Comparison

Notable Quotes vs Quotemarks

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

Head to head
About

Notable Quotes

Discover insightful and provocative quotes with daily inspiration. Share wisdom, add your own, and organize favorites. Access a daily quote via widget and Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Daily quote widget
  • Share quotes via multiple platforms
  • Add custom quotes
  • Favorite quotes list
  • Browse by category and author
  • Search quotes and authors
  • Backup and restore custom/favorite quotes
Features
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Our hand-selected quotes provide insightful and provocative food for thought. With each swipe, you will find inspirational, humorous, and comforting wisdom. A widget on your Today screen gives you a different quote every day to inspire you and make you think. Use Notable Quotes to read quotes, share them with friends, or write your own! OUTSTANDING FEATURES: • Share a quote with a friend via text, email, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other sharing options. • Add your own custom quotes. • Mark your favorite quotes to keep them in a convenient list. • View Today’s Notable Quote on a Today screen widget and your Apple Watch. • Browse by category, author, favorites, or custom quotes. • Shuffle quotes in random order. • Easily search by the author's first or last name, or keywords in a quote. • Remotely back up & restore your custom quotes and favorite quotes. We strive to create the highest-quality software possible so that our customers have a positive and enjoyable experience. If you would like to tell us about a problem, offer a suggestion, or send us feedback, we would love to hear from you and will make every effort to respond promptly. Email us at support@handcarvedcode.com. If you have any questions or are experiencing issues, please visit our website at http://handcarvedcode.com/apps/notablequotes/support.

About

Quotemarks

Build a personal library of quotes from books, movies, and more. Organize them with tags, schedule daily inspirational messages, and easily share your favorites. Export your collection for safekeeping or import existing quotes.

Highlights
  • Collect quotations
  • Organize with tags
  • Schedule daily quotes
  • Export/Import collections
  • Share favorite quotes
  • Searchable quotes
Features
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Curate your personal library of found quotations. Collect, organize, and share your library and select a quotation for each new day. Quotemarks is deeply integrated with iOS so quotations can be searched, added, shared, and presented inside and outside of the app. • Collect. Start your own collection as you discover sayings from influential people, phrases from movies, and lines of poetry. • Organize. Tag your quotations and group by tag. Sort by your favorite authors or by date added to show a passage of time. • Today. Schedule personalized quotations for every day to uplift yourself during hard times and stay motivated in pursuit of your goals. Opt-in for reminder notifications, use the today widget, or add a widget to your home screen (iOS 14). • Archive. Your collection is yours to keep and not locked away. Export to a convenient CSV-formatted package for safekeeping or as a keepsake. Import from this package format, the legacy Quotebook formatted CSV, and other CSV formats. • Share. Quickly save quotations found in other apps, and share select quotations from your collection. • Search. Saved quotations will start appearing in your device search results.

Screenshots

Notable Quotes4 screens
Quotemarks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Notable Quotes at 4.8 against Quotemarks's 4.5. Quotemarks's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Notable Quotes sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Quotemarks sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Notable Quotes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 53 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Notable Quotes's written reviews are positive against 81% of Quotemarks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notable Quotes ships an update every 3 months, Quotemarks every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Notable Quotes versus Quotemarks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotable QuotesQuotemarks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (18 ratings) — better4.5 (53 ratings)
Positive reviews82.3% of reviews — better81.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1853 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHand Carved Code, LLCChristopher Hale

Customer experience

Notable Quotes

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive82.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative9.7%

Quotemarks

All ratings38 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral7.9%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral9.5%
Negative9.5%

Bugs and requests

Notable Quotes

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Widget no longer works in iOS 18
  • App crashes on launch after updates
  • Loss of personal quotes after updates
  • Facebook connection issues
  • Twitter authentication failures
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  • Data loss during app updates
  • Incompatibility with older iOS versions
  • Duplicate quotes with different wordings
  • System requirement changes after purchase

Requested features

18 requests
  • Daily quote notifications/push notifications
  • iPad optimization and support
  • Custom category and tagging system
  • Dropbox or cloud backup integration
  • CSV import functionality
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  • Source documentation field for custom quotes
  • Copy and paste functionality
  • Quote of the day feature
  • Custom background image uploads
  • Share quotes as images with backgrounds
  • Back navigation button
  • Additional quote databases (athletes, comedians, etc.)
  • Goodreads API integration
  • User-submitted quotes to main database
  • Mark emailed quotes to avoid duplication
  • Set quotes as wallpaper
  • More diverse quote authors and perspectives
  • Twitter/social media integration improvements

Quotemarks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Notable Quotes

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Big Tip$4.99
3 purchases

Quotemarks

One-time3
  • Small Gesture$0.99
  • Token of Gratitude$2.99
  • Generous Thank You$4.99

Questions

Is Notable Quotes free?
Notable Quotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quotemarks free?
Quotemarks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notable Quotes or Quotemarks?
Notable Quotes is rated higher. Notable Quotes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Quotemarks averages 4.5 from 53 ratings.
Do Notable Quotes or Quotemarks have ads?
Neither Notable Quotes nor Quotemarks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notable Quotes or Quotemarks?
Notable Quotes ships an update every 3 months, and Quotemarks every 2 months. Most recently, Notable Quotes was updated on November 1, 2026 and Quotemarks on November 2, 2026.

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