Quis vs NanoPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quis
This app enhances your default contact manager by remembering when and where you added contacts, and allows you to visualize them on a map. It offers powerful filtering options and cloud backup for easy recovery. Import details from social media to enrich your contact information.
- Remember contact addition context
- Chronological contact sorting
- Map visualization of contacts
- Import details from Instagram
- Cloud backup and recovery
- Powerful contact filtering
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Contacts, with context. If you're like me, you're terrible with names. You meet someone, and by the next day their name is gone. Later you scroll your contacts, see a name, and have no idea who it was. Or you remember exactly where and when you met someone, but cannot find them, even scrolling an endless list. Quis fixes that. You find people by the things you actually recall: where you met, and when. Quis is the personal CRM built around the things you do remember, and the best part is that all of it stays on your phone. WHERE & WHEN Every contact keeps the place and the moment you met. Quis fills it in automatically when you add someone, and you can always set or change it yourself. Turn on background sync and it even works for contacts you add outside of Quis. MAP VIEW See your whole network on a map. Find people by where you met them, by their home address, or by the city and country inferred from their phone number, so you can see who you already know in a city before you travel there. CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Your most recent connections rise to the top, the way memory works. When the name will not come to you, scroll back to the trip or the week it happened, and the person is right there. CARD SCANNER Snap a business card and it becomes a saved contact in about 1.5 seconds. The scanner reads the name, company, phone numbers, emails, address, social handles and notes with 99% accuracy, even on busy, multilingual cards. INSIGHTS Quis shows you patterns you would never catch scrolling a list: the companies and cities that run through your network, how your networking changes from month to month, upcoming birthdays, and the people still missing a photo or a note. It is all computed on your device and never leaves it. SEARCH & FILTER Find anyone by anything you remember: a name, a company, a place, a note, or a number. Search is forgiving and typo-tolerant, so close enough still finds them. You can also filter to find the contacts missing a phone, an email, or a photo. SYNC & BACKUP Sync both ways with your phone's contacts, automatically. Quis works with the contacts you already have, no migration needed. Export and import vCards to back up your data or move everything to a new phone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your contacts live on your device, not on our servers. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no trackers, and we never sell your data. The only thing that ever leaves your phone is a business-card photo you choose to scan, and even that is read once and never stored. Quis (pronounced "kwiss") is Latin for "who": a little more context for the humans behind your contacts. Questions or ideas? Email hello@quis.co Privacy: https://quis.co/privacy
NanoPad
A simple and quiet space for jotting down ideas, managing tasks, and saving links. Organize your thoughts with Markdown or a formatting toolbar, and access them easily through search and recent views. Notes are stored locally and can sync via iCloud.
- Markdown and rich text formatting
- Task and link management
- Searchable notes
- Local storage and iCloud sync
- Export to Markdown, plain text, PDF
- Share from other apps
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NanoPad is a quiet place to catch a thought, keep a checklist, and save a useful link. Notes, tasks, and URLs stay connected: write in a note, then find the task or link in its own view. WRITE YOUR WAY Use Markdown or the formatting toolbar for headings, lists, checkboxes, tables, links, and images. Search across your notes, return to recently opened work, and export your writing as Markdown, plain text, or PDF. KEEP YOUR NOTES TOGETHER Your notes are stored on your device and sync through your personal iCloud account when available. Share text or a web page to NanoPad from other apps. START FREE, UNLOCK WHEN YOU NEED MORE Free includes five fully editable personal notes, plus iCloud sync and export. If you have more than five notes after a trial or purchase ends, every note stays visible, searchable, copyable, and exportable; the first five remain editable. NanoPad Lifetime is one in-app purchase for unlimited editable notes and every available theme, font, and paper style. You can choose a free 7-day trial of the full app first. It requires no payment and does not renew automatically. When the trial ends, paid features lock unless you buy Lifetime; your writing stays yours. On Mac, the same App Store purchase also unlocks sticky note windows, Focus Writing, and linked Markdown folders.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quis at none against NanoPad's 2. Quis also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). NanoPad's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. NanoPad sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Quis asks for nothing beyond the download.
NanoPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quis has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Quis's written reviews are positive against 100% of NanoPad's.
Quis ships an update every 2 weeks, NanoPad every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quis | NanoPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Quis Technologies, LLC | Digital Toys LLC |
Customer experience
Quis
NanoPad
In-app purchases
Quis
No in-app purchases
NanoPad
- NanoPad 7-day TrialFree
- NanoPad Lifetime$6.99









