Comparison

Blocknotes 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

Blocknotes

This app saves your notes as local HTML files, ensuring complete offline privacy. Your notes sync automatically across devices via iCloud Drive. It requires an iCloud account to function.

Highlights
  • Local HTML file storage
  • Completely offline functionality
  • No internet connection required
  • Automatic iCloud Drive sync
  • Cross-device synchronization
Features
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Own your data! This app stores your notes as simple, local HTML files. Blocknotes never connects to the internet. It’s completely offline and private. Files are stored in your iCloud Drive, so it automatically syncs across devices. Requires you to be signed in with iCloud.

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

Blocknotes4 screens
Quick Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quick Notes at 100% against Blocknotes's 25%. Quick Notes also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Blocknotes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Quick Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Blocknotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quick Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Notes has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Blocknotes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quick Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blocknotes ships an update monthly, Quick Notes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Blocknotes versus Quick Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlocknotesQuick Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.7 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings230 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB103 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAutomatticPradeep Burugu

Customer experience

Blocknotes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

Quick Notes

All ratings30 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Blocknotes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Quick Notes

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

Questions

Is Blocknotes free?
Blocknotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quick Notes free?
Quick Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Blocknotes or Quick Notes?
Quick Notes is rated higher. Blocknotes averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Quick Notes averages 4.7 from 30 ratings.
Do Blocknotes or Quick Notes have ads?
Neither Blocknotes nor Quick Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blocknotes or Quick Notes?
Blocknotes ships an update monthly, and Quick Notes every 4 days. Most recently, Blocknotes was updated on August 13, 2026 and Quick Notes on September 12, 2026.

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