MarkNote Lite vs Metion
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
Metion
This notebook tool prioritizes a superior writing experience using Markdown. It allows you to build knowledge bases, connect notes as networks, and offers a distraction-free Zen Mode. Data is stored freely in plain text files with built-in Git support for synchronization and version history.
- Markdown support
- Knowledge base creation
- Networked notes
- Zen Mode writing
- Open filesystem storage
- Built-in Git sync
- History versioning
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Metion is a notebook tool that focuses on the writing experience, uses Markdown as basic text syntax. ## Build Your Own Knowledge Base Metion 2.0 brings a new feature named "Knowledge Base", the plain text syntax, then becomes mindmap trees, or connected as a network... ## The Writing Experience is So Important Our goal is to create a great writing experience, specially for iPadOS, although it's not easy. Metion provides a relatively complete keyboard shortcuts support. After a keyboard connected, both iPad and iPhone can archive a huge improvement in writing experience. We also have redesigned the "Zen Mode" on iPad, a more focusing writing mode. It is very very beautiful, choosing a suitable background image, selecting the white noise you like in Zen Mode, and the irrelevant UI elements are hidden. Writing is a pleasure, writing is talking to the world, writing is your Zen. ## Data Freedom, Open Filesystem, Git Built-in Metion based on the open filesystem, no need to create another new format for storing data. An article is a plain text file, and the images in the article are also under a certain folder. Data freedom and open filesystems allow us to synchronize data across devices using iCloud or Git. If you have a higher requirement for data security, you can also make a backup very quickly by copying the entire folder (working directory). One more thing, Metion has a built-in support named "history version" that provides a little more reliability for your documents. **Also, if you know how to use Git, you can try Git to sync. Yes! We have the powerful Git as a built-in feature! ** ## Optimized for iPad Pro, Also for iPhone We tried the best to make Metion optimized for iPad Pro, when writing on iPad Pro by Metion, the iPad is a really more productive device. Metion is also optimized for the iPhone too. In recent years, most of the new iPhones have notch at the top of screen. Metion does not simply avoid the safe area, but makes a lot of technical efforts to apply every pixel on the screen as far as possible. If using the visual theme of "Dark", the notch sometimes look like disappeared, like the next generation of full-screen phone comes. ## The Exporting of Metion If using Metion to export as PDF, we suggest the theme of PDF can be set as "Printer" in Settings Panel. If there is a real printer connected in current local network, just print directly, it will be pretty when words on the real paper. Document in Metion can be exported as image, which is optimized for mobile device (iPhone). We can set text and QR-Code signature at the end of exported image. Send it to friends through some social Apps. The beautiful layout of text can highlight the value of your words. Metion can analyze the structure of current article automatically, then export it as "Mindmap" with one tap only. - - - - - - - - - - Privacy Policy: http://markeditor.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: http://markeditor.com/page/terms.md
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Metion at 60% against MarkNote Lite's 0%. Metion also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (46 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 Metion sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Metion holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Metion has 46 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 60% of Metion's.
MarkNote Lite ships an update every 3 weeks, Metion every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MarkNote Lite | Metion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (46 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| 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 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 淑敏 孙 | Hangzhou Quanduan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
MarkNote Lite
Metion
Bugs and requests
MarkNote Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Metion
Reported bugs
19 issues- Git sync not working
- iCloud folder cannot be specified
- Writing statistics not visible or crashing
- Custom file sorting not working
- New file creation bug (text pushed up)
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- Hyperlinks only work with connected keyboard
- Help documentation partially translated
- PDF export formatting issues
- App crashes when submitting bugs
- iPhone gets hot and requires restart
- App launches inconsistently, crashes, slow to switch folders
- Undo function not supported, causes crash
- App crashes on startup
- Cannot open old documents (free version limit)
- English input lacks auto-capitalization and spell check
- Soft keyboard shortcut bar disappears
- Character input issues causing extra spaces
- Zen mode background color setting causes crashes
- App crashes when trying to set Zen mode background
Requested features
35 requests- Optimize for phone usage
- Add Windows version
- Improve Git sync functionality
- Allow specifying iCloud folder
- Restore writing statistics feature
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- Fix custom file sorting
- Fix new file creation bugs
- Improve hyperlink functionality on iPhone
- Add Undo functionality
- Fix app crashes on startup
- Allow opening old documents
- Improve English input (auto-capitalization, spell check)
- Fix disappearing shortcut bar
- Increase font size limit
- Allow changing Zen mode background and text color
- Fix PDF export formatting
- Improve Russian translation
- Simplify interface navigation
- Improve interface glitchiness
- Support existing markdown folders
- Add more font choices
- Fix character input issues
- Increase maximum character limit
- Add Dropbox or other cloud drive sync
- Add password lock feature
- Improve line spacing in Zen mode
- Combine markdown preview and writing like Bear
- Add floating TOC
- Add dedicated preview button
- Option to dilate interface scale
- Add statistics for daily word count
- Improve Zen mode text color
- Add support for Chinese-to-English conversion
- Add file system for recording information like Windows with graphical display and tags
- Add statistics for word count
In-app purchases
MarkNote Lite
- Upgrade to Premium Version$1.99
Metion
- 订阅公众号图片上传中转3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Subscribe Pro Extensions3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Standard Edition (iOS+iPadOS)$17.99









