Comparison

Bera Reader vs Quirepad

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

Head to head
About

Bera Reader

Save articles, books, and more for offline reading and annotation. Transform long content into magazine-style layouts with adaptive notes and bento notebooks. Export content as PDFs for sharing or AI summarization.

Highlights
  • Offline article and book saving
  • Magazine-style content reflow
  • Adaptive notes with emojis
  • Bento notebook creation
  • PDF export for sharing and AI
  • Spaced repetition
  • On-device web clipper
Features
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## Deep reading space for millions of words Instantly clip and save beautiful articles, books, photos, and authors, or RSS feeds to your library for offline use. Put all your paid and free subscriptions in one place for multiple purposes: deep reading, annotation, spaced repetition, and content generation. ## A beautiful reader. Deeply read by scrolling less. A completely new feature that instantly transforms long form content like essays, articles and books into professionally laid out publications like magazines. Not only is it beautiful, but the Auto Grid Reflow Layout also adjusts the layout compatible with different screen sizes, optimizing font and display components for a better reading experience. ## Adaptive notes with emojis Enhanced annotation allows you to create notes injected right under the page, helping you retrieve information in context. You can also set emojis as icons for notes to help categorize and look them up more effectively. ## Instantly create bento notes Instantly generate your notes and marks to a bento grid notebook. You can add, reorder notes, marks, photos from multi documents into a collection and transform it into a bento grid notebook. ## Export as magazine-like pdf You can gather good documents into a collection and easily export them as professional PDF layouts for sharing. And of course, you can use this PDF to import into ChatGPT for tasks such as summarizing, extracting, creating new content… ## Private by design (*) This data is only stored locally on your device and synced with your iCloud account.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ When you install a new device and log in with your iCloud account, the app will restore all your data. All tasks, from extracting document content, searching, layout formatting, to exporting PDFs, are performed entirely on your device only, zero request to servers or APIs. *: The app has integrated Adapty.io for subscription management and Google Analytics with IDFA and IDFV collection disabled. ## Notable features - Auto grid layout (magazine-like) - Adaptive notes with emoji - Spaced repetition - Quick look - Replay - RSS feed - Nested collection with drag & drop - Mix content types in a collection - Read aloud - Enhanced language listening - Build vocabulary - On device web clipper - Weekly reading time recap - Create bento, outliner notebook - Export as beautiful PDF, Text Bundle, Markdown, Epub, HTML

About

Quirepad

Features
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Quirepad is a small, focused tool for anyone who copies text from the web more than once at a time, built specifically for how you actually read on iPhone and iPad. The problem it solves: you are reading a long article, a research paper, or documentation, and you need three or four separate pieces of text, not the whole page. Selecting with your finger cannot skip the lines in between. And copying one piece, pasting it, then scrolling back for the next one breaks your reading flow every single time, especially on a smaller screen. Quirepad fixes this. Turn it on, and every piece of text you select gets added to a small floating box right on the page. Keep reading. Switch tabs. Select more. When you are done, tap Copy All and everything you gathered is merged into your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere, grouped by the page it came from. HOW IT WORKS -Tap the Quirepad icon in Safari to arm it. A small badge confirms it is active. -Select any text on any page. A small + button appears, tap it, and the text is added to the box. -Switch tabs or pages freely. Quirepad keeps collecting across all of them, and groups snippets by source with a clear divider. -Made a mistake? Delete any single snippet, or copy just one, right from the box. Nothing is final until you say so. -Tap Copy All to merge everything into your clipboard as one clean block of text, ready to paste into your notes, your document, or an email. BUILT FOR HOW YOU ACTUALLY READ Quirepad works the same way on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so the habit carries over wherever you are reading. Most tools like this only exist on Chrome and only on desktop. Quirepad was built Safari first, with real support for how much harder it is to copy multiple pieces of text on a phone. Turn on Keep Formatting to preserve bold, italics, and links when you paste into a rich text document. Turn on Include Sources to automatically add the page title and link above each group of snippets, useful for citations and research notes. PRIVACY Everything Quirepad collects stays on your device. There is no account, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing is ever sent anywhere. Your reading and your notes are yours. Quirepad is a quiet, purpose-built tool. It does one thing, and it tries to do it well.

Screenshots

Bera Reader4 screens
Quirepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quirepad at none against Bera Reader's 2. Bera Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Bera Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Quirepad asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bera Reader ships an update every 4 days, Quirepad every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bera Reader versus Quirepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBera ReaderQuirepad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTran PhuongSaurabh Mishra

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bera Reader

Subscriptions2
  • Berä Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Berä Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
None

Quirepad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bera Reader free?
Bera Reader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quirepad free?
Quirepad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bera Reader or Quirepad have ads?
Neither Bera Reader nor Quirepad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bera Reader or Quirepad?
Bera Reader ships an update every 4 days, and Quirepad every 9 days. Most recently, Bera Reader was updated on September 30, 2026 and Quirepad on September 18, 2026.

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