Comparison

Tally vs Quietleaf

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

Head to head
About

Tally

Features
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A little order. A lighter day. Meet Tally, the new home for Advanced Offline Checklists. Create a checklist, use it again, and pass it on. Pack for a weekend away. Reset your home. Hand over a project. Keep the little things from slipping through the cracks. MAKE EVERY LIST YOURS Start from scratch or paste a list you already have. Mix checkboxes with text answers, numbers, dates, and choices. Organize items into sections, mark what is required, and choose an icon and color. SKIP THE BLANK PAGE Choose from 18 ready-made templates for home, travel, work, wellbeing, and everyday life. Every built-in template is free to use and available offline. CHECK IT. REPEAT IT. Start a fresh run whenever you need one. Your answers save as you go, so you can pick up where you left off. Completed checklists stay in your history. Editing a checklist keeps previous runs intact. SEND IT. FILL IT. SEND IT BACK. Share a blank checklist as a Tally file. The recipient opens it in Tally, fills it on their device, and shares their answers back. Import each returned response as a separate copy. Receiving, filling, and returning shared checklists are free. AirDrop works nearby without internet. Other sharing apps may need a connection. Shared files are copies; changes do not sync between devices. Both people need Tally to fill and return Tally files. YOUR LISTS, ON YOUR DEVICE Create, fill, import, and export offline. No Tally account. No ads, analytics, or tracking. Enjoy a thoughtful interface on iPhone and iPad, with light and dark appearances. FREE FOR YOUR EVERYDAY • Keep up to five saved checklists. • Use all 18 built-in templates. • Start unlimited runs and keep completed history. • Share, receive, fill, and return checklists. • Organize items into sections. MORE ROOM WITH TALLY PRO Choose Tally Pro Monthly or Tally Pro Yearly for unlimited saved checklists, PDF reports, signature fields, and extra colors. Anyone can fill a signature field they receive, even without Pro. Signatures capture a name or drawing; they do not verify identity. ALREADY BOUGHT PRO? Your original one-time Pro purchase is honored with lifetime access to all Pro features. You do not need a subscription. Restore purchases using the Apple Account that made the original purchase. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account subscription settings. Prices are shown in the app before purchase. Purchases and restores require an App Store connection. Support: https://wemakeen.com/support.html Privacy Policy: https://wemakeen.com/offlineprivacypolicy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Quietleaf

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Tally4 screens
Quietleaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quietleaf at none against Tally's 1. Quietleaf also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tally sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quietleaf asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tally ships an update every 7 months, Quietleaf every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Tally versus Quietleaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTallyQuietleaf
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMAKEEN TECHNOLOGYBilly Lau

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tally

One-time1
  • Offline Checklist Pro$5.99
None

Quietleaf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quietleaf free?
Quietleaf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tally or Quietleaf have ads?
Neither Tally nor Quietleaf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tally or Quietleaf?
Tally ships an update every 7 months, and Quietleaf every 3 days. Most recently, Tally was updated on November 9, 2026 and Quietleaf on October 31, 2026.

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