On-device · No cloud · iOS 17+
Clean up your contacts. Keep the ones that matter.
Merge duplicates, delete dead entries, tag and organize, and remember who's who. All on your iPhone, with no account and no cloud. Free to clean up.
See the appThe problem
Your contacts are a mess.
Duplicates. Dead numbers. First-name-only cards built over a decade of work. Apple's Contacts app stores them. Kept Close actually fixes them, then keeps the book useful.
Two apps in one
The cleanup utility. And the relationship manager.
Usually sold separately. Kept Close does both, and the messy part is free.
The app
Real screens. Real cleanup.
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On your iPhone
The enclosure mark on your Home Screen. Contacts stay on the phone.
Card scan
Scan a card. Keep the connection.
Photograph a business card. Kept Close reads it on your iPhone and fills every field. The card photo stays with the contact. Nothing is uploaded.
New
Dark mode.
Lists, favorites, search, and tabs follow your iPhone. The book stays readable at night, and it still never leaves the phone.
Free · Uncapped · No account
The cleanup toolkit.
The whole cleanup is free. Merge, delete, repair, tag. Then keep going, or stop. No paywall on the messy part.
Find and merge duplicates
Scans the whole address book, groups matches by confidence, and merges field by field. Batch-merge the obvious ones in a tap.
Contact checkup
A health report that flags empty cards, bad formatting, ALL-CAPS names, and junk entries, with one-tap fixes.
Mass delete and triage
The thing Apple won't let you do: select-all, filter-then-delete, or swipe keep/delete card by card. Every deletion shows an exact count first.
Recycle bin (30 days)
Every merge and delete is recoverable for 30 days, stored locally. The safety net that earns five-star reviews.
Tags and filtering
Colour-coded tags across Profession, Relationship, Context, and Priority, plus your own. Bulk-tag many at once; filter with AND/OR logic.
Quick capture
Grab a name, number, or address from any app via Share, and Kept Close suggests the right existing card, or makes a new one.
Included forever
Free, uncapped, forever
Cleanup is not a trial. These stay free for every iPhone, with no account and no card.
Find and merge duplicates
Scan the whole book, group matches by confidence, merge field by field.
Mass delete and checkup
Select-all, filter-then-delete, or swipe keep/delete. Health report on junk cards.
Tags
Colour-coded Profession, Relationship, Context, and Priority, plus your own.
30-day recycle bin
Every merge and delete is recoverable, stored locally on the phone.
No account, no cloud, no card
Open it. Use it. Cleanup stays free and uncapped forever.
Kept Close Pro
Then actually use them.
Smart lists, a map of who you know where, keep-in-touch reminders, family trees, card scanning, and export.
Smart lists
Save any search as a living list that updates itself. Doctors, Boston clients, party people.
Contacts map
See who you know, where. Addresses only are geocoded. Names never leave the phone.
Family tree
Real, tappable links between people: family, colleagues, who introduced whom.
Keep-in-touch reminders
Set a cadence per person or list. Reaching out resets the clock.
Scan business cards
Photograph a card. It's read on your iPhone. Name, title, company, phone, email, and address fill in, and the card stays with the contact.
Export
Message or email a whole list. Export CSV / vCard, or mirror as an Apple Contacts group.
Private by architecture
Nothing ever leaves your phone.
On-device. No account. No cloud. No servers. Not a promise. The app has nowhere to send your data. Tags, notes, priorities, and relationships stay on the device. App Privacy label: Data Not Collected.
- No account
- Open it. Use it. That's the whole signup.
- No cloud
- We have no servers to send your contacts to.
- No sync
- Optional map sends addresses to Apple. Names stay.
Pricing
Cleanup is free.
The paywall appears in-app after your first successful cleanup. Buy Pro on the App Store, monthly, yearly, or once.
Kept Close Pro
Monthly
$8.99 / mo
Kept Close Pro, billed monthly. Lowest commitment.
Best value
Yearly
$59.99 / yr
Best value, about $5 / month.
Kept Close Pro
Lifetime
$79.99 once
One-time purchase. For subscription-averse buyers.
iPhone · App Store
Get Kept Close.
Free to download. Cleanup is free forever. Pro is optional, in-app.
FAQ
Straight answers.
Is Kept Close actually private? Where does my data go?
It stays on your iPhone. There's no account, no cloud, and no server. Kept Close has nowhere to send your contacts. Your tags, notes, and connections never leave the device. The one exception is the optional map, which asks Apple to place addresses on a map. It sends addresses only, never names.
Will Kept Close change or delete my contacts without asking?
Never silently. Every merge or delete is something you confirm, and Kept Close always shows the exact number affected first. Anything you remove goes to a 30-day recycle bin you can restore from with one tap.
What's free, and what's Kept Close Pro?
All the cleanup is free and uncapped forever: finding and merging duplicates, mass delete, the contact checkup, tags, and the recycle bin. No account, no cloud, no card. Kept Close Pro adds the relationship tools: smart lists, auto-tagging, the contacts map, keep-in-touch reminders, family and work connections, business-card scanning, and export / group outreach.
Does Kept Close need full access to my contacts?
Kept Close works with the access you grant in iOS. Limited Access is supported. The more of your book you share, the more cleanup and lists can do, but nothing is uploaded either way.
Is there an Android app or a web version?
iPhone only for now. Kept Close is a native iOS app for iPhone on iOS 17 or later. There is no Android app and no web version, and we don't sync your contacts to a cloud you could open elsewhere.
Does Kept Close read my calls or messages?
No. iOS doesn't allow that, and we wouldn't if it did. Kept Close never ranks frequent contacts from call logs or texts, never auto-saves unknown callers, and never pulls live data from LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, or X.
How do subscriptions and refunds work?
Kept Close Pro is purchased in the App Store: $8.99 / month, $59.99 / year, or $79.99 lifetime. Manage or cancel in Settings, Apple ID, Subscriptions. Refunds are handled by Apple under their standard policy.