Shakespeare vs Quick Graph
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shakespeare
Access the complete works of Shakespeare, including plays, sonnets, and poems. Features include a powerful search, integrated glossary, note-taking, and customization options for a rich reading experience.
- Complete works of Shakespeare
- Powerful search and concordance
- Integrated glossary with definitions
- Add and share personal notes
- Customizable reading experience
- Scene breakdowns and character descriptions
- Modern translations and lexicons
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“It’s really great!” —Kenneth Branagh, actor and director “I can't remember a time it wasn't on my iPhone. So feature rich!" —Stephen Fry, actor and writer “‘The app’s the thing.’ Hamlet was almost right. Great to see Shakespeare Pro superplaying with Shakespeare’s plays.” —David Crystal, linguist and author of Shakespeare's Words “The Shakespeare Pro app is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information!” —Ken Ludwig, Tony and Olivier Award Winning Playwright Shakespeare Pro® includes the complete works of Shakespeare (41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including apocrypha) and search the concordance to find the exact word or phrase you’re looking for (with “relaxed” searching to find words close to your search term). Shakespeare Pro is packed with these impressive features: ••• QUALITY TEXTS are a top priority and our team spent years compiling and editing the best references available. In the updated editions, the text is even more clear and each individual character is uniquely identified. ••• FIRST FOLIOS AND QUARTOS in original spelling show the works as they were originally published in Shakespeare’s time. ••• AN INTEGRATED GLOSSARY, based on the bestselling lexicon by David & Ben Crystal, Shakespeare’s Words™ is included. Simply tapping on a word will display its definition in context (not just a general definition). ••• ADD YOUR OWN NOTES AND SHARE THEM with your students, classmates, friends, and colleagues. Organize your notes into notebooks for use in the classroom, theatre, or just to remember key facts. Then share them via email or AirDrop. ••• POWER SEARCH THE WORKS by customizing multiple parameters like gender, genre, work, language, line form, soliloquies, and more. ••• CUSTOMIZE YOUR READING EXPERIENCE by choosing from a variety of color themes, change the font family and size, display long or short character names, jump around to different scenes, and view line numbers (*read the note below about line numbering). ••• BOOKMARK YOUR FAVORITE PARTS in addition to remembering the last page you viewed. Even copy/paste that great line. ••• DETAILED SCENE BREAKDOWNS give you an overview of the scenes within each play, their locations, and the characters present in each. ••• CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS help you better understand the actions and motivations of every character—all 1,155 of them. ••• MODERN TRANSLATIONS and lexicons to help you better understand Elizabethan English (extra add-ons). ••• GET THE FACTS by reading up on Shakespeare’s life, view data and chronology about his works, and an overview of scansion terminology or rhetoric. Character Arc Visualizers show individual character arcs or allow for comparison of multiple characters. ••• SHAKE YOUR DEVICE for Shakespeare himself to display a random memorable quote or insult. Or get a new random quote every day. ••• BROWSE THE GALLERY of famous Shakespeare portraits. ••• TEACHER CURRICULUM makes it easy for teachers to introduce students to Shakespeare's works. ••• COMPLETE APOCRYPHA is the most comprehensive breakdown of 14 plays Shakespeare may have had a hand in. ••• BARDFIND™ is the easiest way to find a Shakespeare theatre or venue anywhere in the world. These are just a few highlights of the great things in Shakespeare Pro. If you’re a student, professor, actor, or just plain love the Bard, this must-have app ensures you have the complete works at your fingertips. Like the new features? Having trouble and need support? Let us know at support@playshakespeare.com or at http://support.playshakespeare.com.
Quick Graph
This powerful graphing calculator leverages multitouch displays for 2D and 3D equation visualization. It supports various coordinate systems and offers features like equation editing, evaluation, and a library for storing common formulas. Advanced features are available through an in-app purchase.
- 2D and 3D graphing
- Multiple coordinate systems
- Equation evaluation
- Equation library
- Copy/email/save graphs
- Implicit and inequality graphing (advanced)
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Quick Graph is a powerful, high-quality graphing calculator for iPhone and iPad, in 2D and 3D. "The app you need to survive the next semester." -- Gizmodo Type an equation and see it right away, written in math notation and drawn in a graph you can move, zoom and rotate with your fingers. Explicit and implicit equations and inequalities, in cartesian, polar, cylindrical and spherical coordinates, all fast and beautiful. What's inside: - 2D and 3D graphs with a clean, full-screen design. - 3D surfaces drawn with Metal: smooth shading, transparency, wireframe, and zoom that fills the screen. - Adaptive 2D drawing with exact roots and extrema and clean asymptotes. - Equation groups: show, hide and move several equations together, with a shared n. - Annotations with Apple Pencil or your finger on 2D graphs. - A math keyboard with functions, derivatives and more on each key. - Hyperbolic and inverse functions, min, max, if, derivatives. - Axes in decimals or multiples of π, and independent zoom on each 2D axis. - A library of example and saved equations, including groups. - Share as a link, image or text; copy and paste equations; drag them between windows. - Light or dark appearance, multiple windows on iPad, and support for iPhone Duo. Up to 6 equations can be shown at once in the free version. The Advanced Features, a single one-time purchase with no subscription, add: - More than 6 equations. - 2D and 3D implicit equations and inequalities. - The variable n with a slider, to animate your graphs. - 2D tracing with roots, extrema and intersections. - Value table. - External display support. - Decimal / π axes and polar range settings. No ads, no subscription. Please visit the website for more details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Shakespeare at every 3 weeks against Quick Graph's every 5 months. Shakespeare also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and ratings volume (3.5K vs 425). Quick Graph's advantage is review sentiment (94% vs 74%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Shakespeare sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Quick Graph sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shakespeare holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shakespeare has 3.5K ratings behind it against 425, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Shakespeare's written reviews are positive against 94% of Quick Graph's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Shakespeare ships an update every 3 weeks, Quick Graph every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shakespeare | Quick Graph |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.5K ratings) — better | 4.6 (425 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.2% of reviews | 93.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 425 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 416 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PlayShakespeare.com | KZ Labs |
Customer experience
Shakespeare
Quick Graph
User reviews
Shakespeare
From 3.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Best app out there
- 👍 Excellent app
- 👍 Terrific app for Shakespeare lovers
- 👍 Remarkable level of detail and care
- 👍 Invaluable for actors and students
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes, buggy, unstable
- 💰 Nickel-and-diming for features
- 💰 Upgrade to pro is misleading
- 💰 Constant nagging to upgrade
- 🤔 Abbreviated character names
Quick Graph
From 425 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Beautiful display
- 🚀 Quick and straightforward equations entry
- 🚀 Configurable axes and easy translation
- 👍 Wonderful and beautiful app
- 👍 Long tradition of working well
Room to improve
- 🐛 Can't really graph polar
- 🐛 Redesign stinks
- 🐛 Few options for tablet version
- 🐛 Confusing design
- 🐛 Horrible manual
Bugs and requests
Shakespeare
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on launch or opening plays
- Scrolling and UI issues
- Incompatible with latest iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add modern translations
- Include line numbers
- Improve search and navigation
- Add more content like sonnets
- Sync purchases across devices
Quick Graph
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when trying to save to photos
- Equations not visible when projecting to external display
- Incorrect rendering of some functions like y=tan(x)*x
- Degradation in 3D plot quality when zooming out
- Equations not working as expected for simple cases like x+y=0
Requested features
25 requests- Display 3D surface with variable opacity or as wireframe
- Ability to define and display functions over a certain interval
- Ability to define and display parametric equations
- Ability to move cursor around within a function while typing
- Ability to animate equations with a parameter
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- Ability to graph complex functions
- Ability to graph vector fields and slope fields
- Ability to graph parametric surfaces
- Ability to add vectors of given magnitude and direction
- Ability to add points in space using different coordinate systems
- Ability to add text labels in 3D space
- Ability to select and remove parts of 3D surfaces
- Ability to sum n terms of series
- Ability to graph inequalities
- Ability to graph Euler's formula
- Ability to identify coordinates of intersections and zeroes
- Ability to move and rotate the 3D axes
- Ability to change line weight and style for each function
- Ability to define and display functions in polar coordinates
- Ability to graph complex functions in the complex plane
- Ability to graph parametric equations in 3D
- Ability to graph vector fields
- Ability to display equations of asymptotes or tangents on polar graphs
- Ability to change the window/domain and range of the graph
- Ability to change the frequency of points calculated
In-app purchases
Shakespeare
- Modern Translation (Hamlet)$2.99
- Modern Translation (Macbeth)$2.99
- Schmidt's Lexicon$3.99
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- All Apocrypha$7.99
- Course: Intro to Shakespeare$9.99
- All Lexicons$9.99
- Upgrade to Shakespeare Pro$12.99
- Modern Translation (All Works)$14.99
- Modern Translation (All Works)$19.99
- Shakespeare Ultimate$59.99
Quick Graph
- Advanced Features$1.99
- Buy Us a Coffee$1.99








