Panoo vs MarkWrite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Panoo
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Panoo turns your notes into something you actually want to look at: colorful paper notes, pinned to a warm cork board. Write a note, choose its paper, its pattern and its pin, then drag it anywhere on the board. It looks like the board above your desk, and that is exactly the point. Notes you can see are notes you remember. A REAL WIDGET, NOT A SCREENSHOT You choose which note goes on your Home Screen. Add several widgets and give each one a different note. Edit the note and the widget updates itself. Small, medium and large on iPhone, plus an extra large size on iPad. IT SYNCS BETWEEN YOUR DEVICES Turn on iCloud sync and your notes and boards move between iPhone and iPad on their own. There is no server of ours in between: the data sits in your own iCloud storage. Leave it off and Panoo keeps working completely offline. YOU BUILD THE BOARD ⢠7 frame designs: plain wood, classic moulding, rope, aluminium, carved and more ⢠16 frame colors and two corner shapes, so hundreds of combinations ⢠15 paper patterns: plain, lined, grid, stripes, zigzag, hearts, stars ⢠12 pins: classic thumbtacks, glass beads, flowers, stars, even a little cat ⢠9 color palettes for your paper ⢠4 fonts, including handwriting ⢠Light and dark theme, both free MORE THAN A PRETTY BOARD ⢠Checklists: ticked items get a line through them, visible right on the board ⢠Mark a finished note as done and spot it on the board at a glance ⢠Reminders: a notification at the exact time you choose ⢠Several boards: keep work, home and shopping apart ⢠Pinch a note to resize it, twist it to any angle ⢠Share any note as an image ⢠Landscape on iPhone, and the whole app rotates on iPad BUILT FOR ⢠Anyone who keeps paper sticky notes on a desk ⢠People who live off shopping lists and to-do lists ⢠Students and workers who want class, meeting and idea notes in plain sight ⢠Anyone who wants a Home Screen worth looking at YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS No account. No sign-up. No ads, not one, in any form. Panoo never sends your notes to a server of ours. With iCloud sync on, the data only goes to the iCloud storage of your own Apple Account. FREE AND PREMIUM Panoo is free to use, and the free version is not crippled: unlimited notes, unlimited boards, unlimited reminders, iCloud sync, light and dark theme, 5 paper patterns, 3 pins, 3 frame designs, 4 frame colors, 2 palettes, 2 fonts and one widget note. Panoo Premium unlocks the rest: every pattern, pin, frame design and frame color, every palette and font, and as many widget notes as you want. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Pay once and it stays yours; restore it any time on any device signed in to the same Apple Account. SUPPORT Questions and ideas: info@koalstudios.com Privacy Policy: https://koalstudios.com/en/panoo/privacy Terms of Use: https://koalstudios.com/en/panoo/terms
MarkWrite
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WYSIWYG Markdown editor that allows embedding pictures and natural language mathematics. MarkWrite is a fast, focused Markdown editor for Mac, iPad and iPhone. Your writing formats itself as you type ā headings, bold, lists, quotes, tables and code appear the moment you write them, while the Markdown syntax stays visible only on the line you are editing. Nothing to toggle, no split screen required. EMBED IMAGES, NOT LINKS Drag a picture into your document and it is really there. Grab its corner to resize it and MarkWrite writes the new size back into the Markdown for you. Text and images are saved together in one self-contained document you can move, rename, duplicate or send without leaving a single broken link behind. Images can be embedded in any of the common formats: VS Code, Pandoc or HTML. WRITE EQUATIONS BY DESCRIBING THEM Say what you mean: "x equals minus b, plus or minus the square root of b squared minus four a c, all over two a." MarkWrite turns that sentence into a properly typeset formula. There is no LaTeX to memorise ā though you can type LaTeX directly whenever you would rather. Powered by on-device Apple Intelligence; requires a supported device. ALSO ⢠Tables that line up in the editor, not only in the preview ⢠Live preview that follows your cursor, side by side or full width ⢠Themes: fonts, colours, spacing, line height, list spacing ā saved as presets ⢠Callouts, footnotes, highlights, code blocks and inline code ⢠Export to PDF or print, with your theme applied ⢠Open a whole folder in tabs and work across files ⢠Find and replace, including regular expressions STILL JUST MARKDOWN MarkWrite writes ordinary .md files. Nothing is trapped in a proprietary format, nothing is locked in a cloud, and nothing you have written is ever held behind a subscription. Open your work in any other editor, any time, or share it with anyone and they will be able to open it with any Markdown viewer, including the embedded images. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Panoo at 16.4 against MarkWrite's 26.4. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Panoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MarkWrite sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Panoo ships an update every 3 weeks, MarkWrite every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Panoo | MarkWrite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks ā better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 ā better | 26.4 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KORAY ALAGOZ | Guy Shaviv |
In-app purchases
Panoo
- Lifetime Unlock$3.99
MarkWrite
- MarkWrite Pro$9.991 Year









