Comparison

Hookmark Pal vs Quick Notes

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

Head to head
About

Hookmark Pal

This app allows you to bookmark and link various types of data from your favorite applications, including web pages, tasks, and documents. It enables bidirectional linking between bookmarks and syncs your data across devices via iCloud. Get more value from your existing apps and data.

Highlights
  • Universal bookmarking across apps
  • Bidirectional linking between bookmarks
  • Syncs data via iCloud
  • Cross-device compatibility
  • Linkable items include tasks, emails, and documents
  • Recent items and pinned bookmarks
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Hookmark: bookmark and retrieve important data across apps and devices. The first truly universal bidirectional bookmarking app for iPhone and iPad. Hookmark enables you to bookmark and link data from your favorite apps. Not just web pages, tasks (OmniFocus, Things,etc.), Books e-books, emails, DEVONthink items, Document in Drafts, … or anything else. As long as it's linkable (has a URL), Hookmark can bookmark it. And you can "hook" bookmarks together (create and use two-way links between them). With a Premium Service in-app purchase, Hookmark syncs your data to iCloud Drive. This makes them available across your iPad and iPhones. It can also sync bookmarks to & from Hook for macOS, another CogSci Apps® invention (sold separately). Start working on one device, resume on another! See Recent items and Pin your bookmarks across apps too. Get more out of your favorite apps and data with Hookmark. Using Hookmark requires agreeing to the Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Quick Notes

Instantly capture thoughts, notes, and ideas, sending them seamlessly to your favorite note-taking apps, email, or task managers. Supports text, photos, and voice recordings, with convenient widgets and a built-in scanner.

Highlights
  • Quickly capture notes, ideas, thoughts
  • Send to popular note-taking apps
  • Include photos in notes
  • Record and attach voice notes
  • 1-tap home and lock screen widgets
  • Built-in document scanner
  • Store notes on iCloud
Features
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Quickly capture your thoughts, notes or ideas in your second brain apps without context switching between apps. Supasend is your go to "note-to-self" app to quickly capture & send your notes, ideas or thoughts to your second brain apps seamlessly. Problem Our brain's purpose is to learn, improve, and make progress. We consume a lot of content, but our thoughts often get fuzzy and we forget them. Our brain isn't meant to store every detail. Today, we use many tools to organize our lives, like note-taking apps and voice recording. But switching between them is a mindf*ck chore just to capture a simple idea. Solution Imagine capturing it instantly and sending it seamlessly, thats where SupaSend app comes in. With over a dozen apps in second brain to choose from, you can use SupaSend as a note-to-self app to quickly capture and send anywhere you want in just two taps. It is that easy. 1. Quickly Capture ideas, thoughts, notes to a variety of popular note taking apps, email accounts and personal knowledge management apps. 2. Quickly Capture photos and include them in your notes. 3. Record voice and send it as an attachment with the note to your personal email or app. 4. 1-tap Homescreen and lockscreen widgets 5. On device built-in document scanner for you to scan and digitize invoices, receipts, personal and confidential documents. 6. All your notes stored on your iCloud account. 7. Supports share sheet so you can quickly open and capture your notes anywhere on the iOS. Quick capture - SupaSend supports more than dozen favorite email clients & apps of yours. - Notion (like Fast Notion) - Obsidian - Drafts - Typefully - Reflect - Evernote - DayOne - Mem - Supernotes - Capacities - Logseq - Obsidian - Any email - Any webhook - Apple Reminders - Todoist - TickTick - Trello many more coming soon...

Screenshots

Hookmark Pal2 screens
Quick Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quick Notes at 100% against Hookmark Pal's 0%. Quick Notes also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). 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. Hookmark Pal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Quick Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quick Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Notes has 30 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Hookmark Pal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quick Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hookmark Pal ships an update every 3 weeks, Quick Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hookmark Pal versus Quick Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHookmark PalQuick Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (6 ratings)4.7 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings630 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB95 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCogSci Apps Corp.Pradeep Burugu

Customer experience

Hookmark Pal

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral11.1%
Negative88.9%

Quick Notes

All ratings30 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Hookmark Pal

Subscriptions2
  • Hookmark Pal3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Hookmark Pal7 Days trial$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Quick Notes

One-time2
  • Discount plan$8.99
  • Lifetime Plan$10.99

Questions

Is Hookmark Pal free?
Hookmark Pal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quick Notes free?
Quick Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hookmark Pal or Quick Notes?
Quick Notes is rated higher. Hookmark Pal averages 2.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Quick Notes averages 4.7 from 30 ratings.
Do Hookmark Pal or Quick Notes have ads?
Neither Hookmark Pal nor Quick Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hookmark Pal or Quick Notes?
Hookmark Pal ships an update every 3 weeks, and Quick Notes every 3 days. Most recently, Hookmark Pal was updated on October 6, 2026 and Quick Notes on October 1, 2026.

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