Filoli vs QuillUp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Filoli
Discover a historic estate with this app. Explore the grounds using an interactive map, find out about daily events, and learn about seasonal blooms and the estate's history. Enhance your visit with curated content and family activities.
- Interactive map of House, Garden, and trails
- Daily events and interpretive talks
- Seasonal garden bloom information
- Historic staff stories
- Plant identification tools
- Family activity suggestions
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Welcome to Filoli! Our app is packed with useful features to help you discover this beautiful place. - Navigate with the map to explore and learn about the House, Garden, and trails. - Find out what's going on at Filoli today - free interpretive talks, events, and more. - See what's blooming in the Garden this season. - Uncover the stories of historic Filoli staff. - Listen to curated playlists, download digital tools to identify plants, and discover activities to do with your family during your visit.
QuillUp
This app empowers young children to become storytellers by choosing characters and settings for unique, illustrated narratives. It offers a calm, creative experience with gentle narration, fostering imagination over passive consumption.
- Interactive story creation
- Choose heroes and worlds
- Gentle narration
- Beautiful illustrations
- Ad-free experience
- COPPA-compliant
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QuillUp helps kids create, not just consume. Instead of watching endless cartoons, your child becomes the author — choosing heroes and worlds. How it works – Choose your hero. – Pick where the story happens or create a new world. – Watch how the story unfolds, scene by scene, with gentle narration and beautiful illustrations. QuillUp App: – Designed for children ages 2–6 — simple, intuitive, safe. – Every story is unique — built together with your child. – No ads. No overstimulation. Just creativity and calm focus. – Stories can be listened to or read on screen. Coming soon – Turn your favorite story into a short cartoon – Let your toy become a hero inside the story Privacy: COPPA-compliant and ad-free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Filoli at 364 against QuillUp's 1. QuillUp's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Filoli against 5.0 for QuillUp. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Filoli has 364 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Filoli ships an update every 5 weeks, QuillUp every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Filoli | QuillUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (364 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 364 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filoli | Spread Global Inc. |
Customer experience
Filoli
QuillUp
In-app purchases
Filoli
No in-app purchases
QuillUp
No in-app purchases
