Qards vs (beat) for iOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Qards
Organize your thoughts and prepare for presentations with digital note cards. Create, edit, and arrange cards within decks, then swipe through them in full-screen. Your notes sync automatically across all your devices.
- Create and edit decks of note cards
- Arrange note cards within decks
- Full-screen card swiping
- Automatic cross-device syncing
- Organize everyday thoughts
- Prepare for speeches and presentations
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Create Note Cards for your everyday thoughts, or write down keywords and cues for your next speech. Structure your Note Cards in decks and swipe through them in full-screen. Qards is the perfect tool when you want to make notes for your next speech or presentation! With Qards you can: - Create and edit decks of Note Cards. - Edit and order a deck's Note Cards as you please. - Swipe through a deck of Note Cards in full-screen. And all your Note Cards are of course automatically synced and made available across your devices!
(beat) for iOS
This screenwriting app offers a distraction-free environment for writers to focus on their craft. It supports Fountain markup for portable and future-proof documents, with features like automatic scene numbering and auto-completion for efficient writing.
- Distraction-free UI
- Fountain markup support
- Automatic scene numbering
- Auto-complete for scene headings and character names
- PDF export
- Final Draft import/export
- Novel mode
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An elegant Fountain screenwriting app, created by a screenwriter for screenwriters. The perfect companion for full macOS version of Beat. Beat lets you write in a flow: Just start typing and let Beat take care of the formatting. There are as little distractions as possible to let you concentrate on writing. The app uses Fountain markup to store your documents, so everything you write is portable and future-proof. Your files are stored only on your own accounts and devices, and they are kept completely private. • Distraction-free UI • Index cards • Automatic scene numbering • Auto complete for scene headings and character names • PDF export • Final Draft import and export • Revision/edit tracking • Novel mode • Collection of templates for a quick start
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Qards at Free against (beat) for iOS's $11.99. Qards also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). (beat) for iOS's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months) and chart position (#46 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Qards is free to download; (beat) for iOS costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Qards holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 44 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Qards's written reviews are positive against 80% of (beat) for iOS's.
Qards ships an update every 4 months, (beat) for iOS every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Qards | (beat) for iOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $11.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better | 4.3 (44 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 44 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #46 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Asheim Smedmann | Lauri-Matti Parppei |
Customer experience
Qards
(beat) for iOS
In-app purchases
Qards
No in-app purchases
(beat) for iOS
No in-app purchases
