Snippet vs Markd.ly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Snippet
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The replies you send over and over live on a keyboard of their own, inside any app. The slow part was never writing them ā it was copying their name and order number out of each message by hand. Snippet reads those out for you. ON EVERY DEVICE Write a reply on your Mac and it is on your phone before you pick it up. Your snippets, your categories, and your colors sync through your own iCloud account. No sign-up, no separate subscription, and nothing to restore by hand on a new device. THE KEYBOARD Save a reply once. Then, in Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, or anywhere else, switch to the Snippet keyboard and tap it in. No app switching, no copy and paste, and no losing your place in the conversation. SMART FILL Select the message you just received, tap Share āø Snippet, and pick one of your templates. Snippet reads that message and fills every {{field}} in your reply from it ā the name, the date, the order number, the address. It never makes anything up. A value is used only if it actually appears in the message you selected; anything Snippet cannot find is left blank for you to complete. The message is held for that moment only and is never saved. In practice: their message says "this is Maya Levi, my order is #4471". You pick your shipping-update template, and the reply comes back with the name and the order number already in it, ready to send. Clients, customers, candidates, bookings: the same handful of questions, all day. CATEGORIES, ASSIGNED FOR YOU Other snippet apps hand you empty folders. Snippet reads each new snippet as you save it and files it into a colored category on its own, on your device. A genuinely new topic goes to "Other" instead of being forced into the wrong place. Nothing is uploaded, and it works offline. ON YOUR MAC Grab selected text from any app with a keyboard shortcut, and paste a snippet straight back. EVERYTHING ELSE ⢠Pin the snippets you reach for most, and they sit at the top of the keyboard ⢠Write {{date}} or {{time}} in a snippet and it fills itself in when you use it ⢠Share extension ā save selected text as a snippet, or run Smart Fill on it ⢠Instant search in any language, ignoring case and accents ⢠Categories you can rename and merge ⢠Title and tag suggestions while you write ⢠Lock a category behind Face ID or Touch ID, so what is in it stays private FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE The keyboard, iCloud sync, automatic categorization, search, capture, and the Share extension are free. Pro adds Smart Fill, category encryption, and unlimited snippets ā one purchase, not a subscription, covering Mac and iPhone together. Snippet has no advertising and no analytics. The automatic categorization, Smart Fill, and title suggestions run on Apple Intelligence and need a supported device on iOS 26 or macOS 26. Everything else works on iOS 17 and macOS 14 or later: the keyboard, sync, search, capture and encryption.
Markd.ly
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The markdown editor that respects your output. Markd.ly is a native Markdown editor for iPhone and iPad with live preview, built for people who write in plain .md and ship a real deliverable. Open a file, write, and watch the preview render as you type. The same Bravely Account unlocks Markd.ly on Mac, Windows, and Linux too, so the document you start on your phone is waiting on your desktop. WRITE & EDIT ⢠Native SwiftUI editor with adjustable font size and syntax highlighting ⢠Live preview with multiple themes, side by side ⢠Mermaid diagrams render right inside the preview ⢠KaTeX math, inline and block ⢠Open .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd, and .mkdn files from anywhere DOCUMENT INTEGRATION ⢠Open files from the Files app and from any Markdown share ⢠Save back to iCloud Drive, Files, or any document provider ⢠Multi-document tabs to switch between drafts ⢠Recent files for one-tap return FOLDER-BASED, NO LOCK-IN Your files stay plain .md on disk ā no vault, no proprietary format, nothing to migrate out of later. Git-friendly, and the same files open everywhere else you use Markd.ly. WHAT MARKD.LY IS FOR Blog posts. README files. Documentation. Technical writing. Markd.ly is for writing that lives in markdown but leaves the app as something polished ā not a note-graph or a second brain. If you need wikilinks and a graph, use a vault tool. If you want documents that look great when you ship them, this is the editor. ONE PURCHASE, EVERY PLATFORM Markd.ly is a tool, not a service. A single one-time purchase unlocks the complete app on every platform ā iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, and Linux ā carried by your Bravely Account. Buy it once on any platform and the rest unlock automatically, with no per-feature paywalls. The deeper export pipeline ā Pandoc to DOCX, EPUB, LaTeX, and slides, a custom CSS editor, a snippet library, vim mode, encrypted documents, the command-line tool, and an MCP server for AI agents ā lives on the desktop builds, included in the same one purchase. SIGN IN Signing in is free. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email ā the same sign-in works on every Markd.ly app you install. Try it free, then a single one-time purchase unlocks everything. Already bought Markd.ly on another platform? Sign in to restore it here at no extra charge. SUPPORT Questions, bug reports, and feature requests: support@bravely.dev Privacy: https://bravely.dev/privacy/markdly Terms: https://bravely.dev/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Markd.ly at every 11 days against Snippet's every 2 months. 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
Both are free to download. Snippet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Markd.ly sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $95.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Snippet ships an update every 2 months, Markd.ly every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snippet | Markd.ly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yechiel Ben David | Bravely Studios |
In-app purchases
Snippet
- Snippet Pro Lifetime$14.99
Markd.ly
- Bravely Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$95.991 Year
- Bravely Premium (Annual)$95.991 Year
- Bravely Premium (Annual)1 Month trial$95.991 Year
- Markdly Pro$19.99
- Bravely Premium (Lifetime)$399.99









