Kept By
James Jackson Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Kept By is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by James Jackson. Rated 5.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated August 24, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 68 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 24
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Kept By
Kept By helps you preserve the cards, letters, notes, and personal keepsakes that matter. Instead of keeping meaningful paper memories scattered in boxes, drawers, or folders, Kept By gives you a simple way to capture and organize them on your iPhone. Use Kept By to photograph the front, inside pages, and back of a card or letter, then save it with helpful details such as the sender, occasion, date, and personal notes. Your keepsakes can be browsed, searched, and revisited whenever you want. Features: • Capture cards, letters, notes, and keepsakes • Save front, inside, and optional back images • Add sender, event, date, and notes • Browse your saved memories in one place • Search and organize your personal collection • View saved keepsakes in a clean, simple layout Kept By is designed for personal memory keeping. It is not a social network and does not require an account.
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated August 24, 2026
Kept By 1.1 makes preserving paper memories simpler and more reliable. • Clearer capture and scanner guidance • Better card-fold, landscape-card, crop-review, and multi-page letter handling • Safer saved drafts and clearer recovery when a capture is interrupted • Unlimited Keepsakes, an optional one-time purchase after 10 personal keepsakes Existing keepsakes remain available. Kept By still has no account, ads, subscription, or cloud sync.
App privacy
The developer, James Jackson, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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