Comparison

LiquidText vs Rest Assured

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

Head to head
About

LiquidText

This app provides a dynamic workspace for reviewing and organizing information from documents and webpages. It allows users to extract key facts, connect ideas across different sources, and annotate content for research, writing, or study.

Highlights
  • Import documents and webpages
  • Extract and organize excerpts
  • Connect ideas with ink links
  • Compare document sections
  • Annotate PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Search across all documents
Features
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*** Named “Most Innovative iPad App of the Year” by Apple App Store *** LiquidText offers a fast, natural way to review, gather, and organize information across all your documents and webpages—then apply the results to writing reports, meeting prep, or simply studying. Pull out key facts and connect them together, squeeze a document to compare sections, draw a line to connect ideas in different documents, comment on multiple pages at once, build upon your thoughts, and much more. ► WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: * "If you want to experience the power of going beyond paper, you can download LiquidText" – Cult of Mac * One of Macworld’s Top 24 Apps for iPad Pro * One of Time Magazine's Ten Best apps for iPad Pro * * "There's a better way to organize your research, and the app is it." – iMore, Serenity Caldwell * “All you need for deep research projects.” – Macworld, Jackie Dove * "The world changed with...LiquidText" – Law360, Paul Kiesel * "LiquidText may just be *the* app for reviewing and annotating PDFs using Apple's tablet and stylus." – CIO Magazine, James Martin * “One of the most powerful, original iPad apps I've tried in years” – Federico Viticci, MacStories.net ► LIQUIDTEXT’S COMPLETE FEATURE SET INCLUDES: (Features with * require a paid upgrade.) Import • Create a workspace and import all the documents and web pages you need • Compatible with PDF, Word, and PowerPoint document types • Import from Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Box, email, and more • Import content from webpage or send to LiquidText directly from Safari • Instant OCR to select text in scanned documents; do a full document-OCR to search as well!* • Import documents & metadata directly from reference managers (supports Zotero and Mendeley)* Interact • Pull excerpts from all the documents in your project into the Workspace area • Add your own notes (typed or written) to the Workspace area • Freely draw on your notes, or on the workspace itself* • Organize excerpts and notes into groups • Connect anything - draw live “ink links” that span pages, documents, notes, and more* • Create mind-maps by drawing “ink links” connecting your excerpts/notes to one another * • Get context - tap notes and excerpts to find original source Compare • Pinch a document to compare different distant pages side by side • Collapse text to see annotated parts side-by-side • Collapse text to view search results(s) side-by-side • Import unlimited number of documents into a project, view up to 3 at once* Annotate • Freely draw* or highlight on your document, notes, or the workspace itself • Add margin notes/comments to text, images, notes, and excerpts • Comment on two or more selections simultaneously • Replace document with a newer version (and annotations are brought to new doc)* Search • Search for keywords across all your LiquidText documents • Find keywords in title or text of your documents* • Bulk highlight, tag, or link to your search results* Realtime Collaboration • Invite colleagues into your shared projects and work together in near realtime* • Leave comments and notifications for your collaborators* • Privacy controls: set whether each workspace & document in your project is shared or private* Easy Export • Export your project as a PDF (includes your Workspace and documents) • Export your project as a Word file (converts your notes/excerpts into a linear document) • Send a full LiquidText file for those with the app. • Send files by email or to Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Zotero, and more* Sync & Backup* • Real-time, cross-platform sync • Continuous cloud backup • Multi-device display: • Use your desktop or tablet as additional display for your other device • Use your tablet for freehand inking while viewing and keyboarding on your desktop See our terms of use at https://www.liquidtext.net/terms-of-use Learn more at LiquidText.net | Better Than Paper

About

Rest Assured

Features
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Rest Assured — Music Practice Log Build a more consistent, focused, and rewarding music practice routine. Rest Assured helps musicians plan their practice, stay on time, and see their progress. Set goals for multiple instruments, organize practice routines, time each session, add notes and reflections, and review your activity through a calendar and detailed practice history. Whether you’re learning your first instrument or refining an advanced repertoire, Rest Assured gives you the tools to practice with purpose. Included at no cost: • Set practice goals for multiple instruments • Track sessions with a countdown timer or stopwatch • Record practice dates, durations, categories, notes, goals, and reflections • Explore your practice history and search previous sessions • View your consistency and minutes practiced on a visual calendar • Follow weekly statistics, personal bests, and practice trends • Customize the app’s color theme and accessibility settings Rest Assured Pro Unlock additional tools designed to make every practice session more productive. Advanced metronome • Choose a preset tempo, adjust it with a slider, or use tap tempo • Practice with quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, or triplets • Select straight or swung rhythms • Accent the first beat of each measure • Use Tempo Trainer to gradually increase the tempo after a chosen number of measures Practice recordings • Record your practice and listen back for self-evaluation • Automatically associate recordings with the session’s date, time, and instrument • Compare recordings to hear how your playing develops Chromatic tuner and drone • Identify the nearest pitch and see how many cents sharp or flat you are • Customize the Concert A reference pitch • Transpose by up to 12 semitones • Play a sustained reference note with the built-in drone Deliberate practice • Define a passage or skill you want to improve • Set a target number of clean repetitions • Track your progress toward completing the goal Hands-free controls • Start a practice session using Siri • Start and complete sessions from Apple Watch Routines • Add structure to your practices • Sections include: scales, warm up, repertoire, songs, and more PRIVACY POLICY: https://zaquirk.github.io/Rest-Assured/Privacy-Policy/
 SUPPORT: https://zaquirk.github.io/Rest-Assured/Support/
 TERMS OF USE: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LiquidText4 screens
Rest Assured4 screens

Verdict

The call

LiquidText and Rest Assured are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. LiquidText sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month and Rest Assured sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LiquidText versus Rest Assured: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiquidTextRest Assured
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (6.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size317 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLiquidText, Inc.Chris Quirk

Bugs and requests

LiquidText

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Frequent crashes and data loss issues
  • Inconsistent behavior with Apple Pencil
  • Text selection and highlighting problems
  • Sync issues between iPad and Mac versions
  • Unexpected changes to existing annotations

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved palm rejection and writing experience
  • Better export and sharing options
  • Thumbnail/outline view for easier navigation
  • Ability to rotate and resize text/image annotations

Rest Assured

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

LiquidText

Subscriptions10
  • LiquidText Live, Monthly, Stu7 Days trial$5.491 Month
  • LiquidText Live, Monthly, StPr7 Days trial$5.491 Month
  • LiquidText Unlimited, Mo, Stu7 Days trial$10.901 Month
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  • LiquidText Live, Monthly7 Days trial$10.901 Month
  • LiquidText Live, Monthly, Upg7 Days trial$10.901 Month
  • LiquidText Unlimited, Yr, Stu7 Days trial$19.001 Month
  • LiquidText Live, Yearly, Stu7 Days trial$54.901 Year
  • LiquidText Live, Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • LiquidText Live, Yearly, Upg7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • LiquidText Unlimited, Yr7 Days trial$189.991 Year
One-time3
  • LT Pro - For Students$19.99
  • LiquidText Pro$29.99
  • LiquidText Pro II$89.99
3 purchases

Rest Assured

Subscriptions2
  • Rest Assured Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Rest Assured Pro - Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Rest Assured Pro - One-time$19.99

Questions

Is LiquidText free?
LiquidText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rest Assured free?
Rest Assured is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LiquidText or Rest Assured have ads?
Neither LiquidText nor Rest Assured shows ads.

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