Alembic vs Mark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alembic
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Alembic is a professional, private data-preparation workspace for turning messy source material into dependable training datasets and retrieval-ready collections. IMPORT REAL-WORLD DATA Open CSV, TSV, JSON, JSONL, SQLite, Markdown, HTML, plain text, code, or entire document folders. Alembic detects structure, encoding, delimiters, types, and import problems before processing begins. DESIGN A REPEATABLE PIPELINE Compose deterministic steps for normalization, null handling, type inference, exact and near-duplicate removal, quality filtering, token counting, semantic chunking, privacy scrubbing, decontamination, schema shaping, and dataset splitting. Disable, reorder, inspect, and replay every step. PREPARE TRAINING AND RAG DATA Shape clean records for Alpaca, OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatML, and DPO structures. Build reproducible splits, sentence-aware token-budgeted chunks, heading paths, metadata, real cl100k token counts, and embedding-ready JSONL. PRIVACY AND QUALITY CONTROLS Detect and redact emails, phone numbers, addresses, credentials, API keys, financial identifiers, and other sensitive patterns. Screen against evaluation sets, identify exact and fuzzy duplicates, and inspect quality metrics before export. LOCAL BY DEFAULT The deterministic pipeline works locally. Optional provider augmentation uses a provider you configure; credentials stay in Keychain and selected content goes directly to that provider. FREE AND PRO Importing, the complete deterministic pipeline, preview, dataset reports, and export are free forever. Alembic Pro is an optional auto-renewable subscription with monthly and annual choices and an eligible 7-day free trial. Pro unlocks LLM-assisted Q&A generation, quality scoring, rewriting, classification, and preference-pair creation. The current localized price and trial eligibility are always supplied by the App Store before purchase. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscription are available in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/lukekevinmclaughlin-oss/Alembic/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
Mark
Enhance your workflow with visual feedback tools. Highlight issues, draw solutions, and add notes to screenshots and webpages. Organize and share your annotated captures easily across your Apple devices.
- Screenshot annotation
- Webpage annotation
- Drawing tools (highlights, shapes, freehand)
- Sticky notes
- Desktop magnifier
- Organize and share captures
- 30-day free trial
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Make feedback visible. Highlight the problem, draw the change, add a note, and share an annotated capture. Mark brings desktop annotation to Mac and webpage annotation to Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. DESKTOP TOOLS ON MAC Keep a compact floating palette beside your work. Mark up app interfaces, designs, documents, and webpages on your screen. Use colored highlights, shapes, freehand drawing, and notes. Inspect small details with the desktop magnifier, then capture your annotated screen. Choose a palette layout and appearance that fit your workspace. Desktop annotation and magnification are Mac features. SAFARI EXTENSION INCLUDED Annotate webpages directly in Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Highlight text and regions, draw squares and circles, sketch arrows and underlines, and add sticky notes beside the content you are reviewing. CAPTURE, ORGANIZE, SHARE Keep saved images in Library, organize them into folders, open previews, and share through the system share sheet. On iPhone and iPad, new Safari captures are also available in the native Mark Library. Saved captures remain accessible after tool access ends. VISUAL CONTEXT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW Use annotated screenshots for design reviews, bug reports, writing feedback, and visual context in an AI-assisted workflow. Share an image with the app or person you choose. Mark does not include an integrated chatbot or generative service, and the personal release does not include live team collaboration. TRY MARK FREE FOR 30 DAYS Try the annotation tools and make new captures during a separate 30-day evaluation on your device. No subscription signup is required to start the evaluation, and it does not charge you automatically. MONTHLY OR YEARLY ACCESS After the evaluation, a paid subscription is required to continue using annotation tools and creating new captures. Mark Monthly is $2.99 per month and Mark Yearly is $19.99 per year in the United States. Yearly saves about 44% compared with twelve monthly payments. Both plans include the same personal tools: desktop annotation on Mac and the Safari extensions on supported Apple devices using the same Apple Account. Features vary by platform. Local prices are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm a purchase. Subscriptions renew monthly or yearly at the selected price unless canceled at least 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel in Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases is available in Mark. Privacy Policy: https://mark-website-y5hm.onrender.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mark at 15.0 against Alembic's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Alembic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Mark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Alembic | Mark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luke Mclaughlin | Spartadata |
In-app purchases
Alembic
- Alembic Pro Monthly Plan7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Alembic Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Mark
- Mark Monthly$2.991 Month
- Mark Yearly$19.991 Year









