Ivy vs Outerline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ivy
This app helps you focus on what matters by planning your day, tracking progress, and reviewing accomplishments. It offers features like repeating reminders, time-based goals, and voice input for planning. Celebrate your completed tasks with animations and build a journal of your day.
- Daily planning and commitment
- Repeating reminders and time-based goals
- Voice input for quick planning
- Focus Mode for time tracking
- Completion animations and haptics
- Journaling of completed tasks
- Review list for unfinished items
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Achieve more by taking on less. Start your day by choosing what truly matters and commit to it. Focus and feel the momentum build as you check things off. Finish with a beautiful record of a day well spent, while anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow. Add rich detail • Create repeating reminders. • Add notes, and set time- or count-based goals. • Promote to a Superaction and get an extra impactful animation on completion. • Schedule for a specific time of day, and get reminded with a notification or an alarm. Choose what matters • Quickly draft your plan just by talking with the voice input*. • Loosely slot anything in between auto-sorted scheduled items. • Commit when your plan feels right—you can still adjust as things come up. Focus and build momentum • Get rewarded with satisfying animations and haptics as you check things off. • Stay focused and track time as you go with Focus Mode. • Interact with your plan at a glance by enabling the Live Activity on your Lock Screen, or by adding the widget to your Home Screen. • Long press to quickly adjust—add something new, or bump to tomorrow or Review. Celebrate what you accomplished • Mark your day as done and enjoy a beautiful 3D animation. • Watch your completed plan transform into a journal—so you can see where your time went. • Easily adjust the record with the ability to edit when you did things—and for how long. • Anything unfinished rolls into your Review list—ready for tomorrow’s plan, or to be let go. A powerful review tool • See what you’ve delayed—rescheduled items are automatically bumped to the top. • Scrub through days to retroactively complete—or assign to a day in the future. • Make decisions one by one with Focus Mode—moving or deleting a task will automatically focus the next one. • Turn a fleeting thought into action—use the Lock Screen control to add to your review list with a single tap. Personalize your experience • Get reminded to get started—or to wrap up your day—with morning and evening notifications. • Give yourself extra time to work on your plan if you’re a night owl. • Pick from a selection of themes and handcrafted patterns. Work with other apps • Connect Ivy with the Calendar and Reminders apps. • Import content from other apps with the share extension, including markdown lists. Expect great things down the road • Dedicated iPad, Mac, and watchOS apps. • More ways to organize—interests, habits, projects, etc. • Expanded journaling tools. *Voice Input requires a device with Apple Intelligence. Try Ivy today with a two week free trial. Feedback is always welcome—reach us at hello@semantical.com. Download Ivy for free and try it without registration. After the trial period, an active subscription is required to continue using the app. A subscription unlocks full access to Ivy on all supported devices. • 14-day free trial. • Full access on all supported devices. • Monthly and annual subscription options available. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription through your Apple Account subscription settings. Privacy and Terms of Use: https://semantical.com/privacy https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Outerline
A fast, fluid Markdown editor for macOS and iOS that prioritizes your writing and file ownership. It offers robust features for organizing, linking, and exporting notes, all while working offline and without requiring an account.
- Offline Markdown editing
- File ownership with .md files
- Live syntax highlighting
- Keyboard toolbar for formatting
- In-document search and word count
- Wiki links and note connections
- Export to Markdown, HTML, PDF
- Mermaid diagram rendering
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Outerline gives you space to think and space to write. A fast, fluid Markdown editor with no server, no database, and no clutter. Truly native on macOS and iOS. It works offline, opens instantly, and stays out of your way so you can just write. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Every note is an ordinary .md file in a folder you choose, on your iPhone, in iCloud Drive, or anywhere in Files. No proprietary format and no account required to write. Open the same folder in any other Markdown app whenever you like, and take your work with you if you ever leave. A WRITING SURFACE, NOT A DASHBOARD • Live syntax highlighting, with each heading level at its own size • A keyboard toolbar with the formatting you actually reach for • Smart lists that continue, indent, and break out the way you expect • Auto-pairing brackets, quotes, and backticks • In-document search, word count, and reading time • Editor and preview, a tap apart • Choose your typeface, size, line height, and preview theme • Autosave, so a draft is never waiting on you to remember FIND ANYTHING FAST Full-text search across your whole library. Nested folders, Starred and All Documents views, and colored #tags you write inline and filter by later. Swipe to star, move, or delete. CONNECT YOUR IDEAS Link notes with [[wiki links]] and an autocomplete palette. The inspector shows what points here, each with a line of context and the folder it came from, keeps every external link in one place, and jumps you to any heading in the document. ANNOTATE WITHOUT TOUCHING THE MARKDOWN Highlight passages in five colors, attach notes to them, and leave anchored comments on any selection. Annotations live beside your files, so your Markdown stays clean and portable. NEVER LOSE A DRAFT Automatic timestamped snapshots, a diff viewer, and one-tap restore. Deleted notes move to Recently Deleted, where you can bring them back. WORK WITH SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Ask Siri to create or find a note, and use Shortcuts to open or append to one. On iOS 27, Siri and Apple Intelligence can use the open document as context on supported devices. Availability depends on language, region, and system settings. No Outerline account or subscription required. EXPORT, DIAGRAM, AND BACK UP Export any note as Markdown, HTML, or PDF. Write Mermaid diagrams in fenced code blocks and see them render in preview and in exports, entirely offline. Zip your whole library, metadata included, whenever you want a backup. THE SAME NOTES ON YOUR MAC This is the whole app, not a companion. Outerline for macOS syncs the same library as iOS, while adding split view, Quick Look, and an optional local Model Context Protocol server for AI assistants. Buy Outerline once on either platform and use it on both. Your Outerline account and Publish subscription carry across seamlessly. OUTERLINE PUBLISH (OPTIONAL) Publish a note to a link anyone can open, then keep it current as you save. Publishing needs a free Outerline account and an Outerline Publish subscription. Everything else in Outerline works without either. Outerline Publish is an auto-renewing monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://outerline.so/support/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://outerline.so/support/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ivy at Free against Outerline's $9.99. Ivy also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 1). Outerline's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Ivy is free to download; Outerline costs $9.99 up front. Ivy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Outerline sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ivy against 5.0 for Outerline. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ivy has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ivy ships an update every 10 days, Outerline every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ivy | Outerline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Paid — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Semantical | Adam Goehrig-Bawany |
Customer experience
Ivy
Outerline
In-app purchases
Ivy
- 1 Month$3.991 Month
- 1 Year14 Days trial$29.991 Year
Outerline
- Outerline Publish$1.991 Month
- Small Tip$1.99
- Outerline Tip Medium$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99









