Peak Browser vs Marko
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Peak Browser
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Open a tab. Everything else is already here. Look something up, keep what matters, and pick the thread back up later. Peak is a native browser workspace for focused work, creative projects and local collaboration across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. BROWSE YOUR WAY Fast WebKit tabs, saved sessions and bookmarks, and private profiles keeping work and personal browsing apart. Pin the ones you keep open all day, and find a closed one again. On iPad, put two tabs on screen at once and keep both live โ a video plays in one while you read the other. Incognito sessions stay temporary and never enter your history. THE PAGE BEFORE THE FIRST PAGE Push the start page to the right, as the Today View sits left of a phone's home screen, and Peak shows what is due and what is coming: a month grid, a week grid with real hours, and an agenda narrowing to whichever day you press. It shows both halves of a day: tasks with a due date arrive from your boards, and events you make here sit beside them. Overdue work comes first, because it is the only part that is already a problem. WHEN A LOOKUP BECOMES WORK โข Block-based notes, Kanban task boards and infinite whiteboards โข Calendar events, repeating or not โข Projects that open as their own tab, holding pictures, clips and documents rather than links to them โข A searchable library of everything Peak has made โข A morning brief on the start page, off until you ask for it โข Tools that run on the machine: background removal, text extraction, image compression, colour palettes, SVG tracing and 3D extrusion, article-to- Markdown, transcription, an SEO audit CUT VIDEO ON A REAL TIMELINE Clips sit on rows that overlap, so a title can lie over a shot and a music bed runs under all of them. Trim by dragging a clip's ends, hold a card longer by dragging past it, fade from the corners. Choose the frame first โ widescreen, 4K, square, portrait โ and everything you drop in is fitted to it. Switch the pane above and the same edit becomes a mixing desk, with a fader, mute, solo and a meter per row. Bounce the sound alone, or export the film. MUSIC THAT DOES NOT EXIST YET Waveform is a record shop for a catalogue nobody has made. Describe a song and it arrives as a release โ an invented artist, a record, a cover โ not as a loose file. Keep what is worth keeping, search it, archive rather than delete, and let the radio carry on from the words each song was asked for. Making audio uses your configured provider; what exists already plays with nothing connected. BUILD SITES AND APPS Start from one of eighteen finished templates, each running the real page rather than a picture of it, or from nothing. Write complete multi-page sites, preview as you go, export the result โ PeakUI as a native Xcode project. AI WHEN YOU CHOOSE Optional AI chat can research, write, read your documents and images, make media and build whole sites. It cuts on the timeline with you, reads and fills your calendar, and looks at its own slides before describing them. Run a model on the device itself and nothing leaves it: no account, no key, no bill. Peak suggests one your iPhone or iPad can actually hold rather than the best that exists. Apple Intelligence appears in the same menu wherever the system can run it, and can now use Peak's tools rather than only talk. Or bring your own provider, or a local Ollama model โ credentials stay in the Keychain. CONNECT LOCALLY WITH MESH Nearby Peak devices connect directly over your local network. Share tabs, chats, notes, boards, whiteboards, sites, decks and songs, each behind a toggle. A phone can borrow a model from a Mac in the same room: the Mac holds the weights, your phone asks, the reply streams back. No account, no server. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your work stays on your device and syncs only through your own iCloud. There is no account to create, no analytics and no tracking. Cloud AI and outside services are used only when you choose them. Open a tab. Pick up where you left off.
Marko
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Marko is a fast, native Markdown viewer for iPhone and iPad. Open any .md file and read it the way it was meant to look, with real typography, syntax-highlighted code, GFM tables and task lists, Mermaid diagrams, and KaTeX math. Everything renders on your device with no network access, so your documents never leave it. Marko is a viewer, not an editor. It never changes your files. Open Markdown straight from the Files app, or share it in from Mail, Safari, or any other app, and read it full-screen with an outline, find in page, and adjustable text size. It is built for the Markdown you didn't write by hand, too: the .md that AI assistants and coding agents produce, generated READMEs, and agent output. DOCUMENT INTELLIGENCE, ON DEVICE Summarize a long document, ask questions about it, or explain a selected passage, all processed on your device with Apple Intelligence. Nothing is sent to a server. (Requires a device with Apple Intelligence.) HIGHLIGHTS - Native Swift and SwiftUI app for iPhone and iPad. Not a web app. - Renders fully offline. Your documents never leave your device. - Opens Markdown in place from Files, and via the share sheet from other apps. - Outline, find in page, and text zoom. - Light, Dark, and System themes. - Universal purchase: buy once, use on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Marko collects no data. It has no analytics, no accounts, and makes no network requests of its own. Free. Requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later.
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Verdict
Peak Browser and Marko are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Peak Browser | Marko |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vegar Berentsen | Yash Banka |
In-app purchases
Peak Browser
No in-app purchases
Marko
No in-app purchases







