Comparison

LinkVault vs mrkdwn

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

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About

LinkVault

Features
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Stop losing track of what you meant to read, watch, or listen to later. LinkVault lets you save any link — from Safari, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, or anywhere else with a Share button — and automatically sorts it into a category: Articles, Videos, Images, or Sounds. No more digging through your camera roll, Notes app, or a dozen half-remembered browser tabs. HOW IT WORKS Tap the Share button in any app, choose LinkVault, and you're done. LinkVault detects what kind of content you're saving — a YouTube video, a Spotify track, an Instagram photo, a news article — and files it under the right category automatically, complete with the site's icon and a preview image when available. You can always move something to a different category later with a simple long-press. KEY FEATURES - One-tap saving from the iOS Share Sheet — works from Safari, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, and any other app that can share a link - Automatic categorization into Articles, Videos, Images, and Sounds - Automatic favicon and preview image fetching for a richer, easier-to-scan list - Fast search across everything you've saved - Swipe to favorite, delete, or re-share any saved item - Save actual shared files too (like a photo or voice note), not just web links - iCloud sync — your saved links are backed up automatically and available again even if you delete and reinstall the app or switch to a new iPhone - Clean, color-coded interface that makes it easy to scan your saved items at a glance - Available in 12 languages, including German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, Portuguese, Korean, Hindi, Russian, and Italian - No account or sign-up required WHY LINKVAULT Most "save for later" happens through screenshots, forwarded messages to yourself, or browser tabs you're afraid to close. LinkVault gives all of that a single, organized home — so when you actually have time to read that article or watch that video, you can find it in seconds instead of scrolling back through your entire message history. LinkVault is free to use, supported by ads. Your saved links themselves sync through your own personal iCloud account — LinkVault's developer never sees or stores the content you save.

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mrkdwn

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mrkdwn is more than a markdown editor. It is a private place to think, and it keeps every note as an ordinary .md file in a folder you choose. Other note apps ask you to trust a database. This one writes plain text to disk, where Finder, git, grep and any editor you ever switch to can already read it. No account. No subscription. No analytics — mrkdwn collects nothing and sends nothing. NOTES THAT STAY YOURS • Every note is a plain .md file in a folder you picked, not a row in our database • Edit one in another app and mrkdwn picks up the change • The same files open in any other editor, today or in ten years • Lock a note and it is encrypted on disk until you unlock it • iCloud sync merges three ways and marks conflicts, instead of overwriting the older copy • Version history keeps 30 days or 100 versions per note, with word-level diffs and a restore that leaves the current draft intact • Deleted notes go to a trash you can recover from NOTES THAT FIND EACH OTHER • Wiki-style [[links]] resolve as you type • A backlinks panel shows every note pointing at this one • The knowledge graph draws the whole library, filtered by tag or search • Tag a note, then open the tag to read everything filed under it • Quick Open fuzzy-finds any note in a keystroke • Link autocomplete the moment you type [[ • Daily notes arrive dated, every day you write MARKDOWN THAT RENDERS PROPERLY • CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown, with footnotes and callouts • LaTeX math, inline and block, rendered offline • Syntax highlighting for more than 180 languages • Six built-in themes, and you can make your own • Mermaid, Graphviz and Markmap diagrams from ordinary code blocks A SURFACE BUILT FOR DRAFTING • Focus mode fades every paragraph except the one you are writing • Read as editor only, preview only, or both side by side • Typewriter scrolling holds your line in the middle of the screen • Live counts for words, characters, sentences and reading time • Put the command bar in the order you actually work in • Give a folder an icon, a color, and a place at the top of the list • Writing goals track a daily word target and your streak • Authorship marks which passages you typed and which you pasted • Apple's Writing Tools work in the editor, where your device offers them NOTES THAT COME TO YOU • Ask Siri for today's note; find, append and read notes from Shortcuts • Paste a URL and the article comes back as markdown • Clip a page straight from Safari (Mac) • Import from 19 formats, including PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and text read out of images SEE THE SHAPE OF A SENTENCE • Color nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions as you type • Style checks flag filler, hedging, repetition and passive voice • Nothing is corrected for you — a flag is information, not an instruction • Every highlight stays off until you switch it on LEAVE WHENEVER YOU LIKE • Export to PDF, EPUB, HTML, RTF, plain text and markdown • Word and OpenDocument export, and Word import (Mac) • Everything works offline, apart from fetching a web page you paste • Or copy the folder and go — the notes were never ours Native on Mac, iPad and iPhone, from one Swift core rather than a web page in a window. A knowledge base you own, for students, teachers, authors, and anyone who would rather keep their thinking in plain files than rent a notes app. Questions? www.buenalabs.io/support

Screenshots

LinkVault3 screens
mrkdwn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: mrkdwn at none against LinkVault's shown. mrkdwn also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). LinkVault's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LinkVault ships an update every 4 weeks, mrkdwn weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
LinkVault versus mrkdwn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinkVaultmrkdwn
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWAEL KILZIEHBuenaGames LLC

In-app purchases

None

LinkVault

No in-app purchases

None

mrkdwn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LinkVault free?
LinkVault is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is mrkdwn free?
mrkdwn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LinkVault or mrkdwn have ads?
LinkVault shows ads; mrkdwn does not.
Which is updated more often, LinkVault or mrkdwn?
LinkVault ships an update every 4 weeks, and mrkdwn weekly. Most recently, LinkVault was updated on October 31, 2026 and mrkdwn on November 6, 2026.

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