For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Quotes you can trust.1
QuotesVault is a library of 1,533 quotes, each traced to the book, letter or speech it comes from and set like the page of a book. Read one each morning, keep the ones that stay with you, and add your own.
Free, with packs you buy once and share with your family.
1Every quote has been checked against the text it comes from. Where a line survives only as a paraphrase, the app tells you so.
Real or misquote?
Eight famous lines. Some are exactly what their author wrote, and some were pinned on them years later. Make your call, then see the source.
Take a closer look
Each quote opens onto more. Choose one to see it in the app.
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Favourite. Tap the heart to keep a quote among your Favorites, on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
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Reflection. Tap the speech bubble to write down what a quote means to you. Your note stays with it on every device.
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Explain. Tap the info button for what a quote means, and when and why it was written.
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Your notebooks. In the List tab, tap the grid button for your shelf: notebooks in the colour and mark you choose, beside the packs.
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Add your own. In the List tab, tap the plus button to add a line, scan a page or bring in your Kindle highlights. QuotesVault finds the author, and tells you gently when a famous line belongs to someone else.
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The author. Tap the author’s name for their page, with their dates, key works and where to read them free.
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Zen. Choose Zen Mode from the the More button menu: one quote at a time, full screen, with rain, the ocean or a crackling fire playing softly.
Every morning, everywhere
A quote arrives with your morning, at the time you choose, and your library goes with you from the Lock Screen to your wrist.
Quote of the Day
A new quote each morning, as a notification at the time you choose.
Widgets
On your Home Screen in three sizes, and on your Lock Screen.
Apple Watch
Today’s quote on your wrist, with your favourites a tap away.
iPad
A calm page beside your whole library in the sidebar.
iCloud
Your quotes, notes and notebooks sync privately across your devices.
Spotlight and Siri
Find a quote from Spotlight, or search the library with Siri Shortcuts.
Make a page
Any quote becomes a card in the colours of your library, with its source at the foot: a post, a story for Instagram, or a wallpaper made for your screen. Try a few here.
Friday 2 October
9:41Seneca
We do not have a very short time assigned to us, but we lose a great deal of it.
De Brevitate Vitae 1.3, tr. Aubrey Stewart
Style Hourglass
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Read it as it was written
Explain Quote gives the meaning and the story behind each quote, and more than 700 carry their author’s own words, from Greek and Latin to Persian, Sanskrit and Russian, with the translator credited by name. Choose a language to turn the page.
Original, Latin
Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdimus.
Seneca
We do not have a very short time assigned to us, but we lose a great deal of it.
De Brevitate Vitae 1.3, tr. Aubrey Stewart
Contents
A free library to start with, and fourteen packs, each a hardback for your shelf with every line sourced and explained.
The free library
439 quotesLines from every one of the library’s 66 writers
The Stoics
67 quotesMarcus Aurelius, Seneca & Epictetus
Greek Philosophers
83 quotesSocrates, Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus & Plutarch
Eastern Wisdom
85 quotesRumi, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Confucius & Sun Tzu
Radical Thinkers
64 quotesNietzsche, Voltaire & Machiavelli
Literary Greats
68 quotesTwain, Wilde, Shaw, Woolf & Fitzgerald
Minds of Science
46 quotesEinstein, Tesla & Darwin
Leaders & Statesmen
90 quotesFranklin, Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt & Douglass
Voices Unbound
100 quotesDickinson, Austen, Curie, Eliot & Wollstonecraft
The Romans
80 quotesCicero, Horace, Virgil & Ovid
The Poets
100 quotesShakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats & Shelley
The Transcendentalists
75 quotesEmerson, Thoreau & Whitman
Russian Masters
75 quotesTolstoy, Dostoevsky & Chekhov
Wisdom of India
87 quotesThe Gita, Tagore, Vivekananda, Kabir & more
The Seekers
85 quotesMontaigne, Pascal, Gibran, Khayyam & Hafez
Every pack, now and to come
All fourteen packs and 1,105 quotes today, plus every pack added later, in one purchase.
Get the Library Card, £6.99Or choose single packs at £1.99. Every purchase is yours for good and shared with your family, and nothing ever asks you to subscribe.