RR vs Quietleaf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RR
Enhance your reading efficiency with this app. It offers customizable speed, font, and size settings for a personalized experience. Track your progress and improve comprehension on iOS, iPadOS, and Mac.
- Customizable reading speeds
- Adjustable fonts and sizes
- Personalized reading experience
- Progress tracking
- Word-by-word reading
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Read saved text one word at a time at a pace you choose. • Create a reading from your own text • Find saved readings by searching titles and text • Adjust reading speed, font, and text size • Pause and resume the reader • Edit and share saved text • Search Wikipedia and read short result excerpts Saved readings work offline. Wikipedia search requires an internet connection and sends your search terms to Wikimedia. Search text is sent as you type after three characters. No app account is required.
Quietleaf
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Quietleaf is a calm, minimalist writing app for private notes, journaling, reading notes, and the thoughts you want to keep. Most note-taking apps keep asking for more—more organization, more features, more systems. Quietleaf is built on a different idea. A quiet place to write. No accounts. No feeds. No dashboards. No unnecessary clutter. Just open the app, write, and return to your thoughts whenever you need them. Whether you’re collecting ideas from a book, writing a journal entry, saving a recipe, drafting something important, or simply thinking on the page, Quietleaf stays out of your way. When a word interrupts your flow, look it up with the built-in dictionary and continue writing without leaving your note. Features: • Private notes stored on your device • Calm, distraction-free writing • Journal entries and everyday notes • Search across note titles and contents • Spaces for simple organization • Built-in dictionary lookup • Rich text formatting • No account required • Export your notes anytime Quietleaf is for people who believe less can be more. Because the best notebook isn’t the one with the most features. It’s the one you keep coming back to. A notebook that doesn’t pull you away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Quietleaf at every 3 days against RR's every 14 months. RR's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RR ships an update every 14 months, Quietleaf every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RR | Quietleaf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Fennel | Billy Lau |
In-app purchases
RR
No in-app purchases
Quietleaf
No in-app purchases









