Peak Browser vs Recto MD

Everything, in one tab. Now with the people you work with. Peak is a browser with the rest of your work already inside it: notes, task boards, whiteboards, a calendar, time tracking and invoices, mail, PDFs, photos, vector drawing, video, music, slides, websites, your finances and more than twenty tools. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. WORK TOGETHER Share a task board, whiteboard, note, calendar, project, site, drawing, deck or game with anyone who has an Apple ID. Everyone sees every change and can make their own, and Peak shows who changed what. It goes through iCloud, end-to-end encrypted, and over Mesh between devices nearby. No Peak server, no account. YOUR CALENDAR, ALL OF IT Personal, family and team calendars you keep with others, your Social Studio posts, invoices falling due and the hours you worked, beside Apple Calendar, each shown or hidden from one menu. PEAK HOURS Track time against clients and projects with a timer that follows you between devices. Timesheets, absence, budgets and reports. Make clean PDF invoices and email them. Teams hand in weeks and approve time off together. PEAK AI, ON YOUR TERMS Use AI if you want to: on your device, with your own key, or not at all. Peak AI sees the tab in front, works across your notes, boards and calendar, and asks before it changes anything. Ask it from Siri, talk to it out loud in Basecamp, or let it use the tools on your Mac nearby. Your own bots remember, wake up on schedule and work at one table. MAKE THINGS Contour for vector drawing, Darkroom for photos, Folio for PDFs, a full video editor, slides, websites, mind maps on an endless whiteboard, and Social Studio for writing and planning posts for several brands, with pictures and video. NOTES THAT THINK Markdown notes that run Python on your device, with charts, maths and diagrams. Recents and History find anything again. A second brain that is yours. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your work stays on your devices and syncs only through your own iCloud.

Recto MD opens a Markdown file and gets out of the way. Open one from Files, Mail or Safari with Open in Recto MD, or share it in from any app. On iPadOS and iOS 26, Files > Get Info > Always Open With makes it the default. Reading comes first: pick a file and it is on screen, typeset and ready, nothing to configure. When you want to change something, Edit mode puts the source next to the live preview - side by side on iPad, a Source/Preview switch on iPhone - and Save is explicit, so nothing is written until you ask for it. TYPOGRAPHY FIRST The reading column, the leading and the vertical rhythm are the product. Pinch to zoom the whole page from 50% to 300% - text, measure and margins scale together, the way a browser's page zoom does - the column measure also has three widths, and the page is laid out so a long document stays comfortable rather than merely legible. RENDERS WHAT YOUR DOCUMENTS ACTUALLY CONTAIN - CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks, footnotes - GitHub-style alerts: NOTE, TIP, IMPORTANT, WARNING, CAUTION - Mermaid diagrams, loaded only when a document has one - Mathematics and chemistry, typeset by KaTeX: inline and display LaTeX, and mhchem chemical equations. The delimiters are narrow on purpose, so a price written as $5 stays a price - Syntax-highlighted fenced code blocks, with a copy button - Wide tables scroll inside the reading column, so the page itself never scrolls sideways EDITING, WHEN YOU WANT IT Edit mode puts a source pane beside the live preview - side by side on iPad, a Source/Preview switch on iPhone. Save is explicit, and nothing autosaves in the background. Export the document as a PDF whenever you want a copy to share. FIND YOUR WAY AROUND An outline is generated from the document's headings: a sheet on iPhone, a sidebar on iPad that also holds your recent documents. Search inside a document with a live match count and step through the matches. Recents remembers where you stopped reading and puts you back there. IT UPDATES WHILE YOU READ Change the file somewhere else and the document updates in place - same scroll position, no flash, no reload button to hunt for. If you have unsaved edits, the app stops and asks instead of choosing for you. Turn auto-reload off and you get a "File changed" tap target instead. A THEME EDITOR, NOT A THEME PICKER Duplicate a built-in theme or start from nothing, and tune it in six groups: text (font, scale, line height, spacing, indent, justification); headings (font, weight, an accent color, rules, and a size for each of the six levels); layout (column width by characters, points or percent, a max width, custom margins, a page-card look); sidebar (font size and step per level, row height, indent, background and accent mix); blocks (code font and size, table density and zebra striping, blockquote style, the code syntax palette); and color, down to the selection highlight. Import or export any theme as JSON. OFFLINE, AND PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION The app makes no network requests at all. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, nothing collected. Your documents are files on your device or in your iCloud Drive, and that is where they stay. BUILT FOR THE PLATFORM Dynamic Type through to the accessibility sizes, VoiceOver reading real document structure, Increase Contrast, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency are all honoured. With a hardware keyboard, every navigation shortcut is independently rebindable - pick the key, choose Command, Option or Shift, and the app flags a conflict before you save one - and Open, Find, Find Next, Reload, the zoom commands and Settings are all one keystroke away, listed in the Command-hold sheet. The interface is available in twelve languages, with a System option and a picker for the one you want.