MDacrobat vs Houm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MDacrobat
This app provides a comprehensive Markdown editing experience for iPhone and iPad, offering live previews, robust export options, and offline functionality. It treats Markdown files as editable documents with advanced features for formatting and organization.
- Live GitHub-Flavored Markdown preview
- Offline rendering of math, code, and diagrams
- Markdown editor with syntax highlighting
- Export to PDF, HTML, DOCX, RTF, and plain text
- Native document browser integration
- Hardware keyboard shortcuts on iPad
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MDacrobat is the complete Markdown app for iPhone and iPad — what Acrobat is for PDF, MDacrobat is for Markdown. It treats your .md files as real documents, with a live, reference-quality preview and honest export, and your files stay ordinary Markdown on disk. No account, no sync service, no tracking, no ads. LIVE PREVIEW • GitHub-Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough, autolinks • Math with KaTeX, code highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams — all rendered offline • Flicker-free updates and synced scrolling between editor and preview • Tap task checkboxes in the preview to check them off in the source • Five typographic themes, light and dark EDITOR BUILT FOR MARKDOWN • Live syntax highlighting, smart list continuation, and auto-pairing • A formatting bar above the keyboard, and full hardware-keyboard shortcuts on iPad • Front matter shown as a tidy metadata card DESIGNED FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • Native document browser (works with the Files app and iCloud Drive) • Side-by-side editor and preview on iPad; editor / split / preview modes everywhere • Outline sidebar to jump between headings EXPORT & SHARE • PDF, self-contained HTML, Word (.docx), RTF, and plain text • Copy as HTML, print, and share anywhere Your documents never leave your device. MDacrobat works entirely offline.
Houm
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Houm is one dark, modular home for everything you self-host — the smart home your phone already talks to, and the media, servers and containers your homelab already runs. Every service is its own switch. Turn on only the ones you actually use, sign each into your own server, and Houm gets out of the way. SMART HOME See and control every accessory from Apple Home or Google Home — lights, locks, thermostats and cameras — without opening a separate app. WATCH SOMETHING Browse what's trending and request new films and shows through Requests, then follow it through Radarr and Sonarr's queues until it's ready. WHAT'S PLAYING The dashboard leads with what's on: streams, transcodes and bandwidth from Plex or Tautulli, updated as they happen. DOWNLOADS Keep an eye on NZBGet's queue and speed without switching to a browser tab. THE RACK Proxmox, Unraid and Portainer put every node, VM, disk and container in your pocket — what's running, what's full, and what needs attention. Sign in once with Plex to connect Requests and the Now Playing card, or skip it and set everything up later from Settings. Houm talks directly to the servers you already run — no new accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud in between. Houm is for people who already run a homelab. Bring your own Plex, Seerr, Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet, Tautulli, Proxmox, Unraid or Portainer — Houm is the one app to watch them all from
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Verdict
MDacrobat and Houm are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | MDacrobat | Houm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Prabhjot Singh Sandhu | Tehseen Hussain |
In-app purchases
MDacrobat
No in-app purchases
Houm
No in-app purchases









