Comparison

Markdown Studio Pro vs Filepad Markdown

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

Head to head
About

Markdown Studio Pro

Features
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Markdown Studio Pro is a calm place to write Markdown. It is built for people who want a beautiful writing surface without giving up portable files. What you save is real Markdown — headings, lists, tables, code, and images — that opens in any editor, forever. WRITE YOUR WAY • Source editor with a formatting toolbar and slash inserts • Live preview beside your words, or on its own • Split view on iPad and Mac so draft and result stay in conversation • Command palette and Quick Open to move without hunting through menus STAY IN THE FILE • Open and save .md, .markdown, .mdown, and .mkd • Folder workspaces and recents on every Apple device • Autosave when a document already has a path • Images embed in the file so a note stays self-contained LOOKS LIKE YOU MEAN IT • Shared themes from paper-warm days to ink-quiet nights • Typography you can actually live in — size, family, line numbers • Export to PDF, HTML, or plain text, and print with the system sheet PRIVATE BY DESIGN Markdown Studio Pro does not require an account. It does not include analytics, ads, or tracking. Documents live where you put them: on device, in the Files app, or in a folder you choose on Mac. Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

About

Filepad Markdown

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Filepad opens the Markdown you already have — in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or on this iPhone — and leaves it exactly where it is. Nothing is copied into the app. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. FINDS WHAT IS QUIETLY WRONG HTML tells you when you break it. Markdown does not — it just renders differently, and you never notice. Filepad reads your document the way the renderer does and points at the lines that will not come out the way you meant: a heading with no space after the #, a table row with the wrong number of cells, an unclosed link, a footnote with no definition. One tap fixes what can be fixed by adding text. Nothing is ever deleted to "fix" something. READS PROPERLY Headings, tables, task lists, quotes, code blocks, footnotes, front matter, and [[wiki links]] between documents in the same folder. Jump by heading with the outline, or with the four navigation buttons that sit under your thumb. FINDS THINGS Search inside a document with every hit highlighted, or search a whole folder and see which files hold what you are looking for. Sort by name or by when you last changed something. EDITS AND SAVES CAREFULLY Edit the source with a toolbar for the marks you forget, and a line that tells you what the cursor is sitting on. Saving is atomic, and the previous version is kept beside the file so an edit can be undone. If the file changed outside the app while you were editing, Filepad does not overwrite it — it saves your version alongside and asks you. ALSO OPENS PDF, HTML AND TEXT PDFs and web documents are view-only. HTML is drawn with network access blocked at two independent layers, and when a document tries to reach the internet for an image or a script, Filepad says so on screen instead of quietly fetching it. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sync service of ours. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. The app makes no network requests at all. Your folders, your files, your device. Free, and staying free.

Screenshots

Markdown Studio Pro4 screens
Filepad Markdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Markdown Studio Pro at 3 against Filepad Markdown's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 4 level
Markdown Studio Pro versus Filepad Markdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarkdown Studio ProFilepad Markdown
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew AguiarByeongsoo Kang

In-app purchases

None

Markdown Studio Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Filepad Markdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Markdown Studio Pro free?
Markdown Studio Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Filepad Markdown free?
Filepad Markdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Markdown Studio Pro or Filepad Markdown have ads?
Neither Markdown Studio Pro nor Filepad Markdown shows ads.

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