Comparison

Achieve vs Markdown Notes

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

Head to head
About

Achieve

This app helps you break down goals into manageable tasks with reminders and track daily progress. You can also connect with others for accountability and share your journey.

Highlights
  • Plan any goal with tasks and reminders
  • Track daily progress and streaks
  • Connect with accountability partners
  • Share progress with groups
  • Separate to-dos from goals
  • AI coaching for personalized plans (Pro)
Features
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Achieve turns your goals into daily progress, and keeps you going with the people who matter. PLAN ANY GOAL Break a goal into tasks with dates, repeats and reminders. Fitness, career, learning, saving, a new habit: if you can name it, you can plan it. SHOW UP EVERY DAY Tick off today's tasks, keep your streak alive, and see on your calendar how far you've come. DON'T DO IT ALONE Add an accountability partner or start a group goal. Cheer each other on, send a nudge, and celebrate wins together. SHARE YOUR PROGRESS Post photos, videos and updates to your profile and your goal groups, and get encouragement from people working toward the same things. CHORES, SORTED Keep everyday to-dos separate from your bigger goals. EVE, YOUR AI COACH (ACHIEVE PRO) Tell EVE what you want to achieve and get a realistic plan you can adjust anytime: tasks, timing and check-ins that fit your life. ACHIEVE PRO Achieve Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription that unlocks EVE. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.goachieve.net/legal.html#terms Privacy Policy: https://www.goachieve.net/legal.html

About

Markdown Notes

Features
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A calm, keyboard-first Markdown notebook that also reads your handwriting. Write plain text, see it render, and keep every page on your iPhone. THE EDITOR Type in plain Markdown and switch to a rendered preview whenever you want to see how it reads. Headings, bold, italic and lists are handled inline, so you never leave the keyboard to format a line. A live counter shows words, characters and an estimated reading time as you write. FOCUS MODE One tap hides the chrome and leaves you with the page. Set a word goal on any note and a quiet progress ring fills as you get closer to it. Turn the goal off on notes that do not need one. HANDWRITING CAPTURE Open the ink canvas and write with Apple Pencil or your finger. Inkwell reads the handwriting on the device and drops the recognized text straight into your note, so the words become searchable like anything else you typed. The original drawing is saved with the note. HASHTAG ORGANIZATION Type #project or #recipes anywhere in a note and the tag is picked up automatically. You can also add tags by hand. The tag browser builds a tree of everything you have used, with a count beside each one, so a whole topic is one tap away. FIND IT AGAIN Search runs across titles, bodies and tags at once. Filter by one tag or several at the same time, then sort by most recent, most recently created or by title. Pin the notes you come back to and they stay at the top of the list. STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE There is no account to make and no sign-in screen. Your notes live in local storage on your iPhone and are never uploaded to a server. WHAT IT IS GOOD FOR Daily quick notes, meeting notes, a writing habit, a second brain of reference pages, code snippets, journaling, lecture notes and travel notebooks. Markdown Notes: Notepad Editor requires a Premium unlock to write in. Premium opens the whole notebook: unlimited notes, the plain-Markdown editor with rendered preview and live word, character and reading-time counts, focus mode with word goals, handwriting capture on the ink canvas with on-device text recognition, the hashtag tree and tag browser, search with multi-tag filtering and sorting, pinned notes, and the local-only vault with no account and no sign-in. Plans: a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Achieve4 screens
Markdown Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Achieve at every 2 months against Markdown Notes's every 6 months. Achieve also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Achieve sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month and Markdown Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Achieve ships an update every 2 months, Markdown Notes every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Achieve versus Markdown Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAchieveMarkdown Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAchieve LLCLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Achieve

Subscriptions1
  • Achieve Pro (Monthly)$6.991 Month
3 purchases

Markdown Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Tag Filter & Search$2.997 Days
  • Focus Mode & Word Goals$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Private Offline Drafts$29.99

Questions

Is Achieve free?
Achieve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Markdown Notes free?
Markdown Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Achieve or Markdown Notes have ads?
Neither Achieve nor Markdown Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Achieve or Markdown Notes?
Achieve ships an update every 2 months, and Markdown Notes every 6 months. Most recently, Achieve was updated on November 7, 2026 and Markdown Notes on November 13, 2026.

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