Comparison

PutSpot vs PreviewMD

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

Head to head
About

PutSpot

This app helps you remember where you put your belongings at home using photos, notes, and tags. Quickly find misplaced items like keys, documents, or chargers with search and voice commands. It's designed for easy home organization and can be helpful for those who misplace items frequently.

Highlights
  • Save items with photos, names, tags, and notes
  • Organize items by room, closet, or box
  • Quick search and voice search for items
  • AI-assisted name and tag suggestions
  • Share item details with family or caregivers
  • Privacy-focused with on-device storage
Features
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Never ask "Where did I put that?" again. PutSpot is a private item finder and inventory app for your home, office or storage: save where things are with photos, voice search, notes, QR tags and barcodes, then find them in seconds. Keys, passports, chargers, glasses, documents, seasonal clothes, storage boxes, tools in the garage: give everything a spot on a shelf, in a drawer, a closet, a box or a room, and PutSpot remembers it for you. NEW IN 1.8: KNOW WHAT YOU OWN AND WHERE IT IS • Barcode and receipt scanning: scan a barcode and product details fill in; snap a receipt to capture purchase info and pick the items you want. • Multiple homes and spaces (Pro): keep home, holiday home, office and storage separate and move items between them. • Home value: see the total value of your things by place and category and share a summary. • Expiry dates and reminders: add a best-before date and choose when to be reminded. Upcoming and expired items show on Home. • Export and backup: CSV, a ZIP with all photos and documents, or a PDF report. Restore from a ZIP anytime. • Effortless moving: swipe to move an item, move several at once and see each item's move history. • Smarter filters: by value, warranty, expiry, documents, tags or missing details. • Background removal (Pro): make item photos pop, right on your device. Try it 3 times for free. • Sharing: send items to another PutSpot user or share them as text and photos. • Dates by voice: just say the date. HOW IT WORKS • Take a photo with your camera or pick one from your gallery. • Add a name, notes, tags and where it is: Room > Closet > Box. • Print or scan QR labels for boxes and shelves to see what's inside. • Find anything with search or voice search. • Keep purchase details, warranty papers and documents with each item. FOR MOVING, STORAGE AND ORGANIZING Build a simple digital inventory for moving boxes, storage units, the garage, closets, pantry shelves and office supplies. Know what is inside every box and on every shelf. MEMORY-FRIENDLY AND ADHD-FRIENDLY A visual home inventory helps you remember where things are and keeps often-misplaced items like keys, glasses, pill organizers and remotes easy to find. Families and caregivers can share item locations too. PutSpot is a home organization app, not a medical device, and does not provide medical advice. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account needed. Your items and places stay on your device by default; sync with your own iCloud or Google Drive is optional. App Lock adds extra protection. AI SUGGESTIONS PutSpot suggests names and tags from photos and text so saving is faster. The AI runs on your device and comes built into the app; Pro unlocks unlimited name suggestions. PUTSPOT PRO • Unlimited items and places • Separate inventories for home, holiday home and office • Your records in your own iCloud or Google Drive, on all your devices • Unlimited name suggestions and background removal for photos • One Pro for the iPhone, iPad and Mac apps • No ads Choose monthly, yearly (starts with a 7-day free trial and saves about 44% compared with monthly) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Lifetime Pro can be shared with up to 5 family members through Family Sharing. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by country. Available in 49 languages, with light and dark themes and reduced motion options. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase; renewals are charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. The lifetime purchase is a one-time payment with no renewals. Privacy Policy: https://mayrainsoftware.com/putspotprivacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PreviewMD

Features
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PreviewMD is a fast, native editor and viewer for Markdown on iPad and iPhone — the same rendering as the Mac app, free on both. Open any .md file from Files or iCloud Drive, or start a new document right in the built-in browser. FOUR WAYS TO WORK • Preview — a clean reading view • Split — live preview beside the Markdown source, side by side on iPad and stacked on iPhone • Source — the Markdown alone, full width • Diff — see exactly what you've changed since you opened the file, word by word BEAUTIFUL RENDERING • GitHub-flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, footnotes and strikethrough • Syntax highlighting for almost two hundred languages • Math typesetting with KaTeX — $inline$ and $$display$$ • Diagrams with Mermaid — flowcharts, sequence, class, state, pie and gantt • GitHub-style alert callouts (> [!NOTE], [!WARNING], …) and emoji • Automatic light and dark mode WRITING ON A TOUCHSCREEN A formatting bar sits above the keyboard for bold, italic, inline code, headings, quotes, lists and links. With a hardware keyboard the same actions have shortcuts. YOUR DOCUMENTS, YOUR IMAGES Works with the Files app and iCloud Drive — documents open in place and save as you type, with no Save button to remember. Local images referenced by your document display right in the preview. EXPORT, SHARE & PRINT Export self-contained HTML or clean light-mode PDF straight to the share sheet, or print with proper pagination. QUICK LOOK Markdown files preview with PreviewMD's renderer in the Files app too. ONE APP EVERYWHERE Free on Mac as well — including Quick Look previews and thumbnails in Finder. Requires iOS/iPadOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

PutSpot4 screens
PreviewMD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PreviewMD at none against PutSpot's 4. PreviewMD also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. PutSpot sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. PreviewMD asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PutSpot versus PreviewMD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPutSpotPreviewMD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEfe Can OGURMichal Fanta

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PutSpot

Subscriptions3
  • PutSpot Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • PutSpot Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • PutSpot Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • PutSpot Pro Lifetime$69.99
None

PreviewMD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PutSpot free?
PutSpot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PreviewMD free?
PreviewMD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PutSpot or PreviewMD have ads?
PutSpot shows ads; PreviewMD does not.

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