HalalScanApp vs Quill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HalalScanApp
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Is this food really halal? Find out in seconds. HalalScanApp lets you scan any product barcode and instantly know whether it's halal, haram, or uncertain - no guesswork, no label reading, no stress. WHAT YOU CAN DO Scan barcodes for an instant halal verdict Analyze ingredient photos with AI - Look up E-numbers and food additives - Browse a comprehensive halal/haram ingredient database - Submit missing products to help the community - Works in multiple languages POWERED BY AI If a product isn't in our database, our AI analyzes the ingredients for you - so you're never left without an answer. FOR EVERYONE Whether you're shopping at a supermarket, traveling abroad, or checking packaged snacks - HalalScanApp has you covered. Download free and eat with confidence.
Quill
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Quill keeps what you write on this iPhone. No account, no sign-up, and no server of ours — so there is no company that could read your diary, and that includes us. LOCK IT A four-digit PIN and Face ID. Quill asks when it opens, and again after thirty seconds away. Forget the PIN and a recovery code lets you back in. The preview in the App Switcher is covered. WRITE Bold, italic, underline, colour, links, bullets, numbers and checklists. Three photos in an entry — twenty with Pro. A mood, in words rather than stickers. Tags. Write up a day you missed, however far back. Your draft is saved while you type, so a crash or a flat battery takes nothing with it. FIND IT AGAIN Full-text search across every entry, on the device, in milliseconds. Filter by tag, mood, photos, favourites or a range of dates. A month calendar shows the days you wrote on. On this day brings back the same date from earlier years, and stays quiet when there is nothing to show. BRING AN OLD DIARY OVER Import from Day One, Apple Journal, a folder of Markdown, or plain text and CSV. You see how many entries and photos were found before anything is written. Import the same file twice and nothing is duplicated. TAKE EVERYTHING OUT AGAIN Export to PDF, to a book with a cover and contents by month, or to Markdown with your photos in a folder. With or without Pro, and after you stop using Quill. BACKED UP TO YOUR OWN iCLOUD Entries and photos travel through your private iCloud database. Not ours. Turn it off and Quill still works, entirely on the phone. QUILL PRO Draw a page by hand with a finger or a Pencil, and open it later to carry on. Record a voice note — five a page, five minutes each — kept inside the entry. Scan a page of a paper notebook and have the writing read into it, shown to you to correct before anything is added. Share an entry as a card that starts with no words at all, only the date, and lets you choose how much more to include. More than one mood a day. Twenty photos an entry, reading fonts and sizes, more notebooks, your streak on the home-screen widget, advanced search filters, and the place and weather noted with each entry. Not a subscription. The lock, iCloud backup, import, export, search, memories from past years and the daily reminder are not behind Pro and never will be. English, Tiếng Việt, 日本語, 한국어, 繁體中文, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Nederlands, Português, Türkçe and العربية — changed inside the app, without touching your iPhone's own language. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://primetruthteam.github.io/quill/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HalalScanApp at none against Quill's 1. HalalScanApp also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Quill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HalalScanApp asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 3, 2026.
| Parameter | HalalScanApp | Quill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BILAL GUNAY | Nguyen Dinh Chung |
In-app purchases
HalalScanApp
No in-app purchases
Quill
- Quill Pro$19.99









