Comparison

ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard vs Marked

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

Head to head
About

ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard

Features
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ExpandCaptain is a text expander for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Save the text you type again and again: email replies, support messages, addresses, links, code, templates, meeting notes, and more. On iPhone and iPad, ExpandCaptain gives you a custom keyboard with your saved snippets ready to tap. Open the keyboard in any app, choose the snippet you need, and insert your text without retyping it. On Mac, ExpandCaptain works as a direct Mac app with system-wide text expansion. Type short triggers in supported text fields and ExpandCaptain expands them into your saved text. Use ExpandCaptain to: - Create reusable snippets for common messages - Organize snippets into folders - Use color-coded buttons to spot the right snippet fast - Build templates with fill-in fields - Sync your library across Mac, iPhone, and iPad with iCloud - Keep your writing consistent across devices Start with a free library, then upgrade to ExpandCaptain Pro with a one-time purchase for unlimited snippets and access across all your devices. Pro works across Mac, iPhone, and iPad when you sign in with the same CodexCaptain account. Your snippets stay on your device and in your iCloud whenever possible. Account sign-in is used for Pro access, restore, support, and cross-device entitlement linking. Whether you write customer replies, client updates, templates, notes, or everyday messages, ExpandCaptain helps you stop starting from scratch. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Marked

This app offers a reading-first experience for Markdown documents, presenting them with classic typography and customizable themes. It also includes a live syntax highlighting editor for quick edits and navigation features like a table of contents.

Highlights
  • Book-like reading experience
  • Customizable themes and typography
  • Live Markdown syntax highlighting
  • Built-in plain-text editor
  • Auto-generated table of contents
  • File navigation and search
Features
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Marked is a Markdown reader and editor designed first as a reading app β€” think Apple Books for your .md files. Open any Markdown document from Files or iCloud Drive and read it with the calm of a book: classic typography, generous margins, justified text with automatic hyphenation, and Light, Sepia and Dark themes. A READING-FIRST EXPERIENCE β€’ Three reading themes: Light, Sepia and Dark. β€’ Nine curated typefaces: system serif, New York, Georgia, Palatino, Times New Roman, Helvetica Neue, Avenir Next, Iowan Old Style and Charter. β€’ Adjustable font size, line spacing and horizontal margins. β€’ Justified text with automatic hyphenation for a book-like rhythm. β€’ Native rendering of headings, lists, quotes, code blocks, links and tables. β€’ Styled blockquotes with accent bar, soft background tint and a decorative quote glyph. β€’ Wrap-first tables that fit cell text to the screen and only scroll horizontally when wrapping is not enough. SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING β€’ Fenced code blocks are highlighted with automatic language detection (highlight.js via HighlighterSwift). β€’ The editor colours Markdown markup live β€” headings, emphasis, code spans, links and lists β€” without getting in the way of plain-text editing. QUICK EDITING β€’ Built-in plain-text editor with in-place save to the original file. β€’ New documents open straight into the editor. β€’ Jump to any line directly from the table of contents or search results. β€’ Debounced highlighting keeps large files responsive while typing. NAVIGATION β€’ Auto-generated table of contents from the document's headings. β€’ In-document search: per section in reader mode and per line in editor mode. β€’ Recent files list with per-document reading position and progress, Apple Notes–style file count under the title. FAST AND SMOOTH β€’ Documents open asynchronously so the UI never blocks on large files. β€’ Theme and font changes reuse the parsed document and existing section views instead of rebuilding from scratch. β€’ Smart subview reuse keeps scrolling fluid in long documents. WORKS WITH YOUR FILES β€’ Opens .md, .markdown, .mdown and .mkd files from Files, iCloud Drive and "Open with…". β€’ Create new Markdown documents from inside the app. β€’ Security-scoped bookmarks remember where each file lives, so recents keep working after relaunch. PRIVACY BY DESIGN β€’ Everything runs on your device. Marked has no servers. β€’ No accounts, no telemetry, no advertising, no tracking. β€’ Your files stay exactly where you keep them β€” the app only opens them. Ideal for reading notes, technical documentation, project READMEs, long-form articles or books written in Markdown β€” and for making quick edits without leaving the reading flow.

Screenshots

ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard4 screens
Marked4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Marked at none against ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard's 1. ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Marked asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard versus Marked: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpandCaptain Snippet KeyboardMarked
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsβ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
Monetizationβ€”Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size20 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul LindseyTreze

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard

One-time1
  • ExpandCaptain Pro$24.99
None

Marked

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard free?
ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Marked free?
Marked is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard or Marked have ads?
Neither ExpandCaptain Snippet Keyboard nor Marked shows ads.

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