FAQ

Scan the barcode with the + button. Title, cover, and details fill in automatically. No barcode? Search by title, or add it fully by hand. Batch mode keeps up with a whole stack of cases.

Yes. Search an author, a director, a band or a studio, tap Select, tick the titles you want and tap Add. They all file in one format, with the cover, year and creator from the search; the details fill in on their own afterwards, the way an import does. Titles already on your shelf are marked and left out, and the format you pick is remembered for next time on that shelf.

1. Tap + and search by name.
2. Tap Select, tick the titles, and change the format behind the arrow if needed.
3. Tap Add N as … and then Done.

Not since 1.0.8. The batch files exactly as before, then the summary offers Review Each: one card per copy with the things a barcode cannot know, its format, edition, region and condition, what you paid, when and where you bought it, a shelf location and a note. Save & Next writes that copy and moves on; Skip leaves it as matched; Stop ends the review and everything already saved stays. Apply to all beside the price, the day and the shop fills a whole haul in one go. Wrong match? on a card opens Which Release Is This? for that copy. After a batch scan the Added to your shelf sheet offers Review It or Review Each as well.

1. Scan or Select and Add as usual.
2. On the summary, tap Review Each.
3. Fill what you know, then Save & Next, or Skip.
4. Stop any time; Done closes the review.

Not unless you tick it. Batch mode queues every barcode and looks it up while you keep scanning. A row comes in ticked, its circle filled, when the copy is new to your shelf. A barcode that is already on the shelf comes in unticked and says Already on your shelf; tick it if this is a second copy. A match on your wishlist says On your wishlist and stays ticked, because that is the disc you came for. Tap anywhere on a row to tick or untick it. Only ticked rows go in when you tap Add, and Cancel adds nothing. Not it? under a title opens Which film is this? to pick another match or search.

1. Turn on Batch mode and scan the stack.
2. Read the rows: a filled circle goes in, an empty one stays out.
3. Tap Add N Items, then Review Each if you want to fill in details.

On Home, tap the box button at the top and pick the shelf, then search for the title. Tap the round + on each title in the same order, then Next, and give each one its format and price; the shop, the order date, the expected date and a tracking number are for the whole order. Not listed yet? Add it by hand under the results, or tap Create a Box Set for a set: either one joins the tray with the rest, and Next takes them all to the order form. To add to an order you already placed, open it on the Wishlist, tap Edit Order, then Add Another Title. The order shows on Home and the Wishlist until it arrives. Keptcase doesn't follow parcels itself: the expected date sets a reminder at 9 in the morning, and Track opens the carrier's own tracking page. When it comes, swipe right on the order and tap It Arrived; if only some of it came, tap Some of Them and tick what is in your hands.

1. Home → the box button → pick the shelf
2. Search, tap + on each title, then Next
3. Add the shop, dates and tracking number, then Add
4. When it comes: swipe right → It Arrived

Every one a title was sold on. Movies & TV: 4K UHD, Blu-ray, 3D, HD DVD, DVD, VCD, UMD, LaserDisc, CED, VHS, Betamax, Video8, Super 8, 16mm, 35mm and Digital. Music: vinyl and singles, 78s, CD, SACD, DVD-Audio, Blu-ray Audio, cassette, 8-track, MiniDisc, DCC, DAT, reel-to-reel, flexi disc and a digital album. Books: hardcover, leather-bound, paperback, mass market, large print, board book, spiral, library binding, graphic novel, audiobook, magazine and eBook. Comics: single issue, trade paperback, hardcover collection, deluxe, absolute, omnibus, manga volume, treasury, magazine, graded slab and digital. Games: every console from the Atari 2600 to the Switch 2, PC and Mac discs, and digital.

Movies and TV from TMDB, music from MusicBrainz and iTunes, books from Open Library, games from IGDB. Everything works with zero setup; your own API keys in Data Sources are an optional upgrade, never a requirement.

There are four: Quick Actions (search and four doors of your choosing), a Shelf of your latest pickups, At a Glance with the number you choose, and Tonight's Pick, which deals a title from a shelf with Pick Again right on the Home Screen (since 1.0.11). Touch and hold a widget and tap Edit Widget to choose what it shows. On a tinted Home Screen the covers keep their colour.

1. Touch and hold your Home Screen.
2. Tap Edit, then Add Widget.
3. Search for Keptcase and pick a widget.
4. Touch and hold the widget, then Edit Widget, to choose what it shows.

Fixed in 1.0.4. The importer matched a row to your shelf by title and year, and correcting an entry with Find a Different Match (or by hand) changed both, so the next import of the same file did not recognise the row and filed a fresh copy beside it. Every imported copy now remembers the row it came from, and a barcode in the file finds its copy too, so a re-import heals what is there instead of duplicating it. A duplicate that already exists can be removed by hand, or with Remove Duplicates under Settings → Starting over when the two are exact copies.

1. Export from your other app again and import the same file
2. The summary shows Updated rather than Imported for rows already on the shelf

Yes. Any CSV with a Title column imports: exports from CLZ (Movies, Books, Music, Games, Comics), My Movies Pro, DVD Profiler, MovieBuddy, MusicBuddy, BookBuddy, Libib, Delicious Library, Discogs, Goodreads, a spreadsheet you typed yourself, or Keptcase's own export. You choose the shelf the file belongs on and every row files there, so a CLZ Books export goes in under Books and a Movies export under Movies: one file per shelf. Keptcase's own export is the exception: it carries every shelf in one file with a Kind column, and each row goes to the shelf its Kind names (Movie, TV Show, Music, Book, Comic, Game), whichever shelf you picked; the summary sheet lists where the rows went. A Blu-ray.com export names no TV column, so a title with a season in it (Season 1, The Complete Second Season, The Complete Series) files as a show. Titles appear at once; covers, cast, labels, track lists and values fill in on their own afterwards. Importing is bulk adding, so it is part of Keptcase Pro; export is free forever.

1. Save the other app's export to Files on your phone, or send it to yourself and save it from there.
2. Open Settings → Import, Export & Delete Shelves → Import Collection CSV, and choose the shelf: Movies, Music, Books, Games or Comics.
3. Pick the file. The summary sheet opens when the import finishes, and Last Import reopens it later.

A bug, ours, in every version before 1.0.6. Blu-ray.com writes its column names with a space after each comma and keeps the format in its disc counts and the title ("1917 4K"), and Keptcase read the file as titles alone: every disc filed as a DVD with no format, barcode, studio, price or date. From 1.0.6 the export imports as it was kept: 4K and 3D discs as such, Blu-rays as Blu-rays, barcodes, studios and boutique labels, steelbooks and slipcovers, prices, retailers, dates, and a Watched tick as a diary entry. If you imported before 1.0.6, update and import the same file again on top of what you have: every title heals in place with its format and details, and nothing duplicates. Blu-ray.com exports one file per category (Blu-ray, 4K, DVD) and includes your wishlist titles without marking them; those can be moved to the wishlist from the item's page.

1. On Blu-ray.com, open your collection's Export page and tap the "Export as CSV instead" link; the default export is not a CSV. The link shows the collection as text on the page rather than sending a file: select all of it and copy.
2. In Keptcase, open Settings → Import, Export & Delete Shelves → Paste Collection CSV and choose Movies, once per category page. A file saved from a computer imports through Import Collection CSV the same way.
3. Imported before 1.0.6? Update, then import the same file again: the summary shows Updated rather than Imported, and the formats are right.

Every app on the list exports a CSV from its own menu or settings; save it to Files, or email or AirDrop it to yourself and save it there. CLZ: Export to CSV, in the app's menu or on CLZ Connect, one file per collection. My Movies Pro and DVD Profiler: their Export command, CSV. MovieBuddy, MusicBuddy and BookBuddy: Export in Settings. Libib: export the library from its website. Discogs: Export from your collection page. Goodreads: My Books → Import and export → Export Library. A spreadsheet works too: one row per title, a header row naming the columns, saved as CSV. Comma-, semicolon- or tab-separated, in UTF-8, UTF-16 (Excel's Unicode Text) or Windows text, with or without Excel's byte-order mark: all read.

Columns are matched by their header names, in any order, capitals or not, and columns it does not know are ignored. Title is the one that must be there (Title, Name, Movie, Album, Book or Game). Then: Year (or Release Date, Publication Year); Director, Author, Artist or Developer; Format, Platform, Binding, Disc Type or Media Type; Barcode, UPC, EAN or ISBN; Catalogue Number; Edition (or Version, Packaging) and Cover Type; Boutique Label and Studio, Distributor or Label; Genre and Tags; Rating (out of 5, 10 or 100); Notes; Location or Shelf; Purchase Price, Purchase Date, Purchased From and Acquired; Date Added; Region; Wishlist (yes or no); Runtime, Pages, Tracks; Summary or Synopsis; Cover URL; TMDB ID and IMDb ID; 3D; Is TV Series, Season, Box Set, Is Box Set, Set Position; Series and Series Number; Discs; Digital Provider or Digital Copies and Owned On. Dates read as 2024-07-15 (year first). Prices read plain or with a dollar sign.

A Box Set column naming a set files the row inside it, and the set is created if the file has no row of its own for it; a yes in Is Box Set marks the row itself as a set. A row whose description lists the films inside (My Movies and CLZ write these) becomes a box set too, and its films wait on the set's page for you to add them. A Season number files the row as a TV show with that season, and a yes in Is TV Series, or the word TV in a Type or Media Type column, does the same without one. Watched Episodes and Set Position round-trip from Keptcase's own export. On Books and Comics, a Series column puts each book in that series at once, with its Series Number, and the automatic sweep upgrades it to the known run when Open Library has one.

A 4K row with two or more discs in its Discs column files as a 4K UHD case with a Blu-ray inside it, the way the package is sold. A row naming two formats that studios pair in one case (4K UHD and Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD, vinyl and CD) files as one combo pack; two formats that never share a case (DVD and VHS, CD and cassette) become two copies, as they are on the shelf. Blu-ray + Digital stays one Blu-ray. A row with no disc whose type says Digital Copy comes in as a Digital item with the store read from its Digital Copies or Provider column (iTunes files as Apple TV), counted apart from your discs and never priced. An Owned On column (Apple TV; Prime Video) becomes copies you own on a disc's page. A yes in a 3D column turns a Blu-ray into a 3D Blu-ray.

How many rows were added, updated or skipped as duplicates, how many came in as digital copies, and a progress line for the covers and details still filling in. Under Check these it lists anything worth a look, each row a door: rows that named a format Keptcase does not know (filed under the shelf's plainest format for now, with File these as to set the right one for the whole group, or Remove these), rows that became two copies, rows filed as combo packs (with Split into separate copies), box sets created, and rows that exactly repeated another row, which you can bring in as additional copies if you really own two. If the file carried boutique labels, the sheet offers to fold spellings onto the labels Keptcase knows and to pick the exact release for label discs with no barcode. Nothing on the sheet changes your shelf until you tap it.

Yes, always. A row is matched to what you have by title, year and format, and an existing item is only filled in where it was blank: a synopsis, a barcode, a studio, a series, a season number, a watched-episode list. It never overwrites your notes, rating, price, location or wishlist mark, and it never creates a second copy of a disc you already have. If a fixed typo in the file is not picked up, edit the item by hand. One caution: if you own two editions of the same disc and the file has no Edition column, the second row is skipped rather than guessed at.

The header row has to be the first line of the file, and one of its columns has to be called Title, Name, Movie, Album, Book or Game; when that is what went wrong, the summary sheet says so and reads the first line back to you. Rows with an empty title are skipped. Check that you imported into the right shelf: a Books export imported under Movies files every book as a film (Find a Different Match or Remove All Movies puts that right). Comma, semicolon and tab files all read, in UTF-8, UTF-16 (Excel's Unicode Text) or Windows text. Dates read year first (2024-07-15), day first with dots (15.07.2024), slashed in your region's order (07/15/2024 in the US, 15/07/2024 in the UK; a day past 12 settles it either way), or with the month written out (Jul 15, 2024). A date in none of those forms is left blank, not misread.

Your titles are on the shelf at once. In the background, one at a time so the databases stay within their limits, Keptcase fetches missing covers, then cast and crew, studios and labels, franchises, album track lists, and finally estimated values for what you own (wishlist rows are not priced); once a value is a month old the overnight pass refreshes it, the oldest first. Keep the Home tab open and it keeps going, and it carries on overnight and picks up where it left off next time you open the app. A shelf of two thousand takes a while; the Last Import row in Import, Export & Delete Shelves shows the progress. Re-importing an already filled-in file costs nothing.

Letterboxd's export (Settings → Data → Export Your Data) is a zip, and you can hand it straight over, no unzipping. Import, Export & Delete Shelves → Import Letterboxd Export reads what is inside and asks which parts you want: your ratings, your diary entries, your written reviews, everything you ever marked watched, and your watchlist. Ratings, diary entries and reviews only touch films already on your shelves: each row is matched to a film you own by exact title and year. Your diary entries land on the day you watched, one per watch date, never twice for the same day; ratings are stars only, since the day you rated a film is not the day you saw it; and 'everything marked watched' only adds an entry for a film your diary never dated. Only the watchlist adds anything, and it goes to your wishlist and is off until you tick it. A single unzipped ratings.csv or diary.csv still works if you prefer. Re-importing the same export later changes nothing twice, and if an earlier import left extra watch days, the next one takes them back and says how many.

Every film, show, album, book, comic and game has a Your Rating card on its page, and every watch, read or play you log has the same stars. Tap the right half of a star for a whole star, its left half for a half star, or drag a finger across the row to sweep through every half step; the x clears. The stars on a diary entry are that watch's; the newest watch's stars are the ones on the shelf.

1. Open the item's page.
2. Tap a star's left half for a half star, its right half for a whole one.
3. Or drag across the row.

It should not, from 1.0.8 on. A search matches the start of a word in the title, creator, edition, genres, tags and cast: typing tron finds Tron: Ares and not Louis Armstrong or every Electronic record. Accents and punctuation are folded, so amelie finds Amélie and rem finds R.E.M. Before 1.0.8 a search matched the letters anywhere inside a word, which is why a short word could fill the shelf.

Yes. Open the title, tap Edit Details, and change Category at the top of the form: Movie, TV Show, Music, Book, Comic or Game. Save moves it to that shelf. Its cover, notes, tags, rating, price and history come along; the facts that belonged to the old shelf (a film's cast and runtime, an album's tracks, a book's page count, a looked-up value) are cleared and looked up again from the right database, so the cover and details fill in over the next while. A whole file from another app that imported onto the wrong shelf is best removed and imported again onto the right one (Import Collection CSV lists each shelf, TV Shows included). A Keptcase export that an earlier version piled onto one shelf needs only importing again: every row goes to the shelf its Kind column names, and a copy already on the wrong shelf is moved there, not added twice.

1. Open the title, then Edit Details
2. Change Category at the top
3. Save

As one title. Open it, tap Edit Details, and under Physical Edition, Format is what the case is filed as, and Also in the case lists the other discs, each a switch. Tap DVD, or 4K UHD, or both, and Save; the page reads Blu-ray + DVD, the shelf files it once, and the value is looked up for the pack as sold. A digital copy is not a chip: it lives in the title's Digital Copy section, with its code or the service it is on, and never on your shared shelf. Link Another Edition is for two separate cases of the same film, not for one case that holds two discs. On a record or a CD the same row offers Vinyl, CD and Cassette (since 1.0.11), for a pressing that ships a CD or a tape in the sleeve.

1. Open the title, then Edit Details
2. Tap every other format in the case
3. Save

Yes (since 1.0.11). On a shelf, open the filter menu and tap Select Titles, tick the cards that share the fact (Select All takes everything the filter or search is showing), then tap Edit at the bottom and Edit Details: where you bought them, the day and the price, the condition, the region, the packaging, the boutique label, a shelf location, tags. Fill in only what should change; a blank row leaves each title as it is, and a title that already has a value keeps it unless you turn on Replace. Set Universe on the same bar writes one universe name onto all of them.

1. Filter menu, then Select Titles
2. Tick the titles, then Edit
3. Edit Details, fill in what changes, Save

Yes (since 1.0.11). On a universe page or a series page, open the menu and tap Edit Order: the titles list with handles to drag (Star Wars by episode, the Marvel films by timeline, Goosebumps the way you read them). On iOS 27 you can also touch and hold a cover on the page and slide it into place. Your order rides your backup to your other devices, a title added later lands at the end, and Use Release Order puts the catalogue's order back.

1. Open the universe or series page
2. Menu, then Edit Order
3. Drag the handles, then Done

Open the title, tap Edit Details, and use the Packaging section under Physical Edition (Add → Manual has the same section). Three rows of chips: the case (Keep case, Steelbook, Digipak, Rigid box…), the slipcover and its finish (Slipcover, Quarter slip, Lenticular, Embossed, Glow-in-the-dark…), and what came in the box (Booklet, Art cards, Poster, Soundtrack CD, Lobby cards…). Tap a chip to tick it; tap More for every kind on that shelf with a search field; type anything else in Other. Records get sleeves, obis and inserts; games get their cases, spine cards and manuals; books and comics get binding details, jackets, slabs and cover treatments. The title's page shows the case and wrap as one pill (Steelbook · Quarter slip · Lenticular) and an In the box row; the copies list shows it on every copy.

1. Open the title, then Edit Details
2. Tick the chips in Packaging, or tap More
3. Save

No. Every copy is its own row with its own packaging, price, condition and notes. With Group editions on (the shelf's filter menu), copies of one film sit under one card with a count, and tapping it lists each copy with its packaging so a Universal steelbook, a Sony box set and a Walmart steelbook read apart at a glance. With Group editions off, each copy is its own card, and a card that stands beside a twin shows a short packaging line under its format. Packaging never changes which copies count as the same film.

1. Filter menu → Group editions
2. Tap the card's count to see every copy

Yes. Every shelf's filter menu (the lines icon, top left) has a Packaging entry once a copy on that shelf names one; pick a word and the shelf shows only those copies. Packaging also travels with the copy: it syncs to your other devices and your household, backs up, comes along in the CSV as a Packaging column, and shows on your shared shelf.

1. Open the shelf's filter menu
2. Tap Packaging and pick a word

Yes. On the Add form (Manual) and on Edit Details, the Genres field has a list button at its right end. The list shows the genres your shelf already uses first, then the standard genres for that shelf (a film's TMDB genres, a record's Discogs genres, and so on), with a tick on each one the title has. Tap a genre to add it or take it off. You can still type any genre, comma separated; typed and picked names are tidied together on Save so a genre is never listed twice.

1. Open Edit Details (or Add → Manual)
2. Tap the list button beside Genres
3. Tick the genres, then Save

Yes. Settings → Preferences → Badge Celebrations. With it off, a badge is still earned and listed on the Badges page (Home → Badges); the pop-up that announces it never shows.

1. Open Settings → Preferences
2. Turn off Badge Celebrations

Yes. Open any title and tap its Tags row, near the foot of the details card: type your own words separated by commas (Halloween, Lent to Sam, Criterion sale), or tap a tag your shelf already uses so it is spelled the same way. The Add and Edit forms have the same row under Details. Every shelf's filter menu (the lines icon, top left) has a Tag entry that lists your tags and shows the titles under one; the search box finds a tag too, and Ask your shelf reads them. Tags sync with your other devices and your household, back up, and come along in the CSV as a last Tags column.

1. Open a title and tap Tags
2. Type a tag, or tap one the shelf knows
3. Save, then filter any shelf by Tag

Yes. An A–Z rail appears along the right edge while you scroll, and fades away once the shelf rests so it never covers the art. Touch a letter or slide along the rail and the shelf jumps to the first entry under that letter; the letter shows large beside your finger while you slide. Since 1.0.8 the rail follows the sort: titles under Title, and under Director, Creator, Artist, Author or Label & Spine the letters are the names' own, read as they are written (Woody Allen under W). The rail lists only the letters your shelf has, and stands down while you search.

1. Start scrolling the shelf
2. Touch or slide the rail on the right edge
3. Lift your finger on the letter you want

Yes. On Home, tap Log a Watch, then Look up a movie, and pick the film. A watch form opens: when, where (the film's own streaming services lead the row, then In a cinema, Streaming, Digital rental, Borrowed disc, A copy I used to own, On TV and the rest), a rating and a review. Save files the film under the Elsewhere chip on the Movies shelf with an amber Elsewhere pill, logs the watch in your diary with where it happened, and never counts it as a copy: it is not in your item count, your value, Tonight's Pick or your public shelf. Home's Log a Watch card opens the same watch form straight away, with no switch, and a watch of a film already on your shelves goes on your copy. Edit on an Elsewhere film changes its title, genres, tags and notes and nothing a disc would have; buy the disc later and tap Add to Shelf on the film's page or on its Edit form, and every watch, rating and review stays with it.

1. Home → Log a Watch → Look up a movie
2. Search for the film and pick it
3. Say when and where, rate it, review it
4. Save

Yes (since 1.0.8). Home → Log a Watch → Look up a TV show, search the show and pick it: the Watched elsewhere form opens with a What you watched section above When and Where: a Season row listing the show's seasons, then All of Season N or Episodes with the checklist. Episodes you have already watched are greyed with a tick, the next one is pre-ticked, and the Session line reads S2 E1–E3 · 3 episodes with the running time. Save puts the watch on that season's row (your own disc if it is on your shelf, your wishlist row if you want it, or an Elsewhere row made for the season) with the episodes ticked and one diary entry naming them, so Next up, the Recap's minutes and the checklist on the season's page all follow. A show you logged on 1.0.7 without a season asks which season the first time you tap Log a Watch on its page, and an Elsewhere season's page offers the show's other seasons too.

1. Home → Log a Watch → Look up a TV show
2. Pick the show, then the Season row
3. All of Season N, or tick the episodes
4. Say where, rate it, Save

Yes (since 1.0.10). Open the season, open Episodes, and hold the last episode you watched. On the sheet, switch on On the days they aired and tap Mark watched through. Every episode up to that one is ticked and logged in your diary on its own air date instead of today; episodes that aired on the same day share one entry, so a season that arrived all at once is one entry and a weekly one is an entry a week. An episode with no air date yet stays unticked. Leave the switch off to log the run on one day you choose, as before.

1. Open the season and its Episodes list
2. Hold the last episode you watched
3. Switch on On the days they aired
4. Tap Mark watched through

Yes. Log a Watch on any film or show now has a Where row: My copy is the default, and one tap makes it a cinema re-release, a stream or a friend's disc. The diary row and the film's watch history say where each watch happened, and the Monthly Recap counts them: so many in cinemas, at home, streamed.

1. Open the film, tap Log a Watch
2. Pick where on the Where row
3. Save

Yes. Open the film and tap •••, then Mark as Watched: it is logged today, with no rating and no note, and you never see the sheet. Music says Listened, Games says Played, and a book or comic says Read. Once a watch is logged the same item reads Log Another Watch and adds one more, dated today. Log a Watch is for when the date, a rating or a note matters; its date starts at today too, so Save alone works there as well.

1. Open the film
2. Tap •••, then Mark as Watched

Yes. In a shelf's filter menu (the lines icon, top left) tap Mark All as Watched (Read on Books, Listened on Music, Played on Games). Everything the shelf is showing that has no log yet gets one dated today, after a confirmation that says how many. It follows the filters, so Unwatched + a genre marks just those. Anything already logged, your ratings, box sets (their discs are what get logged) and the wishlist are left alone.

1. Open the shelf and set the filters you want
2. Tap the filter menu, then Mark All as Watched…
3. Confirm the count

It should not be, since 1.0.12. A watch is logged on the copy you had open, and a film you own in two editions, or a disc inside a box set, used to keep its card under Unwatched because the other copy had no log of its own. The Unwatched and Watched chips now read the card: a watch on any copy of a film, or on any disc of a set, counts for all of them. Mark All as Watched still logs each copy it shows, and your diary is unchanged.

1. Open the shelf and tap Unwatched
2. A film with a watch on any of its copies is no longer there

A disc titled "Show: Season 2" (or Series 2) finds its show by name now (the app asks TMDB for the show alone, without the disc's year) and remembers which season the disc is. If a season is still unmatched, open it, tap ••• then Find a Different Match: the search opens on the show's name with the season words already removed, and picking the show keeps the season number from your title. A box named for its seasons ("Seasons 1-2", "The Complete Series") stands on the TV Shows shelf beside its discs. On a show's page, Wishlist All Missing puts every season you do not own on the wishlist in one tap.

1. Open the season and tap •••
2. Tap Find a Different Match and pick the show
3. Check This disc is Season N on the page

Yes. Add the title and choose Digital as its format (Movies & TV Shows and Games; Books have eBook), then pick where it lives: Apple TV, Prime Video, Steam, PlayStation Store and so on. It sits on the shelf with a Digital mark, is counted apart from your discs and is never priced. A disc you also own on a service gets that under Digital Copy → Owned On on its page: the provider, the day you bought it (tap Purchase date for a calendar; since 1.0.11 it opens as its own line under the date) and a note, each on its own line. Swipe any of a copy's lines to remove the copy.

1. Tap + and find the title, or open an item and tap •••, then Edit.
2. Set Format to Digital and choose the Provider.
3. For a disc you also own digitally: Edit → Owned On → Add a Copy You Own, then the provider, the purchase date and a note.

A trivia game written from your own collection, no network and no AI: who directed a film, what year it came out, which of two came first, which album has a track, a cover hidden under tiles. Pick a shelf or several, add two to six players and pass the phone; a Pass screen hides the answer between turns. With two or more players, a Host's Shelf round asks what only you can know (what you added first, what you rated five stars). Long-press an answer to report a wrong question. The scoreboard shares a card with the covers from the round. Your record (games played, perfect rounds, your past games) travels with your cloud backup, so it reads the same on every device you sign in on. Shelf Trivia needs Keptcase Pro, with a free five-question sampler once.

1. On Home, tap Shelf Trivia under Diary & Recap.
2. Turn on the shelves to play from and add players.
3. Choose 5, 10 or 15 questions each, then Start the game.

A deck of books new to you, dealt from your own shelf: more by the authors you own most, and the subjects you rate highly, best rated first. Swipe right to put one on your wishlist, left to pass; tap a card for the synopsis. Nothing you own is dealt, and a pass stays passed for six months.

1. Open the Books tab and tap Discover.
2. Swipe right for the wishlist, left to pass.
3. Tap Deal Again at the end for a fresh deck.

On the Books shelf (or Comics), tap the Reading Goal card under Next Read. Pick 12, 24, 36 or 52, or set any number. Every book you log as read this year counts once, and the card keeps the pace: ahead, on pace or behind, and how many a month would finish it. Reaching the goal earns the Finish Line badge.

1. Open the Books tab.
2. Tap the Reading Goal card under Next Read.
3. Choose a goal for the year, then Done.

You own that title in more than one edition, say Blu-ray and 4K. The copies fold into one card; tap it to see every edition. Turn grouping on or off with the filter button's Group Editions toggle.

Yes. Series usually fill in on their own from Open Library and Keptcase's own list, and the series page shows what you are missing. When a book has none, or the wrong one, open it, tap ••• then Edit, and type the series name and its number in Basics. A name the shelf already knows joins that series' card; a new name starts one. Clear the field and the book leaves the series. A CSV import with a Series column files its rows the same way. Every shelf page also shows its count under the search bar.

Yes. A book or comic series page lists the run in reading order with a number down the side, marks each one you have logged a read of, shows the one you are on, and puts Up next at the top: the lowest number on your shelf you have not read. Hold any book there, or open it and tap •••, for Mark as Read. Switch the list to Published or Owned first with the control under the header.

1. Open a book, then tap the series name or N owned
2. The Up next card is the one to pick up
3. Hold a book and choose Mark as Read when you finish it

Yes. When a name spans more than one shelf, Dune's films, novels and score, say, the item's page gets an Also on your other shelves row, and Home an Across Your Shelves card. Either opens one page with every shelf's titles in that world, each shelf in its own colour with its count, and the series page one tap away. The join is made from the series and franchise names the shelves already carry, so a series you typed on a book joins its films as soon as you save it.

Yes (since 1.0.11). Say “Do I own something in Keptcase” and Siri asks which title; answer with the name and it tells you whether it is on your shelf, on which formats, or on your wishlist, and names the other titles that share the words. “What is my Keptcase collection worth” gives the value and the count per shelf; “How many films do I own in Keptcase” counts one shelf; “Open Alien in Keptcase” opens the page. The same phrases are in the Shortcuts app under Keptcase. Every title is also in Spotlight: search from your Home Screen and the result opens the copy's page. Nothing leaves the phone; Siri reads the shelves on the device.

1. Hold the side button or say Hey Siri
2. Say “Do I own something in Keptcase”
3. Say the title

Two ways (since 1.0.11). On a universe's page, tap the menu and Add Titles: search any shelf, tick what belongs and tap Add; each gets the page's name as its Universe, the same as typing it on Edit. On a shelf, open the filter menu and tap Select Titles: tap cards to tick them (a grouped card ticks every copy under it), use Select All to take everything the current filter or search is showing, then Set Universe at the bottom writes one name onto all of them. Type a name or tap one of your existing universes; a blank clears it. To take a single title out later, clear Universe on its Edit screen.

1. Open a shelf, tap the filter button, then Select Titles
2. Search or filter, then Select All or tap the cards
3. Tap Edit, then Set Universe, type the name, Save

Yes (since 1.0.11). On a shelf, open the filter menu and tap Select Titles, tick the cards (a grouped card ticks every copy under it, Select All takes everything the filter or search is showing), then tap Edit at the bottom and Edit Details. The sheet has the Edit screen's own rows: where you bought them, the purchase date and price, how you acquired them, the condition and completeness, the region, the packaging words, the boutique label, a shelf location and tags. Fill in only what should change; a row left blank leaves every title as it is. Packaging and tags are added to what a copy already has. For the other rows, a title that already has a value keeps it unless you turn on Replace what is already set, so a shop typed for twenty new discs never overwrites the one you bought elsewhere by accident. A big selection saves in slices with a progress bar.

1. Open a shelf, tap the filter button, then Select Titles
2. Tick the cards, or Select All
3. Tap Edit, then Edit Details, fill in the rows, Save

Yes (since 1.0.11). A universe page and a series page each keep an order of your own: Star Wars by episode, the Marvel films by timeline, a book series the way you read it. Open the page's menu and tap Edit Order: the titles are listed with handles, grouped by shelf on a universe page, and Save keeps the order. On iOS 27 you can also touch and hold a cover on a universe page and slide it along its row, or hold a row on a series page under Your order. The order is the page's, not the shelf's, so your shelves keep their sorts; it rides your cloud backup to your other devices; a title you add later lands at the end; and Use Release Order in the menu puts the catalogue's order back. Books keep their published numbers either way.

1. Open a universe page or a series page
2. Tap the menu, then Edit Order
3. Drag the handles, then Save

No. Editions group copies of the same film, so the 1978 Halloween and its remake keep their own cards. Sequels, prequels, and reboots show up as a franchise row on an item's page instead, built automatically.

Boutique is the company behind your specific release: Criterion, Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome. Studio is who made the film, and for music it's the record label. Studios and record labels fill in automatically; boutique labels are yours to set on an item's edit screen.

Twenty-five so far, each read from the label's own published listings: twelve film labels, 101 Films, 88 Films, Deaf Crocodile, Fabulous Films, Grindhouse Releasing, Powerhouse Films (Indicator), Radiance Films, Second Sight Films, Severin Films, Synapse Films, Umbrella Entertainment and Vinegar Syndrome, and thirteen record labels, Waxwork Records, Numero Group, Mondo (with its Death Waltz imprint), Light in the Attic, Sacred Bones, Music On Vinyl, iam8bit, Third Man Records, Rhino, Real Gone Music, Craft Recordings, Invada Records and Intervention Records, whose vinyl, CDs and cassettes carry their catalogue numbers, pressing colours and, where the label names one, the artist. A release from one of these carries its catalogue number, barcode, format and region, so a search on the Movies or Music shelf can name the exact disc in your hand and a scan can tell a limited edition from the standard one. The current list, with how many releases each label has, is at keptcase.app under The labels in the catalogue; more labels are being added regularly, and every catalogue is re-read from the label each week.

In Keptcase's own catalogue first: the labels' releases, TheDiscDb's open list of discs, and the barcodes other collectors have confirmed, well over ten thousand in all. A hit is captioned Keptcase catalogue with the label or the source named. Only then are the retail listings and the film, music, book and game databases asked, and the answer is checked against what the sellers wrote, in the disc's own market language for a release from outside the US. A double feature or a numbered set scans as the set, with the films inside named for you to confirm.

Yes. Open the item, tap the camera button on the cover, then Choose a Cover. Keptcase gathers every cover the databases hold for that title, every poster of a film, each printing of a book, each release of an album, plus the packshots other collectors have confirmed, and marks the one you have. Tap one to see it on your copy, then Use. Your own photo stays one tap away in the same sheet for the release no database has. The same menu is on the Add form: tap the found cover while you add a title, from a search, a scan or a typed entry.

1. Open the item and tap the camera on its cover
2. Tap Choose a Cover
3. Tap a cover, then Use

Take the case off the shelf, lay it flat, and fill the camera's guide frame with its front. The frame is the shape of the case you are adding (a Blu-ray keep case, a DVD case, a square sleeve, a cartridge box), so a case that fills it is framed. Daylight or a lamp, no flash off shrink-wrap (slide the wrap off if you can), and nothing else in the picture: no hand, no neighbours, no table. The Frame the Cover sheet opens on what was inside the frame; Show it whole keeps the full photo. Covers you choose to share show on other collectors' shelves, so a clean shot helps everyone who owns the same case.

1. Open the item, tap the camera on its cover, then Take a Photo
2. Fill the frame with the front of the case, flat and lit
3. Frame it, then Use; share it if the case in your hand is the one others will scan

Yes (since 1.0.10). Open the title, tap the camera button on its cover and choose Crop This Cover. The cover opens in a frame the shape of the shelf's card, so whatever you frame fills the card exactly and every cropped cover on a shelf is the same shape. Pinch to zoom, drag to place it, then Use Cover. It works on the catalogue's art and on a photo you took earlier. Changed your mind? The same menu has Remove Custom Cover, which puts the catalogue's cover back.

1. Open the title and tap the camera on its cover
2. Tap Crop This Cover
3. Pinch and drag, then Use Cover

A scanned album takes its track list from the pressing that carries its barcode, so a US disc gets the US list rather than the international edition a store sells under the same name. If an album still shows the wrong list, tap the menu beside Tracks and choose Choose a Different Release: every pressing Keptcase can find is listed with its year, country, format, track count and barcode. Tap one to preview its list, then Use. Your choice is remembered; Back to the Automatic List undoes it.

1. Open the album and tap the menu beside Tracks
2. Tap Choose a Different Release
3. Tap the pressing that matches your case, then Use

Settings → Artwork has Fetch Missing Artwork and Fetch Studios & Labels, which also run on their own in the background. Any single item can be corrected by hand: open it, tap •••, then Edit, including a custom cover photo, cropped to fit. If the whole match is wrong (a season box filed as a film, the wrong book of the same name), tap ••• then Find a Different Match: search or scan again and pick the right title. The title, year, cover and details are replaced; your format, edition, price, notes and dates stay.

1. Open the item and tap •••
2. Tap Find a Different Match
3. Pick the right title from the list, or scan the barcode

Keptcase only stores a listing it can verify is complete. A store that licenses six of twelve songs doesn't get to describe your record. Open the album to fetch its listing, or run Settings → Data Sources → Fetch Album Track Listings to fill the whole shelf. If the album is still blank, tap Choose a Release under Tracks and pick your pressing from the list.

Settings → Preferences → Shelf Theme gives each shelf its own look: walnut and Edison bulbs, a video store, a record crate, an arcade, a gallery, a horror wall, a night sky with button eyes. Every look is part of Keptcase Pro; No Theme is the default.

Yes (since 1.0.11). Open Check my shelf (a shelf's search field, or Own it already? on Home) and tap Take a Photo or Choose Photo: a shop's shelf, a convention table or a stack of cases. Every title read from the photo is listed with your answer beside it: Owned with the formats you have, Wishlist with Got it, or New to you with Add. Tap a row for the same card a barcode scan opens, with the matches. On iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence the on-device model reads the photo; on every other iPhone the system's text and barcode reading does, so the door is on every phone. The photo is read on your device, never uploaded, and not kept. Covers and spines facing the camera, filling the frame and in the light read best; for one disc the barcode is still the fastest way. Every row carries the title as the catalogue spells it: a cover whose first letter is drawn in chalk or a swash is placed through the names printed on it (the actor billed over the title), so the row reads Creep, not Reep, and tapping it opens that film. A title the catalogue does not know keeps what was read, and nothing is added unless you add it.

1. Open Check my shelf
2. Take a Photo or Choose Photo
3. Tap a row, or Add

A link (since 1.0.11) under a title's value card that opens eBay's current Buy It Now listings for that copy, searched with the same words the value lookup used, on the eBay site the copy was priced on. It opens in the eBay app when you have it, otherwise in Safari. Keptcase may earn a commission on a purchase made through it; the price you pay is the same, no listing is shown inside the app, and nothing from eBay is kept.

1. Open the title
2. Under the value card, tap Find it on eBay

Yes (since 1.0.11). The purchase price on Add, on Edit, on Edit Details for several titles and on an order has a currency beside it. It opens on your own money; pick the one you actually paid in, and the title keeps it: the Paid line, Stats and Collection Value show that currency, never a conversion. A price that landed in the wrong currency is put right by opening Edit and picking the other one, no retyping.

1. Open the title, then Edit Details
2. Tap the currency beside the price
3. Save

No. A value you enter on the Add or Edit form is yours: the card reads Your Value, and neither Update Value Estimates in Settings nor the background sweep touches it. The one thing that replaces it is Update from eBay on that item's own page, which says so when it does. Clear the field on Edit to let the sweeps price it again.

1. Open the item, tap •••, then Edit
2. Type the value in Estimated value and save
3. The card now reads Your Value

Yes (since 1.0.8). Every value a copy has held is kept as a reading: the market's answer when a sweep asks, or the value you typed. On an item's page the Est. Value card says how far it has moved since it was added; tap it (or Value history under the cards) for the copy's line, what you paid as a dashed reference, and every reading with its source and date. Stats has a Value Over Time section with your whole shelf's monthly line and the copies that moved the most. One reading a day at most, kept only when the value changes.

1. Open the item
2. Tap the Est. Value card
3. Pick 3M, 1Y or All

It opens eBay's current Buy It Now listings for the copy on the page (since 1.0.11), searched with the same words the value lookup uses: the title, the label and edition, and the format, on the eBay site the copy was priced on. The link carries Keptcase's eBay Partner Network tag, so Keptcase may earn a commission if you buy something there; the price you pay is the same. Nothing from eBay is stored, and a digital copy, which has no market, shows no link.

1. Open the item
2. Under the Value card, tap Find it on eBay

Live market data, no accounts needed: PriceCharting for games (eBay as backup), Discogs listings for music, and real eBay listings for movies and books. Open an item to fetch its value. The home total counts only items that have been priced.

Prices are looked up when you view an item, not all at once, to stay inside the data sources' limits. Browse a shelf and values fill in as you go.

Yes, from 1.0.6. A value is looked up when a title is added, and once it is a month old the overnight pass asks the market again, the oldest values first, a few dozen a night, so a big shelf turns over gradually and every phone stays inside the shared eBay allowance. The item page says when its value was last updated. Refresh All Values on the Collection Value page does the whole shelf at once, and a value you typed yourself is never touched.

Yes (since 1.0.11). The purchase price on the Add and Edit forms, on Edit Details for several titles and on an order has a currency menu beside it. It opens on your own money; pick the one you paid in and the title's Paid line and your totals keep it. Nothing is converted. A price that landed in the wrong currency is put right by opening Edit and picking the other one; the figure stays as typed.

1. Open the title and tap Edit
2. Beside Purchase price, pick the currency
3. Save

A disc is priced where it sells: a German barcode on eBay.de in euros, a British one on eBay.co.uk in pounds, an American one on eBay.com in dollars. Keptcase never converts a price, so each figure is shown in the money it was quoted in. Your totals count one currency (your own when any of your values are in it) and say how many titles in other currencies were left out.

Yes (since 1.0.8). Open the copy, tap ••• and choose List for Sale, beside Loan Out. Set an asking price in your own money, say whether you are open to offers and add a note about the condition. A listed copy stays on your shelf and in your collection's value, with a green price pill on its cover, until you mark it sold or take it off sale. Keptcase lists; it takes no payment and carries no messages. Listing is part of Keptcase Pro; seeing and unlisting what you listed is not.

1. Open the copy, tap •••, then List for Sale
2. Set the asking price, offers and a note
3. Tap List

On Home. Once something is listed, a For Sale section appears under Across Your Shelves, beside Incoming and Out on Loan, with the count, the asking total and the listed covers. Its header opens Your Listings: every shelf's listings in one list, newest first, with the shelf and format under each title, the asking price and what you paid. Swipe a row to mark it sold or take it off sale. Collection Value's For Sale card and Stats' sold line open the same page. The section leaves Home when nothing is listed.

1. Home → For Sale → the header
2. Or Collection Value → For Sale → Your Listings
3. Swipe a row: Mark as Sold or Take Off Sale

It leaves your shelf, its counts and your collection's value, and is kept as history: its page, what you paid and every logged watch stay under the shelf's Sold filter and on the Sold half of Your Listings, the year's sales first with earlier years folded. Stats' Spent tile says what sold this year and Collection Value's card counts it off the value. Swipe a sold row for It's Back on My Shelf if it did not go after all. A sold copy's purchase price leaves Total Spent with it.

Not if you want to keep its history. Deleting a copy deletes its diary entries with it, and the Delete confirmation says how many. Instead open the copy, tap ••• and choose No Longer Have It (since 1.0.10): pick Sold, Traded, Gave away or donated, or Lost or damaged, set the day, and for a sale what it went for. The copy leaves your shelf, its counts and your collection's value, while its page, what you paid and every logged watch stay under the shelf's filter button: Sold for a sale, No Longer Owned for a copy that was traded, given away or lost, each with a grey pill on its cover saying how it went. It needs no listing first, and It's Back on My Shelf in the same menu undoes it. Only sales count in Your Listings and in what Stats says you sold.

1. Open the copy and tap •••
2. Tap No Longer Have It
3. Pick what happened and when, then Save

Only if you say so, twice. Turn on Show What's for Sale under Share Your Shelf in Settings, add a selling link or a handle a buyer can reach you through, and switch Show on my shared shelf on the listing itself. Your shelf page then gains a For Sale tab with the price and your note; buyers reach you through your links, never through Keptcase. With the switches off, your listings are yours alone.

It picks from what you own, tuned to your ratings and watch history, and tells you why it chose. Narrow it with the mood and genre filters, or hit Pick Again, and when you commit, one tap logs the watch to your diary. Every shelf has its own picker: Binge Next, Spin Something, Next Read, Next Issue, Play Next.

Forty-four collector badges earn themselves as your shelf grows, from First Keeper onward. Each one has a share-ready card, and Diary & Recap tracks the year your shelf had.

Apple Intelligence: an iPhone that supports it, running iOS 26 or later. Questions are answered entirely on your phone; your collection never leaves it. On other phones, every other feature works normally.

A conversation with the title you're holding, on its page: who's in it, where it's set, how it starts. Answers come from the synopsis and the Wikipedia plot summary, on your phone, and stop short of spoilers until you switch them on. It's Ask the show, Ask the book, Ask the album and Ask the game on the other shelves. Without Apple Intelligence the same card shows the plot's setup and a door to the whole plot. Part of Keptcase Pro.

Yes. A household is one shelf that up to six people keep from their own phones, each signed in with their own Apple ID. Whatever any of you adds, edits or removes is on everyone's phone the next time they open Keptcase, cover photos and notes included. Watches, ratings and the diary stay each person's own. It is not two people taking turns on one phone: one phone, one Apple ID, one collection, and the household joins the phones together.

One Keptcase Pro between you, and a sign-in on each phone. A household is cloud sync, so each person signs in with their own Apple ID; the sign-in is only ever used for backup and sync. The person who subscribes starts the household, and their Pro covers one other member, so the person joining does not need a subscription of their own. Apple's Family Sharing is not involved and not needed.

1. Open Settings, then Household, on each phone
2. Tap Sign in with Apple, as yourself
3. The subscriber starts the household; the other person joins with the code

No. One Keptcase Pro covers two seats: the person who subscribes and one other member of their household. The second seat goes automatically to the first member who joins without a subscription of their own; the Household page names who is covered by whom. A third member needs their own Keptcase Pro. Coverage comes only from an active subscription inside the household, and it ends if that subscription lapses or the subscriber leaves. Until someone in the household subscribes, the others can see everything on the shelf but their own changes stay on their phone.

Start it on the phone that holds the collection. Your shelf becomes the household's shelf; nothing on your phone changes. You get an eight-character code that works for seven days and for up to six people; New Code retires it and makes another.

1. Open Settings, then Household
2. Tap Start a Household
3. Name it, type your own name as the others will see it, and tap Start Household
4. Tap Send an Invitation to message the code, or Copy Code

Join on your own phone, signed in as yourself; no subscription is needed, the household's Keptcase Pro covers you. The household's shelf comes onto your phone, and anything you already had is added to the household, so nothing is deleted on either side. A title you both own stays two copies, yours and theirs, each saying who added it; only a copy you had already filed in the household yourself is matched to its cloud row rather than uploaded again. Capitals and spaces in the code do not matter. If the code is wrong or has expired, the page says so; ask for a new one. Setting up a new phone? The tour's last page and the subscription page both have a Joining someone's household link that lands here.

1. Open Settings, then Household
2. Tap Join with a Code
3. Type the code and your name, then tap Join Household
4. Wait a moment while the shelf arrives

Shared: every title, its format and edition, cover photos, values, notes, the wishlist, and box sets. Yours alone: the diary, so your watches and ratings are your own and the others never see them; your preferences, badges, followed shelves and your published shelf page. You can rename the household or your own name on the Household page at any time. Each title a member adds says Added by and their name on its page, so you can tell whose find it was.

One wishlist for the household. If you both want the same title, the second add says it is already on the wishlist and who added it; you can add it anyway if you meant a different edition. When one of you buys it and moves it to owned, it moves for everyone.

Yes. In Settings under Public Shelf Link, turn on Share as your household and publish. The page is titled with the household's name and signed with everyone's names instead of one person's, and it becomes the household's one page: every member's phone updates that same link from then on, and the Household page shows it. Leave the household and the page stays with the household.

Fifty or more removals in one sync, or a twentieth of the shelf, are held back on your phone until you decide, because that many at once is usually a real clear-out but can also be a mistake. The Household and Cloud Backup pages then show Needs a decision with two choices: Remove Them Here Too, or Keep Them Everywhere, which puts them back on every device.

No. Keptcase keeps one collection per phone, under one Apple ID, and there is no switching between people on one device. If you have been using someone else's account on your phone, sign out of it in Cloud Backup, sign in as yourself under Settings, Household, and join their household with a code.

Your phone keeps every title it has, including what came from the others, and your own cloud backup takes over with exactly what is on your phone. The household keeps the shelf for whoever stays. If you are the last one out, the household's cloud copy is removed. Signing out or deleting your account leaves the household too.

1. Open Settings, then Household
2. Tap Leave Household and confirm

The person who started the household can. On the Household page, swipe left on a name and tap Remove. Their phone keeps every title and goes back to its own backup; the household keeps the shelf. If their subscription was covering the household, that coverage ends.

Publish Shelf puts your collection on a public page at shelf.keptcase.app. One link anyone can browse, no app needed. You choose whether the wishlist is included, and you can unpublish any time.

Your collection lives on your phone. Cloud backup is optional (Sign in with Apple), exists so your catalog survives a lost phone, and is never mined, sold, or shared. Deleting your cloud data really deletes it, and CSV export in Settings always works.

Yes, in one go, one shelf at a time or all of it, and it never needs Keptcase Pro. If any of it might be worth keeping, export a CSV first from the same page.

1. Open Settings, then Import & Export.
2. Scroll to the Reset section at the bottom.
3. Tap Remove All Movies (or TV Shows, Music, Books, Comics, Games) to clear one shelf, wishlist included, or Erase All Items to clear everything.
4. Confirm, then scan or add from scratch. Re-importing a CSV later updates what is there rather than duplicating it.

Settings → Import & Export → Reset → Remove Duplicate Items deletes exact copies (same type, title, format, year, and edition) and keeps the copy with the most details. Merge Combo Packs Filed Twice folds a 4K and its bundled Blu-ray back into one case.

With cloud backup on, sign in with Apple on the new install and your collection comes back, and your published shelf keeps its same link. Covers refill themselves; only custom cover photos you took need re-adding.

Your heart rate while you watch a horror film, read from your Apple Watch and turned into a Fear level from 0 to 100 with a word: Calm, Uneasy, Tense, Scared or Terrified. The card shows the level on a gauge, the peak and when it came, and the curve of the night. The reading goes on the diary entry and the film's page, counts in Stats and badges, and shares as a story or square card. It is an entertainment reading from your heart rate, not a medical measurement.

1. Open a horror film on your shelf and tap Start under Fear Meter, or tap the Fear Meter row on Home and pick a film.
2. Wear your Watch, sit back for two minutes of settling, then watch.
3. Tap Finish when the credits roll (a notification asks when the runtime is up), then read your card, log the watch, rate the film and share.

Keptcase allowed to read Heart Rate in Health with Full Access (Limited Access reads as no data at all), and something writing heart rate to Health. An Apple Watch is the best: every Watch writes a reading every few minutes while you sit still, a Series 12 or Ultra 4 one every few seconds, and Keptcase on your Watch, installed from the Watch app on this iPhone, reads every few seconds on any Watch and lets you start from your wrist. No Watch? A ring, band, strap or earbuds whose app writes heart rate to Health works too, read at the pace that app writes it. On iOS 26 the iPhone can measure on its own from AirPods Pro 3, Powerbeats Pro 2 or a Bluetooth chest strap: choose This iPhone under Measure With on the Start sheet.

1. Open Settings → Fear Meter → Health Access, or the Health app → Sharing → Apps → Keptcase.
2. Turn Heart Rate on and choose Full Access.
3. Optional: open the Watch app on this iPhone and install Keptcase on your Watch.

Up to 60 points for how far your heart rate rose over your own sitting rate across the film, up to 25 for how high your peak went, and up to 15 for how long you spent at least 20% above that baseline. The baseline is the still minutes before you pressed Start, or your usual evening rate from the last two weeks in Health, never your sleeping resting rate. Minutes you were up and moving are left out. Calm is 0 to 20, Uneasy 21 to 40, Tense 41 to 60, Scared 61 to 80, Terrified 81 to 100. Under the gauge, Dread is the sustained part and Jumps are sudden rises; the tier (Full, Good, Rough) says how closely the Watch could read you. How It's Measured in Settings → Fear Meter has the whole method.

Yes. Tap Fear Meter on Home, search any film or TV show, and say where you are watching: a cinema, a streaming service, a rental, a friend's disc, a festival. The watch is logged as watched elsewhere, so it sits in your diary without pretending to be on your shelf. For a show, choose how many episodes tonight and the clock runs for all of them.

1. Home → Fear Meter → Search any film.
2. Pick the title and where you are watching.
3. Tap Start.

Too few readings (the sensor wrote under five), too much movement (you were up for over 40% of the film), or Health access was off or Limited. Wear the Watch snug on your wrist, sit still, and start before the film rather than halfway through. Rough means the sensor read you every few minutes with gaps; Good is a steady slow read; Full is every few seconds. You can still log the watch with your own word under How scared were you?

Yes. If you log a watch whose reading came up short because the readings were not in Health yet, Keptcase keeps the film's window for a day and reads Health again each time you open the app and whenever Health reports new heart rate. Once the readings arrive, the level is filled in on the diary entry and the film's page, a notification tells you, and the reading joins your averages. The logged watch's page says it is waiting while it does.

Nowhere. Keptcase reads the readings from Health, scores them on your iPhone, keeps the curve for your own card, and sends nothing to anyone unless you turn on sharing (the next answer). Cloud Backup, if you use it, carries each night's card, the level, the peak and the one-minute curve, so a restore brings it back whole; the five-second readings themselves are never kept or sent. The share card is a picture, and only the picture leaves your phone.

Only if you say so. Share My Level with Collectors, on the card under Log This Watch and in Settings → Fear Meter, is off until you turn it on. When it is on, logging a watch sends the film's level and its word (Calm to Terrified), the reading's quality, what measured it, whether you were at home, at the cinema or streaming, and the film's title: never a heart rate, a peak or the curve, and nothing that names you. Every collector then sees the community's Fear Meter on the film's page once ten have shared one: the average with the top and bottom tenth trimmed, the spread across the five words, and cinema and at-home figures apart once each side has ten. Settings → Fear Meter shows how many readings you have shared and removes them all with one tap.

1. On the card, turn on Share My Level with Collectors before Log This Watch.
2. Or turn it on once in Settings → Fear Meter; it stays on until you turn it off.
3. Remove Them in Settings → Fear Meter takes every reading you shared back out.

On the first of the month a notification opens the Fear Report: every reading of the month, the count by word, your scariest and your calmest, with a share card. Year in Fear does the same for the whole year with a twelve-month strip; open it from Stats any time, and a notification offers it on 26 December.

Your Recordings lists every night you measured, grouped by month or ranked scariest first, with a search over the titles. Tap a night for its card. The Fear Meter page shows your three latest under Measured Before; See All opens the whole list.

1. Home → Fear Meter → Measured Before → See All.
2. Or Stats → Fear Meter → All Recordings.
3. Or Settings → Fear Meter → Your Recordings.

A Live Activity: the title and a clock counting down the runtime, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so the phone can stay face down. Tap it to open the running card. Finish, Pause, Add 15 Min and Cancel are on Home's Fear Meter card, and the Watch app has Pause and Finish on your wrist. A night started from the Watch while the phone was locked puts the activity up the next time you open Keptcase; iOS only lets an app start one while it is on screen.

Yes. Tap Pause on Home's Fear Meter card, on the running sheet, or on your Watch when you get up or stop the film, and Resume when you are back. The clock stands while you are away, the end moves by as long as you paused, and the readings in between are left out of the level entirely. The card shows the paused minutes beside the moving ones. A pause left open for three hours ends the night where it began.

1. Home → Fear Meter card → Pause.
2. Or press Pause on your Watch.
3. Tap Resume when the film is back on.

Browsing your whole collection and CSV export are free forever. Your data is never held hostage. Adding and scanning, pricing, cloud backup, the diary, badges, shelf themes, listing a copy for sale, and Ask your shelf are part of Keptcase Pro, monthly or yearly, each with a one-week free trial.

Your purchase is kept for the session the moment Apple confirms it, so Pro is on right away and Settings says so. If Settings still reads Read-only after a relaunch, this device is not reading your subscription from the App Store: check that you are signed in to the App Store with the Apple Account you bought with, then tap Restore Purchases in Settings. Nothing is charged twice.

1. Open Settings in Keptcase and look at the Keptcase Pro row.
2. If it says Read-only, check the App Store sign-in on this device.
3. Tap Restore Purchases.