Comparison

KCLS vs And I Quote

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

Head to head
About

KCLS

Manage your library account conveniently from your mobile device. Discover new books, place holds, renew borrowed items, and easily locate library branches and their hours.

Highlights
  • Discover and search library collection
  • Place, manage, and cancel holds
  • Renew borrowed items
  • Rate and save titles
  • Find library locations and hours
  • Browse bestsellers and new arrivals
Features
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Save time by managing your King County Library System (KCLS) account on your mobile device. The KCLS app makes it easy to discover and rate titles, place holds, renew items, and find library locations. Features: • Find items in our collection, using filters to zero-in on what you’re looking for • Browse bestsellers, new arrivals, and recent reader reviews • Check title availability and map locations where titles are available now • Place, suspend, activate, and cancel holds • Renew items • Rate and save titles to Shelves • Find library hours and get directions to the nearest location

About

And I Quote

Capture and organize passages from physical books with your camera. Automatically detects text and book details, allowing for easy searching and sharing. Your quotes are private and stay on your device.

Highlights
  • Photograph book passages
  • On-device text recognition
  • Automatic book detail lookup
  • Searchable quote library
  • Shareable quote cards
  • Customizable themes
Features
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A quiet, beautifully typeset place to keep the passages you underline. NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. NO TRACKING. Your quotes never leave your phone. And I Quote is a reading journal for the words that stop you mid-page. Point your camera at a passage, tap the lines you want, and it's saved — in your library, under the book it came from, ready to find again in seconds. CAPTURE • Photograph any page — automatic edge detection and perspective correction, powered by the system scanner • On-device text recognition finds every line; tap to select exactly the words you want, across as many lines as you need • Fine-tune the text before saving — a fully editable confirm step catches any stray OCR mistake • Add a new book by scanning its ISBN barcode (title, author, cover art, and publish year fill in automatically), or by typing the details yourself ORGANIZE • Every quote lives under its book — browse your library as a cover-art shelf or a text list, sorted by what you've read most recently • Tag any book or quote with your own colored labels, and find everything sharing a theme across your whole library at once — not just within one book • A "Quote of the Day" greets you each time you open the app — the same one until midnight, then a new one — with a daily reminder if you'd rather it come to you • Chronicle: see your reading activity as a calendar heatmap or a timeline chart, with your current streak, longest streak, and best day • Search by typed text (matches highlighted right where they occur, recent searches remembered) or by tag, scoped exactly how you want • A simple stats view: total quotes, total books, your most-quoted book, and more SHARE • Turn any quote into a shareable card, styled and ready for social — with multiple card styles to choose from • Or share the plain text, wherever you'd share anything else MAKE IT YOURS • Eight built-in reading themes, each with a matching app icon — pick the one that feels like your library • Every theme respects light and dark mode automatically • Home Screen widgets bring your library outside the app — Quote of the Day, your stats, or a shelf preview, always up to date YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR PHONE • No account. No login. No email required, ever. • Export your entire journal any time — as plain text, Markdown, or CSV — it's yours • Back up your whole journal to a file, and restore it anytime — the same install, a new device, or after a fresh start • Nothing is collected, nothing is tracked, nothing is sold — there's no server of ours for your data to ever touch Designed with real typography — proper quotation marks, considered spacing, a serif voice for the words that deserve one. Built for people who read physical books and want the parts worth keeping in one honest, private place. Book details are looked up via Open Library, a free, nonprofit catalog run by the Internet Archive. That lookup is the only thing And I Quote ever sends over the network — and only when you choose to scan a barcode.

Screenshots

KCLS4 screens
And I Quote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: And I Quote at 5.0 against KCLS's 3.8. And I Quote also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). KCLS's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

And I Quote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KCLS has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KCLS ships an update every 3 months, And I Quote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
KCLS versus And I Quote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKCLSAnd I Quote
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (17 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKing County Library SystemADARSH CHAUHAN

Customer experience

KCLS

All ratings16 ratings
Positive68.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive27.5%
Neutral21.7%
Negative50.7%

And I Quote

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

KCLS

Reported bugs

173 issues
  • Keeps logging out
  • Constant sign in issues
  • Failed sign in attempts count against user
  • Return book function doesn't work
  • Search bar coded too narrowly
Show 168 more
  • No notifications for holds ready
  • App times out
  • Bookshelf features show blank
  • Glitching frequently
  • Kicks user out
  • Won't accept card or passcode
  • System errors after login prompts
  • Search results blank
  • Borrowing tab won't show books
  • Opening a book doesn't work
  • App crashes when viewing 'For Later' shelf
  • App loads website in all views
  • Navigation is a mess
  • Wasted space
  • Hard to find things
  • App gets worse with each update
  • Developers lack common sense
  • Borrowing section takes long to load
  • Borrowing section often blank
  • App not reliable
  • App didn't resize on iPad
  • App remains small on iPad
  • Confusing new UI
  • Horrid update
  • New version doesn't let you search by genre
  • New version doesn't let you search by type of item
  • App bounces user to multiple other apps
  • Forces multiple sign-ins
  • Doesn't work in the end
  • Completely useless
  • Confusing vocabulary
  • Counterintuitive product
  • Horrible new update
  • App is slow
  • Cumbersome new version
  • Less visually attractive new version
  • Missing 'On Order' filter
  • Lacks website functionalities
  • Awful new version
  • Not visual
  • Not user friendly
  • Worst App ever
  • Missing 'Just Ordered' option
  • Useless to user
  • Landing page shows holds, not borrowed
  • Takes long to open Borrowing page
  • Real drag to wait every time
  • Easier to use browser version
  • Black bars on top and bottom of iPhone X screen
  • App is adequate at best
  • App is unloved compared to website
  • Design is outdated
  • Keyboard and popup windows target non-Retina devices
  • App forced into portrait on iPad
  • Cannot be used in landscape on iPad
  • Does not scale to iPad screen
  • App is almost unusable due to instability
  • Very buggy
  • Features to refine searches not working
  • 'Done' button doesn't work for refinements
  • 'Done' or 'Cancel' button doesn't work for refinements
  • 'Refine' feature stopped working
  • 'DONE' button for refining results isn't working
  • App looks horrible on an iPad
  • App keeps crashing
  • App closes within seconds of opening
  • App tells user something's on hold when it's not
  • Lag with dialogue boxes
  • Invalid Patron Access error
  • App had a bunch of issues initially
  • App won't stay open
  • Redirected to mobile website for holds
  • Redirected to mobile website for ebooks
  • Slow when placing a hold
  • Slow when checking account
  • Difficulties with logging in/out
  • Difficulties with changing accounts
  • Can't suggest authors
  • Can't recommend other books in a series
  • Doesn't mark books read through Overdrive app
  • New version is confusing
  • New version is slow
  • New UI very difficult to use
  • Cannot listen to audiobooks through Apple Music
  • App gets worse with each update
  • Developers lack common sense
  • App times out
  • Bookshelf features show blank
  • Glitching frequently
  • Kicks user out
  • Won't accept card or passcode
  • System errors after login prompts
  • Search results blank
  • Borrowing tab won't show books
  • Opening a book doesn't work
  • App crashes when viewing 'For Later' shelf
  • App loads website in all views
  • Navigation is a mess
  • Wasted space
  • Hard to find things
  • App gets worse with each update
  • Developers lack common sense
  • Borrowing section takes long to load
  • Borrowing section often blank
  • App not reliable
  • App didn't resize on iPad
  • App remains small on iPad
  • Confusing new UI
  • Horrid update
  • New version doesn't let you search by genre
  • New version doesn't let you search by type of item
  • App bounces user to multiple other apps
  • Forces multiple sign-ins
  • Doesn't work in the end
  • Completely useless
  • Confusing vocabulary
  • Counterintuitive product
  • Horrible new update
  • App is slow
  • Cumbersome new version
  • Less visually attractive new version
  • Missing 'On Order' filter
  • Lacks website functionalities
  • Awful new version
  • Not visual
  • Not user friendly
  • Worst App ever
  • Missing 'Just Ordered' option
  • Useless to user
  • Landing page shows holds, not borrowed
  • Takes long to open Borrowing page
  • Real drag to wait every time
  • Easier to use browser version
  • Black bars on top and bottom of iPhone X screen
  • App is adequate at best
  • App is unloved compared to website
  • Design is outdated
  • Keyboard and popup windows target non-Retina devices
  • App forced into portrait on iPad
  • Cannot be used in landscape on iPad
  • Does not scale to iPad screen
  • App is almost unusable due to instability
  • Very buggy
  • Features to refine searches not working
  • 'Done' button doesn't work for refinements
  • 'Done' or 'Cancel' button doesn't work for refinements
  • 'Refine' feature stopped working
  • 'DONE' button for refining results isn't working
  • App looks horrible on an iPad
  • App keeps crashing
  • App closes within seconds of opening
  • App tells user something's on hold when it's not
  • Lag with dialogue boxes
  • Invalid Patron Access error
  • App had a bunch of issues initially
  • App won't stay open
  • Redirected to mobile website for holds
  • Redirected to mobile website for ebooks
  • Slow when placing a hold
  • Slow when checking account
  • Difficulties with logging in/out
  • Difficulties with changing accounts
  • Can't suggest authors
  • Can't recommend other books in a series
  • Doesn't mark books read through Overdrive app
  • New version is confusing
  • New version is slow
  • New UI very difficult to use

Requested features

23 requests
  • Correct misspellings in search
  • Allow less than exact search terms
  • Auto-correction in search
  • Word suggestion in search
  • Dark mode option
Show 18 more
  • Filter search by genre
  • Filter search by subject
  • See reviews and comments in app
  • Limit search to specific word and exclude derivatives
  • Predictive text feature in search
  • Add library card to Apple Wallet
  • Optimize for iPhone X screen
  • Suggest authors, not just books
  • Mark books as read through Overdrive app
  • Push notifications for holds/due dates
  • Account overview/summary screen
  • Return 'On Order' filter
  • Return 'Just Ordered' filter
  • Dark mode
  • Advanced search filters
  • Improved search functionality
  • Better iPad optimization
  • Push notifications

And I Quote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

KCLS

No in-app purchases

None

And I Quote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is KCLS free?
KCLS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is And I Quote free?
And I Quote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, KCLS or And I Quote?
And I Quote is rated higher. KCLS averages 3.8 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while And I Quote averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do KCLS or And I Quote have ads?
Neither KCLS nor And I Quote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KCLS or And I Quote?
KCLS ships an update every 3 months, and And I Quote every 5 days. Most recently, KCLS was updated on October 23, 2026 and And I Quote on October 8, 2026.

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