Blocknotes vs Quick Capture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Local HTML file storage
- Completely offline functionality
- No internet connection required
- Automatic iCloud Drive sync
- Cross-device synchronization
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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.
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 review sentiment: Quick Capture at 74% against Blocknotes's 25%. Quick Capture also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (103 vs 2). Blocknotes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) 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
Both are free to download. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Blocknotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Capture holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 103 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 74% of Quick Capture's.
Blocknotes ships an update monthly, Quick Capture every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blocknotes | Quick Capture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (103 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 73.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 103 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Automattic | Pradeep Burugu |
Customer experience
Blocknotes
Quick Capture
In-app purchases
Blocknotes
No in-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$4.99
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