Comparison

Quote Archive vs Widget Reader

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

Head to head
About

Quote Archive

Organize and access your favorite quotes and highlights from various sources. Read EPUB and CBZ files, manage notes, and customize your reading experience. Export your collected text for later use.

Highlights
  • Read EPUB, CBZ, and ZIP files
  • Highlight and tag quotes
  • Organize files with folders
  • Bookmark pages and text
  • Customize reading appearance
  • Search quotes and text
  • Add quotes from photos
Features
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Read ebooks. Store all your quotes or highlights in one place for easy management, review, and search. Add quotes from Kindle, Kobo, Libby, CSV, Adobe Digital Editions. You can use the app for free. Quote Archive offers a Free Tier and a Premium Tier. Upgrade to the Premium Tier with a one-time purchase to access premium features. Reader Features: - Read EPUB (reflowable, DRM-free), CBZ, or ZIP (of images) books, and highlight and tag quotes. - Highlight text directly on images from CBZ or ZIP files. - Organize your books with folders, including nested folders. - Bookmark pages and selected text. Add notes to bookmarks. - Customize font, colors, spacing, highlight style, number of columns on a page, and more. - Search inside EPUB books. - Add 8 books maximum on the Free Tier. Add unlimited books on the Premium Tier. Other Features - Organize or manage your quotes with collections and tags. - Customize the appearance of the Quote List and Quote Editor - Add highlights from Kindle (My Clippings.txt, HTML, CSV), Kobo, Adobe Digital Editions, Libby, CSV file. - Search your quotes or highlights. - Add quotes or excerpts from a photo. - Filter by tags when browsing or searching quotes. - Export all your data as plain text, rich text (Premium Tier), or CSV (Premium Tier). - Share your favorite quotes with others. - Share selected text from within other apps. - Show quotes in customizable widgets on the Home Screen. - Dark mode. - Automatically sync your data across devices with iCloud. - Add 100 quotes maximum on the Free Tier. Add unlimited quotes on the Premium Tier. Ways to Use Quote Archive - Review quotes and highlights from books or articles you've read. - Store inspirational/motivational quotes or affirmations and view them in widgets. - Collect and manage quotations while doing academic research and easily search through them later. - Save your favorite prose from books or articles, and read them later for writing inspiration. - Save your thoughts and ideas. - Use it for note-taking or use it like a Commonplace book. - Use it as a quote database to easily reference and look up quotes as needed. Who is Quote Archive for? Students, authors, writers, readers, researchers. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Widget Reader

Features
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Bring your own books into a quieter reading space. Widget Reader makes it easy to read a page, listen to a chapter, or enjoy a short passage from your Home Screen. • Import DRM-free EPUB, TXT, text-based PDF, MOBI/AZW, Markdown, HTML and FB2. • Choose files from your device, iCloud Drive or third-party cloud services enabled in Files. • Adjust fonts, text size, spacing, themes and page turns. • Listen with installed offline system voices, sentence highlighting and a sleep timer. • Save bookmarks, highlights and notes. Put your current book in a Home Screen widget. • Pro adds unlimited imports, organization, reading reports, advanced widgets, exports and optional private iCloud sync. Imported files are local copies; changes to the original do not update them. Export Google Docs to a supported format first. Scanned PDFs, OCR and DRM-protected books are not supported. Interactive widgets require iOS 17 or later. iPhone includes up to 10 unique books for free. Reading and library actions on iPad require Pro. Weekly and yearly subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Any trial is subject to App Store eligibility; see the purchase screen for current prices and terms. No app account or advertising. Books stay local unless you enable private iCloud sync. https://reader.jameshaoyu.com/privacy https://reader.jameshaoyu.com/subscription-terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Quote Archive4 screens
Widget Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Reader at none against Quote Archive's 1. Widget Reader also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.5). Quote Archive's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, 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. Quote Archive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quote Archive ships an update weekly, Widget Reader every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Quote Archive versus Widget Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuote ArchiveWidget Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNneka Nnamdi-Udoh浩宇 黄

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quote Archive

One-time1
  • Premium Tier$10.00
None

Widget Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quote Archive free?
Quote Archive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Widget Reader free?
Widget Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Quote Archive or Widget Reader have ads?
Neither Quote Archive nor Widget Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quote Archive or Widget Reader?
Quote Archive ships an update weekly, and Widget Reader every 3 weeks. Most recently, Quote Archive was updated on October 7, 2026 and Widget Reader on October 15, 2026.

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