Comparison

QuickSave vs Nook

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

Head to head
About

QuickSave

A private, unified space to save links, screenshots, images, and notes from any app. Organize your saved content with tags and smart lists for easy retrieval, all synced privately via iCloud without ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Save links, images, and notes from any app
  • Organize with freeform tags and smart lists
  • Full-text search across content
  • Save multiple images per item
  • Private iCloud sync
  • No account creation required
Features
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QuickSave is one quiet home for everything worth keeping. Links, posts, screenshots and notes, all in a single private stream — not scattered across read-later apps, Photos and Notion. Save it now, find it later. No feed to scroll, no algorithm, no noise. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Share from any app in one tap, from Safari, X, Threads or Pinterest • Add links, notes and images by hand • Import screenshots and photos straight from your library ORGANISE & FIND • Freeform tags, with filter chips built from the tags you actually use • Smart lists that gather what matters • Full-text search across titles, notes and tags IMAGES & SCREENSHOTS • Save multiple images per item • Screenshots are copied into QuickSave, so you can clear the originals from Photos and your saves stay • A clean masonry feed that mixes text and images PRIVATE & SYNCED • Your library lives on your devices and syncs over iCloud • No account to create, nothing uploaded to our servers • No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. WHO IT'S FOR For anyone whose saves are scattered. Readers, designers, investors and builders who want one calm, private place that holds it all. Lifetime access. No subscriptions, no ads.

About

Nook

Features
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Nook is an RSS reader for people who would rather choose what they read. Add a feed, or paste a website and let Nook find the feed for you. Your subscriptions, what you have read, and what you have starred live on your device. There is no account to create, and nothing about your reading is sent anywhere. A READER THAT GETS OUT OF THE WAY Articles render natively, with real typography rather than a web page squeezed into a phone. Headings, quotes, code, tables, nested lists, images, and video all keep their structure. Set the font, size, line height, letter spacing, and colours, and switch any single feed to a full-page reader or the original site when its own layout is worth keeping. WORKS WITHOUT A NETWORK Nook is offline-first, not offline-capable. It launches, lists, and reads with no connection. Choose the articles to keep for later and decide when they expire. SYNC WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Point Nook at a folder in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or anywhere else that syncs files, and your feeds, read state, stars, categories, and folders follow you between devices. The folder service moves the files; Nook merges them, per device, so two devices changed at once do not overwrite each other. No server of ours is involved, because there isn't one. TRANSLATION, ON YOUR TERMS Translate a full article or just the titles in a list. Apple Intelligence runs on the device and costs nothing. Gemini is opt-in and uses an API key you provide, kept in this device's Keychain and never placed in the sync folder. ORGANISE IT HOWEVER YOU THINK Folders for feeds, colour-coded categories for articles, keyword rules, and text filters that collect what you would rather not see instead of deleting it. Optionally let Apple Intelligence or Gemini sort new articles by subject. QUIET BY DEFAULT No advertising, no tracking, no analytics, and no engagement mechanics. Badges and new-article notifications start off, and Nook asks for permission only after you turn one on — never at launch. PUBLISHING (BETA, INVITATION ONLY) Nook can also publish what you write. Articles are stored as records in an AT Protocol repository that belongs to you, and served as a web page with a real feed others can subscribe to. You can export every record and delete it at any time, including while publishing is suspended. This part of Nook is in beta and needs an invitation; everything above works without one.

Screenshots

QuickSave4 screens
Nook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nook at none against QuickSave's 1. Nook also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. QuickSave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nook asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
QuickSave versus Nook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuickSaveNook
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB16 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZhiqi PanKANG SEUNGHYUN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

QuickSave

One-time1
  • QuickSave Pro$1.99
None

Nook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuickSave free?
QuickSave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nook free?
Nook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QuickSave or Nook have ads?
Neither QuickSave nor Nook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuickSave or Nook?
QuickSave ships an update every 3 days, and Nook every 3 days. Most recently, QuickSave was updated on November 10, 2026 and Nook on October 31, 2026.

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