Quotive vs Marginalis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quotive
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Quotive: Your Personal Quotes Vault Quotive is the ultimate app for readers and thinkers who want to preserve the power of words. Designed for those who cherish meaningful quotes, Quotive lets you create your own personalized collection of inspiration, wisdom, and creativity. Unlike typical quote apps, Quotive isn’t about generating quotes—it’s about giving you the freedom to store, customize, and share the ones that resonate with you. Whether you’re reading a book, browsing the web, or hearing something unforgettable, Quotive ensures no great quote is ever lost. Key Features: • Add Your Own Quotes: Type them manually, capture them with your camera, or share text directly from other apps. • Stylish Quote Cards: Turn your favorite quotes into beautifully designed cards using customizable templates. • Organized Vault: Easily store, sort, and access your quotes by date or random order. • Share & Inspire: Spread the wisdom by sharing your custom cards with friends, family, or on social media. • Customization Tools: Make every quote uniquely yours by personalizing styles, fonts, and layouts. • Progressive Vault: Build your library over time and watch your collection grow into a treasure trove of inspiration. Quotive is your personal vault of wisdom—a space to preserve words that move you, motivate you, or simply make you smile. Shape your collection and share your light with the world. Download Quotive today and start building your collection of words that matter!
Marginalis
This app helps you capture and organize highlights from physical books. It allows you to save quotes, ideas, and summaries, and track your reading habits. Enjoy private AI-powered book summaries and share your favorite passages.
- Capture highlights with Live Text
- Organize books into custom lists
- Five types of notes (quote, idea, etc.)
- Share passages as image cards
- Reading activity insights
- On-device AI book summaries
- Home Screen widget for quotes
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Every great book leaves a mark. Marginalis makes sure you never lose it. A reading journal for physical book readers — capture highlights, organise your library, and revisit the passages that changed how you think. Capture quotes without the friction Point your camera at any page. iOS Live Text does the rest — your highlight is captured in seconds, no typing, no losing your place. Prefer to highlight in other apps? Send any selected text straight to Marginalis from Kindle, Apple Books, Safari, or anywhere with a share sheet. Five kinds of notes, because not every thought is the same Quote. Idea. Question. Reaction. Summary. Each note type gives your thinking room to breathe — and makes it easy to find exactly what you were looking for when you come back. Your library, the way you actually read Organise books across Reading, Up Next, Wishlist, and Finished. Browse by genre or reading status. Add any title by scanning its barcode, searching by name, or entering it manually. Cover images fetch automatically. Share the passages that moved you Turn any note into a beautiful image card — paper or editorial style, portrait or square. Edit inline, then share anywhere. Because some quotes deserve more than a screenshot. Explore your reading with AI Synthesis lets you have a real conversation with your reading. Select books or tags, then ask anything — what themes keep coming back, what tensions you noticed, what remains unresolved. Your reading assistant answers from your own notes, citing exactly where each idea came from. When something is worth keeping, save it as a permanent insight. On supported devices, Marginalis can also generate an intelligent summary of your notes for any book — powered by Apple Intelligence, processed entirely on your iPhone. Understand your reading life A heatmap of your annotation activity. Note type breakdowns. Most highlighted books. Favourite authors. A tag cloud built from your own words. Marginalis reflects your reading back to you in ways that are actually interesting. Your favourite quotes, on your Home Screen The Marginalis widget brings a daily highlight to your iPhone's Home Screen — a small reminder of why you read. Seamless iCloud sync Your library and notes sync automatically across your devices via iCloud. Private, seamless, requiring nothing beyond your Apple ID. Built for privacy, from the ground up No account required. No subscription. No analytics. No advertising SDKs. Your library, your notes, and your reading life belong entirely to you. Free to start. Yours forever. Marginalis is free to download. Up to 5 books, unlimited notes, every feature available to try. A one-time unlock gives you unlimited books, Markdown export, and full reading stats. No subscription. Ever. Reading that leaves a mark.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quotive at none against Marginalis's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Marginalis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quotive asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Quotive | Marginalis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohammed Alani | TIAGO KHZOUZ SANCHEZ |
In-app purchases
Quotive
No in-app purchases
Marginalis
- Marginalis Unlock$4.99









