Curiosity Quench vs Hooks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Curiosity Quench
This app helps you reduce endless scrolling and reclaim your time. It guides you to discover and act on your interests with personalized plans, curated content, and actionable steps. Spend less time on your phone and more time doing what you love.
- Discover interests
- Save topics
- Generate action plans
- Curated videos and articles
- Follow through with steps
- Reduce screen time
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Replace your screen time with life time. Bye bye endless scrolling, hello Curiosity Quench: Built to help you scroll less and do more of the things you actually enjoy. Discover what you love doing and do it using our custom curated, actionable plans for YOUR unique curiosities and interests. - Explore and find what interests you - Save the topic(s) that peak your curiosity - Generate a curated plan to help you take ACTION - Watch videos and read articles that were hand selected for you - Do the thing: follow the steps and watch content curated to help you follow through. - Do more of the things that you actually enjoy and forget about checking your phone 24/7 - Reduce screen time and scroll less in the process. Scroll less, live more. Terms of use and service: https://www.curiosityquench.com/tos READY TO QUENCH?
Hooks
Capture and organize video ideas quickly through typing or voice input. Swipe through your saved concepts in a video-like feed, categorized by creator account and color-coded folders. Optional cloud backup is available.
- Save video ideas instantly
- Voice-to-text idea capture
- Organize by creator account
- Color-coded folder organization
- Video feed-style idea browsing
- Optional cloud backup with Apple ID
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Save your video ideas in one place! Your next great video starts as a passing thought. Hooks gives creators a fast, focused place to save it before it disappears. Capture an idea by typing or speaking. Organize ideas by creator account and folder, then swipe through them in a clean canvas inspired by the final short-form video experience. With Hooks you can: • Save video hooks and ideas in seconds • Speak an idea and turn it into a text note • Organize ideas across multiple creator accounts • Group ideas into color-coded folders • Swipe through your saved ideas like a video feed • Sign in with Apple to back up and restore your creator accounts, folders, hooks, and transcribed notes Hooks is local-first and works without creating an account. Sign in with Apple is optional and enables cloud backup and recovery when reinstalling the app or moving to another device. A Hooks Pro subscription is required after onboarding. Terms of Use (EULA): https://differenthq.com/hooks/terms Privacy Policy: https://differenthq.com/hooks/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hooks at 100% against Curiosity Quench's 50%. Hooks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Curiosity Quench's advantage is ratings volume (210 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Curiosity Quench sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days and Hooks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hooks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Curiosity Quench has 210 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Curiosity Quench's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hooks's.
Curiosity Quench ships an update weekly, Hooks every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Curiosity Quench | Hooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (210 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 210 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jack ingram | B Gilmore, LLC |
Customer experience
Curiosity Quench
Hooks
Bugs and requests
Curiosity Quench
Reported bugs
5 issues- Honestly really cool app, but the swipe right just doesn't seem to work
- Mine keeps saying that it'll give me a credit every 20 hours but it isn't
- The custom video generation doesn't work
- When setting up the app, I scrolled for so long trying to find anything related to motorsports in general, and anything motorsport related I have to pay for
- It gets you stuck there and I couldn't tap the button or anything to get past and had to reload the app
Requested features
2 requests- Add skateboarding to the list of interests
- Add filters when generating a plan like a free filter or an at home filter or a filter for activities with friends
Hooks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Curiosity Quench
- Weekly Premium$1.497 Days
- Monthly Premium 2$2.991 Month
- Premium Access$3.991 Month
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- 3 Month Premium$9.993 Months
- Yearly Premium$17.991 Year
- Premium Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- 10 Quench Credits$0.99
- 99 Quench Credits$3.99
- Lifetime Premium$44.99
Hooks
- Hooks Pro Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Hooks Pro Annual$29.991 Year
