Comparison

QuoteJar vs Tribe

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Tribe

This app helps groups commit to and achieve recurring meetups for shared activities. It fosters accountability through scheduling, RSVPs, check-ins, and streak tracking, turning intentions into consistent habits.

Highlights
  • Create or join tribes
  • Schedule recurring meetups
  • RSVP and check-in
  • Build consistency streaks
  • Group chat and direct messages
  • Real accountability focus
Features
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Tribe helps you and your group actually show up. We all have that group chat full of "we should meet up more" — and then months pass. Tribe turns good intentions into real, recurring meetups by adding the one thing missing: accountability. Form a small tribe around anything — running, the gym, studying, hiking, book club, anything you want to do consistently with other people. Set a recurring meetup schedule, RSVP so everyone knows who's coming, and check in when you show up. Over time, you build a streak — and become someone your group can count on. How Tribe works: Create or discover tribes — Start a group around your interest, or browse and join active tribes near you. Schedule recurring meetups — Set a repeating time and place. Everyone sees what's coming up. RSVP and check in — Commit before, show up, and check in. See who else is coming so you're not the only one. Build your streak — Track your consistency and reliability. Showing up becomes a habit. Stay connected — Group chat and direct messages keep your tribe coordinated between meetups. Real accountability, not another feed — Tribe isn't about scrolling. It's about showing up for the things and people that matter. Whether you're trying to run more, study harder, or just spend real time with people who share your interests — Tribe helps your group follow through, together.

Screenshots

QuoteJar4 screens
Tribe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tribe at none against QuoteJar's 2. Tribe also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18). QuoteJar's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (27 vs 9). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. QuoteJar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Tribe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for QuoteJar against 5.0 for Tribe. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
QuoteJar versus Tribe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuoteJarTribe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (27 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1815.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB32 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperMitchell SweetBrian McAndrews

Customer experience

QuoteJar

All ratings27 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tribe

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

QuoteJar

One-time2
  • Generous Tip$0.99
  • Super Generous Tip$2.99
None

Tribe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuoteJar free?
QuoteJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tribe free?
Tribe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, QuoteJar or Tribe?
Tribe is rated higher. QuoteJar averages 4.9 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Tribe averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do QuoteJar or Tribe have ads?
Neither QuoteJar nor Tribe shows ads.

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