Comparison

Shift Editor & Quick Lookup vs Bookmark.house

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

Head to head
About

Shift Editor & Quick Lookup

This app streamlines writing and referencing by integrating a browser with customizable text display. It offers smart Markdown shortcuts, multiple customizable presets for editing and viewing, and robust version control for documents. The app prioritizes a clean, distraction-free writing experience with advanced typography options.

Highlights
  • Integrated browser with custom color schemes
  • Smart Markdown shortcuts
  • Customizable presets for editing and viewing
  • HTML preview sync
  • Dropbox repository browsing
  • Automatic document versioning
  • Advanced typography options
Features
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When we write, we reference the dictionary, Wikipedia, Google, and any number of websites. I made Shift to make writing and referencing both easy to do and especially, easy to read. The integrated browser displays text in your custom color-scheme using gorgeous fonts, so the web can readable at night and during the day. This means that you can quickly open Wikipedia or other text-based website and have the text size & colors match your custom choices without busy clutter. And Shift makes changing between presets easy. You have four customizable presets to choose from, accessible from the editor itself. Two touches, that's it. The MultiMarkdown editor syncs the text with an HTML preview that shows your work with the customizable style of your choice. Tap text to edit, pinch to preview. It's easy. Shift is smart about Markdown. Shift has shortcuts to create lists, emphasis and strong, indentation, headings, and more. All lines selected can be marked at once. For example, if you want to mark a few words to be italic, select at least parts of the words and press the italic button. Shift will insert the markdown where it needs to be. It's smart. Some Markdown documents or some websites are easier to read in landscape. That's no problem in Shift. You can use Shift in landscape view as well as portrait. And Shift can browse your entire Dropbox repository, not just a single folder. Every time you open a document, a copy is saved. Two previous versions are always available for you to revert any mistakes. There will be no tears when using Shift. I care about typography. Shift comes with Concourse, Equity, and Triplicate, three gorgeous fonts by Matthew Butterick (see http://practicaltypography.com). And so font selection and editor layout has been carefully put together. But you are free to change (and restore) text color, background color, highlight colors, and presentation style. You'll find that the keyboard color will follow your background color selection and other parts of the UI adapt to your choices as well. Shift is customizable, but it's simple. It gets out of your way so you can write and read the way you want. If you have any question, go to http://shiftwriter.com and press the "support" link on the bottom of the page. I'll answer as best as I'm able. Thanks for your time. A special thanks to Icons8 at http://iconpharm.com for the use of a number of their icons.

About

Bookmark.house

Save and search your web bookmarks from a non-social platform. Easily add pages via the iOS Share Menu extension. Optimized for iPad multitasking with Slide Over.

Highlights
  • Save bookmarks
  • Search bookmarks
  • iOS Share Menu integration
  • iPad Slide Over support
  • Non-social platform
Features
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With the Bookmark.house app you can save and search bookmarks in Bookmark.house, a non-social bookmarking site (https://bookmark.house). You can also enable Bookmark.house extension button in iOS Share Menu. This will make saving pages to Bookmark.house easy from Safari and other apps. If you are using iPad, while opening Safari you can display Bookmark.house app with Slide Over and quickly access the saved bookmarks.

Screenshots

Shift Editor & Quick Lookup4 screens
Bookmark.house1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shift Editor & Quick Lookup at 100% against Bookmark.house's 0%. Shift Editor & Quick Lookup also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Shift Editor & Quick Lookup holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift Editor & Quick Lookup has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Shift Editor & Quick Lookup's written reviews are positive against 0% of Bookmark.house's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift Editor & Quick Lookup ships an update every 11 months, Bookmark.house every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup versus Bookmark.house: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift Editor & Quick LookupBookmark.house
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 months — betterEvery 20 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB14 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJohn Lincolnmoreslowly.jp

Customer experience

Shift Editor & Quick Lookup

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bookmark.house

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Shift Editor & Quick Lookup

No in-app purchases

None

Bookmark.house

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shift Editor & Quick Lookup free?
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bookmark.house free?
Bookmark.house is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shift Editor & Quick Lookup or Bookmark.house?
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup is rated higher. Shift Editor & Quick Lookup averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Bookmark.house averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Shift Editor & Quick Lookup or Bookmark.house have ads?
Neither Shift Editor & Quick Lookup nor Bookmark.house shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shift Editor & Quick Lookup or Bookmark.house?
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup ships an update every 11 months, and Bookmark.house every 20 months. Most recently, Shift Editor & Quick Lookup was updated on October 21, 2026 and Bookmark.house on October 5, 2026.

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