Comparison

ScreenSeek vs Quirepad

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

Head to head
About

ScreenSeek

Features
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ScreenSeek finds the text inside your screenshots — instantly, on-device. Stop scrolling through thousands of screenshots looking for that one receipt, address, or chat message. ScreenSeek runs Apple Vision OCR locally to make every word in every screenshot searchable. KEY FEATURES • Full-text search across your entire screenshot library • On-device OCR — your photos never leave your phone • Smart categories: Receipts, Chats, Articles, Maps, Code, Recipes, Payments • Detect URLs, phone numbers, and email addresses automatically • Read QR codes embedded in screenshots • One-tap copy of recognized text • Filter by date, category, or favorites • Works fully offline — no account required PRIVACY FIRST • All processing happens on your device • No analytics, no ads, no tracking • Photo Library access is read-only by default WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone who saves articles, receipts, or chat captures • Researchers, students, and journalists • Travelers organizing maps and confirmation screens • Developers searching for code snippets Make your screenshot library actually useful.

About

Quirepad

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Quirepad is a small, focused tool for anyone who copies text from the web more than once at a time, built specifically for how you actually read on iPhone and iPad. The problem it solves: you are reading a long article, a research paper, or documentation, and you need three or four separate pieces of text, not the whole page. Selecting with your finger cannot skip the lines in between. And copying one piece, pasting it, then scrolling back for the next one breaks your reading flow every single time, especially on a smaller screen. Quirepad fixes this. Turn it on, and every piece of text you select gets added to a small floating box right on the page. Keep reading. Switch tabs. Select more. When you are done, tap Copy All and everything you gathered is merged into your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere, grouped by the page it came from. HOW IT WORKS -Tap the Quirepad icon in Safari to arm it. A small badge confirms it is active. -Select any text on any page. A small + button appears, tap it, and the text is added to the box. -Switch tabs or pages freely. Quirepad keeps collecting across all of them, and groups snippets by source with a clear divider. -Made a mistake? Delete any single snippet, or copy just one, right from the box. Nothing is final until you say so. -Tap Copy All to merge everything into your clipboard as one clean block of text, ready to paste into your notes, your document, or an email. BUILT FOR HOW YOU ACTUALLY READ Quirepad works the same way on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so the habit carries over wherever you are reading. Most tools like this only exist on Chrome and only on desktop. Quirepad was built Safari first, with real support for how much harder it is to copy multiple pieces of text on a phone. Turn on Keep Formatting to preserve bold, italics, and links when you paste into a rich text document. Turn on Include Sources to automatically add the page title and link above each group of snippets, useful for citations and research notes. PRIVACY Everything Quirepad collects stays on your device. There is no account, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing is ever sent anywhere. Your reading and your notes are yours. Quirepad is a quiet, purpose-built tool. It does one thing, and it tries to do it well.

Screenshots

ScreenSeek4 screens
Quirepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quirepad at none against ScreenSeek's 1. Quirepad also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. ScreenSeek sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quirepad asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
ScreenSeek versus Quirepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenSeekQuirepad
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHaruki SugayaSaurabh Mishra

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ScreenSeek

One-time1
  • Premium$5.99
None

Quirepad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ScreenSeek free?
ScreenSeek is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quirepad free?
Quirepad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ScreenSeek or Quirepad have ads?
ScreenSeek shows ads; Quirepad does not.

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