Shift Editor & Quick Lookup vs Remindifications
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Remindifications
This app redefines reminders with features like time range settings, customizable importance, and persistent notifications. It allows fetching events from WebCal links and offers theme customization for a personalized experience.
- Set time ranges for reminders
- Notifications in Notification Center
- Assign importance levels
- Customize app themes
- Fetch reminders from WebCal links
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The ultimate reminders app, with re-imagined features. Set a time range for your reminders, get notifications at any time, put notifications in your Notification Center for clearing later (isn't it satisfying??), set an importance for your reminders, customize your app with themes, and fetch reminders from a WebCal link.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Remindifications at every 2 days against Shift Editor & Quick Lookup's every 11 months. Remindifications also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Shift Editor & Quick Lookup's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 3) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Remindifications holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup ships an update every 11 months, Remindifications every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Editor & Quick Lookup | Remindifications |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Lincoln | Michael Kao |
Customer experience
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup
Remindifications
In-app purchases
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup
No in-app purchases
Remindifications
No in-app purchases
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