MarkNote Lite vs One Markdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MarkNote Lite
Create and organize notes using markdown formatting. Embed images, create tables, and even include code snippets and mathematical formulas. Sync your notes across all your Apple devices and share them easily.
- Markdown note creation
- Embed photos and images
- Live preview
- iCloud sync
- Share notes
- Publish as blog posts
- Web page import
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Take notes with markdown. Sync notes into iCloud. Access your documents with any of your mac or iOS devices. Share your notes with your friend. You can easily embed photos, format text, create tables, send rich formatted mail message, and share and edit notes from any devices. FEATURES - Embed photos and images into note - Live preview while writing - Auto save - Send mail with rich format - Swipe to delete a note - Syntax highlighting - Embed code snippets and mathematics formulas - Click to update the task status in todo list - Review and edit your notes from any web browsers or smart devices - Sync your notes into iCloud drive, and share with all your devices. You can read and edit your notes with marknote app on iPhone/iPad or marknotes on mac - Publish your note as blog posts - Import web page shared from apps like mobile safari, save in markdown format, so that you can read it later or edit it later - graph view, visualize notes relations You have complete control to your data. SUPPORT If you have any feedback or questions, reach us by mail at marknote@aliyun.com
One Markdown
A fast and simple editor for plain text, Markdown, and Textbundle formats. It offers full Markdown display, image previews, math formula rendering, and extensive customization options for themes and fonts. Includes tools for syntax input, table generation, and document outlining.
- Supports CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown
- Full Markdown document display
- Image and math formula previews
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Markdown syntax input menu and keyboard
- Outline and word count view
- Editor & Preview mode
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One Markdown is a simple and fast editor that supports plain text, Markdown and Textbundle. It has the following features: * Base on CommonMark syntax and GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) extended syntax, supporting TOC, tables, code blocks, math formulas, task lists, footnotes, etc. * Display the text of the Markdown document completely without any deletion. * Images can be displayed directly in the Editor, supporting jpg, png, gif, webP, HEIC and etc. * Math formulas, mermaid and Echarts drawings can be previewed in the editor. * You can set your favorite font or multiple fonts for writing. * You can choose from 11 light themes and 21 dark themes, and also support custom themes. * There is a menu to facilitate the input of Markdown syntax, and a special Markdown syntax keyboard is also provided in iOS. * Convenient tools for generating and formatting Markdown table syntax. * You can view the outline and word count of Markdown documents. * Markdown documents can be previewed and support Editor & Preview mode. Terms of Use: https://www.mweb.im/onemarkdown-terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.mweb.im/onemarkdown-policy.html PS: The lightweight choice is One Markdown. If you need a complete and powerful app, please take a look at MWeb, I hope you like it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: One Markdown at 82% against MarkNote Lite's 0%. One Markdown also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (141 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. MarkNote Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and One Markdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
One Markdown holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: One Markdown has 141 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of MarkNote Lite's written reviews are positive against 82% of One Markdown's.
MarkNote Lite ships an update every 3 weeks, One Markdown monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MarkNote Lite | One Markdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (141 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 81.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 141 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 淑敏 孙 | 禄海 区 |
Customer experience
MarkNote Lite
One Markdown
In-app purchases
MarkNote Lite
- Upgrade to Premium Version$1.99
One Markdown
- One Markdown Yearly Subscribe$3.991 Year
- One Markdown for Mac$9.99
- One Markdown for iPhone/iPad$9.99








