Moki vs Wander
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moki
A user-friendly application for writing and reading Markdown documents on iPhone and iPad. It offers a pleasant reading experience with customizable themes and a convenient writing interface with a live preview. Easily organize files, share notes as PDFs, and view various code and media types.
- Customizable themes for reading
- Live Markdown preview
- Formatting toolbar
- File and folder management
- PDF export
- Code syntax highlighting
- Built-in PDF viewer
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### Description Moki is a warm, simple home for your Markdown on iPhone and iPad — a lovely place to read it and write it. **Reading is a pleasure** - 10 built-in themes to choose from — with colorful code blocks, math, and diagrams - A comfy, centered reading width keeps long lines easy on the eyes - A Table of Contents to hop between headings - Light or dark, whichever you like **Writing feels easy** - Your preview sits right beside the editor as you type — scroll either side and the other keeps pace - A handy formatting toolbar above the keyboard - Gentle syntax colors, and lists that keep themselves going - Everything saves on its own **Made for Vibe Coding** - Open a folder and all your Markdown shows up in the sidebar - When a file changes, it re-renders in a blink — so you can watch your notes, plans, and AI-written docs update live, all in one place - Local images just show up — even blog posts that use site-absolute paths like /images/photo.png - Find files by name, and create, rename, or delete files and folders with ease **See the PDF before you share it** - PDF Preview shows your note exactly as it will print — paginated A4 or Letter, tall images fitted to a page, lines never split, and your own page breaks honored - Flip through the pages right in the reader, then export with one click (Moki Pro) **Make it yours with Moki Pro** One-time purchase: - Export polished, paginated PDFs - Design your own theme — colors, fonts, line spacing, and reading width — with a live preview - Import Markdown CSS themes, fonts and images included, and export your themes as CSS to share or fine-tune **And there's more — beyond Markdown** - Source code in living color in a dark editor — Swift, Python, JavaScript, JSON, and more - A built-in PDF viewer with page layouts and navigation - An image viewer with zoom and animated GIFs, plus video playback - Take a peek at any other file type with QuickLook - iCloud files download whenever you need them, with a clear indicator - Three display modes: read, write, or both
Wander
This app offers a local-first markdown editor where your notes remain plain text files in folders you control. It features a WYSIWYG interface for a seamless writing experience, with inline image rendering and support for various markdown elements. Your data stays private and accessible offline.
- Plain markdown files
- User-controlled folders
- WYSIWYG editing
- Inline image rendering
- Wikilinks and tables
- Offline functionality
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Wander is a markdown editor that respects your files. Your notes stay plain markdown in folders you control: no account, no lock-in, no cloud required. What you see is what lands on disk, byte for byte. Write in a clean WYSIWYG editor, where bold looks bold and headings look like headings, while the file on disk stays tidy markdown with clean diffs. Images render in place too, so a note with photos reads like a page, not a preview pane. Open any folder of markdown and start writing; Wander reads and writes standard files, so nothing you open is trapped in the app. • Plain markdown, in folders you own • WYSIWYG editing, clean files on disk • Wikilinks, tables, code blocks, task lists, footnotes • Images inline: photos, galleries and captions render right in the note, sized with plain markdown • Fast and native for iPhone and iPad: works fully offline, no account • Your notes never leave your device unless you move them • Wander Cloud: an optional subscription for private vaults, sharing and agent tokens, free for 14 days. Public vaults stay free • Monthly or yearly. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://wander.md/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Moki at free against Wander's freemium. Moki also leads on chart position (#199 vs unranked). Wander's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Moki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wander sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Moki ships an update fortnightly, Wander every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moki | Wander |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Layerz Corp. | System Operator LLC |
Customer experience
Moki
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In-app purchases
Moki
- Moki Pro$4.99
Wander
- Wander Cloud Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Wander Cloud Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Become a patron: $2$2.00
- Become a patron: $5$5.00
- Become a patron: $10$10.00
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- Become a patron: $15$15.00









