Tidy vs Keep It Shot: read the word “credits”

These two look like the closest match on price. They are not the same kind of purchase.

Written by the developer of Tidy — bias disclosed. Verified on their own site, 5 September 2026.

The 20-second verdict: Keep It Shot is a credit-based tool: free gives you 15 renames a month, $8 a month gives you 300, and the $19 one-time gives you 500 credits and then expects your own OpenAI key. If you rename a handful of screenshots a month, the free tier may be all you need. If you have thousands of files and want the counting to stop, that is Tidy.

Side by side

What	Tidy	Keep It Shot
Price	One payment, no counters	Free: 15 credits/month · $8/mo: 300 · $24/mo: 2,000 · $19 once: 500 credits
What a credit buys	Not applicable — nothing is counted	1 credit = 1 image or 1 document · 5 credits = 1 video
What happens when credits run out	Nothing to run out	On the one-time licence, you bring your own OpenAI key and pay the provider
Where documents are read	On your Mac, always	Cloud model via credits or your own key
Cost per file	None	One credit, or one API call to your provider
Moves files into folders	Yes — rules, subfolders, group by month	Renaming and local search are the focus
Search inside your files	Yes — global panel, including scanned PDFs	Yes — local offline index
Videos	No	Yes, at 5 credits each
Deletes anything	Never. Trash only, one-click undo of a whole run	Renames, with one-click revert
Interface languages	English · Spanish · German · Portuguese · French	English

Their figures come from keepitshot.com/pricing as published on 5 September 2026, including the credit definitions.

Where Keep It Shot genuinely wins

It is free to start, properly. Fifteen renames a month costs nothing and needs no argument.
Videos. Tidy does not rename video, and Keep It Shot does.
Its own offline search index is a good idea and works well for media.

If you rename a few screenshots a month, take their free tier and keep your money.

Where Tidy wins

Nothing is counted. No credits, no allowance, no bringing your own key when the 500 run out. Reading a file on your own Mac costs nobody anything, so nobody has to meter it.
It files, not only renames. Rules move things into folders, archive screenshots, eject a mounted .dmg and trash the installer.
It reads documents too — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, RTF and HTML — with what macOS already ships.
No account and no provider. Turn off your Wi-Fi and it keeps working.
It never deletes, and it shows the plan before it moves anything.

Frequently asked

Is Keep It Shot's $19 a real one-time purchase?

It is a one-time payment that includes 500 credits. After those, that mode expects your own OpenAI API key, which you pay for separately. It is honest pricing of a real cost — a cloud model charges per file — but it is not the same as a price that stops.

How many files can Tidy rename?

As many as you have. There is no counter, because the recognition runs on your own processor and costs nothing per file.

Does Tidy do videos?

No. If you need video renamed, Keep It Shot does that and Tidy does not.

Which one for a folder of scanned paperwork?

Tidy: it reads the scans, names them from their contents, files them, and lets you search inside them afterwards without spending anything per document.

Try the quiet one

No credits, no allowance, no key. Tidy reads your files on your own Mac and the price stops after one payment.

Get Tidy

One-time payment · 14-day guarantee · macOS 14+, Apple Silicon & Intel

Prices and features checked on keepitshot.com on 5 September 2026 and quoted as published. Keep It Shot is a trademark of its owner. If anything here is out of date or unfair, write to hola@tidymacapp.com and I will correct it — that has happened before and I did.

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