# Keep It

> Notebook and document organizer for Mac, iPhone and iPad

Keep It is a notebook and document organizer from Reinvented Software for the Mac, with a separately sold app for iPhone and iPad. It keeps notes, text and Markdown files, PDFs, web links, emails and other documents as ordinary files, folders and tags that also appear in the Finder and the Files app, and it syncs and shares them through iCloud. The Mac version is sold as a Mac App Store subscription or as a one-time license bought from the vendor.

- **Category:** Note-Taking Apps
- **Made by:** Reinvented Software
- **Website:** https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/
- **Runs on:** macOS, iOS, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

Keep It is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $2.99 in-app subscription on the Mac App Store (billing period not labelled).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** Two-week free trial with App Store subscriptions; 15-day trial of the direct Mac download.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keep It for iPad and iPhone | $1.99 or $19.99 monthly or yearly subscription; the listing does not label which | A separate App Store app that requires a subscription, with a two-week free trial for new subscribers. |
| Keep It for Mac (Mac App Store) | $2.99 or $29.99 monthly or yearly subscription; the listing does not label which | Subscription to the Mac app from the Mac App Store, with a two-week free trial and Family Sharing. |
| Keep It for Mac (one-time license) | Not published | Bought from Reinvented Software and covers every 2.x release on all the Macs in a household. The price is shown only in the store checkout. |

Read from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keep-it/id1272768911?mt=12 on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Keep It before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Free or half-price upgrade from Keep It 1** (Other savings): Buyers of Keep It 1.x on or after May 4, 2021 qualify for a free upgrade to version 2, and earlier buyers for a half-price upgrade license. Source: https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/upgrading.html

## Mac App Store prices by country

"Keep It for Mac", as each country's Mac App Store showed it on Oct 9, 2026. These are the app's prices, not the website's.

| Country | Price | In US dollars |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $2.99 | |
| United Kingdom | £2.99 | about $3.95 (32% more) |
| Germany | 2,99 € | about $3.35 (12% more) |
| Canada | $3.99 | about $2.80 (6% less) |
| Australia | $4.99 | about $3.48 (17% more) |
| India | ₹ 299 | about $3.09 (about the same) |
| Brazil | R$ 19,90 | about $3.98 (33% more) |
| Mexico | $599.00 | about $32.91 (1001% more) |
| Turkey | ₺149,99 | about $3.05 (about the same) |
| Indonesia | Rp 49ribu | about $2.74 (8% less) |
| Philippines | ₱ 199.00 | about $3.17 (6% more) |
| South Africa | R59.99 | about $3.63 (21% more) |

## Key features

- **Notes and text files:** Notes with styles, checklists, lists, links, images and attachments, plus rich text, plain text and Markdown files with an HTML preview.
- **Web links, PDFs and scans:** Save web links as PDFs or web archives for offline reading, scan documents, and edit PDFs by reordering or removing pages and highlighting text.
- **Finder and Files integration:** Everything is stored as files, folders and tags that can be managed in the Finder and in Open and Save panels on the Mac, and in the Files app on iPhone and iPad.
- **Folders, bundles, tags and labels:** Organize items in nested folders, gather them into bundles that can overlap, and add tags and color labels. A Tag Filter narrows any list by tag.
- **Search and saved searches:** Searches file contents, text recognized in scanned PDFs and images, and metadata, with suggestions as you type. Any search can be saved to the sidebar.
- **iCloud sync and sharing:** The library can live in iCloud and be reached from all your Macs, iPhones and iPads, and top-level folders or single items can be shared with other Keep It users.

## Good for

- Mac users who want notes and reference documents in one library
- People who want their files to stay visible in the Finder and Files app
- Archiving web pages, PDFs and emails for offline reading and search

## Worth knowing

- It runs on Apple platforms only, and the iPhone and iPad app is always a separate purchase from the Mac app.
- The iPhone and iPad app requires a subscription; the one-time license exists only for the Mac version bought from the vendor.
- Sync is through iCloud only: it cannot be used with Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud Drive, and it has a single library.
- The one-time license covers the current major version (2.x), and its price is not shown until the store checkout.

## Works with

iCloud, Apple Mail, Safari, Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, Automator, Siri

**Tags:** One-time purchase, Notes, Markdown, Web clipper, Bookmarks, Linked notes, Templates

## Alternatives

- [DEVONthink](https://toolgpa.com/tools/devonthink): Document and information manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/devonthink-vs-keep-it)
- [EagleFiler](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eaglefiler): Document organizer and mail archiver for Mac. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eaglefiler-vs-keep-it)
- [Notebooks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/notebooks): Writing, documents and tasks organized in nested books. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/keep-it-vs-notebooks)
- [Evernote](https://toolgpa.com/tools/evernote): Note-taking app with web clipping, tasks, calendar and AI search. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/evernote-vs-keep-it)
- [Apple Notes](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apple-notes): Apple's free notes app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/apple-notes-vs-keep-it)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keep-it/id1272768911?mt=12
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keep-it-mobile/id1272769808
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/ios/
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/buying.html
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/upgrading.html
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/downloads/
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/encryption.html
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/store/buy?item=KPTA2000
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/support/keepit/
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/support/keepit-ios.html
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/support/generalfaq.html
- https://reinventedsoftware.com/about/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/keep-it
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).