Note To Self Mail vs Markdown Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Note To Self Mail
Quickly capture your thoughts and send them directly to your inbox. This app integrates with popular to-do list applications, streamlining your workflow by sending notes via email. It offers basic note-taking with advanced features available in the pro version.
- Send notes directly to inbox
- Integrates with Trello, Evernote, etc.
- Attach photos (pro)
- Create sketches (pro)
- Attach audio notes (pro)
- Scan documents (pro)
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"Note To Self Mail" is the fastest app for your notes. You can send your notes directly into your inbox, fast and without much effort and detours. "Note To Self Mail" was designed to support mail import for your favorite todo apps like Trello, Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist and many more. The app is not intended to manage your notes, but it offers everything you expect from a note app: - Writing notes - Attaching photos or files (pro version) - Creating sketches (pro version) - Attach audio notes (pro version) - Scan documents (Pro-Version) To make things easier and more flexible: you can use different e-mail addresses as recipients and connect to your own e-mail account for sending. Suggestions or feedback? support@note2selfmail.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Markdown Notes
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A calm, keyboard-first Markdown notebook that also reads your handwriting. Write plain text, see it render, and keep every page on your iPhone. THE EDITOR Type in plain Markdown and switch to a rendered preview whenever you want to see how it reads. Headings, bold, italic and lists are handled inline, so you never leave the keyboard to format a line. A live counter shows words, characters and an estimated reading time as you write. FOCUS MODE One tap hides the chrome and leaves you with the page. Set a word goal on any note and a quiet progress ring fills as you get closer to it. Turn the goal off on notes that do not need one. HANDWRITING CAPTURE Open the ink canvas and write with Apple Pencil or your finger. Inkwell reads the handwriting on the device and drops the recognized text straight into your note, so the words become searchable like anything else you typed. The original drawing is saved with the note. HASHTAG ORGANIZATION Type #project or #recipes anywhere in a note and the tag is picked up automatically. You can also add tags by hand. The tag browser builds a tree of everything you have used, with a count beside each one, so a whole topic is one tap away. FIND IT AGAIN Search runs across titles, bodies and tags at once. Filter by one tag or several at the same time, then sort by most recent, most recently created or by title. Pin the notes you come back to and they stay at the top of the list. STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE There is no account to make and no sign-in screen. Your notes live in local storage on your iPhone and are never uploaded to a server. WHAT IT IS GOOD FOR Daily quick notes, meeting notes, a writing habit, a second brain of reference pages, code snippets, journaling, lecture notes and travel notebooks. Markdown Notes: Notepad Editor requires a Premium unlock to write in. Premium opens the whole notebook: unlimited notes, the plain-Markdown editor with rendered preview and live word, character and reading-time counts, focus mode with word goals, handwriting capture on the ink canvas with on-device text recognition, the hashtag tree and tag browser, search with multi-tag filtering and sorting, pinned notes, and the local-only vault with no account and no sign-in. Plans: a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Note To Self Mail at every 6 weeks against Markdown Notes's every 6 months. Note To Self Mail also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Note To Self Mail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and Markdown Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Note To Self Mail ships an update every 6 weeks, Markdown Notes every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Note To Self Mail | Markdown Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (378 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 378 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mathias Lipowski | Linh Phan Nhat Khanh |
Bugs and requests
Note To Self Mail
Reported bugs
7 issues- Google OAuth doesn't work properly
- Messages stuck in outbox with Google authentication
- App stops working after several weeks of use
- Safari share extension crashes or fails silently
- Browser sharing shows grey rectangle and fails
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- Music playback stops when sending notes
- Exchange server incompatibility
Requested features
8 requests- Scheduled/delayed send functionality
- Apple Watch native app
- Document scanning with PDF export
- YouTube title preservation in sharing
- iOS 26 UI updates
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- Improved browser extension performance
- Pop-up interface option instead of full screen
- Better Exchange server support
Markdown Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Note To Self Mail
- Buy me a coffee$4.991 Year
- Pro Version$4.99
- Buy me a coffee$4.99
Markdown Notes
- Tag Filter & Search$2.997 Days
- Focus Mode & Word Goals$14.991 Year
- Private Offline Drafts$29.99
Questions
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