Comparison

QuillCue vs Lens

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

Head to head
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.

About

Lens

A private web browser focused on speed and simplicity. It blocks ads and trackers by default, offers customizable search engine options, and features automatic tab archiving. Enhanced privacy controls include Face ID protection for private tabs.

Highlights
  • Search-first interface
  • Ad and tracker blocking
  • Customizable search engines
  • Automatic tab archiving
  • Face ID protected private tabs
  • Link preview and translation
Features
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Lens is a web browser that stays out of your way. Open it and type: search comes first, your favourite sites are one tap away, and there's nothing else to learn. No ads, no trackers, no account, and nothing collected about you. Free. SEARCH FIRST • Lens opens straight to search, with your pinned sites one tap away. • Pick your search engine: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Kagi, Ecosia, Google or Bing. THE WEB, WITHOUT THE NOISE • Ads, trackers and most cookie pop-ups don't load. • Hide anything that bothers you on a page, and it stays hidden next time. PRIVATE ON ITS OWN • No account, no analytics, no tracking. Lens doesn't know who you are. • Lock private tabs with Face ID. • Forget This Website clears everything a site saved. • Secure connections everywhere, and tracking codes are cleaned from links. TABS THAT TIDY THEMSELVES • Tabs you haven't opened in a day move to the Archive. Nothing is lost. • A tab with a half-filled form stays open until you send it. • Pinch a page to see your tabs, swipe along the bar to switch, flick a tab up to close it. SMALL THINGS THAT HELP • Mini Player: keep listening while you browse, with Picture in Picture. • Downloads that keep going in the background. • Reader, in seven soft colours. • Translate pages right on your iPhone. • Press and hold a link to preview it, and scroll it, before you open it. • Buttons for Reader, Translate, video and Downloads show up only when you need them. • Zoom, fullscreen, desktop site and blocking, set for each site. • Swipe anywhere on a page to go back or forward. • Copy an article as clean Markdown. MADE FOR iPHONE DUO • Open, the page gets the whole big screen, with the bar down the side. • Half-fold it in landscape, and Reader becomes a book you turn page by page. • Closed, it's the same Lens you know from iPhone. WORKS WITH YOUR iPHONE • Make Lens your default browser. • iCloud Passwords, passkeys, one-time codes, Apple Pay and Wallet passes. • iCloud sync for pins, history and tabs, end-to-end encrypted. • Buttons for Control Center and the Lock Screen, and Siri and Shortcuts. FOR DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS Select any text to see which font draws it. Tap anything to see its box, colours and contrast, measure the gap between two elements, or pause the page to look at a menu. Turn on Developer Tools in Settings. LENS FOR MAC A free menu bar app with your pins, your iPhone's tabs and the pages you send from your iPhone. No feeds, no clutter, no AI you didn't ask for. If you like Lens, you can leave a tip and unlock extra app icons.

Screenshots

QuillCue4 screens
Lens4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QuillCue at none against Lens's 4. Lens's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (54 vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Lens sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. QuillCue asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for QuillCue against 4.9 for Lens. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lens has 54 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuillCue ships an update fortnightly, Lens every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
QuillCue versus Lens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuillCueLens
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)4.9 (54 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings554 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS27.026.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB67 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperParker OrtolaniMaximos Angelakis

Customer experience

QuillCue

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lens

All ratings54 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

QuillCue

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Lens

One-time4
  • Coffee$3.99
  • Coffee & Snack$6.99
  • Lunch$14.99
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  • Big Thank-You$29.99

Questions

Is QuillCue free?
QuillCue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lens free?
Lens is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, QuillCue or Lens?
Lens is rated higher. QuillCue averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Lens averages 4.9 from 54 ratings.
Do QuillCue or Lens have ads?
Neither QuillCue nor Lens shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuillCue or Lens?
QuillCue ships an update fortnightly, and Lens every 2 days. Most recently, QuillCue was updated on October 31, 2026 and Lens on November 12, 2026.

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