Comparison

Memo vs Ghost Markdown

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

Head to head
About

Memo

This app provides a streamlined way to save, copy, and share frequently used text snippets. Organize your notes with labels, search efficiently, and customize the appearance with dark mode and theme options. It's designed for quick access to your essential templates.

Highlights
  • One-tap copy and share
  • Save frequently used templates
  • Organize memos with labels
  • Search and filter memos
  • Undo/Redo functionality
  • Dark mode and theme customization
Features
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A simple notepad app that allows you to copy and share text. You can share or copy text with a single tap. Recommended for saving frequently used templates for email, social media, etc. Copy & Share with a Tap - On the memo list screen, you can copy or share the text by simply tapping on a memo. - This tap action can be changed from the settings (Share, Copy, Edit). - The settings screen can be accessed from the menu to the left of the search bar. Save Templates - You can add a new memo by pressing the plus button in the bottom right. - Undo and Redo are supported. - You can also copy and share from the memo editing screen. - You can edit labels and duplicate memos from the menu in the bottom left. Manage Memos - By adding labels to your memos, you can filter and display them by label. You can also filter by multiple labels. - Tap the search bar to search for memos by title. - Memos can be sorted by title, creation date, last viewed, and last modified. - You can edit labels and duplicate memos from the menu on the right of each memo. - Long-press a memo to select multiple memos, allowing you to delete or label them in bulk. Customize - Dark mode is supported. - You can also change the theme color. - Features a simple design compliant with Material Design.

About

Ghost Markdown

This app combines plain Markdown note-taking with an integrated AI assistant. It allows the AI to read, write, and plan within your notes, offering features like calendar integration, plugins for various tools, and customizable boards and tickets. Organize notes into notebooks, journals, or canvases, and manage them with workspaces and team features.

Highlights
  • AI assistant for reading and writing notes
  • Plain Markdown note-taking
  • Calendar integration
  • Plugins for tools like Contacts and Webhooks
  • Boards, tickets, and query-based organization
  • Notebooks, journals, and canvases
  • Workspaces and team collaboration
Features
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Ghost.md is a notes app in plain Markdown with an AI assistant built in. Every note is a Markdown file on your iPhone, and the assistant can read it, write in it and plan with it while you watch. AN AI ASSISTANT, IN THE APP Ask from the dock at the head of any page. Bring your own API key, kept on this iPhone, and choose the model and how much effort it puts in. The assistant searches and reads your notes, then makes and changes them: the note opens and the words are typed in as it writes them, and the chat shows its thinking as it goes. Write requests in a note of their own and the assistant works through them. YOUR AI ASSISTANT'S OWN APP, CONNECTED With an account, connect your AI assistant's own app to Ghost.md's connector. From there the assistant can list, search, read, write and add to your notes, and you see it at work in Ghost.md, on the note it is writing. YOUR CALENDAR Sign in to your calendar, or add any calendar's subscription address. Today's events sit on the home page above your to-dos, and a query lists them or lays them on a calendar beside your to-dos. Switch it on and every to-do with a due date goes onto the calendar you signed in to, moved when its date changes and taken off when it is done. PLUGINS FOR THE TOOLS YOU USE The AI assistant, Calendar, Contacts, Webhooks and code repositories are built in, each switched on or off on one page that says plainly what it reaches. Link a note to a code repository and its list items become issues you can tick off from either side. Contacts puts a person's picture on the to-dos that name them, a tap away from a call, a text or an email. Webhooks tell a URL of yours when a note changes, and give you URLs that add to a note, for the automations you already run. THE MARKDOWN CORE Headings, lists, to-dos, tables, code, footnotes and links between notes, drawn as you type with the marks left dimmed, so a note reads the same anywhere. Seven marks of Ghost.md's own: highlight, aside, unsure, redact, shout, added, and spoiler, which sits in smoke until you tap it. Diagrams and gantt timelines are drawn from text in the note and open full screen. Add pictures from your photos or the camera. BOARDS, TICKETS AND QUERIES A list can be a board, with cards you move between columns. A note can be a ticket, with its status, assignee, priority and due date kept at its top. A query gathers notes, to-dos, tickets or events from across your library and draws them live, as a board, a table, a list, a calendar or a timeline. NOTEBOOKS, JOURNALS AND CANVASES Notes gather into a notebook with an index, to read page by page or straight through. A journal keeps an entry for each time you write, named by the minute. A canvas puts cards on a page with lines between them, saved in an open file format. WORKSPACES AND TEAMS File notes under workspaces to keep work and home apart. With an account, make an organization and invite people by their handle. It gets a workspace of its own on each member's devices. SYNC AND PRIVACY No account is needed. Without one, your notes stay on your iPhone and nothing of yours is on any server. Sign in and your notes are the same on your iPhone, on a Mac and in a browser, sealed on the device before they leave. The server cannot read them, and your password never leaves the device. The AI assistant sees only what you ask it and the notes it reads to answer, sent to your AI provider with your own key. Delete the account in Settings and everything it kept goes with it. No ads, no analytics, no tracking.

Screenshots

Memo4 screens
Ghost Markdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

Memo and Ghost Markdown both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Ghost Markdown's written reviews are positive against 50% of Memo's. Ghost Markdown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Memo's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ghost Markdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Memo against 5.0 for Ghost Markdown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Memo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ghost Markdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memo ships an update every 7 months, Ghost Markdown every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Memo versus Ghost Markdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemoGhost Markdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperenoiuMatt Wisniewski

Customer experience

Memo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Ghost Markdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Memo

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Pro version$2.99
None

Ghost Markdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Memo free?
Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghost Markdown free?
Ghost Markdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Memo or Ghost Markdown?
Memo and Ghost Markdown are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Memo or Ghost Markdown have ads?
Memo shows ads; Ghost Markdown does not.
Which is updated more often, Memo or Ghost Markdown?
Memo ships an update every 7 months, and Ghost Markdown every 6 days. Most recently, Memo was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ghost Markdown on October 29, 2026.

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