Comparison

ArkNote vs Kept Archive

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

Head to head
About

ArkNote

Organize your daily life with a unified journaling and task management system. Capture thoughts, to-dos, and reflections in a chronological timeline, with features like recurring tasks and customizable templates to streamline your record-keeping.

Highlights
  • Daily chronological timeline
  • Integrated notes and to-dos
  • Recurring and auto-carrying tasks
  • Customizable templates
  • Nested tags for organization
  • System Share Extension for quick capture
  • iCloud sync and JSON backup
Features
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ArkNote - Stay Present, Record Every Day It is a note-taking and life-logging app designed around each day. Notes, Todos, reading lists, reflections, and movie reviews no longer need to be scattered across different apps. ArkNote brings them together in a clear daily timeline: write today, continue tomorrow, and rediscover them years later in “Time Rings.” 【Bring Your Records Back to Each Day】 Swipe left or right to switch dates, or use the calendar to quickly look back. Your thoughts, tasks, photos, and everyday moments are naturally organized by time. 【More Than Text Notes】 Add Todos, photos and videos, links, reminders, moods, ratings, tags, and child notes. Use lists, bold text, colors, and covers to give every kind of content the right form. 【Todos No Longer Quietly Expire】 Unfinished items can automatically carry over to today. Recurring tasks can reappear daily, weekly, or on a custom schedule, naturally connecting yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 【Templates Make Repeated Records Easier】 Create templates for reading lists, movie journals, daily reflections, or your own workflows. Customize their icons, colors, and covers to reduce repetitive steps and make it easier to start recording. 【Stay Organized Without the Effort】 Use nested tags to organize different topics, and quickly search titles, text, Todos, links, and tags. Open “Time Rings · On This Day” to rediscover records from the same date in previous years. 【Quick Capture and Sharing】 Use the system Share Extension to quickly import web pages, text, and links into ArkNote. When a record is complete, save or send it through system sharing, as an image, or as a PDF. 【Sync and Backup】 Optionally sync across devices with iCloud. JSON backup, export, and restore are also supported, helping you keep important records safe. May ArkNote help you carry today forward and connect it with tomorrow ===== ArkNote is available for monthly subscription, annual subscription or one-time purchase. When you choose the subscription plan, we will charge your iTunes account after the free trial starts or the purchase is confirmed. The subscription will automatically renew unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the billing period. You can go to your iTunes Account Settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal. Terms of Use : https://my.feishu.cn/wiki/RXKMwRE5fiRPWokHjabcRmIYnwd Privacy Policy : https://my.feishu.cn/wiki/OpdFw61g9iyFsNk7fshcRdOZnTd

About

Kept Archive

Features
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You save things all day. A restaurant someone mentioned on Threads. A workout you meant to try. An article you will read later. Then you forget which app you saw it in, and by the time you find it the post is gone. Kept fixes the second half of that. HOW IT WORKS Tap Share in any app and choose Kept. That's it. Kept saves a snapshot — the text and the picture — onto your phone. Not a link that rots. When the author deletes the post six months later, or makes their account private, your copy is still there. It works from anywhere iOS can share: Threads, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, RED, Safari, Notes. Text, links, photos and videos. IT SORTS ITSELF Everything lands in one timeline, newest first, the way you already read. Kept also reads what you saved and files it under sixteen topics — food, travel, fitness, tech, money, design, home, pets and more. That happens on your phone, by looking at the words. Nothing is uploaded to do it, and you can change any topic by hand. Add your own note to anything. Why you kept it, what it reminded you of. Your notes are searchable with everything else, and they sit with the thing they belong to. Group related things into collections. Places to eat. Ideas for the flat. Things to buy. COMPLETELY PRIVATE There is no account. There is no server. There are no analytics and no crash reports. Nothing you do in Kept is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere to send it. The only time Kept touches the network is when it fetches a snapshot, and then your phone asks that website for the link directly — exactly as if you had opened it yourself. Nobody sits in between. That also means nothing to sign up for, nothing to cancel, and nothing to leak. WHAT IT COSTS The first 30 things you save are free, with every feature switched on — snapshots, topics, notes, collections, search, iCloud backup, export. After that, one payment unlocks unlimited saving for good. No subscription, no monthly fee, nothing to remember to cancel. Pay once and the app is yours. If you decide not to pay, nothing is taken away. Everything you already saved stays readable, searchable and exportable, forever. THIRTEEN LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Kept follows your phone unless you pick a different one. ABOUT VIDEO A video file you share straight to Kept is stored whole on your phone. A video behind a link is only downloaded where that platform's terms allow it — public Telegram channels and ordinary web pages. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, X, RED and Reddit do not allow offline copies, so for those Kept keeps the title, the thumbnail and the link. WHEN A SNAPSHOT FAILS Some pages need a login. When Kept cannot reach the original, it keeps the link and the text you shared anyway, marks the item, and you can try again later. Nothing is ever lost because a fetch failed. YOUR COPY, YOUR FILES Export everything to a zip whenever you like — items, notes, tags, collections and every picture and video, in one file you keep yourself. Import reads it back and only fills in what is missing, so an old backup never undoes today's work.

Screenshots

ArkNote4 screens
Kept Archive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Kept Archive at 15.0 against ArkNote's 17.0. 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. ArkNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Kept Archive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ArkNote versus Kept Archive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArkNoteKept Archive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLexyTech Ltd.Nexa Limited

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ArkNote

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • PRO$14.99
1 purchases

Kept Archive

One-time1
  • Unlock Kept$19.99

Questions

Is ArkNote free?
ArkNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kept Archive free?
Kept Archive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ArkNote or Kept Archive have ads?
Neither ArkNote nor Kept Archive shows ads.

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