Comparison

Quick Reads vs QuikNews

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

QuikNews

Consolidate all your trusted news sources into a single, fast, and clean feed. Enjoy distraction-free reading with customizable reader mode, on-device AI summaries, and offline access. Stay informed privately with no accounts, ads, or tracking.

Highlights
  • Consolidate all news sources
  • Distraction-free reader mode
  • On-device AI summaries
  • Offline article access
  • Customizable view styles
  • Keyword alerts
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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QuikNews brings every news source you trust into one fast, clean, distraction-free feed. Add any site's RSS or Atom feed — or just enter a website and QuikNews finds the feed for you — and read everything in one place, on your terms. A reader that respects your attention Open any article in Reader Mode: just the text, beautifully typeset, with adjustable font size, spacing, and color themes. No pop-ups, no autoplay video, no clutter. Apple Intelligence, on your device Get instant article summaries and a daily briefing of your top stories, generated entirely on-device. Nothing is sent to a server. Your news, everywhere • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with the latest headlines • Apple Watch app for headlines at a glance • Siri: just say "What's the latest with QuikNews" • iCloud sync keeps sources, bookmarks, and notes on all your devices Make it yours • Six view styles, from compact lists to full-screen cards • Bookmarks with offline copies — read anywhere, even with no connection • Notes with quoted passages, saved per article • Keyword alerts notify you when topics you follow appear • Hide articles you don't want to see; organize sources with tags and categories Private by design QuikNews has no accounts, no ads, no tracking, and no analytics. Your feeds are fetched directly from publishers; your data stays on your device and in your private iCloud.

Screenshots

Quick Reads3 screens
QuikNews4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: QuikNews at 5.0 against Quick Reads's 3.5. On price, ratings volume, 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

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Quick Reads versus QuikNews: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick ReadsQuikNews
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMatt BirchlerQuikApp LLC

Customer experience

Quick Reads

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

QuikNews

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Quick Reads

No in-app purchases

None

QuikNews

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Reads free?
Quick Reads is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QuikNews free?
QuikNews is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quick Reads or QuikNews?
QuikNews is rated higher. Quick Reads averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while QuikNews averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Quick Reads or QuikNews have ads?
Neither Quick Reads nor QuikNews shows ads.

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