Comparison

Welm vs md.too

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

Head to head
About

Welm

This task manager helps you regain control of your day with a no-nonsense approach. It's designed to keep you focused on what truly matters, offering a stark and unapologetic way to manage your to-do list.

Highlights
  • Task management
  • To-do list creation
  • Focus enhancement
  • Daily control
  • Unapologetic design
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Welm is a to-do list / task manager that's not for the faint-hearted. It's stark, unapologetic, and built to help you take control of your day, stay focused, and do what truly matters. Most productivity apps (like humans) try to do everything - tags, projects, subtasks, automations - until managing the system becomes its own task. Welm says Skitsnack. It's deliberately simple and rigid, with just enough constraints to keep you honest about what actually matters today, instead of letting your to-do list quietly turn into a second job. How it works: — Simple tasks: No smart lists, tags or nested logic to manage. Tasks are meant to be done, not sit beautifully in a database. — Three buckets: Now, Next, Later. That's it. — Finish what's in front of you: Your buckets only hold so much. The only way to do more things is by clearing your tasks. Welm isn't trying to be your friend (it can sometimes be a little rude). It isn't trying to organize and automate your entire life. It's simply making sure the few things that matter to you get done. At least that's what it tells us.

About

md.too

Features
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Application md.too is a minimalist markdown viewer for iPhone and iPad. It opens .md files, renders them, and lets you read and copy. That is the whole product. What it renders: • Headings, lists (including GitHub-style task lists with [ ] / [x]), block quotes, thematic breaks, and inline emphasis (bold, italic, strikethrough, underline). • Code blocks with syntax highlighting for about 40 languages: Swift, C/C++/C#/Objective-C, Java, Kotlin, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP, Dart, Lua, Perl, R, Julia, Haskell, OCaml, F#, Elixir, Clojure, Groovy, SQL, GraphQL, Dockerfile, Makefile, TOML, INI, YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, Bash, PowerShell, Markdown. • Tables, including inline images inside table cells. • Inline images loaded from any HTTPS URL, with explicit width/height attributes (GitLab-style {width=N height=N}). • A small but useful LaTeX subset in $…$ and $$…$$: Greek letters, super- and sub-scripts, common operators, simple fractions, and basic display math. • Selectable, copyable text. Code blocks and tables get a one-click copy button. • Light and dark theme — follows the system, or pick one explicitly. • Export the rendered document to a paginated PDF, with images embedded. What it deliberately does not do: • No editor, no live preview/edit split, no autosave. Read-only by design. • No HTML rendering or WKWebView. Pure native UIKit/SwiftUI. • No file tree, no tabs, no command palette. • No third-party packages. The most popular JavaScript Markdown library, marked, lists about 636 transitive dependencies and roughly 38,980 lines of code on its public dependency graph. md.too ships zero dependencies. Every package you do not pull in is a supply-chain risk you do not inherit. Privacy: The application does not collect or transmit any personal data. The only network traffic is fetching inline images you reference by URL. Source code: The project is open-source under the MIT license. See the support URL.

Screenshots

Welm3 screens
md.too4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: md.too at none against Welm's 1. md.too also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Welm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. md.too asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Welm ships an update every 10 days, md.too every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Welm versus md.too: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWelmmd.too
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerry ChangDmitry Kuznetsov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Welm

One-time1
  • 2nd List$3.99
None

md.too

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Welm free?
Welm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is md.too free?
md.too is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Welm or md.too have ads?
Neither Welm nor md.too shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Welm or md.too?
Welm ships an update every 10 days, and md.too every 2 weeks. Most recently, Welm was updated on September 24, 2026 and md.too on September 17, 2026.

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