Markup vs MDReader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side â with what reviewers say about each.
Markup
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Markup reads and edits your Markdown beautifully â and it works with the folder of notes you already have, on your iPhone and iPad. POINT IT AT YOUR FOLDER â OR A GITHUB REPO âĸ Open any folder of .md files from iCloud Drive or Files â the same vault you use on your Mac. Nothing to import, no lock-in. âĸ Open a GitHub repo as a vault and read the whole thing offline. âĸ Open several vaults and switch between them. READ LIKE A PAGE âĸ High-fidelity rendering: syntax-highlighted code, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, tables, task lists, and GitHub-style callouts. âĸ Light / Dark / Sepia themes, adjustable text size and width, Dynamic Type. âĸ Wikilinks, backlinks with context, a per-document outline, and tags. FIND ANYTHING âĸ Full-text search with tag: and path: filters; fuzzy Quick Open. EDIT WITH EASE âĸ A focused Markdown editor with smart lists, auto-closing brackets, table formatting, and inline [[wikilink]] and #tag autocomplete. âĸ Insert images straight into your vault. Export or share as PDF, HTML, or Markdown. iPAD âĸ Open documents in tabs; edit with a live rendered preview beside the source. âĸ Hardware-keyboard shortcuts. HTML, TOO âĸ Open and read .html and web bundles, with scripts off by default for safety. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT âĸ No account required, no telemetry, no tracking. Your notes stay on your device and your iCloud. Signing in to GitHub is optional and only used to fetch the files you ask for. English and įŽäŊ䏿, switchable in-app.
MDReader
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MDReader opens your Markdown files and folders and renders them properly. There is no library to import into, no account to create and no sync service in the middle. Your .md files stay exactly where you put them, and MDReader reads and writes them in place. FAST, EVEN ON BIG FILES A two-tier parser scans a document in a single pass and only fully parses the blocks you can actually see. A 10 MB file opens before other editors have finished showing a spinner, and scrolling stays smooth all the way down. RENDERS THE WHOLE OF MARKDOWN GitHub-flavoured Markdown with tables, task lists you can tick straight from reading mode, footnotes that jump both ways, YAML front matter shown as a card, LaTeX math inline and display, fenced code with syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams rendered offline. AN EDITOR THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY Live syntax highlighting, lists that continue and renumber themselves, bold/italic/link shortcuts, find and replace, table and formula inserters, and paste an image to save it next to the document. Autosave goes through the system file coordinator, so editing alongside Obsidian, git or iCloud is safe. PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Reading position is restored to the pixel, per document, across relaunches, rotation and window resizes. FOLDER WORKSPACES (PRO) Open a whole folder: a repository's docs, an Obsidian vault, a Zettelkasten. Fuzzy quick-open, full-text search across every file in the folder, [[wiki-links]] with a backlinks panel, a front-matter tag browser, and read-only git status per file. Changes made by other apps are picked up in place, without losing your position. MORE IN PRO PDF export and print, publishing to GitHub Gist and Telegraph, presentation mode for slides, a custom theme editor with imported fonts, focus and typewriter modes, word-count goals, reading statistics, text-to-speech with follow-along highlighting, local version history with diffs, snippets, Vim keybindings, and an AI pack that summarises and rewrites entirely on device. BUILT FOR APPLE PLATFORMS One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Keyboard shortcuts throughout, multiple windows, menu bar commands, a Share extension, Shortcuts actions, widgets, a URL scheme, Spotlight indexing, VoiceOver labels and Dynamic Type. PRIVACY MDReader collects nothing. No analytics SDK, no account, no server of ours to talk to. The only network traffic is what your own documents ask for, such as remote images, plus the publishing integrations you set up yourself. FREE AND PRO The reader and the single-file editor are free forever: all rendering including math and syntax highlighting, the base themes, table of contents, in-file search, HTML, Markdown and plain-text export, and position restore. Pro unlocks folder workspaces and the power features above, as a one-time purchase or as a yearly subscription with a free trial. SUBSCRIPTION AND PURCHASE DETAILS MDReader Pro (Yearly) - auto-renewable subscription, 1 year, USD 9.99 per year, including a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. MDReader Pro (Lifetime) - one-time purchase, USD 24.99, not a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A yearly subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ App Terms of Service: https://gelfand.dev/mdreader/terms Privacy Policy: https://gelfand.dev/mdreader/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Markup at none against MDReader's 2. Markup also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. MDReader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Markup asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Markup | MDReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | â | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No â better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac â better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 â better | 26.0 |
| Further details â not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | įĸ§čąĒ į | Daniil Nuzhdin |
In-app purchases
Markup
No in-app purchases
MDReader
- MDReader Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- MDReader Pro$24.99





