Orator Reader vs Quill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orator Reader
Listen to articles and blog posts from your favorite RSS feeds as if they were podcasts. Easily add new feeds or individual articles to your listening queue.
- Listen to articles like podcasts
- Add RSS feeds
- Add individual articles
- Podcast-like playback
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Orator fetches articles and blog posts from your favourite RSS feeds and allows you to listen to them like podcasts. You can add your favourite RSS feeds, or you can add individual articles as you go!
Quill
A digital commonplace book designed for collecting and revisiting meaningful thoughts, sentences, and ideas. It offers a distraction-free writing experience with offline access and secure iCloud synchronization. The app periodically resurfaces past entries to bring important reflections back to mind.
- Distraction-free writing
- Offline-first functionality
- Secure iCloud sync
- Periodic resurfacing of past entries
- No social features
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Quill is a modern commonplace book — a place to collect thoughts worth keeping. Unlike a journal, a commonplace book isn’t about your day. It’s about saving what resonates: a sentence, an idea, a moment of clarity. Quill periodically resurfaces past entries, letting meaningful thoughts return naturally — without search, reminders, or noise. Features • Clean, distraction-free writing • Offline-first • No social features or public profiles • Secure iCloud sync (private by default) For readers, thinkers, and anyone who wants a quieter way to remember.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quill at 5.0 against Orator Reader's 4.0. Quill also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months). Orator Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.2). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Quill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Orator Reader ships an update every 5 months, Quill every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orator Reader | Quill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tin Soldier Software | Moonshot Labs LLC (US) |
Customer experience
Orator Reader
Quill
In-app purchases
Orator Reader
No in-app purchases
Quill
No in-app purchases
