Comparison

Pins for Pinboard 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

Pins for Pinboard

This app provides a modern interface for accessing and managing your Pinboard.in bookmarks. It offers robust filtering, organization by tags and sites, and historical views. Quickly add new bookmarks via share extensions or Shortcuts and enjoy seamless multitasking.

Highlights
  • Access all bookmarks
  • Smart Collections filtering
  • Tagged view
  • Browse by site
  • On this day history
  • Share extension & Shortcuts
  • Rediscover widget
  • Spotlight search
Features
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Pins, a modern Pinboard.in app with great support for iOS 15+. * Access all of your bookmarks. Supports accounts of all sizes. 1,000 bookmarks? Piece of cake. 20,000? No problem. 50,000? Pins can handle that. * Use Smart Collections to filter your bookmarks by title, description, tags, URL. * Browse bookmarks with dedicated Tagged view. * Browse bookmarks by sites. * View bookmarks you added on this day in history. * Use share extension or Shortcuts app to quickly add bookmarks from browsers and other apps. * View your bookmarks on Home screen with Rediscover widget. * Search for bookmarks right from Spotlight. * Multitasking easily with drag-and-drop support, Slide Over and Split View mode options. * Use keyboard shortcuts on your iPad to navigate Pins. * Use Handoff support to view bookmark on another device.

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

Pins for Pinboard4 screens
Quick Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Notes at every 3 days against Pins for Pinboard's every 5 weeks. Quick Notes also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Pins for Pinboard's advantage is ratings volume (323 vs 32) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Pins for Pinboard sells 4 one-off in-app purchases 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Pins for Pinboard against 4.7 for Quick Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pins for Pinboard has 323 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Pins for Pinboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quick Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pins for Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, Quick Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pins for Pinboard versus Quick Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPins for PinboardQuick Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (323 ratings) — better4.7 (32 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings323 — better32
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB95 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperQuang Anh DoPradeep Burugu

Customer experience

Pins for Pinboard

All ratings323 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral0.9%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.3%
Negative14.7%

Quick Notes

All ratings32 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pins for Pinboard

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Search not working
  • App crashing when selecting channels
  • Tags not refreshing accurately
  • Odd URLs being queried on launch

Requested features

4 requests
  • Tag autocomplete on Mac
  • Reader mode for articles
  • Advanced search and filtering options
  • Custom lists or collections

Quick Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Pins for Pinboard

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
Show 1 more
  • Unlock All Features2 variants$14.99
2 purchases

Quick Notes

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

Questions

Is Pins for Pinboard free?
Pins for Pinboard 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, Pins for Pinboard or Quick Notes?
Pins for Pinboard is rated higher. Pins for Pinboard averages 4.8 out of 5 from 323 ratings, while Quick Notes averages 4.7 from 32 ratings.
Do Pins for Pinboard or Quick Notes have ads?
Neither Pins for Pinboard nor Quick Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pins for Pinboard or Quick Notes?
Pins for Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, and Quick Notes every 3 days. Most recently, Pins for Pinboard was updated on October 15, 2026 and Quick Notes on October 16, 2026.

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