Comparison

Mad Libs vs Quiver

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

Head to head
About

Mad Libs

Fill in the blanks of hilarious stories to create your own funny tales. This word game offers a fresh, engaging experience with new content added regularly. Play solo or with friends and family, and unlock rewards as you go.

Highlights
  • 21 free Mad Libs stories
  • New swipe gestures for faster play
  • Interactive hints for inspiration
  • Save and share stories
  • Earn stickers and badges
  • Optional in-app purchases for more stories
  • Kid-friendly interface
Features
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The world’s greatest word game is back with an all-new look! Fill in the blanks and be the funniest person in the room! FEATURES • 21 free Mad Libs stories with new free content added all the time • New swipe gestures make creating stories faster and easier • Interactive hints provide inspiration and speed your play along • Save your stories and share with friends • Earn stickers and badges every time you play • Brand-new Game Center rewards • Replay stories as many times as you want • Play solo or with friends and family • Bright, engaging color palette and all-new typography • Custom illustrations for every book • Explore optional in-app purchases for loads more stories • Kid-friendly interface • No 3rd party advertising AWESOME NEW LOOK Bright, fun, and more engaging—it’s an even cooler Mad Libs app experience. MAD LIBS MUSIC?! For the very first time, an original soundtrack and audio effects. CREATE, LAUGH, AND LEARN This game makes you seriously smart—you’ll learn how to make great, fun, smart word choices! **To restore your previously purchased books from older versions of the Mad Libs app, please visit the menu and click Restore Purchases, located under Game Center.** Please note that this app requires iOS 7.0 or higher For support, please contact: madlibsappsupport@us.penguingroup.com

About

Quiver

This app combines traditional coloring with augmented reality to create an engaging and educational experience for children. Users can print pages, color them, and then watch their creations come to life on a smart device. It offers a fun way to learn various subjects and develop creativity.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality coloring
  • Printable coloring pages
  • Watch creations come to life
  • Educational content
  • Interactive games
  • Capture and share creations
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The Quiver App makes learning fun by combining physical coloring with cool augmented reality technology to create an engaging, educational and magical experience. You can test our free pages by downloading them from our website (https://quivervision.com/). By using our expertise in augmented reality technology, the Quiver App makes a huge range of educational topics fun to learn about by letting the users creativity and imagination run wild. Every colored page comes to life in its uniquely colored way, giving the artist an immediate and special sense of ownership and pride! The Quiver App is immersive, educational, exciting and inspiring – a must have tool for the classroom or at home where kids can develop skills and retain knowledge like never before. Try it out yourself and we are sure you will agree. If you are willing to subscribe, Quiver is your one-stop shop for Augmented Reality content and lesson plans for Pre K to Year 4 and beyond. The Quiver App and website offer an educational platform that helps students better visualize & understand various learning subjects. Included for free on the website are a great range of augmented reality lessons, created by teachers & educators, and specifically designed to meet the needs of all students by incorporating a variety of activities. It’s now time for you to start using augmented reality in your classroom right away! The Quiver Education dashboard also allows the Quiver App to be deployed across multiple devices in the classroom using just one subscription. This then allows all of those devices to access and use all of the available Quiver App content during the term of the subscription. How to use: - Using Quiver couldn’t be simpler. - First, find our pages by downloading the app and on our website: https://quivervision.com/. - Next, save and print your pages from the computer and color away with your favorite colors. - Ready to bring your finished creation to life? Simply open the Quiver App, press the camera button, scan the page QR code, then scan the coloring page with your camera and watch your coloring leap from the page like magic! How cool is that? - No two pages are the same, making each new Quiver experience as memorable and exciting as the last. Visit our website (https://quivervision.com/coloring-packs) for a list of available Quiver coloring pages. The pages include a range of educational pages (e.g. abc’s, space, math, science, geography) plus a range of pure entertainment pages with lots of fun and games included. Features: - Traditional coloring with immersive educational augmented reality. - Learn and discover, with quizzes and other educational tools. - A range of free lesson and activity plans to match the available coloring pages. - Watch your creations magically come to life on your smart device screen. - Engage, interact and play games with your creations. - Capture photos and videos of your creations to share with friends. - Different sound effects associated with each page. Please Note: - The Quiver App requires physically printed coloring pages to enjoy the full experience. - To print out pages, visit https://quivervision.com/coloring-packs. - An Internet connection is required to download new content associated with the Quiver App. - The Quiver App only works with QuiverVision pages - look for the Quiver Butterfly logo to ensure the pages are compatible. - In-app purchases & Subscriptions give access to premium Quiver content. - For more information, visit https://quivervision.com/. - For additional assistance, please contact us at support@quivervision.com. - For our full terms of use, please visit https://quivervision.com/terms - The Quiver App collects anonymous, aggregated analytics data for the purpose of improving the app experience. No personally identifiable data is collected nor requested by QuiverVision. View our full privacy policy at https://quivervision.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Mad Libs4 screens
Quiver4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mad Libs at 4.1 against Quiver's 3.6. Mad Libs also leads on ratings volume (2.9K vs 258) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Quiver's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Mad Libs sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Quiver sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mad Libs holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mad Libs has 2.9K ratings behind it against 258, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Mad Libs's written reviews are positive against 50% of Quiver's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mad Libs ships an update every 4 months, Quiver every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mad Libs versus Quiver: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMad LibsQuiver
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.9K ratings) — better3.6 (258 ratings)
Positive reviews57.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.9K — better258
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB252 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPenguin Group USAQuiverVision Limited

Customer experience

Mad Libs

All ratings2,887 ratings
Positive76.4%
Neutral9.0%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews218 reviews
Positive57.3%
Neutral14.2%
Negative28.4%

Quiver

All ratings258 ratings
Positive64.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative32.6%
Written reviews278 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral5.8%
Negative44.2%

User reviews

Mad Libs

From 2.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Fun and entertaining
  • 👍 Great learning tool
  • 🤗 Nostalgic and brings back memories
  • 😊 Keeps kids entertained

Room to improve

  • 🤑 Too many paid books, not enough free content
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🙄 Formatting and display issues
  • 😤 Restore purchases not working

Quiver

From 258 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great for teaching science
  • 👍 Engaging and informative
  • 👍 Brings artwork to life
  • 👍 Fantastic people to work with
  • 👍 Reliable and professional

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Doesn't work
  • 🐛 Crashes or freezes
  • 🐛 Buggy and unreliable
  • 🔒 Requires in-app purchases to unlock content
  • 🔒 Too many in-app purchases

Bugs and requests

Mad Libs

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when trying to read completed stories
  • Restore purchases feature not working properly
  • Formatting issues make stories hard to read
  • Keyboard covers up input fields

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free books and stories
  • Add a back button to fix mistakes
  • Allow creating custom mad libs
  • Add text-to-speech for reading stories

Quiver

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Crashes on startup
  • Camera doesn't work
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Doesn't recognize colored drawings
  • Requires repeated purchases for new content
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  • Incompatible with certain devices
  • Constantly asks to download additional content

Requested features

8 requests
  • Allow users to interact with friends and post drawings
  • Expand educational content (e.g. cells, solar system, biology)
  • Add more free content and reduce in-app purchases
  • Improve camera scanning and recognition
  • Provide better instructions and guidance for first-time users
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  • Add ability to save and view 3D creations offline
  • Improve compatibility with older devices
  • Provide better customer support and communication

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Mad Libs

One-time10
  • Cool Mad Libs (21 stories)$1.99
  • Goofy Mad Libs (21 stories)$1.99
  • Sleepover Party Mad Libs$1.99
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  • Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Libs (21 stories)$1.99
  • Haunted Mad Libs (21 stories)$1.99
  • Mad Libs in Love (21 stories)$1.99
  • Ninjas Mad Libs (21 stories)$1.99
  • Happily Ever Mad Libs (21 stories)$1.99
  • We Wish You A Merry Mad Libs (21 stories)$1.99
  • 101 Goofiest Mad Libs$4.99
10 purchases

Quiver

Subscriptions1
  • Quiver Monthly Subscription$2.491 Month
One-time9
  • Quiver Vol. 1$2.99
  • Dover Vol 1$2.99
  • Amazing Animals of New Zealand$2.99
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  • Quiver Platonic Solids$2.99
  • Summer & Sea Pack$2.99
  • Quiver Vol. 2$2.99
  • Quiver Education Vol. 2$2.99
  • BBC Children in Need$4.99
  • Quiver Holidays Pack$4.99

Questions

Is Mad Libs free?
Mad Libs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quiver free?
Quiver is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mad Libs or Quiver?
Mad Libs is rated higher. Mad Libs averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.9K ratings, while Quiver averages 3.6 from 258 ratings.
Do Mad Libs or Quiver have ads?
Neither Mad Libs nor Quiver shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mad Libs or Quiver?
Mad Libs ships an update every 4 months, and Quiver every 6 weeks. Most recently, Mad Libs was updated on November 6, 2026 and Quiver on November 1, 2026.

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