QuoteJar vs Get Abode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuoteJar
Capture and share hilarious quotes from your friends with this app. Create custom jars for different groups, add context to memories, and let everyone contribute. Keep your favorite inside jokes alive and accessible in the cloud.
- Create custom jars for friend groups
- Add quotes with contextual details
- Cloud storage for accessibility
- Invite friends to contribute
- Upvote and downvote quotes
- Delete quotes
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When friends are together, crazy stuff happens. One of which being ridiculous quotes and quips which are hilarious especially out of context. With QuoteJar, this priceless repartee can be saved for your friend group to look back on anytime! QuoteJar allows you to make a jar for your friend group. Whether it be your roommates, travel buddies, club, team, dance crew, pretty much anything works. You can create as many jars as you want! Just choose a name, color, and icon for your jar and you're on your way to being a QuoteJar master! In these jars, you store your friends' crazy, ridiculous, and stupid quotes! If one of your friends says something random that would be hilarious out of context, it's probably something you're going to want to add to the quote jar. You can all add insightful context to your quotes to help remember what led up to them being said. QuoteJars aren't just for you on your phone, they're stored in the cloud! Your friends can easily be added so everyone can contribute and read quotes whenever they want! Quotes can be upvoted and downvoted to help you show even more love (or anti-love) for what your friends say. If worst comes to worst, quotes can also be deleted by the user who added them, the user who was quoted, or the admin of the jar. So stop using your notes app or physical jars to save what your friends say. Give QuoteJar a shot to ensure that no quote is ever forgotten!
Get Abode
This platform simplifies the student housing search by connecting users with subleases, apartments, and roommates. It offers verified listings, direct application options, and secure chat features exclusively for the UIUC community. Find your next place quickly and efficiently.
- Find verified subleases
- Explore UIUC apartments
- Match with roommates
- Book tours and apply
- Secure student chat
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Abode – Student Housing Made Simple Looking for a sublease, roommate, or your next apartment at UIUC? Abode brings the entire housing process into one fast, easy, and trusted platform — built by students, for students. What You Can Do with Abode: Find subleases instantly — verified and up-to-date Explore every apartment near UIUC in one place Match with roommates based on lifestyle and preferences Get price alerts, book tours, and apply directly through the app Chat safely with verified students only — no spam, no scams Abode is powered by a student verification system to keep the platform secure and exclusive to the UIUC community. Find your next place in minutes — not months. Download Abode and start your housing search the smart way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Get Abode at none against QuoteJar's 2. Get Abode also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 months). QuoteJar's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement 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. QuoteJar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Get Abode asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for QuoteJar against 5.0 for Get Abode. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuoteJar has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
QuoteJar ships an update every 6 months, Get Abode daily. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuoteJar | Get Abode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mitchell Sweet | Adarsh Dayalan |
Customer experience
QuoteJar
Get Abode
In-app purchases
QuoteJar
- Generous Tip$0.99
- Super Generous Tip$2.99
Get Abode
No in-app purchases







