Comparison

Wisen vs Tertiary Markdown

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

Head to head
About

Wisen

This app intelligently analyzes your notes to surface forgotten ideas, patterns, and unresolved questions. It offers daily digests, AI-powered chat for querying your notes, and visual knowledge mapping. Learn and retain information effectively through spaced repetition.

Highlights
  • AI-powered idea surfacing
  • Daily note digests
  • AI chat for note queries
  • Visual knowledge mapping
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • PDF, image, and voice import
Features
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Most notes apps are just storage. You write something, it disappears into a list, and you never think about it again. Wisen works differently — it reads what you write and brings the right ideas back at the right moment. Echo finds threads across your notes and turns them into questions worth sitting with. Not generic prompts — specific questions built from what you actually wrote. Sometimes it connects two notes from different weeks and surfaces a pattern you hadn't noticed. Each session feels less like a review and more like continuing a conversation you forgot you started. Pulse delivers a daily brief built entirely from your recent notes. What you've been thinking about, what's still unresolved, what questions are worth returning to. It also drafts LinkedIn posts, emails, and more directly from your notes — your voice, your ideas, not a generic AI output. WisenChat lets you ask anything about your notes. What did you write about this topic last month? What's still unresolved? What decisions are you avoiding? It answers from your actual notes with citations — so you always know where the insight came from. Knowledge Map shows how your notes connect visually. Tap a link to open a cross-note Echo session between two related ideas. The map grows richer the more you write. Spaced repetition tracks which ideas you've genuinely learned and which ones need revisiting — at the block level, using a modified SM-2 algorithm. Mastered content is excluded automatically so you're never drilling what you already know. Everything is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before leaving your phone. AI features use OpenAI — only the content you actively engage with is ever processed, and none of your notes are used to train their models. Import PDFs, scan handwritten notes, drop in images and voice recordings. Works in 16 languages. No account required to start. The longer you use Wisen, the more useful it becomes. Your notes compound into real knowledge instead of disappearing.

About

Tertiary Markdown

A native Markdown notes app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone that manages local files and folders like Obsidian. Your notes are plain .md files, ensuring full ownership and future-proofing.

Highlights
  • Open any folder as a vault
  • Plain Markdown files
  • File & folder management
  • Live preview editor
  • Image embedding
  • Notion-style tables
  • Native experience on all devices
Features
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Tertiary Markdown is a fast, native Markdown notes app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. It manages your files and folders the way Obsidian does — open any local folder as a vault and your notes stay as plain .md files you fully own. KEY FEATURES • Open any folder as a vault — fully compatible with your existing Obsidian vault. Your notes are plain Markdown files, never locked into a proprietary format. • File & folder management — browse, create, rename, and delete notes and folders from a clean sidebar. • Live preview editor — switch instantly between Edit, Split, and Preview. Your work autosaves as you type. • Images, Bear-style — embed pictures with standard Markdown ![](image.png) or Obsidian ![[image.png]] embeds, rendered inline. • Tables, Notion-style — GitHub-flavoured tables render as clean, bordered grids. • Everyday Markdown — headings, bold and italic, links, checklists, bullet and numbered lists, block quotes, and code blocks. • One app, every device — a true native experience on macOS, iPadOS, and iOS. Your notes never leave your device. Everything is stored as simple text files on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone, so you stay in control and your library is future-proof. Whether you keep a personal knowledge base, take meeting notes, or write long-form drafts, Tertiary Markdown gives you a distraction-free, Markdown-first workspace that travels with you.

Screenshots

Wisen4 screens
Tertiary Markdown2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Wisen at 3.0 against Tertiary Markdown's 1.0. On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wisen holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Wisen versus Tertiary Markdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWisenTertiary Markdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDARIA LENSKAJAAlfred Ang

In-app purchases

None

Wisen

No in-app purchases

None

Tertiary Markdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wisen free?
Wisen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tertiary Markdown free?
Tertiary Markdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wisen or Tertiary Markdown?
Wisen is rated higher. Wisen averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Tertiary Markdown averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wisen or Tertiary Markdown have ads?
Neither Wisen nor Tertiary Markdown shows ads.

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