Clipps vs Markflow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clipps
This app acts as a personal knowledge base, saving and organizing content from any online source. It uses AI to process saved items, providing transcripts, summaries, and smart tagging for easy searching and retrieval across devices.
- Save content from any app
- AI-powered content processing
- Automatic transcripts and summaries
- Smart topic tagging
- Searchable personal library
- Organize with custom lists
- Cross-device synchronization
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Stop losing the things you find online. Clipps is your personal knowledge base that saves, organizes, and understands your content, leading to relevant links. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share a link from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, or any app and Clipps saves it instantly. Works with videos, articles, web pages, PDFs, images, audio, and notes. AI-POWERED UNDERSTANDING Every piece of content you save gets automatically processed: - Full transcripts for videos and audio - AI-generated summaries and key takeaways - Smart topic tagging and categorization - Recipe extraction from cooking videos - Deep analysis with frame-by-frame breakdowns - links to subjects or topics from each SEARCH YOUR KNOWLEDGE Find anything you have ever saved. Search across transcripts, summaries, topics, and notes. Your personal library becomes fully searchable. ORGANIZE WITH LISTS Create custom lists to group related content. Build collections around projects, interests, or goals. WORKS ACROSS DEVICES Access your library from your iPhone, the web, or the Chrome extension. Everything stays in sync. PRIVACY FIRST Your data is encrypted and private. You control what you save and how it is used.
Markflow
This app allows you to open and read markdown files from various sources like Files, Mail, and Safari. It supports GitHub-flavored markdown, code syntax highlighting, and diagrams, with an integrated editor and a clean preview mode.
- Open .md, .markdown, .mdown files
- GitHub-flavored markdown rendering
- Syntax-highlighted code blocks
- Mermaid diagram support
- Markdown editing toolbar
- Pinch to zoom
- Export edited files
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The markdown reader you've been missing. Markflow opens .md files from Files, Mail, Safari downloads, or the share sheet and renders them properly. GitHub-flavored markdown, syntax-highlighted code, mermaid diagrams, tables, task lists, and more. Originals are never touched. Edits live in memory until you explicitly Save, Save as New File, or Share a copy. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Open any .md, .markdown, or .mdown file from any app • Read with a clean, native preview • Edit with a markdown toolbar above the keyboard. Bold, italic, headings, lists, links, images, code, quotes, all one tap away. • Pinch to zoom in both Preview and Edit • Export an edited copy via the system share sheet • Tap Create to start a new blank file, or "Welcome to Markflow" for a full feature tour WHAT IT RENDERS • Headings, lists, blockquotes, links, images • Syntax-highlighted code blocks • Mermaid flowcharts and diagrams • GitHub-flavored markdown tables • Task lists with checkboxes • Inline images (absolute URLs) PRIVACY Markflow makes zero network requests and collects zero data. No accounts. No login. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. The renderer is a sandboxed local file with a Content Security Policy that blocks all remote resources. Your files stay on your device. DESIGN Built native with SwiftUI and the Liquid Glass nav bar. Light and dark mode. Adaptive home screen. Stock Apple Human Interface Guidelines throughout. WHO IT'S FOR • Writers who keep notes in markdown • Developers reading READMEs and docs on the go • Anyone who's been emailed a .md and had nowhere to open it • People who want a markdown reader that does one thing well Open source. MIT licensed. github.com/madebysan/markflow
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Clipps at 15.0 against Markflow's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Clipps against 5.0 for Markflow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Clipps | Markflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MENDELEY K WELLS | Santiago Alonso Alexandre |
Customer experience
Clipps
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In-app purchases
Clipps
No in-app purchases
Markflow
No in-app purchases








