Pins for Pinboard vs Quick Capture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Access all bookmarks
- Smart Collections filtering
- Tagged view
- Browse by site
- On this day history
- Share extension & Shortcuts
- Rediscover widget
- Spotlight search
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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.
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 rating: Pins for Pinboard at 4.8 against Quick Capture's 4.5. Pins for Pinboard also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (327 vs 105). Quick Capture's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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 Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pins for Pinboard holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 327 and 105 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Pins for Pinboard's written reviews are positive against 74% of Quick Capture's.
Pins for Pinboard ships an update every 5 weeks, Quick Capture every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pins for Pinboard | Quick Capture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (327 ratings) — better | 4.5 (105 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 73.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 327 — better | 105 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 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, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Quang Anh Do | Pradeep Burugu |
Customer experience
Pins for Pinboard
Quick Capture
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 Capture
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 Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
Questions
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