You finished the book.
How much do you remember?
Read on paper, Kindle or audio — Kept isn't where you read. It's where the thoughts you have while reading are saved, and handed back long after you've closed the book.
Author, page count and cover fill themselves in.
Say it, type it, or photograph the page and crop the bit you want.
Three weeks later. You wrote it — can you place it?
Type a few letters. It finds the book for you.
Start with the book you're reading →No App Store, nothing to download — it becomes an icon on your home screen.
- Tap ︎⬆️ Share at the bottom of Safari
- Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen
- Tap Add — Kept opens like any other app
iPhone only allows this from Safari. Copy the link below, open it in Safari, then tap Add to your phone again.
Open the ⋮ menu in your browser and choose Install app (or Add to Home screen).
That's where you read, and where the mentor should be able to reach you. Open readkept.com on your phone and tap Add to your phone. It works fine in this browser too.
Free to start · works on any phone
It was never about time.
There's a book on your table you haven't opened in a month. Not because you're busy — you found the hours for worse things. It's quieter than that: you already know it won't stay.
Nine hours, and by Christmas you'll have the cover and nothing else. Put like that, reading stops feeling like building and starts feeling like pouring water into sand.
You keep the cover, the mood, one good line — and never notice the rest go. Feeling like you've read a book is indistinguishable from having kept it. Highlighting doesn't help; notes don't either. They record the book, they don't put it in you.
Being asked is what makes it stick. Psychologists call it the testing effect: retrieving an idea fixes it in memory far more firmly than reading it again ever will.
It will not flatter you.
When you turn the last page it asks five questions written for that book — two on its ideas, two on using them in your own life, and one where you argue with the author. Bluff an answer and it scores you under 40, then names the chapter to go back to.
The first score is usually humbling. That is rather the point.
Nothing to set up. Nothing to learn.
Add the book you're reading
One tap. Your library lives with you across every device.
Keep a thought the moment it lands
A line, a page number, a half-formed idea. Type it, say it, or photograph the page. Kept holds on to it and thinks with you.
Take the exam
Five questions when you finish. A real score, and exactly where you're thin.
One person, one honest problem.
Hi — I'm Grygorii. I built Kept because I kept finishing books and, a month later, couldn't tell you what was in them. I'd have sworn I knew. I didn't.
It's early. Right now you'd be one of the first people using it — which is the good part: what the first readers say is what gets built next.
Built, building, and after that.
Your library, with thoughts tagged to the page they came from. A mentor that reads along with you. The exam when you turn the last page. A quiz that hands your own thoughts back weeks later and asks which book they came from. Dictate a thought, or photograph the page and let it read the words.
Comparing what you kept with someone who read the same book — the part I most want to exist. And a quiet nudge when a book has sat untouched too long.
A way to pay for it, so it can keep running. A store listing, if enough people ask for one.
Is it free?
Free to start, with a daily allowance that grows as you use it. Later you can support it from €3 a month — or connect your own free AI key and keep it free for good.
Do I read the books in Kept?
No — there are no books in Kept, and it doesn't sell or lend them. You read however you already do: paper, Kindle, a library copy, an audiobook. Kept is where you jot what struck you while you're reading, and where you get tested once you've finished. It never asks you to change how you read.
Do I need to install anything?
Not unless you want to. Sign in with Google and it runs in your browser straight away. Adding it to your home screen gives it an icon and opens it like any other app — which is where you'll actually use it, since that's where you read.
Why isn't it in the App Store?
Because it doesn't need to be. Tap Add to your phone and Kept installs from this page in one step — an icon on your home screen, opening full screen, no download and no updates to sit through. It also means when you tell me something's wrong I can fix it that day, instead of waiting a week for a review. If enough people ask for a store listing, I'll make one.
What does it actually ask me?
Five questions written for the book you just read — two on its core ideas, two on applying them to your own life, and one where you argue with the author. Nothing you could answer from the blurb.
Who can see my books and notes?
Only you. Nothing leaves your library unless you share a result, and even then only the book, the score and a thought you pick. You can export or delete everything at any time.
Does it work with any book?
Any book, in any language. The exam is written for the specific book you read — fiction, history, business, anything.