Comparison

MD Slide vs mrkdwn

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

Head to head
About

MD Slide

Features
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MD Slide is a Markdown slide editor built for quickly polishing Marp decks on your iPhone or iPad. Work on slides during your commute, between meetings, or anywhere you do not want to open a laptop. It is also great for pasting Marp Markdown generated from AI chats, previewing it instantly, and refining it into presentation-ready PDF slides. Ideal for: • Drafting or fixing slides on the go • Polishing AI-generated Marp Markdown on iPhone or iPad • Turning technical notes with Mermaid diagrams into slides quickly Features: • Real-time Marp Markdown preview • Mermaid diagram rendering support • PDF export (16:9 slide layout) • Markdown input assist templates • Open and save files • Image insertion All editing data is stored only on your device and is never sent to external servers. Works without an internet connection. The app does not include its own sharing feature, but saving files to iCloud Drive makes them easier to access from your other Apple devices.

About

mrkdwn

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mrkdwn is more than a markdown editor. It is a private place to think, and it keeps every note as an ordinary .md file in a folder you choose. Other note apps ask you to trust a database. This one writes plain text to disk, where Finder, git, grep and any editor you ever switch to can already read it. No account. No subscription. No analytics — mrkdwn collects nothing and sends nothing. NOTES THAT STAY YOURS • Every note is a plain .md file in a folder you picked, not a row in our database • Edit one in another app and mrkdwn picks up the change • The same files open in any other editor, today or in ten years • Lock a note and it is encrypted on disk until you unlock it • iCloud sync merges three ways and marks conflicts, instead of overwriting the older copy • Version history keeps 30 days or 100 versions per note, with word-level diffs and a restore that leaves the current draft intact • Deleted notes go to a trash you can recover from NOTES THAT FIND EACH OTHER • Wiki-style [[links]] resolve as you type • A backlinks panel shows every note pointing at this one • The knowledge graph draws the whole library, filtered by tag or search • Tag a note, then open the tag to read everything filed under it • Quick Open fuzzy-finds any note in a keystroke • Link autocomplete the moment you type [[ • Daily notes arrive dated, every day you write MARKDOWN THAT RENDERS PROPERLY • CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown, with footnotes and callouts • LaTeX math, inline and block, rendered offline • Syntax highlighting for more than 180 languages • Six built-in themes, and you can make your own • Mermaid, Graphviz and Markmap diagrams from ordinary code blocks A SURFACE BUILT FOR DRAFTING • Focus mode fades every paragraph except the one you are writing • Read as editor only, preview only, or both side by side • Typewriter scrolling holds your line in the middle of the screen • Live counts for words, characters, sentences and reading time • Put the command bar in the order you actually work in • Give a folder an icon, a color, and a place at the top of the list • Writing goals track a daily word target and your streak • Authorship marks which passages you typed and which you pasted • Apple's Writing Tools work in the editor, where your device offers them NOTES THAT COME TO YOU • Ask Siri for today's note; find, append and read notes from Shortcuts • Paste a URL and the article comes back as markdown • Clip a page straight from Safari (Mac) • Import from 19 formats, including PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and text read out of images SEE THE SHAPE OF A SENTENCE • Color nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions as you type • Style checks flag filler, hedging, repetition and passive voice • Nothing is corrected for you — a flag is information, not an instruction • Every highlight stays off until you switch it on LEAVE WHENEVER YOU LIKE • Export to PDF, EPUB, HTML, RTF, plain text and markdown • Word and OpenDocument export, and Word import (Mac) • Everything works offline, apart from fetching a web page you paste • Or copy the folder and go — the notes were never ours Native on Mac, iPad and iPhone, from one Swift core rather than a web page in a window. A knowledge base you own, for students, teachers, authors, and anyone who would rather keep their thinking in plain files than rent a notes app. Questions? www.buenalabs.io/support

Screenshots

MD Slide4 screens
mrkdwn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: mrkdwn at none against MD Slide's shown. mrkdwn also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). MD Slide's advantage is iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MD Slide ships an update monthly, mrkdwn weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
MD Slide versus mrkdwn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMD Slidemrkdwn
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKentaro YamadaBuenaGames LLC

In-app purchases

None

MD Slide

No in-app purchases

None

mrkdwn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MD Slide free?
MD Slide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is mrkdwn free?
mrkdwn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MD Slide or mrkdwn have ads?
MD Slide shows ads; mrkdwn does not.
Which is updated more often, MD Slide or mrkdwn?
MD Slide ships an update monthly, and mrkdwn weekly. Most recently, MD Slide was updated on October 28, 2026 and mrkdwn on October 24, 2026.

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