Comparison

Trove Bookmarks vs Keepout

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

Head to head
About

Trove Bookmarks

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Trove is a calm, focused place to keep the links you actually want to come back to. A clean shelf. A reading queue. Colored tags. No timelines, no feeds, no algorithms deciding what you should read next. KEY FEATURES • Save any link with a title, host, note and tags — straight from inside the app • All view with instant search across titles, hosts, notes and tags • Reading Queue for the things you mean to read but never quite get to • Favorites for the handful of links you actually use again and again • Color-coded tags so the right corner of your library is one tap away • Sort by Recent, Oldest, Most Opened or Host • Open Count next to every link so you can see what you actually return to • Parchment-and-brass design that stays out of the way DESIGNED FOR FOCUS Trove is built around one idea: a bookmark is only useful if you can find it again. Tag it once, sort by how often you open it, and let the noise fall away. Open the queue, pick the next thing, get back to your day. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. Your saved links live on your device.

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

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Keepout at 2 against Trove Bookmarks's —. On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 4 level
Trove Bookmarks versus Keepout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrove BookmarksKeepout
PriceFreeFree
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
Devices—iPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLinh Phan Nhat KhanhAlex Richard Fiore

In-app purchases

None

Trove Bookmarks

No in-app purchases

None

Keepout

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Trove Bookmarks free?
Trove Bookmarks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Keepout free?
Keepout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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