Comparison

Quiet Write vs Quietleaf

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

Head to head
About

Quiet Write

Features
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Quiet Write is a calm, local-first Markdown writing app for journals, drafts, essays, newsletters, and quiet daily notes. Create and edit drafts in a focused writing space with Markdown-friendly tools, preview, outline, focus mode, and typewriter mode. Keep your writing organized with archive, recently deleted, search, and version snapshots. Quiet Write is intentionally small: no custom account, no subscription, no publishing platform, and no AI writing pipeline. Your writing is stored locally first, with optional iCloud sync for continuity across your Apple devices. Features: • Write drafts, journals, essays, newsletters, and notes • Markdown-friendly editor with preview • Focus mode and typewriter mode • Outline view for longer writing • Archive, restore, and recently deleted • Version snapshots for writing changes • Search active and archived drafts • Import .md and .txt files • Export one draft as Markdown • Export all writing as Markdown or JSON backup • Optional iCloud sync • One-time lifetime unlock Quiet Write is designed for people who want a slower, clearer writing space without accounts, feeds, pressure, or noise.

About

Quietleaf

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Quietleaf is a calm, minimalist writing app for private notes, journaling, reading notes, and the thoughts you want to keep. Most note-taking apps keep asking for more—more organization, more features, more systems. Quietleaf is built on a different idea. A quiet place to write. No accounts. No feeds. No dashboards. No unnecessary clutter. Just open the app, write, and return to your thoughts whenever you need them. Whether you’re collecting ideas from a book, writing a journal entry, saving a recipe, drafting something important, or simply thinking on the page, Quietleaf stays out of your way. When a word interrupts your flow, look it up with the built-in dictionary and continue writing without leaving your note. Features: • Private notes stored on your device • Calm, distraction-free writing • Journal entries and everyday notes • Search across note titles and contents • Spaces for simple organization • Built-in dictionary lookup • Rich text formatting • No account required • Export your notes anytime Quietleaf is for people who believe less can be more. Because the best notebook isn’t the one with the most features. It’s the one you keep coming back to. A notebook that doesn’t pull you away.

Screenshots

Quiet Write3 screens
Quietleaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quietleaf at none against Quiet Write's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Quiet Write sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quietleaf asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Quiet Write versus Quietleaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuiet WriteQuietleaf
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLizzian LLCBilly Lau

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quiet Write

One-time1
  • Quiet Write$9.99
None

Quietleaf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quiet Write free?
Quiet Write is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quietleaf free?
Quietleaf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Quiet Write or Quietleaf have ads?
Neither Quiet Write nor Quietleaf shows ads.

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