Appoint vs Inkstone Notes Markdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Appoint
This calendar app learns your scheduling habits to suggest event details like titles, times, and locations. It offers multiple views, customization options, and privacy-focused local processing. Enjoy smart input, drag-and-drop rescheduling, and astronomical data.
- Smart event input with suggestions
- Multiple customizable calendar views
- Drag-and-drop event rescheduling
- Privacy-focused local data processing
- Sun, moon, and daylight data
- Home screen widgets
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Create events faster than you ever thought possible. Appoint learns how you schedule — suggesting titles, times, locations, and details before you finish typing. It's a calendar built for people who value their time. SMART INPUT Type "3pm" or "9-12am" and Appoint sets the time. Type "1.5h" and it sets the duration. Start typing a title and it suggests the rest — prefilling time, calendar, notes, and recurrence from your history. Contact names are detected automatically. All of this works in any language. EVERY VIEW YOU NEED Day, week, month, and list views — each designed for a different purpose. Pinch to zoom in day and week views. See relative dates in the list view ("today", "in 3 weeks"). Color-coded dots in month view show how busy each day is at a glance. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from over a dozen built-in color themes — or create your own from scratch. Light, dark, colorful, minimal — Appoint looks the way you want it to. Event colors adapt automatically to your chosen theme so everything stays readable and beautiful. Customize work hours, week start day, default duration, and preferred map app. DRAG & DROP Long-press to move events between times and days. Quickly reschedule without opening a single form. STATISTICS See exactly where your time goes. Break your schedule down by calendar and time period, spot your busiest days and recurring commitments, and watch the numbers update as you pick any date range. Export any range to CSV or ICS when you need the raw data. PRIVACY FIRST Your data stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud services, no tracking. Appoint works with iCloud, Google, Exchange, or any calendar service supported by iOS — but all the intelligence happens locally on your phone. SUN & MOON See sunrise and sunset times as subtle markers on your day and week timelines — calculated for your location, updating with the seasons. Moon phases appear on the month grid so you always know when the next full or new moon is. Astronomically accurate, no internet needed. Appoint only uses your approximate location — no precise tracking. WIDGETS Event countdown, upcoming schedule, sunrise & sunset forecast, and a full-year daylight chart — right on your home screen. Seven widgets in three sizes, each with theme support. ALSO INCLUDED - Powerful search across all fields and views - Scheduling conflict detection - Recurrence rules for repeating events - Multiple alarms and reminders - Invitations management - Integrated maps with turn-by-turn directions - Timezone support - Full iPad support Syncs with the built-in Calendar app — your events are always up to date. A one-time Appoint Pro purchase unlocks even more — no subscription, yours forever. Already bought Appoint? You already have Pro, with our thanks. feedback@appointcal.com
Inkstone Notes Markdown
A Markdown writing app that stores notes as plain .md files in iCloud Drive. It offers a native editor with syntax highlighting, live preview, and supports linking between notes. Notes can be exported to PDF or HTML.
- Plain .md file storage in iCloud Drive
- Native Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Live preview with KaTeX and Mermaid support
- Bi-directional note linking
- Export to PDF and HTML
- Task lists and image attachments
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Inkstone is a Markdown writing app that keeps your notes as ordinary .md files in a folder you can open from anywhere. Your notes are files Every note is a plain Markdown file in iCloud Drive. Open the same folder from a Mac, edit it in another app, or move it somewhere else entirely — nothing is locked in a database, and nothing needs exporting. Writing, not formatting A native editor with syntax highlighting and live preview that hides the markup outside the paragraph you are working in. Formulas render with KaTeX and diagrams with Mermaid, both bundled, so neither needs a network. Notes that link to each other Write [[a note's title]] to link to it. Backlinks show what points at the note you are reading, unwritten links can be created in a tap, and renaming a note carries its links with it. Publishing Eight typesetting styles, each with its own heading treatment, for pasting into a publishing composer as rich text with the formatting intact. Export to PDF or HTML, with images carried inside the document. Also Callouts, task lists you can tick from the preview, a note for each day, outlines, inline tags, full-text search, and image attachments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Appoint at Free against Inkstone Notes Markdown's $0.99. Appoint also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Inkstone Notes Markdown's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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
Appoint is free to download; Inkstone Notes Markdown costs $0.99 up front. Appoint sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Inkstone Notes Markdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Inkstone Notes Markdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Appoint's written reviews are positive against 100% of Inkstone Notes Markdown's.
Appoint ships an update every 2 weeks, Inkstone Notes Markdown every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Appoint | Inkstone Notes Markdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Urs Gort | bo chen |
Customer experience
Appoint
Inkstone Notes Markdown
In-app purchases
Appoint
- Appoint Pro$7.99
Inkstone Notes Markdown
No in-app purchases









