Effective October 16, 2026
The short version: your maintenance history lives on your phone. You can use Kept without an account, and if you make one, we store only what it takes to sync your data. If you scan a receipt with Kept Pro, the photo is read by an AI service, and we do not keep the copy we send. We do not sell your information, we do not share it with advertisers, and there are no ads in Kept.
Kept works fully offline with no account at all. Your vehicles, service records, jobs, photos, and reminders are stored in a database on your device. They are not sent to us or to anyone else. If you delete the app without an account, that data is gone with it, which is also why the app reminds you of this from time to time.
Service reminders are local notifications, scheduled and delivered by your phone. No server is involved.
An account exists to back up your data and sync it between your devices. When you sign up we receive:
Once signed in, the vehicle data you sync (vehicles, service records, jobs, parts, reminders, and photos) is stored with our hosting provider, Supabase, on servers in the United States. Access is scoped to your account. Your data is yours, and nobody else can read it unless you release a Kept Record, which is described below. Your account also carries a subscription status (free or Pro) so the app knows what features you have.
Receipt scanning is a Kept Pro feature, and it is the one place Kept sends something off your phone to be read.
When you scan a receipt, your phone reads the text off the photo first. Kept then sends that text and a reduced copy of the photo to Anthropic, an AI company, whose model turns them into the parts, quantities, and prices you see on the review screen. We send the photo as well as the text because the text alone loses the layout, and on a receipt the layout is what tells a price which line it belongs to. The request goes through our own server so that our key to that service never ships inside the app.
Kept never keeps the copy it sends. It is made for that one request and discarded when the answer comes back. Anthropic holds it for up to 30 days, then deletes it, and does not use it to train its models. Anthropic's privacy policy describes that in full. The receipt photo you attach to the job stays a file on your phone and, if you sync, in your backup like any other photo.
We do keep two small things so that scanning the same receipt twice does not cost a second read. One is a fingerprint of the image, a hash that cannot be turned back into the picture. The other is the answer the model gave, meaning the vendor, items, and prices. Both are tied to your account and are deleted with it. We also count scans per account to cap what scanning costs us.
If you would rather not send a receipt anywhere, do not scan it. Attach the photo and type the parts in. Everything else about logging a job works the same, and it works offline.
When you generate a Kept Record with Kept Pro, our server takes a snapshot of that car's history as it stands, including its photos, and files it under a long random code that is printed on the report. Anyone who scans that code can read the snapshot, with or without a Kept account. That is the feature. It is how a buyer gets your record. The snapshot is a copy, so later edits do not reach it, and it carries your costs only if you chose to include them. You can revoke any code from the app at any time, and revoking it deletes the snapshot and its photos. Deleting your account deletes every release you ever made.
A signed-in free account can see a partial preview of its own report. The preview is built on our server from your synced data and shows only part of the history. Nothing is released and no code is made until you generate the report with Pro.
Kept is free for one car. Kept Pro is bought through Apple's App Store, and RevenueCat keeps track of whether your purchase is active. We never see or store your card details; Apple handles the payment itself.
Anything stored only on your device is deleted when you delete it in the app or remove the app itself.
For accounts, Kept includes a delete account button in the app that removes your account and everything synced to it, permanently. You can also email us at the address below and we will delete your account and all synced data promptly on request.
If what Kept collects ever changes, this page changes first, with the effective date above updated. Meaningful changes will be called out in the app, not slipped in quietly.
Questions, requests, or deletions: privacy@drivekept.com