Comparison

The Live Dig™ vs Keeps

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

Head to head
About

The Live Dig™

This app helps you uncover your inner voice through guided journaling and reflection exercises. It encourages curiosity and self-discovery by exploring mental, emotional, physical, and energy aspects of yourself. Earn XP for your engagement and access tools like a flexible journal and guided meditations.

Highlights
  • Guided journaling Digs
  • Exploration of four body areas
  • Flexible journal (text, photo, audio)
  • Daily Wisdom insights
  • Mind-Expanding Experiences (meditations)
  • Community forum (Murmuration)
Features
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What if the voice you've been searching for is your own? Most of us spend our lives responding to expectations, responsibilities, habits, and routines until it becomes difficult to hear ourselves beneath the noise. The Live Dig™ begins there. It isn't about fixing yourself. It isn't about becoming someone new. It's about creating the space to hear what has become difficult to hear beneath the stories, expectations, and assumptions you've accumulated over a lifetime. The Live Dig doesn't tell you who you are. It creates the conditions for you to discover that for yourself. Rather than offering advice, the Live Dig invites you into a process of curiosity, reflection, and exploration. Every Dig helps you notice the stories, patterns, and assumptions that quietly influence how you move through the world. Why "Dig"? Archaeologists don't create history—they uncover it. Layer by layer, they brush away what has accumulated until something meaningful emerges. The Live Dig follows that same philosophy—gently uncovering what has been hidden beneath the layers. Some of what you uncover will feel familiar. Some may surprise you. The Dig doesn't tell you what you'll find. It invites you to keep uncovering, one layer at a time, until what matters most becomes easier to hear. At the heart of the app are guided Digs. Each Dig unfolds through four layers: • A thoughtful question that invites curiosity • A guided exploration through journaling • A real-world experience that carries the Dig into everyday life • A final reflection that integrates what you've discovered Digs are organized into four areas: • Mental Body • Emotional Body • Physical Body • Energy Body No right answers. No grades. No pressure to perform. As you participate, you'll earn XP—a reflection of your engagement and willingness to keep digging. Tools that deepen the experience: • A flexible journal for text, photos, and audio • Daily Wisdom with curated insights and your own meaningful quotes • Mind-Expanding Experiences, including guided meditations • Murmuration, a thoughtful community for meaningful questions and shared discoveries The Live Dig isn't a course to complete, another habit to keep, or another version of yourself to chase. It's a place to pause. To become curious. To notice what has been there all along. One question. One experience. One reflection. One layer at a time. Your excavation begins whenever you're ready. --- SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION The Live Dig™ offers: • The Dig Premium Monthly — $8.99 USD/month • The Dig Premium Annual — $53.99 USD/year • The Live Dig™ Lifetime Access — $111.99 USD (one-time) Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Auto-renewable subscriptions renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. --- USER-GENERATED CONTENT The Live Dig™ includes Murmuration, a community for sharing discoveries. We have a zero-tolerance policy for objectionable content or abusive behavior. Users must agree to our Terms of Use (EULA) before registering or logging in. The app includes content filtering, flagging of objectionable content, and blocking of abusive users. Blocking notifies us and instantly removes the content from the user's feed. We act on all reports within 24 hours by removing content and ejecting the offending user. --- Terms of Use (EULA): https://rawnak003.github.io/The-Live-Dig/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://rawnak003.github.io/The-Live-Dig/privacy.html

About

Keeps

Track the true cost of your possessions by calculating their daily or per-use expense. Easily add items with photos, purchase details, and usage logs. The app offers smart suggestions and private, on-device data storage.

Highlights
  • Cost per day calculation
  • Cost per use tracking
  • Item photos and purchase details
  • Import from Amazon, PDFs, spreadsheets
  • On-device data storage
  • Smart suggestions with Apple Intelligence
Features
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Use what you own. Use Review finds active things you have not used in 30 days, 90 days, or ever. Log a use and undo it without leaving the review. On iPhone Duo, browse your collection and an item side by side while folding preserves your place. Keeps is a home for the things you own — and an honest answer to what each of them costs you. Add an item with a photo, its price, and the day you bought it. Keeps divides the price by the days you've owned it, so a jacket you wear every week and a gadget you forgot in a drawer stop looking the same. Watch the cost per day fall the longer you keep something, and see when it will halve again. WHAT YOU OWN, IN ONE PLACE • Photos, purchase details, warranty dates, notes, and tags for every item • Categories you define, with your own icons and order • A collection you can search, filter, and sort by what it costs you WHAT IT REALLY COSTS • Cost per day, from the price and the days owned • Cost per use — tell Keeps how often you reach for something, or log uses yourself • Sold or retired something? Keeps counts what you got back • An overview of your spending by month and category ADD THINGS THE EASY WAY • Import Amazon orders, a receipt PDF, or a spreadsheet — photos and prices included • Paste any product page and Keeps reads the name, price, and photo • Review every purchase before it joins your collection; returns and duplicates are set aside MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOURS • Stage: Your original stays intact. You can change how it stands or reset your edits at any time. • Search the web for a better picture, right inside Keeps SMART, ON YOUR DEVICE • Describe an item and get a suggested name, category, and tags, powered by Apple Intelligence on supported devices • Ask questions about your collection and get answers from your own data PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your collection stays on your devices and, if you choose, in your own iCloud • Keeps Pro purchases go through the App Store. RevenueCat receives Pro purchase records, paywall views, and an anonymous app identifier for verification and analytics. Your collection, imported purchase history, photos, and notes are not sent to RevenueCat. • Back up and restore your whole collection as a file Shortcuts and Siri: log a use, look up an item's cost, search, or add an item without opening the app. keeps:// links open any item. Feedback opens an editable email with your device model, OS version, and Keeps version/build. No diagnostic log or collection data is attached. Keeps Pro Keeps holds up to 30 items for free. Keeps Pro removes the limit. Importing purchases is part of Keeps Pro. You can review what a file contains first. Everything you’ve added stays yours, with or without Pro. Bought Keeps before it was free? Pro is already included. Keeps Pro · One-time purchase

Screenshots

The Live Dig™4 screens
Keeps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: The Live Dig™ at freemium against Keeps's paid. The Live Dig™ also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. The Live Dig™ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Keeps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 The Live Dig™ against 5.0 for Keeps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Live Dig™ versus Keeps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Live Dig™Keeps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperParamour Paradox LLCChen He

Customer experience

The Live Dig™

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Keeps

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

The Live Dig™

Subscriptions2
  • The Dig Premium Monthly$8.991 Month
  • The Dig Premium Annual$53.991 Year
One-time1
  • The Live Dig™$111.99
1 purchases

Keeps

One-time1
  • Keeps Pro$9.99

Questions

Is The Live Dig™ free?
The Live Dig™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keeps free?
Keeps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Live Dig™ or Keeps?
The Live Dig™ and Keeps are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do The Live Dig™ or Keeps have ads?
Neither The Live Dig™ nor Keeps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Live Dig™ or Keeps?
The Live Dig™ ships an update every 4 days, and Keeps every 4 days. Most recently, The Live Dig™ was updated on October 24, 2026 and Keeps on November 3, 2026.

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