Comparison

BlastList vs md.too

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

Head to head
About

BlastList

Features
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Your to-do list has never looked like this. BlastList turns your tasks into alien invaders descending toward Earth — positioned in real time by their actual due date. Something due in 45 days floats quietly at the top of the screen. Something due tomorrow glows red near the ground. Something overdue shakes, pulses, and threatens everything. When you complete a task, tap it to blast it out of the sky. Watch it explode. Earn points. Build your streak. Protect Earth. HOW IT WORKS - Add any task with a due date - It appears on the game board as an invader, positioned by urgency - Do the task in real life - Come back and tap to blast it, confirm it's done, watch the explosion - Miss too many and Earth's shields go down THREAT LEVELS DISTANT - 30+ days away INCOMING - 14 to 30 days CLOSING IN - 7 to 14 days DANGER - 2 to 7 days CRITICAL - Under 2 days OVERDUE - Past due, shaking and glowing red EARN & LEVEL UP - Score points for every blast - Build streaks by staying on top of your list - Level up from Cadet to Legend - More game modes coming soon FREE TO PLAY BlastList is completely free. More game modes coming as optional upgrades. Stop staring at a boring checklist. Defend your planet.

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: • Headings, lists (including GitHub-style task lists with [ ] / [x]), block quotes, thematic breaks, and inline emphasis (bold, italic, strikethrough, underline). • 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. • Tables, including inline images inside table cells. • Inline images loaded from any HTTPS URL, with explicit width/height attributes (GitLab-style {width=N height=N}). • A small but useful LaTeX subset in $…$ and $$…$$: Greek letters, super- and sub-scripts, common operators, simple fractions, and basic display math. • Selectable, copyable text. Code blocks and tables get a one-click copy button. • Light and dark theme — follows the system, or pick one explicitly. • Export the rendered document to a paginated PDF, with images embedded. What it deliberately does not do: • No editor, no live preview/edit split, no autosave. Read-only by design. • No HTML rendering or WKWebView. Pure native UIKit/SwiftUI. • No file tree, no tabs, no command palette. • 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

BlastList4 screens
md.too4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BlastList at 15.1 against md.too's 18.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
BlastList versus md.too: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlastListmd.too
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard SheaDmitry Kuznetsov

In-app purchases

None

BlastList

No in-app purchases

None

md.too

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BlastList free?
BlastList 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 BlastList or md.too have ads?
Neither BlastList nor md.too shows ads.

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