Comparison

Zeti Editor vs Outpost

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

Head to head
About

Zeti Editor

A minimalist Markdown editor focused on distraction-free writing and note-taking. It supports live rendering, wiki links, and on-device AI for summarization and tagging. Your notes remain plain text files, ensuring no vendor lock-in and easy syncing across devices.

Highlights
  • Live Markdown rendering
  • Plain .md file support
  • Wiki links and #tags
  • Constellation note map
  • On-device AI summarization
  • Export to PDF
  • Syntax highlighting for text, HTML, CSS
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Zeti Editor is a Markdown editor that gets out of your way – a calm, focused canvas for writing, thinking, and note-taking Your notes are plain .md files in a folder you choose. No proprietary format, no account, no lock-in. Keep that folder locally or in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or a git repo – how you sync is up to you, and your writing stays readable anywhere, on any device, for good WHAT YOU GET - Live Markdown: headings, bold, italics, lists, tasks, quotes, code, tables, links, and images render as you write. Inline formatting marks fade from view so your words stay front and center, and the line you're editing always shows the raw Markdown - Source mode: switch to plain raw Markdown any time with a single shortcut - Tasks you can tick: tap a checkbox to mark a to-do done, right inside your note - Actions & command palette: transform your text in a keystroke – open a command palette to run built-in text actions, write your own in JavaScript, or use on-device AI actions on supported hardware. Everything runs locally, with no network. For more information, visit: https://ronz.dev/zeti/docs/ - Shortcuts, Siri & Spotlight: create, open, append to, and search your notes from the Shortcuts app, Siri, and Spotlight - Export & share: turn any note into a PDF, or share your Markdown files anywhere – all through the native share sheet - Beyond Markdown: open and edit plain text, HTML, and CSS files too, with syntax highlighting - Linked notes: connect ideas with [[wiki links]] and #tags, with autocomplete as you type. Every link works both ways – open any note to see the notes that link back to it - Constellation: see your notes as a connected map, built from your links and shared tags. Tap a note to open it, search to highlight, and pinch to zoom - On-device intelligence: notes are summarized and tagged automatically using Apple Intelligence – privately, on your device, on supported hardware - Multiple windows: open several windows at once, each on its own folder, and work across projects side by side - Fast search across note titles and full content - Document outline to jump between headings in long files - Pin important notes to the top, and see details like created and modified dates at a glance - Live word count and reading-time estimate - Light and dark themes, adjustable text size, optional line numbers, and a quietly beautiful design built with Apple's latest materials - A short set of example notes to get you started – keep them, or remove them and reload them from Settings any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. Zeti has no network access at all – no accounts, no servers, no tracking, no ads. Even your custom actions and on-device AI run entirely on your device. Your words never leave your device, and your .md files stay exactly where you put them BUILT FOR APPLE PLATFORMS Designed natively for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Vision Pro with keyboard shortcuts, multiple windows, and a sidebar that keeps your folder one tap away Minimal yet powerful!

About

Outpost

This app provides a precise SSH terminal experience on mobile, ensuring your shell's appearance, including icons and special characters, is rendered correctly. It prioritizes security with iOS Keychain integration and offers features for efficient remote work, such as multiple server connections and a custom keyboard bar.

Highlights
  • Glyph-perfect rendering of terminal characters
  • Nerd Font icon and Powerline prompt support
  • Secure credential storage with Face ID
  • Multiple server connections with scrollback
  • Customizable keyboard bar for terminal keys
  • Font size, color themes, and cursor customization
Features
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Outpost is an SSH client built for one thing above all: rendering your terminal exactly right. If you've connected to a server from your phone and watched your setup fall apart - broken Powerline segments, missing Nerd Font icons, boxes where emoji should be, mangled box-drawing - Outpost is the fix. It's engineered around glyph correctness, so your shell looks the way it does on your desktop. Glyph-perfect rendering. Nerd Font icons, Powerline prompts, box-drawing, wide and ambiguous-width characters, combining marks, and emoji - all correct. Secure by design. Passwords and imported keys are stored in the iOS Keychain behind Face ID. Or generate a key that never leaves the device's Secure Enclave. Host keys are pinned on first connect, with a hard warning if one ever changes. Built for real work. Keep several servers open at once and switch with a tap - scrollback survives. A keyboard bar with the keys a terminal actually needs. Copy and paste, drag to scroll, and tap-to-click in mouse-aware TUIs. Run your own setup commands automatically on connect. Make it yours. Font size, colour themes, and cursor style. No account, no tracking, nothing to sign up for. Your credentials stay on your device.

Screenshots

Zeti Editor4 screens
Outpost4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Outpost at daily against Zeti Editor's weekly. Outpost also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Zeti Editor's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Zeti Editor against 5.0 for Outpost. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zeti Editor ships an update weekly, Outpost daily. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Zeti Editor versus Outpost: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZeti EditorOutpost
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRonny MakhoulMathew Taylor

Customer experience

Zeti Editor

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Outpost

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Zeti Editor

No in-app purchases

None

Outpost

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zeti Editor free?
Zeti Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Outpost free?
Outpost is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zeti Editor or Outpost?
Zeti Editor and Outpost are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Zeti Editor or Outpost have ads?
Neither Zeti Editor nor Outpost shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zeti Editor or Outpost?
Zeti Editor ships an update weekly, and Outpost daily. Most recently, Zeti Editor was updated on September 12, 2026 and Outpost on September 21, 2026.

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