Comparison

ghostWriter Markdown vs Veronica Remote

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

Head to head
About

ghostWriter Markdown

A plain-text writing app designed with accessibility in mind. It allows users to create, organize, and export documents in various formats, with features like voice control and outline navigation.

Highlights
  • Accessibility-first plain-text editor
  • Organize documents and chapters
  • Compile work into finished exports
  • Supports multiple export formats (HTML, EPUB, PDF, Word)
  • VoiceOver integration
  • Native Find and Replace
  • Outline navigation for headings
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ghostWriter Markdown is an accessibility-first, plain-text writing app for notes, articles, documentation, and full manuscripts. Write individual documents, organize chapters, and compile your work into a finished export. VoiceOver was at the center of the design from the first line of code. Created by a blind developer, ghostWriter gives screen reader users and anyone who loves plain text a clean, native place to write. So what's Markdown? Markdown adds structure using ordinary punctuation. A number sign makes a heading. A dash makes a list item. Your document stays readable as plain text, and you can render it to see the finished formatting. You don't have to know Markdown to start. Insert Actions adds common elements, the Markdown Reference provides examples, and the included ghostWriter Help Manual explains writing, organizing, and exporting your work. Writing Made Easy: • A native editor that keeps Markdown punctuation visible and you in control of the source • Insert links, images, headings, quotes, code, lists, tasks, tables, and rules • Automatic continuation for bullets, numbered lists, and tasks • Indent and outdent with tabs or spaces • Native Find and Replace, dictation, braille input, and text selection • A configurable Status Bar with line and column position, word, sentence, and character counts, heading level, and selection counts • Automatic saving, plus collision detection if the same document is open on separate devices • Start in the Library, a new document, or your last document Useful Navigation: • Use Outline to jump to document headings • Move through headings with a three-finger horizontal VoiceOver swipe while editing • Jump to Line in long documents • Search document names and contents • Return to your remembered editing position in each file Keep Files Organized: • Create, rename, and move nested folders • Pin documents you keep coming back to • Sort by name, created, modified, or last opened, or arrange files and folders manually • Restore removed files from Recently Deleted • Import Markdown, plain text, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations into Markdown Build Your Manuscript: • Compile documents from nested folders into a single export • Choose which files to include and arrange chapters for each compilation • Keep research and notes nearby while excluding them from compilations • Track word, sentence, and character totals for individual files or whole folders • Control heading structure when combining documents Render and Share: • Render Markdown as structured HTML with semantic headings, lists, tables, and links • Export individual documents or compilations as Markdown, plain text, HTML, EPUB, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, eBraille, or BRF • Customize Word exports with your own JSON stylesheets, optional title and subtitle styles, and a supplied Large Print stylesheet Your Files, Your Devices: • Ordinary Markdown files, visible in the Files app • On-device storage or iCloud Drive syncing across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Open and edit your files in other apps that read text • No proprietary format and no dependence on ghostWriter to keep your work Accessibility: Developed toward WCAG 2.2 Level AA and tested with VoiceOver as a primary interaction method. • Native controls with familiar roles and behaviors • Dynamic Type, including accessibility text sizes • System, monospaced, rounded, and serif editor typefaces • Light, dark, and system appearance • Voice Control, Switch Control, and hardware keyboard support • Optional keyboard shortcuts for common actions • Reduced-motion support Privacy: No accounts. No sign-in. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. No data collection. No AI tools. There is no server behind this app. Your documents stay on your device or in your own iCloud, and they never travel anywhere you don't send them. Made by a blind developer who got tired of tools that treated screen reader support as an afterthought.

About

Veronica Remote

Features
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Veronica Remote brings your desktop Veronica to your phone. Veronica is Dot's tactile AI agent that runs on your computer. Veronica Remote signs in to the same account and mirrors the conversation on your desktop, so you can keep following it and keep talking to it after you step away. FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION LIVE • Messages exchanged on the desktop appear on the phone as they happen. • Open conversations from the last 7 days in the drawer to read them again. TALK TO YOUR DESKTOP FROM ANYWHERE • Type a message on the phone and Veronica on your computer carries it out. • Each message shows whether the desktop has picked it up, and you can send it again if it didn't. • Get a notification when Veronica replies while you are not looking at the app. • Using more than one computer? Give each one a name you recognize. LIBRARY AND DOTPAD PRINTING • Browse the files your desktop Veronica made or uploaded — documents, images and tactile graphics. • Download, open or share them with other apps. • Connect a DotPad over Bluetooth and print tactile graphics straight from the library. BUILT FOR SCREEN READERS Veronica is made first for people who are blind or have low vision. Every status is spoken as a full sentence by VoiceOver and is never shown by color or an icon alone. • Available in Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi. • Sign in with Google or Apple. REQUIREMENTS • Veronica on a Mac or Windows PC, signed in to the same account, with Veronica Remote turned on in Settings. • A Veronica Pro or Max plan. • The computer must be on and online to receive messages from the phone. • Printing tactile graphics requires a DotPad.

Screenshots

ghostWriter Markdown4 screens
Veronica Remote2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Veronica Remote at none against ghostWriter Markdown's 4. Veronica Remote also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ghostWriter Markdown sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Veronica Remote asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ghostWriter Markdown versus Veronica Remote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterghostWriter MarkdownVeronica Remote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco SalsicciaDot Incorporation

In-app purchases

4 purchases

ghostWriter Markdown

One-time4
  • Little Boo$0.99
  • Big Boo$1.99
  • Spooky Wail$2.99
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  • Startling Scream$4.99
None

Veronica Remote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ghostWriter Markdown free?
ghostWriter Markdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Veronica Remote free?
Veronica Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ghostWriter Markdown or Veronica Remote have ads?
Neither ghostWriter Markdown nor Veronica Remote shows ads.

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