Macro App vs Dashing for EmDash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macro App
This comprehensive workspace integrates email, messaging, notes, tasks, PDF viewing, diagram creation, file storage, and code editing. It also features integrated LLMs that understand your content.
- Integrated email and messaging
- Note-taking and task management
- PDF viewer and diagram creator
- File storage and code editor
- Context-aware LLM assistance
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Macro is a workspace offering email, messaging, notes, tasks, pdf, diagrams, file storage, and code-editing—all alongside LLMs that have context on everything you touch.
Dashing for EmDash
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Dashing is a writing desk for your EmDash site, made for iPhone and iPad. WRITE AND PUBLISH - A rich text editor with headings, lists, links, images, tables and HTML blocks - Save drafts, publish now or schedule for later, and update published posts - Keep writing offline: your words stay on this device and are sent when you are back online - Translations, saved sections and byline credits - Focus mode on iPad MEDIA - Upload photos and videos from Photos, Files and the camera, or drop them in - Alt text, captions, focal points and folders for your media library COMMENTS - Moderate with a swipe: approve, mark as spam or move to the trash - Read and answer the comments on any post MANAGE YOUR SITE - People and roles, bylines, categories and tags, menus, sections, widgets, redirects and site settings - Plugins, access tokens, backups and site export MADE FOR IPAD - A sidebar, several windows, the menu bar and keyboard shortcuts WRITING SUGGESTIONS - On devices with Apple Intelligence, Dashing can suggest ideas, titles, outlines, excerpts and tags with Apple's on-device model. Suggestions are made on your device and added only when you choose them. TRY THE DEMO - Explore a sample site with no account. The demo runs entirely on your device, even in airplane mode. PRIVACY - Dashing sends your content only to the sites you connect. No analytics, no tracking. Works with sites running EmDash 1.0.1 or higher. A few advanced tasks open your site's web admin in the browser.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dashing for EmDash at every 3 days against Macro App's fortnightly. Macro App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Macro App ships an update fortnightly, Dashing for EmDash every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macro App | Dashing for EmDash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Macro | LVL35 LLC |
In-app purchases
Macro App
No in-app purchases
Dashing for EmDash
No in-app purchases









