Quad Notes vs MarkFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quad Notes
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Displays four notes in a grid.
MarkFlow
A clean and fast reader for Markdown files, offering a comfortable, book-like experience with customizable themes and adjustable text. Easily navigate, search, and share your documents, with developer-friendly features like syntax highlighting.
- Book-like reading layout
- Multiple reading themes and dark mode
- Adjustable text size
- Table of contents generation
- In-document search
- Syntax highlighting for code blocks
- Export to PDF
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MarkReader is a clean, fast Markdown reader built for reading MD and README files with a comfortable, book-like layout. **Read Markdown the way you want** • Beautiful typography and multiple reading themes • Dark mode and adjustable text size • Selectable text for easy copying **Navigate and find information quickly** • Table of contents (TOC) / outline generated from headings • Search within the current document and jump between matches **Open content from multiple sources** • Open local .md / .markdown files • Browse folders and read documents from a directory **Rich content rendering** • Full GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) — headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, blockquotes, tables, task lists, and more • Syntax highlighting for code blocks • Footnotes rendering • LaTeX math formulas — inline and block equations • Mermaid diagrams (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and more) • HTML tags support — text styles, links, images, lists, tables, and more **Developer-friendly reading** • Rendered view, raw Markdown view, and side-by-side compare mode MarkReader is optimized for focused reading, whether you are browsing documentation, reading a README, or reviewing notes. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yuwang001.github.io/xm/mf_privacy_policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quad Notes at none against MarkFlow's 3. MarkFlow's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.8.3). On price, 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
Both are free to download. MarkFlow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Quad Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quad Notes ships an update every 2 weeks, MarkFlow weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quad Notes | MarkFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.8.3 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hideaki Uchikoshi | 望 余 |
In-app purchases
Quad Notes
No in-app purchases
MarkFlow
- Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$12.99









