Pins for Pinboard vs Quick Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pins for Pinboard
Access and manage your Pinboard.in bookmarks on iOS devices. Organize links with smart collections, revisit past saves, and easily share new content. Offers a modern interface with adaptive layouts for various Apple devices.
- Browse bookmarks, tags, and sites
- Create Smart Collections for filtering
- Revisit bookmarks saved on this day historically
- Save links via share extension and Shortcuts
- Home Screen widget for link rediscovery
- Spotlight search for bookmarks
- Drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, Handoff support
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Pins brings your Pinboard.in bookmarks to iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo. • Browse your bookmarks, tags, and sites in one place. • Create Smart Collections to filter bookmarks by title, description, tags, or URL. • Revisit bookmarks you saved on this day in previous years. • Save links from browsers and other apps with the share extension or Shortcuts. • Rediscover saved links with a Home Screen widget. • Find bookmarks through Spotlight. • Use drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, and Handoff. • Choose separate accent colours for light and dark appearances. Built for iOS 27 and later, with Liquid Glass controls and layouts that adapt to iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo displays. A Pinboard.in account is required. Additional features are available through in-app purchases.
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.
- 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
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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...
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Verdict
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%) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). Pins for Pinboard's advantage is ratings volume (327 vs 33) 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
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.
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 327 ratings behind it against 33, 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.
Pins for Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, Quick Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pins for Pinboard | Quick Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (327 ratings) — better | 4.7 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 327 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Quang Anh Do | Pradeep Burugu |
Customer experience
Pins for Pinboard
Quick Notes
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
Pins for Pinboard
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- Unlock All Features2 variants$14.99
Quick Notes
- Discount plan$8.99
- Lifetime Plan$10.99
Questions
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