Quick Reads vs Wallflower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Save articles from any app
- Distraction-free reading experience
- Customizable themes
- Highlight important passages
- Organize with tags
- Offline reading support
- Search saved articles
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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.
Wallflower
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Wallflower replaces Reddit's web pages with a boring reader. WHAT YOU GET - The front page, subreddits, posts and comment threads, as expected. - Sort feeds by best, hot, new, top, etc. Sort comments by best, top, new, controversial, etc. Tap a comment's header to collapse it. - Image and gallery viewer. Swipe between images, pinch to zoom. Videos are just video tags. - Type a subreddit name to go there. WHAT YOU DON'T GET - You can't log in, vote, comment, post or subscribe. - There's no inbox, no chat, no profile. - User pages, search and wikis aren't supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quick Reads at Free against Wallflower's $2.99. Wallflower's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days) and chart position (#27 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Quick Reads is free to download; Wallflower costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Quick Reads ships an update every 9 days, Wallflower every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Reads | Wallflower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #27 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Matt Birchler | And a Dinosaur |
In-app purchases
Quick Reads
No in-app purchases
Wallflower
No in-app purchases








