Keep · Health, head to toe
A quiet place to look after your health over the years, in your own words, on your own phone.
Your key numbers, your visits, your medicines, the papers that came home, and how the parts of you are. Keep writes down what you tell it and brings it back when you need it: at the next appointment, or years from now.
iPhone · Stays on your phone · Free · Coming to the App Store
What it is for
Most health apps want a number from you every day and give you a grade back. Keep wants nothing from you. It holds what you choose to write, so that when someone asks "when did that start?" or "what are you on?", the answer is in your hand.
Your numbers
Blood pressure, resting heart rate, waist, cardio fitness, HbA1c, and LDL. Written in from a check-up, a lab report, or Apple Health when you choose. Nothing is ever overwritten, so a correction stays visible.
Your visits
The questions you meant to ask, an alarm and a calendar entry if you want them, then what was said, what to watch for, and the papers scanned in. A question never asked carries on to the next visit.
Your words
A journal, a head-to-toe pass over your body, what you have noticed, and what you have learned about your own health. Typed, or said out loud and turned into words on the phone.
How it works
01 · Write
Whatever it is, type it or say it. A reading, a medicine, a visit, something you noticed, a question for the doctor. One tap files it where it belongs, and a line you have not filed yet waits in the margin until you do.
02 · Keep
Letters, results, scans, and prescriptions, by date, by the part of you they are about, or by who you saw. Medicines with what they are for and when they ended. Everything is searchable, and nothing is interpreted for you.
03 · Bring
A visit in Keep has two halves. Before: the questions you want to ask, a checklist of what to take, and, if you ask for them, an alarm on the day and an entry on your own calendar that follows the date if it moves. After: what was said, what to watch for, and the papers that came home, scanned in on the spot.
The page for the next visit shows what has changed since the last one, in your own readings and your own words. And if a number has drifted against your earlier ones, Keep says so once, on that page, so you can decide whether it is worth mentioning.
Keep records and reminds. It never recommends.
04 · Look back
Keep shows you what you wrote and when, and leaves the meaning to you. A month at a glance, a stretch of it written out in sentences, and one index that names every part of the app in your own words rather than with a badge.
Calendar
A month with a dot for each kind of thing you kept, and the day's own page beneath it.
The margin
A drag in from the right edge: a scrap box, the day's marks, and what is next.
Everything here
Every part of Keep by name, each row saying what is behind it. No counts, no badges.
Made to meet you where you are
One slider moves the whole app between focused and clear: larger type, more room between things, bigger targets for your thumb. Everything else about how it looks is yours to set, once, and leave.
Comfort
Type, spacing, and tap targets move together, and the whole app follows your iPhone's text size too.
Input
Say it instead of typing it, wherever there is a line to write on. Speech becomes words on the phone.
Look
A page, a ledger, or a cabinet, in the colour and typeface you find easiest to read.
Lock
Off by default. Turn it on in Settings and Keep covers itself whenever you put the phone down.
Ways out
A spreadsheet of your readings. The whole of Keep as one file, which a new phone can read back in. And a handoff sheet: the essentials in your own words, with your medicines, numbers, doctors, and people gathered under them, as a PDF for whoever helps you.
Each one is made on the phone and goes wherever you send it. That is the only time Keep sends anything anywhere, and only because you asked.
Everything is stored on your iPhone. There is no account, sign-up, or email address to hand over.
No ads, no tracking, no analytics, and no server of ours. We could not read your record if we wanted to, and we have made sure we never need to.
What it refuses to do
Private by default
Keep does not sync. Your readings, records, and notes stay on the iPhone you wrote them on, and the only copies that exist are the ones you make on purpose. The whole policy is short enough to read, and it is on this site and in the app.
Pricing
The current release has no subscription, no purchase, and no account. Everything on this page is in it. If an optional purchase is ever added, it will be described here before it ships, and nothing already in your hands will be taken back.
Everything included
Free
Your numbers, medicines, visits, records, journal, body, checks, habits, plans, people, the handoff sheet, the calendar, and every way out. The whole app, with no in-app purchase in it.
Keep is an independent app from the people who make HourLife. It is not one of the mini apps and it shares nothing with them: no purchase, no account, no data. HourLife itself, the full Life OS, is a separate app on its own terms.
Version 1.0 · Coming to the App Store
Keep is for adults looking after their own health, at their own pace. It will never tell you what your numbers mean, and it will never tell you off for a week you did not open it.
From the same house
Plans, goals, habits, and a journal for everything that is not a doctor's business, in a private Life OS that syncs through your own iCloud account.
We would like to use Google Analytics to see which pages are worth keeping. It is off until you say yes, and the site works exactly the same either way. How we handle your data.
Google Analytics is currently on. We use it to see which pages are worth keeping, and nothing else. You can change that whenever you like — the site works exactly the same either way. How we handle your data.