Comparison

Meet Future Self vs Kept

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

Head to head
About

Meet Future Self

This app helps you achieve your goals by connecting you with your future self. It provides personalized daily plans, motivational letters, and allows you to write back for guidance. Track your progress visually and receive monthly reports to stay motivated.

Highlights
  • AI-generated personalized letters
  • Write back to your future self
  • Customizable goal setting
  • Daily practice timeline
  • Visual progress tracking
  • Monthly progress reports
  • Choice of voice personas
Features
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Meet the version of you who already made it — and let them guide you there. Future Self turns your goals into a daily plan, then writes to you as the person you're becoming. Not generic quotes. Letters written for the day you're actually having, in the voice you choose. And now, you can write back. WRITE BACK, AND GET AN ANSWER Tell your future self what's hard, what you're proud of, or what you're unsure about. They reply in seconds, in their own voice — and their next letter follows up on it. LETTERS WRITTEN FOR YOU • A letter from your future self any day you need one • A Sunday letter that answers your weekly review • Hear every letter read aloud, at the speed you like • A short version on the theme you need: focus, encouragement, accountability or perspective GOALS THAT SOUND LIKE YOU • Turn "I want to" into "I am" with one tap • Each goal starts with one practice you'll actually keep, with more one tap away • Start with three priorities — more than three is the same as none A DAILY PRACTICE YOU CAN KEEP • Your day as a simple timeline, with a time beside every practice • Reminders at the time you choose, skipped once you've done it • Close each day as a win: three quick questions about what went well, what you learned and how you grew PROOF YOU CAN SEE • A calendar that turns green day by day • Then & Now: what you said on day one, beside everything you've done since • A one-page report from your future self every month — how far you've come, what to let go, and what's next. Share it as an image. A VOICE THAT FITS YOU Tough Love, Wise Sage, Warm Mentor or Best Friend. Your future self speaks the way you need to hear it. Built on the research behind "future self continuity": people who feel connected to who they're becoming make better choices today. Future Self makes that connection something you can read, hear and answer, every day. SUBSCRIPTION Future Self is a subscription with a free trial on eligible plans. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://meetfutureself.ai/terms Privacy: https://meetfutureself.ai/privacy

About

Kept

This app helps you reduce time spent on distracting applications by setting daily limits and scheduled blocking periods. It offers customizable prompts and a "Protect Now" feature for immediate control, with a focus on privacy and on-device data.

Highlights
  • Set daily limits for individual apps
  • Schedule app blocking for evenings and bedtime
  • Customizable usage prompts
  • Immediate app blocking with 'Protect Now'
  • Streak tracking and 'freeze' rewards
  • Privacy-focused with no account or tracking
Features
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Kept helps you spend less time on the apps that eat your day. Pick one app, or up to 5, and give each one a daily limit. Kept checks in while you use it, and it can block those apps for the hours you want back, like your evenings or bedtime. Everything stays on your phone, and there are no ads. HOW IT WORKS • Pick your apps in Apple's own picker. Kept doesn't block whole categories, and Phone, Messages, alarms, and any app you don't pick are never blocked. • Set a daily limit of 15, 30, or 45 minutes, 1 hour, or your own number. Under its limit, the app opens as usual. Kept asks "Keep going?" after every 5, 10, or 15 minutes of use (you pick), and it can ask more often after your 3rd Keep going of the day. • When the limit is used up, the app stays blocked until midnight. You can get more time inside Kept. It costs a freeze if you have one. If you don't, it costs your streak and a wait that gets longer each time that day. • Protected time. Set hours when your limited apps are blocked, like Evenings from 5 to 9 PM or Bedtime from 10 PM to 7 AM. An emergency of 5 or 15 minutes is the only way through. You can turn one off for today, and it comes back on at midnight. • Protect now blocks your limited apps from this minute for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or until 9 PM. Start it from Home, Shortcuts, or Siri, or from Control Center on iOS 18 or later. A countdown shows on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Your week shows the days and evenings you kept, how often you said I'm done, your hardest hour, and one suggestion. A Lock Screen widget shows whether Kept is on, when protected time ends, and how many apps are done for today. • Every day you stay within your limits adds a day to your streak. Every 7 days you earn a freeze, which gives one app another round of today's limit. KEPT FREE AND KEPT PRO Every new install gets all of Kept Pro free for 14 days. The trial runs inside the app. You don't add a payment method or sign up, and nothing is charged when it ends. After 14 days Kept keeps working as Kept Free, with 3 limited apps, 1 protected time, 1 freeze, and Your week for this week and last. If you set up more than that, you choose what stays, and the rest is saved for later. Kept Pro adds a weekday and a weekend limit for each app and every past week in Your week. It also limits up to 5 apps, sets up to 5 protected times, and holds up to 3 freezes. • Kept Pro Monthly: $2.99 per month • Kept Pro Yearly: $19.99 per year • Kept Pro Lifetime: $49.99, a one-time purchase Protect now, the widget, emergencies (3 a month), and turning Kept off are free on every plan. PRIVACY AND WAYS OUT There's no account, sign-in, analytics, or tracking. Your Screen Time data stays on your iPhone, and Kept never sees your apps' names as text. Kept sends one notification at most, an optional 5-minute warning, and it's off until you turn it on. Turn Kept off in Settings and everything unblocks right away. Kept turns itself back on at 6 AM, unless you choose I turn it back on. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country. Monthly and Yearly are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel any time in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions, or in Kept under Settings → Kept Pro → Manage subscription. Lifetime is paid once and never renews. Family Sharing is on for all three. Kept uses Apple's Screen Time and needs iOS 17 or later. It's made by one person. Questions and bug reports go to kept@brucelabs.io. Terms of Use: https://kept.brucelabs.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://kept.brucelabs.io/privacy Support: https://kept.brucelabs.io/support

Screenshots

Meet Future Self4 screens
Kept4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Meet Future Self at daily against Kept's every 4 days. Meet Future Self also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meet Future Self sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Meet Future Self against 5.0 for Kept. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meet Future Self ships an update daily, Kept every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Meet Future Self versus Kept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeet Future SelfKept
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlowriz LLCWade Bruce

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Meet Future Self

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Founders Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
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  • Founders Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
3 purchases

Kept

Subscriptions2
  • Kept Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Kept Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kept Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Meet Future Self free?
Meet Future Self is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kept free?
Kept is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meet Future Self or Kept?
Meet Future Self and Kept are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Meet Future Self or Kept have ads?
Neither Meet Future Self nor Kept shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meet Future Self or Kept?
Meet Future Self ships an update daily, and Kept every 4 days. Most recently, Meet Future Self was updated on November 5, 2026 and Kept on October 31, 2026.

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