Paper keepsake journal
Kept the app vs Kept Collection the journal
Two different things called Kept. One is a childhood keepsake journal made of paper; the other is this app. You may well want the one that isn’t ours.
What Kept Collection is
Kept Collection makes a childhood journal for parents to write down the moments that matter — a reimagined baby book, covering every phase of childhood rather than just the first year. Smyth-sewn binding, thick #80 partially recycled paper from a wind-powered mill in Canada.
It is a lovely object and it has nothing to do with us. We are not affiliated, and neither of us is a version of the other.
This page exists because we share a name and people land on the wrong one. If you came looking for the book, that link goes straight there.
Side by side
What it is
Kept
An app for the people in your adult life.
Kept Collection
A physical journal for your child’s milestones.
Who it is about
Kept
Friends, family, the people you keep in touch with.
Kept Collection
Your child.
How you write in it
Kept
You talk, for about nine seconds.
Kept Collection
A pen.
What it does later
Kept
Hands the detail back before you next see someone.
Kept Collection
Sits on a shelf and gets read in twenty years.
Privacy
Kept
On your phone, not synced to our servers.
Kept Collection
It is a book. Nobody can read it remotely.
Kept Collection details checked on 15 August 2026 against their own site. Everything on this page about the other product was read off their own site on the date shown. We don’t list prices, because they change and a stale one would be misleading.
The difference that matters
Only the name. A keepsake journal is for the far future — the point is that someone reads it decades later. Kept is for three weeks from now, and its whole value is in the gap between a conversation and the next one.
Different jobs, different timescales, no overlap. If you want a record of your child growing up, buy the book.
Where Kept Collection beats Kept
It is a physical object that will outlive every app in this comparison, including ours. Nothing digital replaces a hand-written page your child reads in thirty years, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Don’t pick Kept if: You were looking for a baby book. That is the other Kept, and the link above is the right one.
Why we built it this way
The design choices above aren’t preferences. Each one traces to published research, and each of these has its own page with the finding, the method and what it doesn’t show.
If Kept is the one you want
Nine seconds of talking after you see someone. Kept files it against the right person and hands it back the day before it matters. Free for 14 days, no card needed.