Comparison

Dear Reader vs Quote

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

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About

Dear Reader

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Dear Reader is a quiet reading reflection journal for people who want to remember books by what they made them think, not by how many pages they finished. You do not need to complete a book to keep something meaningful from it. One sentence that stopped you, and one thought in your own words, can be enough. Dear Reader helps you save that moment as a discovery and revisit it later. โ–  One sentence, one thought Save a sentence from a book and add the thought it sparked. The original sentence and your reflection stay together on one discovery card. โ–  Reading without completion pressure Dear Reader is not built around finished books, page counts, timers, or productivity goals. It is built around the small moments when a book makes you pause. โ–  Prompts when the blank page feels hard Gentle prompts and quick reaction chips help you begin your reflection. You can write a sentence, a paragraph, or just enough to remember why the moment mattered. โ–  Revisit what you saved A saved sentence can meet you again later. Return to past discoveries and notice how the same words feel different with time. โ–  A bookshelf shaped by discoveries Your bookshelf is not only a list of books. It quietly shows the thoughts and discoveries each book left behind. โ–  Connect reflections across books Use tags to find discoveries that share a theme, even when they came from different books. Over time, scattered sentences begin to show the shape of your thinking. โ–  A private, local-first space Dear Reader starts without an app account. Your sentences, thoughts, books, and settings are stored primarily on your device. There is no public feed, follower count, or reading competition. Dear Reader is for readers who: - save good sentences but rarely return to them - want a reading journal without writing long entries every day - care more about reflection than finishing more books - want to keep book sentences and personal thoughts together - prefer a calm private space over a social reading feed Keep what books made you think. One sentence and one thought can become a reading habit that lasts.

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Quote

Capture and organize favorite book quotes by simply taking a photo. The app automatically converts text, organizes by book, and even finds cover images. Sync across devices and revisit cherished passages.

Highlights
  • Scan book passages to text
  • Organize quotes by book
  • Automatic cover image fetching
  • Favorite quotes feature
  • Cloud synchronization
  • Multilingual support (Korean, English)
Features
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Quote๋Š” ์ฑ… ์† ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ์ดฌ์˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ €์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋…์„œ ๋…ธํŠธ ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ‘์ค„๋งŒ ๊ธ‹๊ณ  ๋ฎ์–ด๋‘” ๋ฌธ์žฅ๋“ค, ๋‹ค์‹œ ํŽผ์ณ๋ณธ ์  ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“  ๊ตฌ์ ˆ์„ ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ์ฐ์œผ๋ฉด ํ…์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ์ธ์‹ํ•ด ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–  ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ยท ๋ฌธ์žฅ ์Šค์บ”: ์ฑ… ์† ๊ตฌ์ ˆ์„ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž๋™์œผ๋กœ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ ยท ์ฑ…๋ณ„ ์ •๋ฆฌ: ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ์ฑ… ๋‹จ์œ„๋กœ ๋ชจ์•„ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์„œ์žฌ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ยท ํ‘œ์ง€ ์ž๋™ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ: ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œ์ง€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์˜ค๊ธฐ ยท ์ฆ๊ฒจ์ฐพ๊ธฐ: ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ๋ชจ์•„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ยท ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๋™๊ธฐํ™”: ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์–ด๋ณด๊ธฐ ยท ๋‹ค๊ตญ์–ด ์ง€์›: ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด, ์˜์–ด โ–  ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์š” ยท ์ข‹์€ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฝ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ ยท ๋…์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ํ•œ๊ณณ์— ๋ชจ์œผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ถ„ ยท ์†์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ ์ ๊ธฐ ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์› ๋˜ ๋ถ„ Quote์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํฉ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ๋˜ ๋ฌธ์žฅ๋“ค์„ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ๋…์„œ ๋…ธํŠธ๋กœ ๋ชจ์•„๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

Screenshots

Dear Reader4 screens
Quote3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Quote at none against Dear Reader's shown. Quote also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dear Reader ships an update every 9 days, Quote daily. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Dear Reader versus Quote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDear ReaderQuote
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size51 MB14 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMoonsun Yangjinyong park

In-app purchases

None

Dear Reader

No in-app purchases

None

Quote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dear Reader free?
Dear Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quote free?
Quote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dear Reader or Quote have ads?
Dear Reader shows ads; Quote does not.
Which is updated more often, Dear Reader or Quote?
Dear Reader ships an update every 9 days, and Quote daily. Most recently, Dear Reader was updated on September 15, 2026 and Quote on September 21, 2026.

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