Comparison

leaf vs Founding Fathers Quotes

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

Head to head
About

leaf

This app offers a natural reading experience with customizable scroll options and an integrated read-aloud feature. Access a vast library of free classics or import your own documents. Enjoy a distraction-free environment with no ads or intrusive elements.

Highlights
  • Natural vertical scroll and page curl
  • Read-aloud narration with line highlighting
  • Access to 70,000+ free classic books
  • Import EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files
  • Customizable themes, fonts, and spacing
  • Organized library with shelves and filters
  • Ad-free and distraction-free reading experience
Features
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Scroll naturally. Read deeply. leaf is a reading app built for your phone. Read on your own, or let leaf read to you. Read with a natural vertical scroll, or turn pages with a page curl when you want a more traditional feel. leaf flows through your book the way your thumb already moves. When your attention keeps sliding off the page, tap play. leaf sets a gentle pace and lights up each line as you go. Turn on the voice and it reads the page aloud while you follow along, or lock your phone and keep listening. Narration uses the voices built into your iPhone, so it's free and unlimited, works offline, and your books never leave your phone. Browse and download over 70,000 free books from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks: classic literature, philosophy, fiction, and more. Import your own EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files too. No reading streaks. No goals. No ads. No noise. Just you and the book. READ ALONG AND NARRATION - Tap play and leaf sets the pace, lighting each line as you read - Turn on the voice and leaf reads the page aloud as the highlight follows - Free and unlimited: no hours to count, no account to make - Runs on your iPhone, works offline, and never uploads your books - Keeps reading with the screen locked. Pause, play, or skip back 15 seconds from the lock screen or your headphones - Picks a voice in your book's language. Apple's Enhanced and Premium voices are a free download and sound the most natural - Change the speed any time, pause with a tap, or step back a sentence - Works with every reading flow - Also works for PDFs READER - Three reading flows: Page Curl, Slide, or Continuous scroll - Vertical or horizontal page turns - Light, Dark, System, and E-Ink themes - Bookmarks, highlights, and notes - Multi-paragraph highlighting and sharing - Search within any book - Typefaces including Classic, Modern, Lexend, and Atkinson Hyperlegible - Adjust font size, spacing, and text density - Set a reading intention for each book - An exportable Reading Journal is created automatically when you highlight text or write a note PDFs - Read PDFs with the same reading flows as books - Pages follow your theme automatically, in light or dark - Columns are detected and shown one at a time, so the text is bigger and you never scroll sideways to read a line LIBRARY - Organise books into shelves, grouped into sections you can collapse - Filter by shelf, intention, or reading status - Sort by title, author, last opened, or shelf - View books as Grid or List - Search your entire library - Drop supported book files into the leaf folder and they'll appear in your library automatically - Use iCloud to share books between devices - Continue reading from your current book with the Home Screen widget FREE BOOKS - Browse and download from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks - Over 70,000 free classic and public domain titles - The Call of the Wild is included, so you can start reading straight away - Import your own EPUB, PDF, and Markdown files - Supports multiple file and folder import LEAF PRO - Six more themes: Sepia, Ivory, Mist, Forest, Midnight, and Amber Night - Design up to six custom themes of your own - Three more typefaces (Literata, Spectral, and Merriweather) or import your own - Line, paragraph, and letter spacing - Sync your library across devices - Sync reading progress, highlights, notes, bookmarks, shelves, and Reading Journal entries Privacy Policy: https://readleaf.co/legal Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Founding Fathers Quotes

Receive daily wisdom from America's founders with carefully selected quotations. Explore a library of historical texts and filter by themes like liberty and virtue. Save and share your favorite insights.

Highlights
  • Daily quote delivery
  • Source attribution for each quote
  • Searchable quote library
  • Filter quotes by theme
  • Save favorite quotes
  • Shareable quote cards
  • Light and dark reading modes
Features
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Founding Fathers Quotes is a daily companion for American history and civic wisdom. Each day it delivers one carefully chosen quotation from the founders of the United States — Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Thomas Paine — shown on a calm, editorial reading card. Every line is drawn from the primary sources: Poor Richard's Almanack and Franklin's Autobiography, The Federalist Papers, Common Sense and The American Crisis, Notes on the State of Virginia, Washington's Farewell Address, and the founders' letters and speeches. • A new quote every morning at the time you choose • Every quote names its author and the work it came from • Search the full library and filter by theme — liberty, virtue, education, industry, union, prudence, and more • Save your favorites • Share beautifully set quote cards • Light & dark reading palettes From the Almanack's proverbs to the Farewell Address — link out to each source work, and to the great modern histories of the founding era, to read more.

Screenshots

leaf4 screens
Founding Fathers Quotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Founding Fathers Quotes at 5.0 against leaf's 3.4. Founding Fathers Quotes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). leaf's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (7 vs 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. leaf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Founding Fathers Quotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Founding Fathers Quotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: leaf has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

leaf ships an update weekly, Founding Fathers Quotes every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
leaf versus Founding Fathers Quotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterleafFounding Fathers Quotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbraham JesriEpictetus LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

leaf

Subscriptions2
  • Leaf Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Leaf Pro7 Days trial$12.991 Year
None

Founding Fathers Quotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is leaf free?
leaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Founding Fathers Quotes free?
Founding Fathers Quotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, leaf or Founding Fathers Quotes?
Founding Fathers Quotes is rated higher. leaf averages 3.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Founding Fathers Quotes averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do leaf or Founding Fathers Quotes have ads?
Neither leaf nor Founding Fathers Quotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, leaf or Founding Fathers Quotes?
leaf ships an update weekly, and Founding Fathers Quotes every 5 weeks. Most recently, leaf was updated on November 5, 2026 and Founding Fathers Quotes on October 31, 2026.

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