Comparison

Crest Browser vs QuillCue

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

Head to head
About

Crest Browser

Organize your online life with distinct browsing contexts for work, personal use, and private browsing. Each context has its own tabs, history, and data, ensuring a clean separation of your digital activities.

Highlights
  • Isolated browsing contexts (Spaces)
  • Separate tabs, history, and cookies per Space
  • Customizable Space identity
  • Focused sidebar for tabs and history
  • Peek for temporary link previews
  • Optional iCloud sync
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Work, personal life, and everything between deserve their own Space. Crest is a native browser for iPhone and iPad that keeps your accounts separate, your tabs organized, and your browsing distinctly yours. KEEP YOUR ACCOUNTS SEPARATE Each Space has its own tabs, cookies, website data, history, passwords, and site permissions. Stay signed in to different accounts on the same website. Switch from work to personal browsing without carrying the wrong session with you. GIVE EVERY TAB A PLACE Pin the sites you use every day. Save pages in folders. Keep today's tabs close and completed work in the archive. Select and move tabs, folders, and Split View groups together. On iPhone, bring in the sidebar with a gesture; on iPad, keep it beside your page. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Start with a Winter, Lion, or other crest template in Crest Studio, then change the colors, artwork, and background. Choose a crest, emoji, monogram, or symbol. Look and Feel lets you adjust the sidebar's edge, tab appearance, borders, icon colors, and default page zoom, with a live preview. KEEP RELATED PAGES TOGETHER Group two to four pages in Split View. On iPad, browse them side by side and resize the columns. On iPhone, swipe across the compact toolbar to move between pages in the group. Peek lets you check supported links without losing your place, then keep the page as a tab when you need it. TOOLS FOR EVERYDAY BROWSING Translate webpages on device with Apple's Translation framework. Read supported articles in Reader, find text on a page, adjust zoom, share links, and export pages. Content blocking and site permissions give you control over each Space. Language availability varies, and translation may require a language download. PRIVATE WHEN YOU NEED IT Private Browsing uses temporary website storage. Private tabs stay out of saved history, restoration, archive, and sync. Crest does not run an advertising SDK, collect browsing analytics, or require a Crest account. PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE Optional iCloud sync keeps supported Space and tab organization available across your Apple devices through your private iCloud database. Crest is also available for Mac. Crest is free and open source, built with Apple's WebKit. Requires iOS 26.1 or iPadOS 26.1 or later. Some website features and integrations vary by device.

About

QuillCue

This utility app provides a custom keyboard to quickly access and insert your saved prompts into other applications. Organize your prompts with categories, colors, and favorites for easy retrieval. It prioritizes user privacy with local storage and no analytics or advertising.

Highlights
  • Custom keyboard for prompt insertion
  • Organize prompts with categories and colors
  • Search and favorite prompts
  • Customizable app appearance
  • Local data storage for privacy
  • JSON backup functionality
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Store your favorite prompts and use them in your favorite AI apps. • A Keyboard for Your Favorite Apps Add the QuillCue keyboard in Settings, then insert the prompt you need into a compatible text field with one tap. It also works with Type to Siri. Browse prompts by category and switch between list and grid layouts. • Configure and Organize Your Prompts Assign categories, colors, and symbols to keep your prompt library organized. Keep prompts inside the app for reference or choose which ones appear in the QuillCue keyboard. • Search, Categorize, and Favorite Create custom categories, mark important prompts as favorites, and quickly search your library by title or prompt text. Favorites and categories are also available from the keyboard. • Make the Library Your Own Choose from multiple Home Screen app icons, typography options, color settings, and library layouts. Enable haptic feedback, simplify your cards with monochrome mode, or go back in time with the skeuomorphic cork board theme. • Private by Design with Easy Backups QuillCue has no accounts, analytics, advertising, or developer-operated servers. Your prompt library is stored locally, and QuillCue does not provide cloud synchronization. Create a JSON backup whenever you want to save your library or manually transfer it to another device.

Screenshots

Crest Browser4 screens
QuillCue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: QuillCue at 100% against Crest Browser's 0%. QuillCue also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

QuillCue holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Crest Browser's written reviews are positive against 100% of QuillCue's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crest Browser ships an update every 2 weeks, QuillCue every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Crest Browser versus QuillCue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrest BrowserQuillCue
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.1 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB38 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPaul DavisParker Ortolani

Customer experience

Crest Browser

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

QuillCue

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Crest Browser

No in-app purchases

None

QuillCue

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crest Browser free?
Crest Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QuillCue free?
QuillCue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Crest Browser or QuillCue?
QuillCue is rated higher. Crest Browser averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while QuillCue averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Crest Browser or QuillCue have ads?
Neither Crest Browser nor QuillCue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crest Browser or QuillCue?
Crest Browser ships an update every 2 weeks, and QuillCue every 3 weeks. Most recently, Crest Browser was updated on October 12, 2026 and QuillCue on October 13, 2026.

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