Comparison

Quick Reads vs PageFeed

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

Head to head
About

Quick Reads

Save articles from anywhere to build a personal reading library. Enjoy a distraction-free reading experience with customizable themes and offline access. Organize your saved content with tags and search functionality.

Highlights
  • Save articles from any app
  • Distraction-free reading experience
  • Customizable themes
  • Highlight important passages
  • Organize with tags
  • Offline reading support
  • Search saved articles
Features
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*Requires an active Quick Reads account.* Save articles. Read them later. Simple as that. A beautiful, distraction-free home for the articles that matter. Save from anywhere, highlight what resonates, and build your personal reading library. Beautiful reading experience Articles are stripped down to just the words and images. No ads, no pop-ups, no clutter. Choose from carefully tuned themes including Sepia, Cream, and Midnight, and read comfortably day or night. Highlight what matters Mark the passages worth remembering. All your highlights live in one place, easy to revisit later, and you can share a beautifully formatted highlight card to anywhere you'd like. Built natively for iOS Quick Reads is written in the latest Apple frameworks. That means it feels fast, looks at home on your device, and takes full advantage of features like the system share sheet, dark mode, Dynamic Type, and offline reading. Save articles from any app with the Share Extension, even when you're offline. Organize your way Tag articles to group them by topic, project, or mood. Archive what you've finished. Search across everything you've ever saved. Indie software, honest pricing Quick Reads is built by one person with exactly zero VC funding. No engagement metrics, no dark patterns, no selling your data. Just a focused tool made for people who want to read more of the good stuff on the internet.

About

PageFeed

This news reader presents content in a book-like, page-turning format, eliminating scrolling. Organize your favorite sources, read offline, and enjoy a distraction-free experience with customizable text and themes.

Highlights
  • Page-based reading, no scrolling
  • Organized by source, not algorithm
  • Distraction-free reading experience
  • On-device article summaries
  • Customizable tagging and filtering
  • Offline reading capability
  • Adjustable text and high-contrast theme
Features
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PageFeed is a different kind of news reader, built for reading, not scrolling. Featured by Six Colors, iPhoneBlog.de and iphone-ticker.de: the news reader you page through like a book. The sites, blogs, and writers you follow, laid out in clean, full pages. You tap forward and back, like turning pages in a book. Nothing scrolls. Every page is set to fit, so you always know exactly where you are. WHY PAGEFEED • Read in pages, never scroll. A calm, book-like way through every story, and on iPad, a two-page spread like an open book. • Your sources in order, not by algorithm. Newest or oldest first, your choice. Nothing is promoted, hidden, or reordered for you. • Group your sources. Organize the sites you follow into your own categories and read one topic at a time. • Private sync, your way. Sync through your own iCloud account to keep your iPhone and iPad in step, or through your own Google Drive to sync cross-platform, including the web. Either way, we never see your reading. Prefer simple? A free PageFeed sync account also works everywhere. • Summaries on device. On an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence, get the gist of any article in a few private, on-device bullet points. • Tags, on your terms. Every story is tagged, so you can follow a topic or mute one and never see it in your feed again. • Save anything. Share a web page to PageFeed to keep it, and star the stories you want to come back to. • Works offline. Once loaded, your reading is there on the subway, on a plane, anywhere. It catches up when you're back online. • Find your sources. Browse hundreds of publications by topic in Discover, and follow the ones you like. • Adjustable type and a high-contrast theme. Set the text size and switch to an easy-on-the-eyes look. PageFeed is deliberately minimal: no noise, no infinite scroll, no clutter. Just the news you choose, in order, one page at a time.

Screenshots

Quick Reads3 screens
PageFeed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PageFeed at 5.0 against Quick Reads's 3.5. PageFeed also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). Quick Reads's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. PageFeed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quick Reads asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PageFeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Reads ships an update every 11 days, PageFeed every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Quick Reads versus PageFeed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick ReadsPageFeed
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMatt BirchlerBrad Moss

Customer experience

Quick Reads

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

PageFeed

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Quick Reads

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PageFeed

One-time1
  • PageFeed Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Quick Reads free?
Quick Reads is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PageFeed free?
PageFeed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quick Reads or PageFeed?
PageFeed is rated higher. Quick Reads averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while PageFeed averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Quick Reads or PageFeed have ads?
Neither Quick Reads nor PageFeed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Reads or PageFeed?
Quick Reads ships an update every 11 days, and PageFeed every 5 days. Most recently, Quick Reads was updated on October 31, 2026 and PageFeed on October 31, 2026.

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