Align vs Kept
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Align
This app creates a pause between the impulse to open distracting apps and the action itself. It allows you to choose apps for intentional use, requiring you to confirm your decision and earn access through completing short habits. It aims to foster a calmer, more deliberate relationship with your phone.
- Choose distracting apps
- Pause before opening apps
- Exchange Energy Points for access
- Complete habits to earn Energy Points
- Build healthier habits
- Calm and minimal design
- On-device data privacy
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Most of the time you open Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, you didn't decide to. Your hand just moved. Align is the pause between the impulse and the app: a moment to notice what you're about to do, and choose on purpose instead. ## HOW IT WORKS Choose the apps you want to use more intentionally. Each time you try to open one, Align pauses for a moment and asks whether this is what you really want to do. If you choose to continue, you can exchange your Energy Points for access to that app. If you don't have enough Energy Points, you'll earn them by completing a short habit. • Choose the apps that distract you most • Pause before opening them • Exchange Energy Points for app access • Complete short habits whenever you need to earn more Energy Points • Build healthier habits without giving up the apps you enjoy THE LOOP Pick a habit, start the timer, and follow it through. When it's done, you earn energy, and energy converts into unlock time for the apps you've protected. Healthy habits come first. Scrolling comes second, and on purpose. DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM Align isn't built to gamify your attention or guilt you into "less screen time." It's quiet and minimal, built around reflection: short moments to notice your triggers, your patterns, and what you actually want your time to go toward. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Align uses Apple's Screen Time and Family Controls frameworks directly on your device. We never see which apps you use or when. That stays on your phone. Align is for anyone tired of reaching the end of the day without knowing where their attention went, and who wants a calmer, more intentional relationship with their phone. Terms of Use (EULA): https://align-website-cyan.vercel.app/terms
Kept
Visually track your progress on daily goals with a calendar-style grid. Set custom reminders, notes, and analyze streaks to stay motivated. Offers flexible tracking options for building or quitting habits.
- Calendar grid visualization
- Customizable habit tracking
- Streak forgiveness options
- Personalized reminders
- Notes and statistics
- Home Screen widgets
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Kept is a habit tracker that turns every habit into a calendar of colored squares. Each day you keep a habit fills one in, and the grid shows your progress at a glance: this week, the last months, the whole year. A GRID FOR EVERY HABIT • Every habit gets an icon, a color and a grid of the last months, one square a day • Check in with one tap on the habits screen, or tap any past day in its calendar • Three views: cards with grids, a compact list of the last days, or two columns TRACK IT YOUR WAY • Done or not done, a count (8 glasses of water) or an amount with a unit (5 km, 20 pages) • Build a habit, or quit one and mark every clean day • Every day, chosen weekdays, or a number of times a week or a month STREAKS THAT FORGIVE One missed day doesn't break your streak; two in a row will. Sick or travelling? Take the day off with a reason. A day off never counts against you. REMINDERS AT YOUR TIMES A reminder at the time you pick, with Done and Skip right in the notification. With Kept Pro, up to three reminder times a day on their own weekdays, reminders every few minutes inside a time window, and your own recorded voice as the sound. NOTES AND STATISTICS Write a note on any day. See each habit's year, its completion rate and its current and best streak; with Kept Pro, a monthly chart and the years before. WIDGETS WITH KEPT PRO Your grids on the Home Screen: one habit with its grid and a check button, or several habits over the last ten days. Check in straight from the widget. Lock Screen widgets too. RUNS WITH AN END Keep a habit for 21, 30, 66 or 90 days, or with no end date. When the run is complete, mark it as kept, extend it or keep going. YOUR LANGUAGE Kept speaks 30 languages and follows your phone's date, time and number formats, including right-to-left layouts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No ads. Everything stays on your phone. Delete it all in one tap. With Kept Pro, back up to a file and restore it on a new phone, or export a CSV. FREE AND KEPT PRO Free: four habits at once with every schedule and tracking type, the grids and calendars, notes, streaks and one reminder time per habit. Kept Pro: unlimited habits, widgets, statistics with the monthly chart and earlier years, three reminder times a day and reminders every few minutes, custom reminder sounds, backup and restore, and archived habits brought back. Yearly with a 7-day free trial, monthly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://prioton.com/kept/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kept at 5.0 against Align's 1.0. Kept also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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. Align sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Kept sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kept holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Align ships an update every 3 weeks, Kept every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Align | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Alisher Abdulin | Prioton LLC |
In-app purchases
Align
- Align Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
- Align Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Kept
- Kept Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Kept Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Kept Pro Lifetime$39.99









