Comparison

TimeGlass Notes vs Levity Markdown Notes

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

Head to head
About

TimeGlass Notes

Features
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TimeGlass Notes brings a clean, realistic, and beautifully animated sticky-memo experience to your daily life. Craft your daily thoughts using customizable notes arranged in a neat visual grid—easy to create, delightful to open, and effortless to manage. Whether you’re jotting down ideas, tracking tasks, planning your day, or saving meaningful moments, TimeGlass Notes helps you stay organized in a calm and intuitive way. A Natural, Visual Way to Capture Your Day Create notes that look and feel like real sticky memos. Each note appears as a soft, semi-transparent card that blends naturally into your day. Customize every detail to match your style: • Choose from multiple colors • Adjust note transparency • Set text size and alignment • Switch freely between shapes • Mark notes as completed or important • Add optional notifications to any note Your notes stay visually pleasing while remaining highly functional. Tap to Zoom In, Drag to Return Tap any note to smoothly zoom in for focused editing. 
When you’re done, simply drag to return it to its place in the grid. This fluid interaction makes browsing and reviewing notes feel natural and intuitive—like handling real pieces of paper. Organized by Date Notes are automatically grouped by day.
 Tap any date section to instantly jump into that day’s notes, making it easy to revisit past thoughts or plan ahead. Reminders When You Need Them Add optional notifications to any note to stay on top of tasks, events, or ideas.
Ideal for daily routines, gentle reminders, or small commitments you don’t want to forget. A Simple, Thoughtful Daily Companion TimeGlass Notes stays out of your way while giving you full creative control. It’s simple enough for quick thoughts, yet flexible enough for daily journaling, habit tracking, or lightweight planning. Premium Features Unlock advanced customization, and all future feature updates with: • an optional subscription, or • a one-time lifetime purchase Support: https://github.com/bbdhx/GlassNote Privacy policy: https://github.com/bbdhx/GlassNote/blob/main/Privacy%20Policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Levity Markdown Notes

Features
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Levity is a fast Markdown editor for your own plain-text notes, based on a folder in iCloud Drive or on your device. No account, no proprietary database, no separate sync service to set up. Point Levity at a folder and it mirrors every Markdown file inside it, and keeps mirroring as they change. Built for speed on your phone and read-compatible with Obsidian vaults. Levity opens, scrolls, and searches instantly, even in a large vault. It's tuned for mobile from the first line of code. If you already keep an Obsidian vault, Levity reads it as-is: the same files, the same folders, the same frontmatter. Your notes are just text files. They live in your own iCloud Drive or on your device, sync through your own Apple account, and open in any other editor. A live, clean editor: • Formatting appears as you type. The raw Markdown symbols stay out of your way, while your files stay pure Markdown on disk • Headings, bold, italic, task lists, checkboxes, blockquotes, code blocks, and tables you can edit cell by cell • [[Wiki-links]] between notes, with autocomplete • Inline images • A formatting bar, so you never have to hunt for a raw symbol Organize without a database: • Tag your notes and filter by tag • YAML frontmatter — add any property you like (status, type, dates, lists) and build filtered views around it • Folders, templates, archive, and trash • Full-text search across every note, instantly Made yours: • Seven themes, plus an automatic day / night mode that follows your surroundings • Adjustable font, size, and spacing • Designed for both iPhone and iPad Levity is focused and supports text, tags, and links; no graph view or plugins, just the fastest way to write and read Markdown on iOS, on top of files you already own. Free to start. One optional yearly subscription unlocks unlimited note creation and editing; reading your notes is never limited. Your privacy, by design: your notes stay in your own iCloud or device storage. Levity Premium is an auto-renewing subscription billed yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TimeGlass Notes4 screens
Levity Markdown Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

TimeGlass Notes and Levity Markdown Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. TimeGlass Notes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Levity Markdown Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $11.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TimeGlass Notes versus Levity Markdown Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeGlass NotesLevity Markdown Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer健浩 卢S Tan

In-app purchases

4 purchases

TimeGlass Notes

Subscriptions3
  • Premium_Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Premium_Quarterly Subscription7 Days trial$1.993 Months
  • Premium_Annual Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime License$5.99
1 purchases

Levity Markdown Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Levity Premium$11.991 Year

Questions

Is TimeGlass Notes free?
TimeGlass Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Levity Markdown Notes free?
Levity Markdown Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TimeGlass Notes or Levity Markdown Notes have ads?
Neither TimeGlass Notes nor Levity Markdown Notes shows ads.

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