Trove Bookmarks vs smalltype
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Trove Bookmarks
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Trove is a calm, focused place to keep the links you actually want to come back to. A clean shelf. A reading queue. Colored tags. No timelines, no feeds, no algorithms deciding what you should read next. KEY FEATURES โข Save any link with a title, host, note and tags โ straight from inside the app โข All view with instant search across titles, hosts, notes and tags โข Reading Queue for the things you mean to read but never quite get to โข Favorites for the handful of links you actually use again and again โข Color-coded tags so the right corner of your library is one tap away โข Sort by Recent, Oldest, Most Opened or Host โข Open Count next to every link so you can see what you actually return to โข Parchment-and-brass design that stays out of the way DESIGNED FOR FOCUS Trove is built around one idea: a bookmark is only useful if you can find it again. Tag it once, sort by how often you open it, and let the noise fall away. Open the queue, pick the next thing, get back to your day. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. Your saved links live on your device.
smalltype
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Short notes, many times a day, saved as plain .md files in real folders. Open the same folder on your Mac in VS Code, Vim, or any editor. Calm, minimal, and ready for iPhone Duo. smalltype is for your notes. The small ones, the quick ones, the big ones, the unpolished ones. It's a fast, quiet place to type. ## Start No tutorial, no setup screen. Tap New Note and start typing. Leave one empty and it quietly disappears, so you never end up with a pile of blank untitled notes. That's the whole app. ## Yours Every note is a real .md file, sitting right there in the Files app. You can open it, copy it, or back it up yourself, anytime. Delete one and it still goes to Recently Deleted, same as any other file: nothing's gone for good. ## Sync or Don't Keep notes in iCloud Drive to have them on every device. Or keep them On My iPhone, fully local, never leaving your device. Either way, you can switch anytime. ## Visible Markdown Markdown markers stay gently visible as you type. What you see is exactly what's in the file. A bar above the keyboard types the markers for you, with undo and redo a tap away. ## Organize Folders, search, and quick note-making, all from one screen. Nothing to set up first. Put "daily" in a folder's name and new notes inside it get today's date as their name. ## No Catch No ads. No subscription. No tracking. No account, ever. Markdown notes. Yours to keep.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Trove Bookmarks at 17.0 against smalltype's 26.0. On price and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Trove Bookmarks | smalltype |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 5 days |
| Ads | โ | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | โ | iPhone โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Linh Phan Nhat Khanh | Herman Haidin |
In-app purchases
Trove Bookmarks
No in-app purchases
smalltype
No in-app purchases









