Capture for Roam Research vs Quick Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Capture for Roam Research
Effortlessly send text, speech-to-text, or OCR notes and images to your Roam Research graph. Streamline your data capture with quick actions and easy setup, including optional Dropbox integration for image hosting.
- Text note capture
- Speech-to-text notes
- Image OCR to text
- Share PDFs and images
- Voice memo recording
- Quick Actions for speed
- Dropbox integration for images
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Capturing data into your Roam Research graph shouldn't be a chore. With Capture for Roam Research, you can send a text note, speech-to-text note or image OCR-to-text note to Roam in the blink of an eye. Share PDFs or images, or even record a voice memo for upload to your graph. Use Quick Actions to make it even faster to launch your preferred capture method. Setup is easy: 1. Install this app! 2. Enter your Roam Research graph name and API key in More > Settings > Graph and API Settings. Click to confirm your access. 3. Install the companion extension from within Roam Depot to unlock full functionality. Click the Authenticate with Roam Depot companion extension to authenticate. If you wish to upload images to your Roam Research graph, there is no way to do this with the Roam Research API. As a workaround, you can use Dropbox to host images and see them in your graph. You will need to authorise with Dropbox in the application Settings.
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 in-app purchases: Capture for Roam Research at none against Quick Notes's 2. Quick Notes's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Capture for Roam Research asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Capture for Roam Research against 4.7 for Quick Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Notes has 32 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Capture for Roam Research ships an update every 2 days, Quick Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Capture for Roam Research | Quick Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.7 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mark Lavercombe | Pradeep Burugu |
Customer experience
Capture for Roam Research
Quick Notes
In-app purchases
Capture for Roam Research
No in-app purchases
Quick Notes
- Discount plan$8.99
- Lifetime Plan$10.99
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