Kept. Private Journal & Diary

Kept Journal & Diary

About this app

Write what you can't say. Keep it, or burn it.

The message you typed and deleted. The thing you can't tell your family. What you'd say to someone who's gone. A thought you're not ready to share with anyone.

Some things need a page without a send button.

Kept is a private writing app. Write a line or a page. Keep it to read again, or burn it when you're done.

Your words are encrypted on your phone, and Kept never uploads them. No account. No ads. No AI.

KEEP, BURN OR SEAL
When you finish a thought, you choose what happens to it.
• KEEP saves it to read again.
• BURN deletes it and its history from Kept for good. It skips Recently Deleted and can't be undone.
• SEAL closes it until a day you choose. Kept keeps it closed until that morning, then opens it by itself.

BURNER PAGES
Some things only need saying once. A burner page is never saved: close it and it's gone, unless you tap KEEP. Or set a timer for 1 hour, 24 hours or 7 days, and it disappears when the time runs out.

NOTHING LOST BY ACCIDENT
• Every thought saves as you write, even if a call comes in
• Version history brings back how a thought read before
• Deleted thoughts wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days
• Encrypted backup to one file only your passphrase can open, and restore it on a new phone

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Encrypted with AES-256 on your phone, with the key held by your phone's secure keystore
• Optional fingerprint or face lock
• No account, no email, no password
• No ads, no advertising SDK, no Firebase, no Google Analytics

QUIET BY DESIGN
No streaks, no counts, no badges. Kept doesn't send reminders unless you want them: it asks once, after your first thought, and you can change it any time in Settings.

ALSO IN KEPT
• PDF export of one thought, a month or everything
• Tags and search
• On This Day and a monthly review, if you turn them on
• Home screen widget, Quick Settings tile, and share into Kept from any app
• Three themes (Void, Ink, Bone) and three typefaces (Editorial, Typewriter, Clean)
• Tablet layout with reading and writing side by side

PRIVACY, PLAINLY
• Crash reports: Kept sends anonymous crash reports and a few usage counts, like "a thought was saved", so bugs get fixed. They never include your words. Turn them off any time in Settings > Security.
• Backups: a backup is a file you make and keep yourself, encrypted with your passphrase.
• Burn: removes a thought from Kept. A backup you made earlier still has its copy.

What’s new

Write what you can't say. Keep it, or burn it.
• KEEP, BURN and SEAL on every saved thought
• Nothing lost mid-thought: a call or an app switch saves it straight away
• Fewer numbers: no totals, no streak
• Crash reports are now your choice in Settings > Security, and they never include your words