Comparison

MD Slides vs Markdown Reader & Editor

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

Head to head
About

MD Slides

Features
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Create striking slide decks fast with an editor built for clarity and speed. Generate professional presentations quickly using Markdown and AI, then refine them with live preview, images, and speaker notes. Start from curated templates or save your own for reuse. Present confidently with a presenter view and send the slides to an external display or projector. Import existing PowerPoint files and export to PDF, PowerPoint, or a web-ready package to share anywhere.

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Markdown Reader & Editor

Features
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Markdown, beautifully rendered. Read, write and highlight on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Open any .md file and read it as a clean, typeset document with real LaTeX math, colored code, tables and diagrams. Highlight and add notes as you read, and with Pro, write right on the page on Mac and iPad. Reading is free. ON iPHONE A calm, focused reader: open, read, find, highlight and present, with no risk of changing your file by accident. With Pro, export to PDF and HTML, print, and sync your highlights. READ IT BEAUTIFULLY • Full Markdown: headings, nested and task lists, tables, block quotes, footnotes, links and images • LaTeX math typeset with KaTeX, inline and on its own line • Code colored by a real syntax highlighter, with a one-tap Copy button • Mermaid diagrams drawn as pictures • Four themes (GitHub, Aurora, Dark and Apple) in light and dark mode, and adjustable text size HIGHLIGHT AND TAKE NOTES • Highlight in color, as a background or an underline • Add a note to any highlight and browse them all in the Highlights panel • Highlights live in the app, never in your file: the .md stays untouched • With Pro, they sync across your devices through your own iCloud, and export as a Markdown study sheet FIND YOUR WAY • An outline built from your headings that follows you as you read • Find highlights every match, with a counter and next/previous (⌘F with a keyboard) • Links to a section jump straight there • Recent files one tap away • Present any document as full-screen slides, with a laser pointer and a marker (free) WRITE ON THE PAGE (Pro, iPad) • Type directly in the reading view, like a word processor • Split view, with the Markdown source beside the page • Edit mode for the source alone, plus New and Save, back to your own .md files SHARE IT (Pro) • Export to PDF, with paper size, margins, header and page numbers, or to HTML • On iPhone, also print, export a single section, share a section or a formula as an image, and copy with formatting SAFE BY DESIGN • A downloaded document's links can't launch apps or scripts: web links open in your browser, other kinds ask first • A linked HTML page opens in MD Reader's own viewer • On iPhone and iPad, when a document's images are in a folder iOS hasn't shared, MD Reader says so and brings them in with one tap AND ON YOUR MAC The same purchase includes the full Mac app: Split with synced scrolling and mirrored selection, Live Studio's seven ready-made blocks, tabs, live statistics, reading fonts and keyboard shortcuts for everything. FREE AND PRO Reading is free, with no time limit: open any Markdown file and use the outline, Find, all four themes, highlights and notes, and Present mode. Pro is a single one-time purchase, no subscription. It unlocks writing and editing (Edit and Split modes, typing in the reading view, New and Save), export to PDF and HTML, Live Studio, multiple tabs and highlight sync through iCloud. Every new install can try all of Pro free for 7 days. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac, and if you used MD Reader before version 1.2, you keep everything you had. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Ordinary .md text files. No proprietary format, no MD Reader account, no sign-up, no analytics, no tracking and no subscription. The app goes online only to load images your document links to and, with Pro sync, to keep your highlights and notes in your private iCloud database, which the developer cannot access. Your documents are never uploaded. Opens .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd and .mkdn from the Files app, iCloud Drive or a share sheet. Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.natural-apps.com/MDReader/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.natural-apps.com/MDReader/privacy.html

Screenshots

MD Slides4 screens
Markdown Reader & Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MD Slides at none against Markdown Reader & Editor's 1. MD Slides also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Markdown Reader & Editor's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Markdown Reader & Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MD Slides asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MD Slides ships an update every 6 months, Markdown Reader & Editor fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
MD Slides versus Markdown Reader & Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMD SlidesMarkdown Reader & Editor
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB15 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDaniel NowendszternVictoria Rodriguez Diaz

In-app purchases

None

MD Slides

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Markdown Reader & Editor

One-time1
  • Pro$2.99

Questions

Is MD Slides free?
MD Slides is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Markdown Reader & Editor free?
Markdown Reader & Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MD Slides or Markdown Reader & Editor have ads?
MD Slides shows ads; Markdown Reader & Editor does not.
Which is updated more often, MD Slides or Markdown Reader & Editor?
MD Slides ships an update every 6 months, and Markdown Reader & Editor fortnightly. Most recently, MD Slides was updated on November 9, 2026 and Markdown Reader & Editor on October 31, 2026.

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