Comparison

Lectra Notes vs QuickStudy

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

Head to head
About

Lectra Notes

This app provides a private workspace for reading, annotating, and organizing PDF documents. It helps users understand dense texts faster with on-device intelligence for summaries and suggested tags. Designed for a calmer document workflow, it ensures your files remain private.

Highlights
  • Read and mark up PDFs
  • Highlight key passages and add notes
  • Organize documents with folders and tags
  • Generate summaries and suggested tags
  • Private by design with on-device intelligence
  • Backup and sync library
Features
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Lectra is a professional workspace for the documents you think on. RECORD THE LECTURE, NOT JUST THE NOTES Start recording from a control that floats above the whole app, then keep writing. Tap a handwritten stroke to hear what was being said as the pen moved. Drag the playhead and watch the page fill back in, stroke by stroke. Transcription runs on device, and an hour of lecture compacts to about 15 MB. BUILT FOR STUDENTS AND ANYONE WHO READS CLOSELY Lecture slides, problem sets, papers, and textbooks. Annotate your readings, write notes beside them by hand, scan whatever you got on paper, and keep the whole semester in one library that works without a signal. READ AND MARK UP Open any PDF and work it over with Apple Pencil, pressure-responsive pen, highlighter, and eraser in a dark, distraction-free editor that keeps your ink sharp at any zoom. Select the document's own text with a finger. Apple Pencil Pro squeeze switches tools. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS Ask a question about what you're reading and get an answer that cites the page it came from, computed by Apple's on-device model. Summarize documents and get to the point faster. Your documents are processed privately, on your iPad. NOTEBOOKS AND WHITEBOARDS Start from blank paper when the thinking hasn't found a document yet. Notebooks, paper styles, and room to sketch, then export your pages as PDFs. SCAN ANYTHING Bring paper into the record. Scan documents with the camera and mark them up like any other PDF. WHEN READING TURNS INTO WORK Run Python where you're already working, notebooks with charts, a real shell, Git, and a code editor, all on the iPad and all offline. The document and the work on it stay in the same place. A LIBRARY THAT KEEPS UP Everything in one place, available offline, and backed up when you sign in. Your documents are yours: export them anytime, in formats that open anywhere. YOUR MAC, TOO Lectra for Mac is a free download at canvascope.org/mac, the whole app on your desktop, plus your Mac on your iPad as a remote desktop, documents sent straight from iPad to Mac, and a shared clipboard. Now in Spanish and French. Lectra is free to use.

About

QuickStudy

Transform your notes into study aids instantly. This tool automatically generates flashcards and quizzes from scanned documents, photos, or PDFs using on-device AI. It supports handwriting recognition and works entirely offline, keeping your data private.

Highlights
  • Instant flashcard generation
  • Automatic quiz creation
  • Handwriting recognition
  • Offline functionality
  • On-device AI processing
  • Unlimited study set storage
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QuickStudy turns your notes into study materials in seconds. Scan a page, snap a photo, or import a PDF, QuickStudy uses on-device Apple Intelligence to generate flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes automatically. HOW IT WORKS 1. Scan your notes using the built-in document scanner, import a photo, or open a PDF 2. QuickStudy reads your text with advanced OCR, including handwriting 3. AI generates flashcards and quiz questions from your content 4. Review, edit, and approve the cards that work for you 5. Practice with interactive flashcards or test yourself with quizzes KEY FEATURES • Instant flashcard generation from scans, photos, and PDFs • Multiple-choice quizzes created automatically from your material • Handwriting recognition mode for written notes • Spell check and OCR correction built in • Save and organize unlimited study sets • Works entirely offline, your data never leaves your device • Runs on iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN QuickStudy processes everything on-device using Apple Intelligence. No accounts, no cloud uploads, no tracking. Your study materials stay on your device. Perfect for students, self-learners, and anyone preparing for exams. Stop rewriting flashcards by hand and let QuickStudy do the work.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Lectra Notes at 7 against QuickStudy's 1. Lectra Notes also leads on device support and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lectra Notes against 5.0 for QuickStudy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lectra Notes has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Lectra Notes versus QuickStudy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLectra NotesQuickStudy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoel SasonJaiden Henley

In-app purchases

None

Lectra Notes

No in-app purchases

None

QuickStudy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lectra Notes free?
Lectra Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QuickStudy free?
QuickStudy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lectra Notes or QuickStudy?
Lectra Notes and QuickStudy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.

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