Comparison

TOIDO vs FrankenMarkdown

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

Head to head
About

TOIDO

Features
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Your to-do list should be the answer to a question. When everything feels urgent and nothing moves forward, it's usually because your tasks have drifted away from why they exist. TOIDO is a to-do app that starts with the question. You frame the real issues as questions, hang tasks beneath them, and focus on the few questions that actually change things. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT β€’ Start with the question Write issues as questions ("How do we…?", "Is it true that…?") and give each one a working hypothesis. Tasks become the moves that test that hypothesis β€” not a pile of disconnected chores. β€’ Prioritize by impact, not urgency Rank issues by leverage β€” how much changes once the question is answered. Pick one or two questions to own this week and go deep. β€’ GO β€” today's moves first Launch straight into your open to-dos, paired with the questions they serve. Today's moves sit on top, ordered by impact. β€’ Answer the question When the work is done, turn your hypothesis into a conclusion and close the question for good. Answered questions stay, with their answers. β€’ Inbox β€” capture without sorting Dump any thought straight into the Inbox. Later, ask "what's the question?" and connect it to an issue β€” or let it go, guilt-free. β€’ Weekly review Clear floating tasks, revisit your questions, choose next week's focus. Anything you drop is logged and can come back anytime. β€’ iCloud sync Your issues and tasks stay in sync across iPhone and Mac on the same Apple ID. β€’ English & Japanese. Light & dark. Sidebar and keyboard shortcuts on Mac. You do the thinking. TOIDO just hands you the structure β€” and the question.

About

FrankenMarkdown

Features
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Write Markdown, inspect the document as a system, and publish a finished file without sending the text to a server. FrankenMarkdown keeps the source and rendered document together. The editor provides live syntax highlighting, line numbers, an outline, and an automatically updated preview. On iPad and Mac, source and output can remain visible side by side; iPhone uses focused lanes sized for the smaller display. Document Lab adds the tools needed for longer work: word and reading statistics, structure and accessibility checks, semantic comparison between revisions, polished document templates, and publishing controls. Multi-chapter projects can produce a continuous PDF or a self-contained site package. Export the current document as PDF or self-contained HTML. The bundled Rust rendering engine handles typography, tables, code, mathematical notation, and document structure locally. No account, advertising, tracking, or cloud processing is required. Your text stays on the device unless you choose to share an exported file.

Screenshots

TOIDO4 screens
FrankenMarkdown1 screens

Verdict

The call

TOIDO and FrankenMarkdown are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

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

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TOIDO versus FrankenMarkdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTOIDOFrankenMarkdown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size2 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaisaku HarasakiJeffrey Emanuel

In-app purchases

None

TOIDO

No in-app purchases

None

FrankenMarkdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TOIDO free?
TOIDO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FrankenMarkdown free?
FrankenMarkdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TOIDO or FrankenMarkdown have ads?
Neither TOIDO nor FrankenMarkdown shows ads.

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