Qards vs Ticklr
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!
Ticklr
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Your people matter. Stay in touch on your terms. Ticklr is a privacy-first contact network manager that helps you maintain meaningful relationships — without algorithms, social feeds, or a cloud account. Everything lives on your device. Set recurring reminders to reach out. Call your dad every Sunday. Check in with a colleague every quarter. Ticklr quietly notifies you when it's time, then schedules the next reminder automatically. FEATURES — Tickle calendar: set daily, weekly, monthly, or custom recurring reminders per contact — Import contacts from your iPhone or LinkedIn CSV export — Organize into groups: Family, Work, Board, Friends — any label you want — Compose SMS and MMS to multiple contacts at once using saved message templates — 100% on-device: no account, no cloud sync, no analytics, no tracking YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Ticklr has no servers and collects no data. Your contacts, reminders, and messages are stored exclusively in your device's secure local database. We have no way to see your data — because we never receive it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ticklr at every 6 days against Qards's every 4 months. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Qards ships an update every 4 months, Ticklr every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Qards | Ticklr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Asheim Smedmann | Vincent Stoessel |
In-app purchases
Qards
No in-app purchases
Ticklr
No in-app purchases









