Comparison

TinyCld vs MD Inbox

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

Head to head
About

TinyCld

Features
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TinyCld puts your whole office in one quiet app โ€” mail, real documents, spreadsheets, files, calendar, and contacts, together and yours. No ads, no algorithm, no infinite scroll. Just the tools you actually use every day. WHAT'S INSIDE โ€ข Mail โ€” Threaded conversations, folders, and search. Tracking pixels are blocked and external images load through a server-side proxy, so senders can't see your IP or know when you opened a message. โ€ข Docs โ€” Real .docx documents on your phone. Format, comment, and collaborate with headings, lists, tables, and suggesting mode. โ€ข Sheets โ€” Spreadsheets that actually work. Formulas, pivots, and .xlsx round-trip, right from your pocket. โ€ข Drive โ€” Files with versioning, thumbnails, link sharing, and role-based permissions. Yours, not the cloud's. โ€ข Calendar โ€” Shared calendars, recurring events, RSVPs, and reminders. A week that looks like a week. โ€ข Contacts โ€” A shared directory with favorites and notes, in one quiet place. YOUR CLOUD, YOUR RULES TinyCld is open source and self-hostable. Run it on your own server in about fifteen minutes, or use a hosted instance. Either way, you keep the keys. OPEN STANDARDS, NO LOCK-IN Mail syncs over IMAP and SMTP. Calendars over CalDAV. Contacts over CardDAV. Files over WebDAV. Documents and spreadsheets round-trip as .docx and .xlsx. Keep using Apple Mail, Calendar, and Finder โ€” or Word and Excel โ€” alongside if you want, and walk away with everything any time. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No analytics. No tracking pixels. No data mining. When you self-host, nothing leaves your server. The app does what you ask, and nothing else. ONE APP, ONE LOGIN Switch between mail, docs, sheets, and files without bouncing between apps or tabs. One place for the work you do every day. FREE FOREVER $0 per user, no seat counting, no upsell. Open source under AGPL.

About

MD Inbox

Features
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A drop zone for the markdown documents your AI assistant writes. MD Inbox watches a folder in iCloud Drive on your Mac. When Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other AI tool saves a markdown file there โ€” a plan, spec, code review, design doc, meeting notes โ€” it appears on your iPhone within seconds. Read it on the go, pin the ones that matter, delete the rest. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick any folder in iCloud Drive as your inbox. 2. Copy a short prompt into your AI agent's system prompt. 3. From now on, finished documents your agent produces show up here. FEATURES โ€ข Live iCloud sync โ€” files appear seconds after your agent saves them โ€ข Date-grouped sidebar: Pinned, Today, Yesterday, This Week, This Month, Older โ€ข Swipe to delete, tap to pin, multi-select for batch cleanup โ€ข Auto-delete after a configurable threshold to keep the inbox tidy โ€ข Pinned and read state sync between devices via iCloud โ€ข Native markdown rendering with code blocks, tables, and images โ€ข Share extension โ€” send markdown from any app THREE BUILT-IN AGENT PRESETS โ€ข Plans & Specs โ€” agent auto-saves substantial deliverables โ€ข On-Demand โ€” agent saves only when you ask โ€ข Quick Captures โ€” short, timestamped notes No account, no server โ€” your files live in your own iCloud Drive.

Screenshots

TinyCld4 screens
MD Inbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TinyCld at 15.1 against MD Inbox's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
TinyCld versus MD Inbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTinyCldMD Inbox
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size43 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArgosityBeka Demuradze

In-app purchases

None

TinyCld

No in-app purchases

None

MD Inbox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TinyCld free?
TinyCld is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MD Inbox free?
MD Inbox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TinyCld or MD Inbox have ads?
Neither TinyCld nor MD Inbox shows ads.

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