Comparison

kept · Document Organizer vs NotesHQ

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

Head to head
About

kept · Document Organizer

Features
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Your important documents, kept. kept is a calm, private home for the documents that run your life — bills, contracts, receipts, insurance, IDs, your family's paperwork. Scan or import them, and kept helps you organize, find, and act on them in seconds. Scanning is solved. Living with your documents isn't. kept is the part that comes after the scan. WHY KEPT • Private by architecture. Everything stays on your iPhone by default. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no cross-app tracking. Anonymous usage data (such as which feature opened the purchase screen) helps improve kept — never your document contents. • No subscription. Pay once, use forever. • Beautifully simple. Designed with the care of your favorite note app, not a generic utility. ORGANIZE THE WAY YOU THINK • Categories, Stacks, and Spaces — group documents by topic, project, person, or property. • Powerful full-text search finds any document by its content, not just its name. • Multi-category documents — a receipt can live in "Tax" and "Home" at once. DOCUMENTS THAT ASK FOR ACTION • kept reads your documents on your device and suggests what to do: Pay, Sign, Reply, Review, Renew, or watch an expiry date. • Get a reminder before your passport, insurance, or warranty runs out. • Sign PDFs with your finger and share them in seconds. EVERYTHING ELSE • On-device intelligence titles, summarizes, and sorts new documents automatically, where your device supports it. • Cancellation letter generator — produce a clean, correctly formatted letter in seconds. • 5 home-screen widgets and Face ID lock. • Optional iCloud sync keeps your documents — including the files themselves — plus categories, actions & reminders on all your devices, via your private iCloud. Synced documents count toward your iCloud storage. ALWAYS FREE Unlimited scans and imports, OCR and full-text search, action suggestions, all widgets, Face ID lock, and backup and export as ordinary files — free, forever. KEPT PRO (one-time purchase) Unlock custom categories, Spaces, Smart Stacks, the cancellation letter generator, PDF signing, the archive, unlimited and recurring deadlines, Apple Reminders export, iCloud sync, accent colors and app icons — and share it with your family via Family Sharing. Your documents deserve a beautiful home. kept. ——— kept pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription, no auto-renewals, no recurring charges. Family Sharing included. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zllhff.github.io/kept/privacy.html

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NotesHQ

Features
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NotesHQ is the smart way to capture, organise, and revisit everything that matters to you. Whether you're taking lecture notes, drafting a novel, planning a trip, or recording quick voice memos on the go, NotesHQ keeps it all in one place — beautifully synced between your iPhone, iPad, and the web. WRITE THE WAY YOU THINK • Rich text editor with slash commands, tables, inline images, and math/LaTeX • Freehand canvas for sketches and diagrams — finger or Apple Pencil • Smart checklists with two-column layout, day grouping, and deadlines • Voice memos that transcribe themselves — record now, search the words later • Templates for meetings, journals, project briefs, and more ORGANISE EFFORTLESSLY • Notebooks and sub-notebooks for hierarchy that scales • Tags with rename and merge tools • Note colour labels, reminders (one-off or recurring), and full version history • [[Backlinks]] and a related-notes panel that surfaces what you'd forgotten • Smart folders for saved searches you reuse • Recently Deleted with one-tap restore; Archive to declutter without losing anything • Daily notes for journaling, standups, and meeting prep FIND ANYTHING, INSTANTLY • Universal search across every note, tag, and notebook • Full-text search with filters (Premium) • Note outline for long documents • Hover previews on backlinks AI-POWERED CAPTURE (Premium) • Chat with your notes — ask questions, get answers grounded in what you've written • Auto-generated quizzes for revision • Auto-tag suggestions • Translation in 28 languages for international collaboration SHARE WHEN YOU NEED TO • Public share links per note, with password and expiration options • Browser clipper for Chrome, Edge and Firefox to save web pages straight in • Share-to-NotesHQ from any iOS app • Calendar integration via webcal/ICS so your reminders appear in Apple Calendar PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • Face ID-protected vault for sensitive notes • Your data stays yours — no ads, no tracking EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • iPhone and iPad with native iOS gestures • Web app at app.noteshq.ai • Real-time sync across all your devices NotesHQ Basic is free forever. NotesHQ Premium unlocks AI chat, quizzes, full-text search filters, unlimited translation, voice transcription, and bulk export at £3.99/month or £39.90/year. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled; manage in your Apple ID settings. Privacy policy: https://noteshq.ai/privacy Terms of service: https://noteshq.ai/terms

Screenshots

kept · Document Organizer4 screens
NotesHQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: NotesHQ at 15.1 against kept · Document Organizer's 26.0. On price, ads, 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. kept · Document Organizer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and NotesHQ sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
kept · Document Organizer versus NotesHQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterkept · Document OrganizerNotesHQ
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJan ZellerhoffZSHIFT INC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

kept · Document Organizer

One-time1
  • kept pro$9.99
2 purchases

NotesHQ

Subscriptions2
  • NotesHQ Premium (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • NotesHQ Premium (Yearly)$39.901 Year

Questions

Is kept · Document Organizer free?
kept · Document Organizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NotesHQ free?
NotesHQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do kept · Document Organizer or NotesHQ have ads?
Neither kept · Document Organizer nor NotesHQ shows ads.

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