Comparison

smalltype vs Tuck

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

Head to head
About

smalltype

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Short notes, many times a day, saved as plain .md files in real folders. Open the same folder on your Mac in VS Code, Vim, or any editor. Calm, minimal, and ready for iPhone Duo. smalltype is for your notes. The small ones, the quick ones, the big ones, the unpolished ones. It's a fast, quiet place to type. ## Start No tutorial, no setup screen. Tap New Note and start typing. Leave one empty and it quietly disappears, so you never end up with a pile of blank untitled notes. That's the whole app. ## Yours Every note is a real .md file, sitting right there in the Files app. You can open it, copy it, or back it up yourself, anytime. Delete one and it still goes to Recently Deleted, same as any other file: nothing's gone for good. ## Sync or Don't Keep notes in iCloud Drive to have them on every device. Or keep them On My iPhone, fully local, never leaving your device. Either way, you can switch anytime. ## Visible Markdown Markdown markers stay gently visible as you type. What you see is exactly what's in the file. A bar above the keyboard types the markers for you, with undo and redo a tap away. ## Organize Folders, search, and quick note-making, all from one screen. Nothing to set up first. Put "daily" in a folder's name and new notes inside it get today's date as their name. ## No Catch No ads. No subscription. No tracking. No account, ever. Markdown notes. Yours to keep.

About

Tuck

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Tuck keeps the things you love online, for good. Share a post, article, video or profile to Tuck from Safari or any app, and Tuck saves a clean copy to your own private feed. Scroll it like a social feed, read articles in a calm reader, and tap a video to play it. Posts get deleted, accounts go private and links stop working. What you tuck away stays. ONE PRIVATE FEED • Everything you save lands in Home • Make your own feeds, like Cooking, Hiking or Design, and switch between them from the top of the screen • Show any mix of posts, people, videos, articles or your own posts • Sort by when you saved something or when it was posted • Search across everything you've saved • Lock a feed with Face ID, or keep it out of Home MADE FOR EACH KIND OF CONTENT • Posts show the author, text, images and any quoted post, without the noise • Articles open in a clean reader with your choice of font, size and theme, and the original page is saved too so you can read it offline • Videos play right in the feed. Tap one and swipe up to keep watching your saved videos • Save profiles too, and jump straight to them in their own app WHAT TUCK SAVES • X, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon posts, with photos, quoted posts and counts • Reddit, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Telegram posts, with every image and video • Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat captions, photos and covers • YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Bilibili and niconico videos, with their details, playing in the official player • Weibo, RedNote, Douyin, VK and Naver Blog posts • Articles from any website and Substack, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes, and profiles everywhere • Any other link, as a card with its title and preview SAVE IN A TAP • Share from any app, or copy a link and tap the add button • Import a list of links, and export everything you've saved • Choose per save whether to keep photos and videos, or just the text and a thumbnail YOUR OWN POSTS Write notes with photos, videos and links straight into any feed, and keep them alongside everything you've saved. LOCAL FEEDS Turn a folder of your own videos and photos into a feed that scrolls like the rest: pick one in Files on iPhone and iPad, or any folder or external drive on the Mac. Tuck only reads the folder; nothing is copied or uploaded. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up • Everything is stored on your device and synced through your own iCloud, and you choose whether photos and videos sync • No ads, no analytics, no tracking • Pages are fetched directly from your device, never through our servers Tuck works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and is made for both screens of iPhone Duo.

Screenshots

smalltype4 screens
Tuck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tuck at every 2 days against smalltype's every 5 days. Tuck also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

smalltype ships an update every 5 days, Tuck every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
smalltype versus Tuck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersmalltypeTuck
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperHerman HaidinRogue Superintelligence LLC

In-app purchases

None

smalltype

No in-app purchases

None

Tuck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is smalltype free?
smalltype is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tuck free?
Tuck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do smalltype or Tuck have ads?
Neither smalltype nor Tuck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, smalltype or Tuck?
smalltype ships an update every 5 days, and Tuck every 2 days. Most recently, smalltype was updated on October 25, 2026 and Tuck on October 29, 2026.

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