Comparison

Trove Bookmarks vs smalltype

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

Head to head
About

Trove Bookmarks

Read full description

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 โ€ข Save any link with a title, host, note and tags โ€” straight from inside the app โ€ข All view with instant search across titles, hosts, notes and tags โ€ข Reading Queue for the things you mean to read but never quite get to โ€ข Favorites for the handful of links you actually use again and again โ€ข Color-coded tags so the right corner of your library is one tap away โ€ข Sort by Recent, Oldest, Most Opened or Host โ€ข Open Count next to every link so you can see what you actually return to โ€ข 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.

About

smalltype

Read full description

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.

Screenshots

smalltype4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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
Trove Bookmarks versus smalltype: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrove Bookmarkssmalltype
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 days
Adsโ€”No
In-app purchasesNoNo
Devicesโ€”iPhone โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLinh Phan Nhat KhanhHerman Haidin

In-app purchases

None

Trove Bookmarks

No in-app purchases

None

smalltype

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Trove Bookmarks free?
Trove Bookmarks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is smalltype free?
smalltype is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Other comparisons