MarkNote vs Color Chain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MarkNote
Create and manage markdown notes with rich formatting, image embedding, and code snippets. Sync across Apple devices via iCloud and access notes from any web browser. Publish notes as blog posts or share them easily.
- Markdown editing with live preview
- Embed photos, images, and code snippets
- iCloud synchronization across devices
- Web browser access for notes
- Publish notes as blog posts
- Graph view for note relations
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Take notes with markdown. Sync notes into iCloud. Access your documents with any of your mac or iOS devices. Share your notes with your friend. You can easily embed photos, format text, create tables, send rich formatted mail message, and share and edit notes from any devices. FEATURES - Embed photos and images into note - Live preview while writing - Auto save - Send mail with rich format - Swipe to delete a note - Syntax highlighting - Embed code snippets and mathematics formulas - Click to update the task status in todo list - Review and edit your notes from any web browsers or smart devices - Sync your notes into iCloud drive, and share with all your devices. You can read and edit your notes with marknote app on iPhone/iPad or marknotes on mac - Publish your note as blog posts - Import web page shared from apps like mobile safari, save in markdown format, so that you can read it later or edit it later - graph view, visualize notes relations You have complete control to your data. SUPPORT If you have any feedback or questions, reach us by mail at marknote@aliyun.com
Color Chain
This tool allows creative professionals to blend colors using their iPhone camera. It generates custom color diagrams and archives them for future use, providing RGB, CMYK, or HEX values for each color.
- Camera-based color blending
- Custom color diagram generation
- Color archiving and curation
- RGB, CMYK, HEX value display
- Library color toggling
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Color Chain is an innovative color blending tool for creative professionals. By accessing the iPhone's camera, the user can target two color points, generating a unique diagram of custom blended colors. Individual colors are then curated and archived for future projects. Users may toggle colors in their library to find their associated RGB, CMYK, or HEX values!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Color Chain at Free against MarkNote's $1.99. Color Chain also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and ratings volume (16 vs 5). MarkNote's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 17 months). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
Color Chain is free to download; MarkNote costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for MarkNote against 4.8 for Color Chain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of MarkNote's written reviews are positive against 100% of Color Chain's.
MarkNote ships an update every 4 weeks, Color Chain every 17 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | MarkNote | Color Chain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 淑敏 孙 | Andrew Wollner |
Customer experience
MarkNote
Color Chain
In-app purchases
MarkNote
No in-app purchases
Color Chain
No in-app purchases
