Hookmark Pal vs Quick Capture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Quick Capture
Effortlessly capture ideas, moments, and thoughts directly into your Obsidian vaults. This app streamlines note-taking by allowing you to create multiple destinations within a vault or connect to different vaults, ensuring your inspirations are saved without interruption.
- Capture notes in Obsidian
- Multiple vault connections
- Append to existing notes
- Voice recording with transcription
- Document scanning
- File and photo sending
- Sketching and drawing capture
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Quick Capture - Vault notes for Obsidian app This Quick Capture app is designed for power users of Obsidian, helping you focus purely on capturing ideas, moments, and thoughts as they come—without primarily worrying about which vault or page to open. It removes distractions, letting you effortlessly capture drafts and inspirations in Obsidian app, keeping you in the creative flow. → You can create multiple destinations to one vault → You can also connect to multiple vaults where each destination is dedicated to one vault → You can create a new note in a vault. → You can append text to an existing note in a vault. → You can send voice recordings with transcription to your vault. → You can scan documents to your vault. → You can send files or photos to your vault. → You can sketch and send those drawings to your vault.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quick Capture at 74% against Hookmark Pal's 0%. Quick Capture also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (103 vs 6). 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
Both are free to download. Hookmark Pal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quick Capture holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 103 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 74% of Quick Capture's.
Hookmark Pal ships an update every 3 weeks, Quick Capture every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hookmark Pal | Quick Capture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (6 ratings) | 4.5 (103 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 73.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 103 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CogSci Apps Corp. | Pradeep Burugu |
Customer experience
Hookmark Pal
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In-app purchases
Hookmark Pal
- Hookmark Pal3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Hookmark Pal7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$4.99
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