Modrift vs BTS Chatter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Modrift
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Modrift is a lightweight client for quickly opening, reading, and lightly editing files stored in the cloud โ right from your iPhone. Not a heavy notes app: just open, read, and tweak, as fast as possible. Key features - Open Markdown files (.md / .txt / .markdown) with clean formatted rendering - Launch straight from Files or any app via "Open in Modrift" - Keep your own working home (iCloud โบ Modrift): list, create and organise files there - Switch between Home (by place) and Recent (by time) - Toggle between edit and preview with one tap - A formatting toolbar above the keyboard in edit mode โ headings, lists, checkboxes, bold and more, one tap each - Automatic saving (no manual save button) - Full-text search, and sorting by date modified or name - Turn to landscape for longer lines โ easier on long paragraphs and tables - Japanese / English interface Beyond Markdown - View images (PNG / JPEG / GIF / HEIC / WebP) with pinch to zoom โ free - View PDFs with paging and zoom โ Modrift Pro (one-time purchase) - View Word documents (.docx) formatted, with headings, lists and tables โ Modrift Pro - View Excel workbooks (.xlsx) as tables, with sheet switching โ Modrift Pro Markdown, text and images stay free. Only PDF, Word and Excel viewing is part of Modrift Pro โ a single one-time purchase, no subscription. These formats are view-only; they cannot be edited. About your home and editing - Files in your home (iCloud โบ Modrift) are editable in place, and edits sync to iCloud - Files outside your home (Dropbox / Google Drive, or iCloud Drive outside the Modrift folder) are view-only. To edit one, use "Copy to Home" and edit the copy (the original is not written back) - You can choose whether your home lives in iCloud or on this iPhone, in Settings Relationship to the Files app Modrift complements the Files app rather than replacing it. Leave general folder management to Files; Modrift focuses on formatted Markdown viewing, light editing, and tidying its own home folder. The name combines Mo (Mobile / Motion) + drift โ the idea of thoughts and files flowing freely on mobile.
BTS Chatter
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Chatter - Your agents. Your tools. Your data. Chatter is the AI chat app we built for ourselves - because we wanted frontier-quality answers without handing our conversations to yet another data-hungry platform. Now it's yours too. Chatter runs on Ollama Cloud with zero data retention: your prompts and answers are processed, streamed back, and gone. Nothing stored server-side, nothing used for training. Just fast inference on powerful open models - and a native, lightweight app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that stays out of your way. Private by design. No account, no sign-up, no login - enter your API key and start chatting. We collect nothing: no analytics, no tracking, no telemetry. Your chats, agents, and knowledge live on your devices and sync exclusively through your personal iCloud (Apple CloudKit), end-to-end within your own Apple ID. We couldn't read your data if we wanted to - and we don't want to. Build your own agents. Create assistants with their own personality, model, and toolset - a coding expert, a research companion, a home-automation operator. Each agent is exactly as capable (and as locked-down) as you decide. Give them tools with MCP. Connect any Model Context Protocol server - self-hosted on your LAN, over Tailscale, or anywhere else. Your agents can query your databases, control your smart home, or reach your internal APIs. Your infrastructure stays yours. Give them knowledge. Attach curated knowledge bases to any agent - import PDFs or Markdown, and your agent reads exactly the documents it needs, when it needs them. Watch them grow. Agents remember what matters: they keep their own notes about you and your projects across chats, and they can even write down reusable skills - procedures you teach them once and they follow forever. You stay in control: everything they learn is visible, editable, and deletable. Everywhere you are. One app for iOS and macOS, with your agents, chats, and knowledge synced privately through iCloud. No subscription. No middleman. No tracking. Chatter is a native client for your own Ollama Cloud account - bring your API key, and own your AI. **Requires an Ollama Cloud API key (ollama.com). Chatter connects directly to Ollama Cloud and to MCP servers you configure; we run no servers of our own.**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Modrift at every 4 days against BTS Chatter's every 2 weeks. BTS Chatter's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Modrift ships an update every 4 days, BTS Chatter every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Modrift | BTS Chatter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days โ better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Noriyuki Katahara | Fabian Ackle |
In-app purchases
Modrift
No in-app purchases
BTS Chatter
No in-app purchases









