Moose vs Markdown Editor & AI Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moose
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Moose is your personal knowledge weaver — an AI-powered note manager that doesn't just store your notes, it connects them. Write down your ideas, research notes, meeting thoughts, and scattered inspiration. Moose keeps everything organized with projects, tags, and favourites — then its AI weaving engine discovers connections between your notes that you never saw coming. A brainstorm from last week links to today's research. A project brief connects to notes you forgot you wrote. Moose weaves your thinking together. Everything stays private. Your notes live on your device, and with Moose Pro, they sync seamlessly across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac via iCloud. WHAT MOOSE DOES • Create and organize notes with a clean, distraction-free editor • Organize your work into Projects with custom icons and colors • Tag notes for flexible cross-project organization • Pin important notes to the top and favourite the ones you love • Search across your entire knowledge base instantly • Sync notes across all your Apple devices with iCloud (Pro) • Beautiful themes to match your style — Light, Dark, and three Pro exclusives WORKS WITH YOUR MAC Moose is built for both platforms. Notes you create on your iPhone appear on your Mac and vice versa. Edits, deletions, favourites, and pins all sync in real time. Start a thought on your phone during your commute, flesh it out on your Mac at your desk. The macOS version adds powerful features: folder monitoring that automatically ingests documents, an AI weaving engine that discovers connections between your notes, and a full knowledge graph visualization. Together, Moose on iPhone and Mac gives you a complete personal knowledge system. AI KNOWLEDGE WEAVING On your Mac, Moose's AI weaving engine analyses your notes using on-device processing to find hidden connections — shared themes, overlapping keywords, even contradictions. The iPhone app surfaces these insights so you always have your connected knowledge at hand. PRIVACY FIRST Your notes never leave your device. All processing happens locally. iCloud sync is optional, end-to-end encrypted by Apple, and only available to Pro subscribers who choose to enable it. MOOSE PRO Unlock the full experience: • iCloud Sync — Access your knowledge base across all your Apple devices • Trash & Restore — Safely recover deleted notes with configurable retention • Pro Themes — Midnight Gold, Vintage Rose, and Parchment exclusive themes Free 7-day trial available with Monthly and Yearly plans. Lifetime option also available. --- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your App Store account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. After purchase, manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. --- Privacy Policy: https://splashroad.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://splashroad.com/terms-of-service/ --- ## What's New (for version 1.0) Moose arrives on iPhone! Create, organize, and search your notes on the go. Sync with your Mac via iCloud. Beautiful themes. Projects, tags, favourites, and more.
Markdown Editor & AI Notes
Organize your thoughts on an infinite canvas with live Markdown cards. Connect ideas, sketch with Apple Pencil, and integrate AI assistance when needed. Your notes are stored as plain files, ensuring your data remains yours.
- Infinite canvas for note organization
- Live Markdown cards
- Apple Pencil handwriting and sketching
- Optional AI integration for text and image generation
- Obsidian vault compatibility
- iCloud Drive sync
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Memex is a free notebook for your Markdown notes, on an infinite canvas. Arrange and connect your notes as live, readable cards, write around them with Apple Pencil, and add AI only when you want it. ON THE CANVAS - Markdown notes come in as live cards you can edit - Columns, sections and an outline keep big canvases in order - Draw arrows and add text, code, tables, diagrams and images - Handwrite and sketch with Apple Pencil - On iOS 27, search finds handwriting as well as typed notes - Push cards to another canvas as your thinking changes - Type @ to link to your library, or @here to link the spot you are on YOUR OBSIDIAN VAULT - Copy your vault folder in - [[Wikilinks]], ![[embeds]], frontmatter and comments - Open Obsidian canvases, with the originals kept - Memex is not affiliated with Obsidian OPTIONAL AI - Add a card or image to the chat and ask about it - Put a reply on your canvas as a card - Select typed text, or handwriting on iOS 27, and make an image - Generated images are saved in your library YOUR FILES STAY YOURS - Canvases are plain files in iCloud Drive or on your device - No Memex account or sign-up - AI chat messages and selected context go to OpenAI; image-generation prompts go to Black Forest Labs. Both go through OpenRouter and our proxy, which stores and logs none of your content - Memex asks for consent before sending an AI request BUILT FOR IPAD AND APPLE PENCIL Memex is designed for iPad first. It also runs on iPhone and Mac. FREE NOTEBOOK, OPTIONAL AI Import, create, edit and organize notes and canvases, write with Apple Pencil and sync through iCloud for free. Your notebook remains fully usable after an AI subscription ends. Try AI chat with 5 free messages per install. Memex AI costs $4.99/month or $49.99/year, with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Both plans include 300 credits each paid month: a chat message uses 1 credit and an image uses 20. Paid credits refresh each month from when your paid subscription starts, including on the annual plan, and do not roll over. The 7-day trial includes 50 credits total. Or buy 200 AI credits for $3.99, with no subscription required. Purchased credits never expire and are used after any monthly credits. They remain usable if you cancel your subscription. Prices shown are in US dollars; the App Store shows your local price. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Credit packs are one-time purchases. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Markdown Editor & AI Notes at 2 against Moose's —. On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Moose sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Markdown Editor & AI Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Moose | Markdown Editor & AI Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Splash Colors | Alex Morris |
In-app purchases
Moose
- Moose Pro/Month7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Moose Pro/Year7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Moose Pro/Lifetime$99.99
Markdown Editor & AI Notes
- Memex Study Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Memex Study Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 200 AI Credits$3.99
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