • Create shareable web pages of your collection
  • Log viewing/listening/reading habits
  • AI-powered recommendations from your collection
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Keptcase is for people who still buy the disc, the record, the hardback and the cartridge and want it all catalogued properly, valued honestly, and beautiful to scroll. Point your camera at a barcode and the item lands on your shelf with its cover, year, cast and studio filled in. Batch mode keeps the scanner open for a whole haul. FOUR SHELVES, ONE APP Movies and TV, music, books and comics, and games each get their own shelf with the details that matter to it — directors and studios, artists and labels, authors and publishers, platforms and regions. One subscription covers them all. KNOW WHAT IT'S WORTH Live market values on every shelf, with no setup. See what you paid, what it's worth now, and the gain — then export a dated PDF inventory for insurance. EVERY EDITION, COUNTED SEPARATELY Own a film on VHS, DVD and 4K? Keptcase folds them into one card while keeping each copy's own condition, value and history. Box sets hold their contents. Filter by boutique label or studio. THE WHOLE RUN, AND THE GAPS Series cards lay out a run in order — the numbers you own, the ones on your wishlist, and the gaps named, each with a Wishlist button. A show's page counts its seasons and how far you've watched each. IN THE SHOP, WONDERING IF YOU OWN IT? Scan any barcode — or type the title — and your shelf answers on the spot: on your shelf, owned but not this release, or not on your shelf, with what it goes for online. COMICS, ON THEIR OWN RACK Tap the Books title and switch to Comics: single issues, trades, omnibuses and graded slabs, with publisher and writer, counted and valued apart from your books. GO DEEPER ON EVERY TITLE • Trailers, full cast and More Like This for films • Season and episode breakdowns for TV • Platform details for games • Tracklists for albums • Blurbs and author details for books • Search by actor — "Nicolas Cage" finds every film he's in NEVER BUY A DUPLICATE AGAIN Keep a wishlist, then publish a read-only web page of your shelf and send the link before a birthday. Gift givers see what you're hunting for; link your Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, and follow other collectors' shelves. A DIARY FOR WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WATCH Log every watch, listen, read and play with a rating and a note. Get a monthly recap, a shareable year-in-review card, and stats by decade, genre, format and creator. Collector badges mark the milestones. CAN'T DECIDE? ASK THE SHELF Tonight's Pick draws from what you own, filtered by mood and genre. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, ask your shelf in plain language — "a horror film I haven't watched" — and it answers from your own collection, entirely on device. THE DETAILS COLLECTORS ACTUALLY TRACK Condition and completeness, purchase price and date, who you loaned it to, ratings and notes, cover photos you shoot yourself, and every format from 4K and steelbook to vinyl, cassette, hardback and cartridge. BRING YOUR COLLECTION WITH YOU Import a CSV from whatever you use now, and sync ratings and watch dates from a Letterboxd export. Re-importing is safe — items update, never duplicate. Optional cloud backup restores your shelf onto a new phone. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Your collection lives on your iPhone. Cloud backup is optional and off until you turn it on; signing in uses Sign in with Apple. No tracking, no ads, nothing sold, ever. TRY IT FREE FOR 7 DAYS Then $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year — one price for every shelf. If your subscription ends your collection stays on your phone and you can still browse and export it — adding, scanning, values, backup and the rest need an active subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://keptcase.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://keptcase.app/privacy Made by a physical media collector, for physical media collectors.

Screenshots

High Shelf4 screens
Keptcase4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Keptcase at none against High Shelf's shown. High Shelf's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. High Shelf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Keptcase sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

High Shelf ships an update every 3 days, Keptcase every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
High Shelf versus Keptcase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHigh ShelfKeptcase
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.2 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—76.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—19 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperATLE RICHTER SCHIEPagani Enterprises LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

High Shelf

Subscriptions2
  • High Shelf Pro$2.991 Month
  • High Shelf Pro - Annual$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Keptcase

Subscriptions2
  • Keptcase Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Keptcase Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is High Shelf free?
High Shelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keptcase free?
Keptcase is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do High Shelf or Keptcase have ads?
High Shelf shows ads; Keptcase does not.
Which is updated more often, High Shelf or Keptcase?
High Shelf ships an update every 3 days, and Keptcase every 5 days. Most recently, High Shelf was updated on September 13, 2026 and Keptcase on September 27, 2026.

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