Comparison

TGI Trivia vs QBReader

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

Head to head
About

TGI Trivia

Engage in live, hosted trivia games directly from your device. Connect with friends and compete in real-time trivia challenges. Experience the thrill of bar trivia anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Live hosted trivia
  • Connect with friends
  • Real-time competition
  • Bar trivia experience
  • Mobile accessibility
Features
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TGI Trivia turns your phone into your team's buzzer, scoreboard, and answer sheet for live trivia night. No setup, no account required — just get the game code from your host, enter your team name, and you're in. Every question appears on your screen the instant it's live, synced in real time with the room. HOW IT WORKS • Enter your team name and the game code shown at your event • Answer as questions appear — no waiting for someone to pass a buzzer • Watch your team's score update live as rounds are scored STAY IN THE GAME Between questions, keep up with round winners, the fastest team, and fun trivia facts while you wait for the next question to drop. Built for bars, breweries, and live trivia hosts running real events — pull it up, join the game, and play.

About

QBReader

Practice quiz bowl and trivia questions with instant answer checking. Engage in solo play or real-time multiplayer matches with friends, featuring synchronized buzzing and scoring. Customize categories, difficulty, and reveal speed for a personalized learning experience.

Highlights
  • Solo tossup practice
  • Multiplayer rooms with game codes
  • Real-time buzzing and scoring
  • Instant answer checking
  • Question history
  • Customizable settings
Features
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QBReader is a lightweight iOS app for quiz bowl and trivia practice. Practice tossups one question at a time, buzz when you know the answer, and get instant answer checking powered by QBReader. Review your past questions in History, tune categories and difficulty in Settings, and keep questions moving at your preferred reveal speed. Play solo when you want fast practice, or start a multiplayer room and invite friends with a game code. Multiplayer is built for synchronized gameplay, so players see questions reveal together, buzz in, answer, and keep score in real time. Features: • Single-player tossup practice • Multiplayer rooms with game codes • Real-time buzzing and scoring • Answer checking with prompts and accepted answers • History for correct, skipped, and incorrect questions • Category, difficulty, and reveal speed settings • Clean, lightweight iOS-first design QBReader is inspired by the QBReader web project and is designed for fast mobile practice, whether you’re preparing for quiz bowl tournaments, studying trivia, or playing casually with friends.

Screenshots

TGI Trivia4 screens
QBReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: QBReader at every 3 days against TGI Trivia's fortnightly. QBReader also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TGI Trivia against 5.0 for QBReader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QBReader has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TGI Trivia ships an update fortnightly, QBReader every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TGI Trivia versus QBReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTGI TriviaQBReader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB29 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperETHERVOX, LLCRISHIKESH BADARI

Customer experience

TGI Trivia

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

QBReader

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TGI Trivia

No in-app purchases

None

QBReader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TGI Trivia free?
TGI Trivia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QBReader free?
QBReader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TGI Trivia or QBReader?
TGI Trivia and QBReader are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do TGI Trivia or QBReader have ads?
Neither TGI Trivia nor QBReader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TGI Trivia or QBReader?
TGI Trivia ships an update fortnightly, and QBReader every 3 days. Most recently, TGI Trivia was updated on October 28, 2026 and QBReader on October 24, 2026.

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