Qards vs Plain Markdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Qards
Organize your thoughts and prepare for presentations with digital note cards. Create, edit, and arrange cards within decks, then swipe through them in full-screen. Your notes sync automatically across all your devices.
- Create and edit decks of note cards
- Arrange note cards within decks
- Full-screen card swiping
- Automatic cross-device syncing
- Organize everyday thoughts
- Prepare for speeches and presentations
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Create Note Cards for your everyday thoughts, or write down keywords and cues for your next speech. Structure your Note Cards in decks and swipe through them in full-screen. Qards is the perfect tool when you want to make notes for your next speech or presentation! With Qards you can: - Create and edit decks of Note Cards. - Edit and order a deck's Note Cards as you please. - Swipe through a deck of Note Cards in full-screen. And all your Note Cards are of course automatically synced and made available across your devices!
Plain Markdown
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Plain Markdown Read your .md files in place. Pick a folder on your iPhone or in iCloud Drive. The app lists every .md file inside — nothing more, nothing less. Tap a file to read it; the markdown is rendered with quiet, weight-driven typography that gets out of the way. The app uses Apple's standard folder picker, so it works with iCloud Drive, On My iPhone, and any third-party Files app provider (Dropbox, Google Drive, Working Copy, etc.). Pick once, and the app remembers — drill into subfolders, come back, switch folders. No accounts. No sync engine. No editor. Just a reader. · Folder picker with iCloud Drive and Files-app provider support · Drill into subfolders — back-button navigation · Inline images (jpg, png, gif, webp, svg, heic, heif, bmp, avif) · GitHub-flavored markdown: tables, blockquotes, code blocks, task lists, strikethrough · Adjustable text size (5 steps) · Light & dark mode · Mono body font option for code-style reading · Local only — your files never leave your device Privacy This app does not collect data, display ads, or communicate with any server. The folder picker is Apple's. Files are read on-device only. There are no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no telemetry. Less, but better.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Qards at Free against Plain Markdown's $2.99. Plain Markdown's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On ads, 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
Qards is free to download; Plain Markdown costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Qards | Plain Markdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (18 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Asheim Smedmann | Yongmin Ji |
In-app purchases
Qards
No in-app purchases
Plain Markdown
No in-app purchases









