QuoteJar vs Smata
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!
Smata
Enhance your study sessions with this social platform. Track your progress, block distractions, and connect with friends to see their live study habits. Compete on leaderboards and encourage each other's academic efforts.
- Track study sessions
- Block distracting apps
- View friends' live study activity
- Compete on leaderboards
- Share study photos and strategies
- Encourage friends' efforts
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Study Smarter with Smata! - Track your study sessions. - Block distracting apps. - See where, what, and how long your friends are studying live. - Compete on the friends and campus-wide leaderboards. - View your friends' study photos, strategies, and sessions. - Encourage and give your friends props for their effort! Here at Smata, we are striving to build the ultimate study tool. We hope to provide a platform that enhances your study experience and makes studying a collaborative effort! We hope you enjoy! - The Smata Team
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smata at none against QuoteJar's 2. Smata also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18). QuoteJar's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Smata 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 Smata. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 15 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
QuoteJar ships an update every 6 months, Smata every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuoteJar | Smata |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 weeks — 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 |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mitchell Sweet | TheDairy, Inc. |
Customer experience
QuoteJar
Smata
In-app purchases
QuoteJar
- Generous Tip$0.99
- Super Generous Tip$2.99
Smata
No in-app purchases









