Comparison

Battery Train vs Recto MD

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

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About

Battery Train

Features
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Are you managing your battery the right way? Smartphone batteries inevitably degrade with use. However, it's hard to tell exactly when it started getting worse, or if its current condition is normal. Battery Train automatically records every single moment of charging and discharging, allowing you to understand your battery status at a glance. [Key Features] โ–ธ Automatic Battery Logging The app automatically logs your battery status every 5 minutes in the background. Your history builds up continuously without even having to open the app. โ–ธ History Graphs Check your charging and discharging curves with 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day graphs. You can see at a glance exactly when your battery drops sharply. โ–ธ Battery Health Analysis By analyzing the discharge rate, the app calculates a battery health score. If your battery health is declining, you can prepare for a replacement in advance. โ–ธ Smart Charging Alerts โ€ข Immediate alert when the battery drops below your set percentage (e.g., below 20%) โ€ข Alert when reaching your target percentage during charging (e.g., unplug advice at 80%) Prevent overcharging and deep discharging to extend your battery's lifespan. โ–ธ Dark Mode Support Automatically switches between Dark Mode and Light Mode based on your system settings. [Recommended For] โ€ข Anyone who wants to extend their smartphone's lifespan โ€ข Anyone curious about when their battery drains the most during the day โ€ข Anyone who wants to know the perfect time for a battery replacement โ€ข Anyone looking to fix their overcharging habits โ€ข Anyone experiencing sudden and rapid battery drain [What is Battery Health Score?] Battery Train calculates a health score by analyzing your discharge rate over a certain period. A higher score means your battery is in good condition, while a declining score suggests that battery aging is underway. [Notification Permission Guide] Notification permission is required to use the charging alert feature. You can change this permission at any time in your Settings. Start managing your battery right now.

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Recto MD

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Recto MD opens a Markdown file and gets out of the way. Open one from Files, Mail or Safari with Open in Recto MD, or share it in from any app. On iPadOS and iOS 26, Files > Get Info > Always Open With makes it the default. Reading comes first: pick a file and it is on screen, typeset and ready, nothing to configure. When you want to change something, Edit mode puts the source next to the live preview - side by side on iPad, a Source/Preview switch on iPhone - and Save is explicit, so nothing is written until you ask for it. TYPOGRAPHY FIRST The reading column, the leading and the vertical rhythm are the product. Pinch to zoom the whole page from 50% to 300% - text, measure and margins scale together, the way a browser's page zoom does - the column measure also has three widths, and the page is laid out so a long document stays comfortable rather than merely legible. RENDERS WHAT YOUR DOCUMENTS ACTUALLY CONTAIN - CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks, footnotes - GitHub-style alerts: NOTE, TIP, IMPORTANT, WARNING, CAUTION - Mermaid diagrams, loaded only when a document has one - Mathematics and chemistry, typeset by KaTeX: inline and display LaTeX, and mhchem chemical equations. The delimiters are narrow on purpose, so a price written as $5 stays a price - Syntax-highlighted fenced code blocks, with a copy button - Wide tables scroll inside the reading column, so the page itself never scrolls sideways EDITING, WHEN YOU WANT IT Edit mode puts a source pane beside the live preview - side by side on iPad, a Source/Preview switch on iPhone. Save is explicit, and nothing autosaves in the background. Export the document as a PDF whenever you want a copy to share. FIND YOUR WAY AROUND An outline is generated from the document's headings: a sheet on iPhone, a sidebar on iPad that also holds your recent documents. Search inside a document with a live match count and step through the matches. Recents remembers where you stopped reading and puts you back there. IT UPDATES WHILE YOU READ Change the file somewhere else and the document updates in place - same scroll position, no flash, no reload button to hunt for. If you have unsaved edits, the app stops and asks instead of choosing for you. Turn auto-reload off and you get a "File changed" tap target instead. A THEME EDITOR, NOT A THEME PICKER Duplicate a built-in theme or start from nothing, and tune it in six groups: text (font, scale, line height, spacing, indent, justification); headings (font, weight, an accent color, rules, and a size for each of the six levels); layout (column width by characters, points or percent, a max width, custom margins, a page-card look); sidebar (font size and step per level, row height, indent, background and accent mix); blocks (code font and size, table density and zebra striping, blockquote style, the code syntax palette); and color, down to the selection highlight. Import or export any theme as JSON. OFFLINE, AND PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION The app makes no network requests at all. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, nothing collected. Your documents are files on your device or in your iCloud Drive, and that is where they stay. BUILT FOR THE PLATFORM Dynamic Type through to the accessibility sizes, VoiceOver reading real document structure, Increase Contrast, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency are all honoured. With a hardware keyboard, every navigation shortcut is independently rebindable - pick the key, choose Command, Option or Shift, and the app flags a conflict before you save one - and Open, Find, Find Next, Reload, the zoom commands and Settings are all one keystroke away, listed in the Command-hold sheet. The interface is available in twelve languages, with a System option and a picker for the one you want.

Screenshots

Battery Train3 screens
Recto MD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Recto MD at none against Battery Train's shown. Recto MD also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Battery Train's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Battery Train ships an update every 2 months, Recto MD every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Battery Train versus Recto MD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBattery TrainRecto MD
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size24 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJAEMIN LEEITSUCARA, K.K.

In-app purchases

None

Battery Train

No in-app purchases

None

Recto MD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Battery Train free?
Battery Train is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recto MD free?
Recto MD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Battery Train or Recto MD have ads?
Battery Train shows ads; Recto MD does not.
Which is updated more often, Battery Train or Recto MD?
Battery Train ships an update every 2 months, and Recto MD every 2 days. Most recently, Battery Train was updated on September 29, 2026 and Recto MD on October 2, 2026.

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