A journal designed to organise and summarise what you wrote.

Why Kept exists

Most journalling applications demand continuous effort from day one and only offer insights after months of consistent entries. You write into an empty box day after day, waiting for the software to accumulate enough text to say something relevant. Almost nobody reaches day ninety.

Kept was built to solve the empty timeline on day one. By connecting to your existing photo library, you select five photographs you already took. Each photograph becomes a dated entry with its own mark. Within twenty minutes, you arrive with a year of context already recorded.

How it is built

The privacy model is not a marketing promise; it is the physical architecture of the application.

• On-device SQLCipher storage: All entries, dates, selected photos, and observations are stored in an AES-256 encrypted SQLite database on your iPhone.
• Keychain encryption: The 256-bit cryptographic key protecting your journal is held in the secure iOS Keychain under AFTER_FIRST_UNLOCK protection.
• No accounts or servers: There is no sign-up process, no user database, and no server synchronising your journal entries.
• Ephemeral summarisation: When you tap to generate a summary, only the entries from that chosen period are sent via OpenRouter to be written up. Once completed, the text is returned to your device and is not retained or used for model training.
• Passphrase-encrypted backups: You can export standalone backups encrypted with scrypt and XChaCha20-Poly1305, including photos, locked with your own private passphrase.

The marks

These marks appear throughout the interface: on the timeline, within the year grid, and across the weekly strip. They serve as a visual index of your entries without exposing your text to anyone glancing at your screen.

The business model

Writing, reading, searching, and exporting your entries are free forever. You will never be locked out of your own thoughts or asked to pay to read what you wrote.

The paid feature is the generated one-page summary. It produces counted figures from your entries, extracts exact quoted sentences, and frames three questions for reflection before your next session.