Comparison

Color Pinboard vs md.too

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

Head to head
About

Color Pinboard

Features
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Color Pinboard is a clean, native iOS client for Pinboard.in β€” the fast, no-nonsense bookmarking service for people who value the web. BROWSE & SEARCH Your entire Pinboard collection, beautifully rendered on iOS. Search across titles and notes instantly. Infinite scroll with pull-to-refresh keeps your list always up to date. SAVE LINKS INSTANTLY Add bookmarks directly from the app. Set a title, write notes, organize with space-separated tags, and mark items for your Reading List β€” all in a few taps. IN-APP BROWSER Tap any bookmark to read it without leaving the app. Use the toolbar to jump back to your list, or open the page in Safari with a single tap. TAGS WITH COLOR Every tag gets a consistent color based on its name β€” the same algorithm as the Pinboard web client. Instantly recognize your collections at a glance. FEEDS Stay curious. Browse Pinboard's Popular feed to discover what the web is reading today, and follow your Network feed to see what people you trust are saving. SWIPE ACTIONS Swipe left on any bookmark to open it in Safari or delete it. Fast, frictionless, and always one swipe away. β€”β€” REQUIREMENTS β€’ A Pinboard.in account (pinboard.in β€” paid bookmarking service) β€’ Your Pinboard API token, found at pinboard.in/settings/password Color Pinboard is an independent project and is not affiliated with Pinboard.in.

About

md.too

Features
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Application md.too is a minimalist markdown viewer for iPhone and iPad. It opens .md files, renders them, and lets you read and copy. That is the whole product. What it renders: β€’ Headings, lists (including GitHub-style task lists with [ ] / [x]), block quotes, thematic breaks, and inline emphasis (bold, italic, strikethrough, underline). β€’ Code blocks with syntax highlighting for about 40 languages: Swift, C/C++/C#/Objective-C, Java, Kotlin, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP, Dart, Lua, Perl, R, Julia, Haskell, OCaml, F#, Elixir, Clojure, Groovy, SQL, GraphQL, Dockerfile, Makefile, TOML, INI, YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, Bash, PowerShell, Markdown. β€’ Tables, including inline images inside table cells. β€’ Inline images loaded from any HTTPS URL, with explicit width/height attributes (GitLab-style {width=N height=N}). β€’ A small but useful LaTeX subset in $…$ and $$…$$: Greek letters, super- and sub-scripts, common operators, simple fractions, and basic display math. β€’ Selectable, copyable text. Code blocks and tables get a one-click copy button. β€’ Light and dark theme β€” follows the system, or pick one explicitly. β€’ Export the rendered document to a paginated PDF, with images embedded. What it deliberately does not do: β€’ No editor, no live preview/edit split, no autosave. Read-only by design. β€’ No HTML rendering or WKWebView. Pure native UIKit/SwiftUI. β€’ No file tree, no tabs, no command palette. β€’ No third-party packages. The most popular JavaScript Markdown library, marked, lists about 636 transitive dependencies and roughly 38,980 lines of code on its public dependency graph. md.too ships zero dependencies. Every package you do not pull in is a supply-chain risk you do not inherit. Privacy: The application does not collect or transmit any personal data. The only network traffic is fetching inline images you reference by URL. Source code: The project is open-source under the MIT license. See the support URL.

Screenshots

Color Pinboard4 screens
md.too4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: md.too at 3 against Color Pinboard's 1. Color Pinboard's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Color Pinboard versus md.too: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor Pinboardmd.too
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” better
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better18.6
Further details β€” not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerζž—θΎ‰ 伍Dmitry Kuznetsov

In-app purchases

None

Color Pinboard

No in-app purchases

None

md.too

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Color Pinboard free?
Color Pinboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is md.too free?
md.too is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Color Pinboard or md.too have ads?
Neither Color Pinboard nor md.too shows ads.

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