MarkFlow vs Read.md
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MarkFlow
A clean and fast reader for Markdown files, offering a comfortable, book-like experience with customizable themes and adjustable text. Easily navigate, search, and share your documents, with developer-friendly features like syntax highlighting.
- Book-like reading layout
- Multiple reading themes and dark mode
- Adjustable text size
- Table of contents generation
- In-document search
- Syntax highlighting for code blocks
- Export to PDF
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MarkReader is a clean, fast Markdown reader built for reading MD and README files with a comfortable, book-like layout. **Read Markdown the way you want** • Beautiful typography and multiple reading themes • Dark mode and adjustable text size • Selectable text for easy copying **Navigate and find information quickly** • Table of contents (TOC) / outline generated from headings • Search within the current document and jump between matches **Open content from multiple sources** • Open local .md / .markdown files • Browse folders and read documents from a directory **Rich content rendering** • Full GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) — headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, blockquotes, tables, task lists, and more • Syntax highlighting for code blocks • Footnotes rendering • LaTeX math formulas — inline and block equations • Mermaid diagrams (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and more) • HTML tags support — text styles, links, images, lists, tables, and more **Developer-friendly reading** • Rendered view, raw Markdown view, and side-by-side compare mode MarkReader is optimized for focused reading, whether you are browsing documentation, reading a README, or reviewing notes. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yuwang001.github.io/xm/mf_privacy_policy.html
Read.md
This app allows you to beautifully view markdown files on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. It offers perfect rendering of complex elements like tables, code blocks, and diagrams, with offline support and privacy in mind.
- Perfect markdown rendering
- Syntax highlighting for 180+ languages
- Mermaid diagram rendering
- GitHub repository browsing
- Export to PDF & HTML (Pro)
- Smart diagram fixing
- Auto-generated table of contents
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Open any .md file and read it beautifully — on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Read.md is a markdown reader. Not an editor, not a note-taking app, not a vault system. A reader. Tap a .md file, it opens, it looks great, you read it. PERFECT RENDERING Tables, code blocks, nested lists, task lists, blockquotes, images, links — everything renders correctly. Syntax highlighting for 180+ programming languages. GitHub Flavored Markdown fully supported. MERMAID DIAGRAMS Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, class diagrams, and more render natively. Tap to zoom into any diagram for a detailed view. EXPORT TO PDF & HTML Turn any document into a clean, paginated, print-quality PDF or a self-contained HTML file — diagrams and syntax highlighting intact. Share it, print it, archive it. Or export the original Markdown source. (PDF and HTML export are Read.md Pro; Markdown export is free.) OPEN FROM GITHUB Read documentation straight from the source. Browse any GitHub repository — public or private — navigate its file tree, and open any .md file with the same beautiful rendering. Sign in with a personal access token; your token stays on your device. (Read.md Pro) SMART DIAGRAM FIXER ASCII art and box-drawing diagrams that look broken in other apps? Read.md detects and corrects misaligned characters automatically so your diagrams look the way they were intended. NAVIGATE LONG DOCUMENTS Auto-generated table of contents from your headings. Search within any document with match highlighting and next/prev navigation. Your scroll position is remembered when you come back to a file. ZERO FRICTION No account needed to read. No workspace. No vault. No setup. Works as your default .md file handler — open markdown files from Files, Finder, email attachments, AirDrop, the share sheet, or drag and drop. ADAPTS TO YOUR DEVICE iPhone: stacked navigation with a frosted-glass nav bar and bottom sheets. iPad: landscape split-view, portrait slide-over panels, trackpad and keyboard support. Mac: split-view with sidebar, reader, and table-of-contents panel, keyboard shortcuts, and translucent panels. Everything adapts automatically when you resize windows or rotate your device. DARK AND LIGHT MODES Switch between dark and light themes, or follow your system setting. Adjust font size to your preference. Everything updates live. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Opens instantly, even large files. Your markdown is rendered entirely on your device — file contents are never uploaded, and reading works fully offline. No ads. No account required to read. The only feature that touches the network is GitHub browsing, and only when you choose to use it. We use anonymous, aggregate analytics to improve the app. READ.MD PRO A one-time purchase — or a yearly subscription with a free trial — unlocks PDF/HTML export and GitHub browsing. Everything else stays free, forever. WHAT PEOPLE USE IT FOR Reading AI-generated markdown exports. Reading GitHub README files on mobile. Viewing documentation and project specs on the go. Reviewing technical docs from colleagues. Browsing personal notes written in markdown. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Read.md at 5.0 against MarkFlow's 4.5. Read.md also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 75%) and ratings volume (35 vs 4). MarkFlow's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. MarkFlow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Read.md sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Read.md holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Read.md has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of MarkFlow's written reviews are positive against 90% of Read.md's.
MarkFlow ships an update weekly, Read.md every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MarkFlow | Read.md |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 望 余 | Pavel Abin |
Customer experience
MarkFlow
Read.md
In-app purchases
MarkFlow
- Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$12.99
Read.md
- Read.md Pro Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Read.md Pro (Lifetime)$24.99





