Comparison

5W1H Note vs Markdown Editor & Notes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

5W1H Note

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To organize your mind and head, it is nice to organaize by taking notes with 5W1H. This app is the app for that. After organize your mind and head, when you act,the results are easier to achieve. So, with this app, take 5W1H notes, and let's act.

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Markdown Editor & Notes

Features
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You don’t need to learn all of Markdown. # at the start of a line makes a heading, - makes a bullet, and / opens a menu of tables, checklists and diagrams. Those three are all you need to keep notes that read far better than a plain notes app. What you type takes shape where you typed it, so there is no preview pane to switch to. No Google account is required — the app works with this device alone. Sign in and your notes are kept in your own Google Drive, becoming a private notebook you can pick up from Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone or the browser. ■ Open what AI writes Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another AI to summarize something in Markdown, then open it here as is — it reads cleanly and stays editable. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can paste it back into an AI to keep going, or drop it straight into Notion or GitHub without reformatting. ■ Ask AI (with your own API key) Add an API key for OpenAI (GPT), Anthropic (Claude) or Google (Gemini) and you can ask AI from inside the app. · On selected text — polish, shorten, make formal, translate, turn into a table or a diagram · From the whole note — meeting notes & to-dos, summarize, extract to-dos, tidy into Markdown, continue writing · In your own words — have it draft a how-to or a first version Check the answer before it goes into your note, and undo it in one step. Usage is billed by the service you choose, and your key stays on this device. ■ What people use it for · A notepad that reads better — jot things down and they turn into tidy headings and bullet points. As light as a plain text editor, far easier to read back · Meeting notes — organize the discussion as it happens and put decisions in a table · To-do lists and tasks — list what needs doing as a checklist and tick items off · Journal, diary and daily log — keep a note per day and find anything later with full-text search · A personal wiki — link notes to one another and build a notebook of what you know · Docs, how-tos and blog drafts — outline with headings, then paste the plain Markdown anywhere · A Markdown viewer — open an .md file and read it with its tables and headings in place · Code and command snippets — kept with syntax highlighting, copied in one click ■ Features · Styling as you type — headings, bold, italic, quotes, rules, footnotes and nested lists are formatted the moment you write them · Type / at the start of a line to insert tables, checklists, diagrams, math and more · Tables render as tables — click one to go back to the raw Markdown and edit it · Diagrams (flowcharts, sequence diagrams and more) from mermaid syntax, and math from TeX, drawn inline · Collapsible sections (details) and clickable checkboxes · Code blocks with syntax highlighting and a one-click copy button · Images and file attachments, with PDFs opening right in the app · Paste a URL and get a link preview card · Full-text search across all your notes · Six themes (Light, Sepia, Solar, Dark, Night, Contrast) and three text sizes · Available in 12 languages ■ Choose where your notes live · Google Drive — saved automatically, with no save button. Your Drive folders stay as they are, and shared drives and multiple Google accounts are supported · On this device — no sign-in needed. On Mac and Windows you can also open any folder you already have · In Google Drive, the app only touches files it created and files you explicitly open ■ About usage · Free to use.

Screenshots

5W1H Note4 screens
Markdown Editor & Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Markdown Editor & Notes at none against 5W1H Note's shown. Markdown Editor & Notes also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). 5W1H Note's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

5W1H Note ships an update every 3 weeks, Markdown Editor & Notes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
5W1H Note versus Markdown Editor & Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter5W1H NoteMarkdown Editor & Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTadaaki KobayashiMakoto Kobayashi

In-app purchases

None

5W1H Note

No in-app purchases

None

Markdown Editor & Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 5W1H Note free?
5W1H Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Markdown Editor & Notes free?
Markdown Editor & Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 5W1H Note or Markdown Editor & Notes have ads?
5W1H Note shows ads; Markdown Editor & Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, 5W1H Note or Markdown Editor & Notes?
5W1H Note ships an update every 3 weeks, and Markdown Editor & Notes every 2 days. Most recently, 5W1H Note was updated on October 2, 2026 and Markdown Editor & Notes on October 16, 2026.

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