Comparison

Emphasized vs Raven

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

Head to head
About

Emphasized

Effortlessly capture and organize important text from any webpage. Save, edit, and export your highlights as a PDF without needing an account. Boost your research and study sessions with this intuitive tool.

Highlights
  • Highlight text on webpages
  • Multiple color options
  • Auto-save highlights locally
  • Organize by webpage
  • Export highlights to PDF
  • Undo/delete highlights
  • Character and word selection modes
Features
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Whether you're cramming for a test, diving deep into research, or just collecting great quotes, this highlighter's got your back. Highlight text on any webpage—no sign-in, no fuss. Everything's saved automatically on your device and neatly grouped by page or tag, so you can always pick up where you left off. Change colors, tweak and tag highlights, and export them all when you're ready to share or review. Highlighting • Highlight text on webpages • Use multiple colors • Change the color of existing highlights • Delete highlights you no longer need • Split or merge existing highlights • Easily undo highlighted text with a single tap Tags • Create tags with custom colors to categorize your highlights • Assign or change tags on any existing highlights • Select an active tag to automatically apply it while highlighting Selection Modes • Characters: grab just the letters you want • Words: select full words even if selecting mid-word • None: disable highlighting while keeping existing highlights visible Auto-Save • Highlights are saved locally on your device • Automatically restored when you revisit the same webpage • No account or sign-in required Organized View • Browse highlights by webpage • Browse all highlights by tag across every website • Quickly find and review your saved content Exporting • Export highlights as a clean, shareable PDF • Export as plain text or JSON • Share directly via the system share sheet Other Features • Reposition the toolbar if it gets in the way • Boost productivity with keyboard shortcuts for highlighting and switching tags (requires physical keyboard) • See your active highlight settings, all keyboard shortcuts, and support links in the Settings page Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

About

Raven

Create, organize, and manage notes using Markdown on your Apple devices. Turn checkboxes into actionable tasks with local reminders. Your notes are stored locally, ensuring offline access and no vendor lock-in.

Highlights
  • Native Markdown editor
  • Create notes with tables, images, code blocks
  • Checkboxes to tasks with due dates
  • Local reminders for tasks
  • Offline access
  • iCloud Drive sync
  • Full-text search
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Beautiful notes. Never locked in. Raven is a native Markdown notes app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Write, journal, capture articles, and turn checkboxes into reminders—without putting your work in a proprietary note format. WRITE WITH CONTEXT Create notes with tables, images, checklists, code blocks, wiki links, and backlinks. Organize them with folders and tags, pin what matters, and find anything with full-text search. TURN NOTES INTO ACTION A checkbox can become a task with a due date and time. Raven gathers open tasks from across your notes, keeps each one linked to its source, and can send a local reminder when it is due. Complete or snooze it from the notification. JOURNAL WITHOUT ANOTHER SILO Daily and weekly journals live beside the rest of your writing. Save articles to Read Later, or capture a thought from widgets, Shortcuts, and the share sheet. MARKDOWN YOU CAN KEEP Raven works offline without an account. Keep notes on this device, choose a folder on Mac, or use iCloud Drive to keep the same Markdown files available in Files and Finder across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No proprietary note format. No forced account. One purchase, with no subscription.

Screenshots

Emphasized4 screens
Raven4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Emphasized at $2.99 against Raven's $19.99. Emphasized also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 57%) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Raven's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Emphasized costs $2.99 and Raven $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Emphasized against 4.0 for Raven. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Emphasized's written reviews are positive against 57% of Raven's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Emphasized ships an update every 4 months, Raven every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Emphasized versus Raven: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmphasizedRaven
Price$2.99 — better$19.99
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB126 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlgirdas GridziuskaThomas Sivilay

Customer experience

Emphasized

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Raven

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

In-app purchases

None

Emphasized

No in-app purchases

None

Raven

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Emphasized free?
Emphasized costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Raven free?
Raven costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Emphasized or Raven?
Emphasized and Raven are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Emphasized or Raven have ads?
Neither Emphasized nor Raven shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Emphasized or Raven?
Emphasized ships an update every 4 months, and Raven every 3 days. Most recently, Emphasized was updated on November 4, 2026 and Raven on October 31, 2026.

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