Comparison

MarkerShelf vs Clarity

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

Head to head
About

MarkerShelf

Features
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Ever saved a video and never found that one useful moment in it again? MarkerShelf fixes that. MarkerShelf is a video bookmarking app: save videos from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok — or import your own from Photos and Files — and drop timestamped markers on the exact moments that matter. The recipe step, the exercise demo, the 20 seconds of a tutorial you'll actually need again. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share a video to MarkerShelf from any app and it lands in your library with its title, thumbnail, and tags. Online videos play through each platform's official player — nothing is downloaded or re-hosted. MARK THE MOMENTS Tap once while watching to bookmark the current moment. Add a title, notes, and a screenshot so future-you knows exactly why it mattered. Jump straight back to any marker with one tap. FIND IT AGAIN Organize with tags and collections, browse your markers as a visual shelf, and search across everything — titles, notes, and tags. Your library becomes a personal reference, not a graveyard of "watch later" links. MADE FOR REAL USE • Instant one-tap markers while the video plays • Marker notes and screenshots • Tags, collections, and playlists • Fast search across videos, markers, and transcripts — find the moment by what was said • Loop any range to practice, study, or transcribe along • Full iPad support with keyboard shortcuts • Local videos from Photos and Files • Private by design — your library stays on your device Transcripts, summaries and translation are Pro features — try a free preview first. Free to use. Upgrade to Marker or Pro for higher limits and power features; Pro Yearly includes a 7-day free trial. Stop scrubbing through videos looking for "that part." Shelf it. Mark it. Find it.

About

Clarity

Features
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Share anything you want to keep from Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, the web, PDFs and screenshots, and Clarity reads it, sums it up and files it into your areas. Find any save later by describing what you remember, see how your ideas connect on a visual map, and let Claude or ChatGPT search your second brain through a connector. SAVE FROM ANY APP • Share a link, image or file to Clarity from Safari, Mail, Photos or any app with a share button. • Hold + and talk. Voice notes are transcribed on your device, and a tap on any word plays the recording from there. • Saved links open back in the app they came from. FIND THE THING YOU HALF REMEMBER • Search the way you remember it: "the dentist invoice", "that talk about sleep". Results that are close in meaning show up too, not only exact words. • Every result says why it matched. • Text inside images is read on your device, so screenshots of receipts, slides and notes are searchable. SEE HOW IT FITS TOGETHER • Your saves sit on a canvas, coloured by the area of life they belong to and connected to related saves. COPY WHAT YOU REUSE • Tap a card, then Copy, and the text is on your clipboard. • Blanks: write {name} or {date} in a note and Clarity asks for the value before it copies. SHOW A DOCUMENT • Import PDFs and other files from Files, the share sheet, or drag and drop on iPad. • Preview any format with Quick Look, or share it on. • Present fills the screen with the document and nothing else, so you can turn your iPad to a client and swipe through the pages. • Clarity reads the text inside your documents on your device, so a phrase from page 12 finds the file. MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • Shortcuts actions: Copy Snippet, Find in Clarity and Save to Clarity. Run them from the Shortcuts app or with Siri. • Home Screen widgets copy a saved note in one tap. • On iPad, keep Clarity in Slide Over next to Mail, or side by side with any app, in any orientation. YOURS, ON YOUR DEVICE • Everything you save is stored on your device. There is no account to create. • Signed in to iCloud, your library syncs between your devices through your own private iCloud. • Export everything at any time, including as an Obsidian vault. WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT COSTS EXTRA • Saving is free and unlimited, and every feature that runs on your device works without paying. • Clarity Plus is an optional subscription at Ā£4.99 a month or Ā£39.99 a year, or the equivalent price in your country. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. It adds the online AI features: 1,000 AI summaries a month, connecting Claude or ChatGPT to your library, and checks for which saves really connect. • The subscription renews automatically at the end of each month or year until you cancel. If you start the free trial, the yearly price is charged when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. • Searching, copying, presenting, exporting and deleting never need Clarity Plus. • The AI features are off until you turn them on, and Clarity asks first. For a summary, the link goes to our server, where Cloudflare Workers AI writes it. For connection checks, a save's title and some of its text go to our server and on to Jev, from TypeSafe. Questions or problems: clarity@moonshard.co Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://clarity.moonshard.co/privacy

Screenshots

MarkerShelf4 screens
Clarity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Clarity at every 2 days against MarkerShelf's weekly. Clarity also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. MarkerShelf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Clarity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MarkerShelf ships an update weekly, Clarity every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
MarkerShelf versus Clarity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarkerShelfClarity
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppLabsLv SIAMoon Shard Ltd

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MarkerShelf

Subscriptions3
  • Marker$2.991 Month
  • Pro$6.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Clarity

Subscriptions2
  • Clarity Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Clarity Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is MarkerShelf free?
MarkerShelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clarity free?
Clarity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MarkerShelf or Clarity have ads?
Neither MarkerShelf nor Clarity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MarkerShelf or Clarity?
MarkerShelf ships an update weekly, and Clarity every 2 days. Most recently, MarkerShelf was updated on November 13, 2026 and Clarity on October 31, 2026.

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