Comparison

Google Admin vs Ghost Markdown

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

Head to head
About

Google Admin

Manage your Google Workspace and other Google services from your mobile device. Add and manage users and groups, access support, and review audit logs for your organization. Ideal for super admins on the go.

Highlights
  • User management
  • Group management
  • Password reset
  • Audit log review
  • Contact support
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Manage your organization’s Google Workspace account from anywhere. With the Google Admin app, you can add and manage users, reset passwords in seconds, organize group memberships, secure company devices, and review admin activity on the go. Who can use this app This app is available to administrators of Google Workspace (Business, Enterprise, Essentials, Education, Nonprofits, and Public Sector) and Cloud Identity. Key features • Quick actions and search: Start everyday tasks right from the Home screen and search across users, groups, and devices in one place. • User management: Add or edit users, reset and share temporary passwords, manage email aliases, and suspend, restore, or delete accounts. • Group management: View and edit groups, add or remove members, update member roles, and delete groups. • Device management: Review Android and iOS devices in your domain, approve or block access, and remotely wipe account data or devices. • Audit logs: Track recent admin actions and changes across your organization.

About

Ghost Markdown

This app combines plain Markdown note-taking with an integrated AI assistant. It allows the AI to read, write, and plan within your notes, offering features like calendar integration, plugins for various tools, and customizable boards and tickets. Organize notes into notebooks, journals, or canvases, and manage them with workspaces and team features.

Highlights
  • AI assistant for reading and writing notes
  • Plain Markdown note-taking
  • Calendar integration
  • Plugins for tools like Contacts and Webhooks
  • Boards, tickets, and query-based organization
  • Notebooks, journals, and canvases
  • Workspaces and team collaboration
Features
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Ghost.md is a notes app in plain Markdown with an AI assistant built in. Every note is a Markdown file on your iPhone, and the assistant can read it, write in it and plan with it while you watch. AN AI ASSISTANT, IN THE APP Ask from the dock at the head of any page. Bring your own API key, kept on this iPhone, and choose the model and how much effort it puts in. The assistant searches and reads your notes, then makes and changes them: the note opens and the words are typed in as it writes them, and the chat shows its thinking as it goes. Write requests in a note of their own and the assistant works through them. YOUR AI ASSISTANT'S OWN APP, CONNECTED With an account, connect your AI assistant's own app to Ghost.md's connector. From there the assistant can list, search, read, write and add to your notes, and you see it at work in Ghost.md, on the note it is writing. YOUR CALENDAR Sign in to your calendar, or add any calendar's subscription address. Today's events sit on the home page above your to-dos, and a query lists them or lays them on a calendar beside your to-dos. Switch it on and every to-do with a due date goes onto the calendar you signed in to, moved when its date changes and taken off when it is done. PLUGINS FOR THE TOOLS YOU USE The AI assistant, Calendar, Contacts, Webhooks and code repositories are built in, each switched on or off on one page that says plainly what it reaches. Link a note to a code repository and its list items become issues you can tick off from either side. Contacts puts a person's picture on the to-dos that name them, a tap away from a call, a text or an email. Webhooks tell a URL of yours when a note changes, and give you URLs that add to a note, for the automations you already run. THE MARKDOWN CORE Headings, lists, to-dos, tables, code, footnotes and links between notes, drawn as you type with the marks left dimmed, so a note reads the same anywhere. Seven marks of Ghost.md's own: highlight, aside, unsure, redact, shout, added, and spoiler, which sits in smoke until you tap it. Diagrams and gantt timelines are drawn from text in the note and open full screen. Add pictures from your photos or the camera. BOARDS, TICKETS AND QUERIES A list can be a board, with cards you move between columns. A note can be a ticket, with its status, assignee, priority and due date kept at its top. A query gathers notes, to-dos, tickets or events from across your library and draws them live, as a board, a table, a list, a calendar or a timeline. NOTEBOOKS, JOURNALS AND CANVASES Notes gather into a notebook with an index, to read page by page or straight through. A journal keeps an entry for each time you write, named by the minute. A canvas puts cards on a page with lines between them, saved in an open file format. WORKSPACES AND TEAMS File notes under workspaces to keep work and home apart. With an account, make an organization and invite people by their handle. It gets a workspace of its own on each member's devices. SYNC AND PRIVACY No account is needed. Without one, your notes stay on your iPhone and nothing of yours is on any server. Sign in and your notes are the same on your iPhone, on a Mac and in a browser, sealed on the device before they leave. The server cannot read them, and your password never leaves the device. The AI assistant sees only what you ask it and the notes it reads to answer, sent to your AI provider with your own key. Delete the account in Settings and everything it kept goes with it. No ads, no analytics, no tracking.

Screenshots

Google Admin4 screens
Ghost Markdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ghost Markdown at 100% against Google Admin's 11%. Ghost Markdown also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 months). Google Admin's advantage is ratings volume (520 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ghost Markdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Admin has 520 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Google Admin's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ghost Markdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Admin ships an update every 8 months, Ghost Markdown every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Google Admin versus Ghost Markdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle AdminGhost Markdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (520 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings520 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB57 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGoogle LLCMatt Wisniewski

Customer experience

Google Admin

All ratings518 ratings
Positive15.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative80.5%
Written reviews749 reviews
Positive10.5%
Neutral6.7%
Negative82.8%

Ghost Markdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Google Admin

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on launch, even after reinstalls
  • User status not showing correctly
  • Sign-in loop, unable to log in

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more admin features like the web version
  • Allow managing devices, groups, and policies
  • Improve UI and add more functionality

Ghost Markdown

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Admin

No in-app purchases

None

Ghost Markdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Google Admin free?
Google Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ghost Markdown free?
Ghost Markdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Google Admin or Ghost Markdown?
Ghost Markdown is rated higher. Google Admin averages 1.7 out of 5 from 520 ratings, while Ghost Markdown averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Google Admin or Ghost Markdown have ads?
Neither Google Admin nor Ghost Markdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Admin or Ghost Markdown?
Google Admin ships an update every 8 months, and Ghost Markdown every 3 days. Most recently, Google Admin was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ghost Markdown on October 26, 2026.

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