Comparison

Transcriptionist vs Quick Capture

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

Head to head
About

Transcriptionist

This app converts audio and video soundtracks into text with timestamps. It supports multiple languages and can identify individual speakers. Transcripts can be exported in various formats or used to extract audio clips.

Highlights
  • Speech to text conversion
  • Speaker identification
  • Timestamped transcripts
  • Multiple export formats
  • On-device processing
  • Custom export formats
Features
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Transcriptionist quickly and privately converts speech from audio recordings — and video soundtracks — into text. Writing up notes for a meeting? Creating transcripts or subtitles for a podcast? Looking for just the right clip to cut out of a long recording? Or quotes for a news article? Need to remember what happened on game night? Or just want to remind yourself of what was said, without listening to the entire recording? Transcriptionist can help — in nearly 100 languages. Import the audio into the app, tap the transcribe button, and it will start to fill in the text that was spoken. Each piece is shown with a timestamp, and you can jump straight to the matching point in the recording to listen back to the original audio — at up to 2x speed. If each speaker was recorded with their own microphone, Transcriptionist will track who said what, when — and you can solo individual voices to pick out what someone said, even if another person talked over them. Copy and paste quotes into an article you're writing, or export the entire transcript in a range of formats, including PDF, HTML (web page), Markdown (blog post), SRT and VTT (subtitles), as well as formats suitable for importing into other apps — you can even create your own custom text-based formats with the built-in easy-to-use visual editor. If you edit podcasts with our popular Ferrite Recording Studio, you can send your finished Ferrite projects direct to Transcriptionist — along with chapter markers — and each track will be kept separate so you can identify who's speaking. You can also select paragraphs and export their audio in a choice of formats, suitable for editing in Ferrite or other apps — perfect for when you find the quote or highlight you needed. Transcription takes place on your device, not on our servers, so no audio or text is sent to us, and subscribers can make as many transcripts as they like — we don't charge per-minute or per-transcript. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.wooji-juice.com/privacy

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Transcriptionist4 screens
Quick Capture4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Capture at every 10 days against Transcriptionist's every 6 weeks. Quick Capture also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 54%) and ratings volume (103 vs 18). Transcriptionist's advantage is 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. Transcriptionist sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month and Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 — 4.4 for Transcriptionist against 4.5 for Quick Capture. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 103 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Transcriptionist's written reviews are positive against 74% of Quick Capture's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Transcriptionist ships an update every 6 weeks, Quick Capture every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Transcriptionist versus Quick Capture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTranscriptionistQuick Capture
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (18 ratings)4.5 (103 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews73.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18103 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.617.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWooji Juice LtdPradeep Burugu

Customer experience

Transcriptionist

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral11.1%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral23.1%
Negative23.1%

Quick Capture

All ratings103 ratings
Positive84.5%
Neutral7.8%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral12.3%
Negative14.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Transcriptionist

Subscriptions2
  • Transcriptionist (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.491 Month
  • Transcriptionist (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99

Questions

Is Transcriptionist free?
Transcriptionist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Transcriptionist or Quick Capture?
Quick Capture is rated higher. Transcriptionist averages 4.4 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Quick Capture averages 4.5 from 103 ratings.
Do Transcriptionist or Quick Capture have ads?
Neither Transcriptionist nor Quick Capture shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Transcriptionist or Quick Capture?
Transcriptionist ships an update every 6 weeks, and Quick Capture every 10 days. Most recently, Transcriptionist was updated on October 4, 2026 and Quick Capture on October 20, 2026.

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