Comparison

BumbleUp vs smalltype

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

Head to head
About

BumbleUp

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BumbleUp is your all-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, and knowledge. Capture ideas, plan projects, and build your personal wiki โ€“ all offline, without accounts. Creativity & Planning: โ€“ Write and organize notes โ€“ Create dictionaries โ€“ simple tables with two columns โ€“ Manage task lists Knowledge Management: โ€“ Build personal wiki pages with nested file trees โ€“ Turn your notes into a digital Zettelkasten with two-way links โ€“ View the same data in multiple layouts Fast & User-Friendly Interface: โ€“ Reorder files with drag-and-drop โ€“ Preview file content directly in the list โ€“ Add notes to the right topic with a single tap Offline & Private: โ€“ No account or internet connection needed โ€“ No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions needed โ€“ Your data stays on your device Capture your ideas. Plan your journey. Master your knowledge.

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smalltype

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Short notes, many times a day, saved as plain .md files in real folders. Open the same folder on your Mac in VS Code, Vim, or any editor. Calm, minimal, and ready for iPhone Duo. smalltype is for your notes. The small ones, the quick ones, the big ones, the unpolished ones. It's a fast, quiet place to type. ## Start No tutorial, no setup screen. Tap New Note and start typing. Leave one empty and it quietly disappears, so you never end up with a pile of blank untitled notes. That's the whole app. ## Yours Every note is a real .md file, sitting right there in the Files app. You can open it, copy it, or back it up yourself, anytime. Delete one and it still goes to Recently Deleted, same as any other file: nothing's gone for good. ## Sync or Don't Keep notes in iCloud Drive to have them on every device. Or keep them On My iPhone, fully local, never leaving your device. Either way, you can switch anytime. ## Visible Markdown Markdown markers stay gently visible as you type. What you see is exactly what's in the file. A bar above the keyboard types the markers for you, with undo and redo a tap away. ## Organize Folders, search, and quick note-making, all from one screen. Nothing to set up first. Put "daily" in a folder's name and new notes inside it get today's date as their name. ## No Catch No ads. No subscription. No tracking. No account, ever. Markdown notes. Yours to keep.

Screenshots

BumbleUp4 screens
smalltype4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: BumbleUp at 3 against smalltype's 1. BumbleUp also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
BumbleUp versus smalltype: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBumbleUpsmalltype
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size31 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVojtech SodomaHerman Haidin

In-app purchases

None

BumbleUp

No in-app purchases

None

smalltype

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BumbleUp free?
BumbleUp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is smalltype free?
smalltype is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BumbleUp or smalltype have ads?
Neither BumbleUp nor smalltype shows ads.

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