Cola Mobile vs Inkstone Notes Markdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cola Mobile
This app connects to a desktop AI assistant, allowing you to send instructions, add files, and check task progress remotely. It ensures your computer work continues even when you're away from your desk.
- Send tasks remotely
- Attach phone files to tasks
- Monitor task progress
- Use voice input for prompts
- Receive completion notifications
- Cache recent work locally
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An idea comes up after you have left your desk. A screenshot or document is already on your phone. A long task is still running on your computer. Cola is an AI with a soul, living on your Mac or Windows computer. You can chat with it, give it context and files, and let it move your tasks forward on the desktop. Cola Mobile is the phone connection to that workspace. It does not replace the desktop app. It helps you send instructions, add files, check progress, and get notified when your desktop Cola is done. Cola Mobile keeps you connected to Cola without making you go back to your Mac or PC. Open the app, choose your online Cola desktop, send a message, attach what you have, and follow the result from your phone. It is built for the everyday moments when work should keep moving: on the train, between meetings, on the couch, or right before you close your laptop for the night. KEY FEATURES SEND TASKS WHEN THEY COME TO MIND Turn quick thoughts into Cola tasks from your phone. Send a new request, add missing details, continue a conversation, or stop a task if it is going the wrong way. ADD THE FILE THAT IS ALREADY ON YOUR PHONE Attach a PDF, screenshot, photo, note, log, or camera capture. Cola Mobile passes it to Cola on your computer so the task has the context it needs. FOLLOW PROGRESS WITHOUT SITTING AT YOUR DESK See live replies, task status, errors, completion, and generated files from your selected Chat session. SPEAK INSTEAD OF TYPE Use system speech recognition to put your thought into the prompt box. Review or edit the transcript before sending. GET A TAP WHEN IT IS DONE When a task started from your phone finishes, receive a notification and jump back to the right device and session. KEEP RECENT WORK HANDY Recently synced messages and downloaded files are cached on this phone for quick review. Search the session history that has already been synced to this device. BUILT AROUND YOUR COMPUTER Cola continues to work on your online desktop. Your desktop app keeps the local session history, files, tools, and task results, while your phone gives you a fast way to hand off ideas and check back later. WHO IS COLA MOBILE FOR? Cola Mobile is for people who use Cola on macOS or Windows and want to: - Capture ideas before they disappear. - Send phone files, screenshots, or photos into a Cola task. - Check long-running work without staying at the desk. - Add one more instruction when something comes to mind. - Get notified when a task is finished. - Keep computer work moving while life moves around it. IMPORTANT Cola Mobile requires a Cola account and an online Cola desktop app on macOS or Windows. When no desktop device is online, the app may only show local content already cached on this phone. Cola Mobile does not run tasks independently on the phone and does not use cloud conversation history sync. Download Cola Mobile and let your computer keep working, even when you step away.
Inkstone Notes Markdown
A Markdown writing app that stores notes as plain .md files in iCloud Drive. It offers a native editor with syntax highlighting, live preview, and supports linking between notes. Notes can be exported to PDF or HTML.
- Plain .md file storage in iCloud Drive
- Native Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Live preview with KaTeX and Mermaid support
- Bi-directional note linking
- Export to PDF and HTML
- Task lists and image attachments
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Inkstone is a Markdown writing app that keeps your notes as ordinary .md files in a folder you can open from anywhere. Your notes are files Every note is a plain Markdown file in iCloud Drive. Open the same folder from a Mac, edit it in another app, or move it somewhere else entirely — nothing is locked in a database, and nothing needs exporting. Writing, not formatting A native editor with syntax highlighting and live preview that hides the markup outside the paragraph you are working in. Formulas render with KaTeX and diagrams with Mermaid, both bundled, so neither needs a network. Notes that link to each other Write [[a note's title]] to link to it. Backlinks show what points at the note you are reading, unwritten links can be created in a tap, and renaming a note carries its links with it. Publishing Eight typesetting styles, each with its own heading treatment, for pasting into a publishing composer as rich text with the formatting intact. Export to PDF or HTML, with images carried inside the document. Also Callouts, task lists you can tick from the preview, a note for each day, outlines, inline tags, full-text search, and image attachments. Subscription: the free version keeps one note. Inkstone Pro (monthly or yearly, renewing automatically) lets you create as many as you like, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cola Mobile at none against Inkstone Notes Markdown's 2. Cola Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Inkstone Notes Markdown's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Inkstone Notes Markdown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Cola Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cola Mobile against 5.0 for Inkstone Notes Markdown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Cola Mobile ships an update every 2 weeks, Inkstone Notes Markdown every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Cola Mobile | Inkstone Notes Markdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MARSWAVE PTE. LTD. | bo chen |
Customer experience
Cola Mobile
Inkstone Notes Markdown
In-app purchases
Cola Mobile
No in-app purchases
Inkstone Notes Markdown
- Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly1 Month trial$1.991 Year









