Simple Notes vs MarkNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Notes
A powerful yet simple note-taking application offering cross-device syncing, customizable themes, and robust security features. It allows users to set reminders, highlight text, and even save notes as images.
- Cross-device syncing (Dropbox/iCloud)
- Zoomable font sizes
- Searchable highlighted text
- Note reminders
- Password protection (AES 256-bit)
- Shake to undo/redo
- Customizable themes and fonts
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Simple, Clean and Easy to Use, Yet Powerful and Loaded with Features. Key Features: --------------------- - One universal app for all your IOS Devices. - Sync your notes with Dropbox and/or iCloud. - Zoom in or out on any note to get the ideal font size suitable for your vision. - Highlight words and search terms inside your notes. - Set reminders to your notes to read them later. - Save text as an image to your camera roll. - Use Password Protection with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES 256-bit) to secure data and to protect your notes from prying eyes. - Shake your device to undo or redo: delete, creating, editing, restoring and more. - 9 font styles with five font colors. - Sort your notes chronologically or alphabetically. - Choose from six different color themes to modify your notes to suit your taste. - The ability to AirPrint your notes. - Auto Paste: when you run the app it will save text that you copied (Text in the Clipboard) automatically as a note. - Night Mode that makes reading in the dark easier on your eyes. - And much more..
MarkNote
Create and manage markdown notes with rich formatting, image embedding, and code snippets. Sync across Apple devices via iCloud and access notes from any web browser. Publish notes as blog posts or share them easily.
- Markdown editing with live preview
- Embed photos, images, and code snippets
- iCloud synchronization across devices
- Web browser access for notes
- Publish notes as blog posts
- Graph view for note relations
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MarkNote at 4.8 against Simple Notes's 4.0. MarkNote also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). Simple Notes's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 5) and device support (4 vs 2). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Simple Notes costs $2.99 and MarkNote $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MarkNote holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Notes has 39 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Simple Notes's written reviews are positive against 86% of MarkNote's.
Simple Notes ships an update every 2 months, MarkNote every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Notes | MarkNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (39 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sadah Software Solutions, LLC | 淑敏 孙 |
Customer experience
Simple Notes
MarkNote
In-app purchases
Simple Notes
No in-app purchases
MarkNote
No in-app purchases
