Comparison

SiteNote vs emdee

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

Head to head
About

SiteNote

This app helps you document and track small projects by combining notes, photos, contacts, reminders, and tasks into a single, organized platform. It's designed for fast, simple use, keeping all your project materials in one place, accessible even without an internet connection.

Highlights
  • Project documentation
  • Photo and note integration
  • Task and reminder management
  • Local data storage
  • Offline functionality
  • Client tracking
Features
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SiteNote is a lightweight Project Documentation and Tracking app. It combines a number of apps into one (Photos, Notes, Contacts, Reminders, Tasks) allowing users to keep all their project related materials in one place and organized by projects. The App aims to provide a fast, simple and easy to use solution for people to keep track of their small projects and to document site conditions using images and notes. All data is stored locally on your phone, so it is lightning fast and does not require cellphone reception to work. - Use SiteNote to keep track of your small projects, jobs and clients. - Document your work with Notes and Photos. - Stay organized with Tasks and Appointments. Try SiteNote today and stay Organized! Privacy Policy: http://www.sitenote.ca/privacypolicy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: http://www.sitenote.ca/tutorial.html

About

emdee

Edit Markdown files directly in a formatted view without switching modes. This app offers a true WYSIWYG experience for creating and modifying documents, including tables, lists, and images, while ensuring your files remain plain .md.

Highlights
  • True WYSIWYG Markdown editing
  • Edit directly in formatted view
  • Supports headings, bold, italic, lists, tables
  • Image insertion and display
  • Export to PDF, HTML, plain text
  • Table of contents generation
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A .md file from an AI chat, full of # and **. A browser can show it to you. emdee lets you rewrite it — in that same clean, formatted view. You don't need to switch between a reading mode and an editing mode. You edit the document while it stays clean and properly formatted, exactly as a .md document should look. Headings stay heading-sized, tables stay tables, and you type directly into the document. Want bold? Select the text and tap the button. You never type the symbols, and you never see them. Save, and it's still a plain .md file. ■ When you'd use it You saved an AI answer as .md — now you want it in your own words, not just readable AI drafted your travel plan or checklist — now the dates and details need to be yours You want to keep notes and minutes in .md, without looking up syntax as you write ■ What you can actually edit "emdee" is not a viewer — it's a true WYSIWYG Markdown editor. All of this works right in the formatted view: Headings (six levels), bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, links Bullet lists, numbered lists, and checklists you can tick with a tap Block quotes, code blocks, horizontal rules Tables: insert with one button, and add or delete rows and columns from that same button's menu. Line breaks inside cells are supported Find and replace — Replace All comes back with a single undo It all sits in the format bar along the bottom, which rises with the keyboard so you can change formatting mid-sentence ■ Images An image in the same folder as the document you have open is drawn right there in the text. So is one in a folder below it. PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP and SVG are drawn. So are images on the web (https://) HEIC — what an iPhone camera writes — is not drawn. Export it as JPEG and it is The first time, emdee asks permission to read that folder — one button, and it never asks again Anything it cannot draw shows its path in a frame instead The image button on the format bar puts one in. An image from outside the document's folder is copied into that folder first, and a file of the same name is never overwritten. What gets written is a relative path, so hand the images over along with the document. Exported HTML and PDF have the pictures embedded, so they travel on their own. The ![...](...) in your file is not touched by any of this. ■ More features Table of contents — tap a heading to jump there. On iPad it opens as a column beside your text instead of covering it Print, and export to PDF, HTML, or plain text. Lines break on paper exactly where they break on screen, and tables never split mid-row across pages Light, dark, or follow the system Body text can follow the system text size or stay at a size you choose, and the line width is yours: fit the screen, or match A4 print ■ What you write stays a .md No proprietary format, no importing. The file you have open is the .md itself, opened in place where it lives — no copy is made. It saves back readable by GitHub, VS Code, Obsidian — anything. Even details like line breaks inside table cells are written the standard way, as an HTML br tag. Line endings (LF / CRLF / CR) and text encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, and legacy encodings such as Shift_JIS) are preserved exactly as the file was opened. Files made on Windows keep their format intact. ■ One purchase — iPhone, iPad, and Mac The same document, on the same page layout, wherever you open it. ■ What emdee doesn't do File management belongs to the Files app, and sync belongs to iCloud Drive. There is no proprietary notes database and no cloud service. The only thing open is your .md file. Images are looked for inside the folder your document is in, and nowhere else. A reference pointing outside it (../ or an absolute path) is not drawn, and neither are HEIC, AVIF or TIFF files, or images over roughly 8 MB (24 MB per document). Anything that cannot be drawn shows its path in a frame instead. Questions and bug reports are welcome — see the support page.

Screenshots

SiteNote4 screens
emdee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SiteNote at Free against emdee's $7.99. SiteNote also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). emdee's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence 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

SiteNote is free to download; emdee costs $7.99 up front. SiteNote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. emdee 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 SiteNote against 5.0 for emdee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SiteNote ships an update monthly, emdee every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SiteNote versus emdee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSiteNoteemdee
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperALEXANDER SOLOVYEVKeita Eto

Customer experience

SiteNote

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

emdee

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SiteNote

Subscriptions1
  • Ad free$2.991 Month
None

emdee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SiteNote free?
SiteNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is emdee free?
emdee costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SiteNote or emdee?
SiteNote and emdee are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do SiteNote or emdee have ads?
SiteNote shows ads; emdee does not.
Which is updated more often, SiteNote or emdee?
SiteNote ships an update monthly, and emdee every 3 weeks. Most recently, SiteNote was updated on November 3, 2026 and emdee on November 7, 2026.

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