Quick Notes vs Calmshift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Notes
This app helps you quickly capture thoughts, ideas, and tasks on your mobile device. It offers seamless organization, intuitive reminders, and easy export to over 20 other applications, keeping your inspiration flowing and your to-dos managed.
- Quick note-taking in real-time
- Export to 20+ apps and Siri Shortcuts
- Seamless iCloud synchronization across devices
- Intuitive reminders with badge system
- Automatic date and URL recognition
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Share extension for adding content from any app
- Siri voice commands and Shortcuts integration
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Capture's intuitive interface and smart features turn your mobile device into a powerful thought organizer, letting you seize, sort, and execute your ideas with unprecedented ease. • Quick Notes: Immediacy is key, and with Capture, the moment inspiration hits, you're ready. Our quick note-taking feature is designed for those who think fast and want to write faster. Notes, lists, and reminders are captured in real-time, ensuring no idea ever slips through the cracks. Brain dump on the go and stay one step ahead of your inspiration. • Export to 20+ apps: Looking to migrate your captures to other platforms like Obsidian, Things 3, Todoist, iA Writer, Craft, Omnifocus 4, Fantastical, UpNote, NotePlan, Reminders or Apple Calendar? Capture's export functionality allows you to move your content with ease. It's all about getting your thoughts out there, wherever 'there' might be, from to-do to calendar apps. In addition, you can run any Siri Shortcut as an export option, enabling all kinds of workflows by using the capture as input. • iCloud Sync: Keep your ideas and tasks in harmony across all your devices with Capture's iCloud Sync. Every note, list, and preference is automatically updated, ensuring you have access to your latest thoughts wherever you go. • Intuitive reminders: With our badge system, subtle yet effective reminders keep you informed of your tasks. These intuitive nudges ensure that important notes don't get lost in the shuffle, keeping you alert and on track. • Automatic date & URL recognition: Organization has never been so effortless. Capture's data recognition identifies your dates and URLs so you don't need to manually insert them. They are also pre-filled with your favorite export option. • Widgets: Access your captures instantly with our widgets right from your home and lock screen. Capture prioritizes convenience, giving you a visual snapshot of your latest thoughts and to-dos without having to open the app. • Share Extension: Add content to Capture with ease using the Share extension — available from any app. • Siri & Shortcuts: Capture thoughts hands-free with Siri voice commands and enhance your workflow with Siri Shortcuts to create, open, and search captures effortlessly. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Calmshift
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Get your evening back. Calmshift helps you finish work in your head, not just on your laptop. The unanswered email. The decision you keep postponing. The task you're afraid to forget. Your mind keeps them all running in the background. That's why work follows you home. Calmshift is not another planner or to-do list. It's a short evening ritual: write down everything that's still open, decide what waits for tomorrow, and let it go. You don't have to finish everything to finish work: every open item just needs a place to go. You do the work; your head no longer has to keep track of the rest. The evening is actually yours, and your head is clear. DURING THE DAY Something surfaces, you capture it in a couple of seconds as an "open loop", and you go back to work. No sorting, no categories, no deciding. AT THE END OF WORK A short ritual walks you through four quiet steps: • Review what piled up, so nothing slips through, not even the small thing from this morning • Decide on each open loop (tomorrow, a specific date, later, or done with it), so nothing stays in your head overnight • Choose 1–3 priorities for tomorrow, so in the morning you know where to start • Note one good thing from today and how you feel, so the day ends on what went well, not on what's left Then you close the day, and a star appears on your night sky. One for every day you close. Over time, the sky becomes a record of your calm evenings. WHAT BUILDS UP OVER TIME • A night sky that grows with you: one star for every day you close, a planet every twenty days, an aurora for a week you close completely, and a comet at rare milestones • Tap any star to reread that day's reflection, or share your whole sky as a single image • A mood chart drawn from your own reflections, plus honest observations like "Best weekday: Thursday", shown only once there's enough data to mean something BUILT AROUND REST • A streak that counts only your work days. Weekends and days off never break it • Vacation mode silences every reminder and freezes your streak while you're away • Reminders that learn: Calmshift notices when you actually start and close your day, and nudges you around that time instead of a fixed hour YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account. No sign-up. No ads, no tracking. Your tasks, open loops and reflections never leave your iPhone. Calmshift only counts anonymous usage, like how many rituals get closed, to make the app better. You can export all of it (tasks, reflections, closed days, settings) to a single file at any time, and import it back on a new phone. Available in English, Polish, Japanese and German. SUBSCRIPTION Free to try for 7 days. After that, choose: • Monthly • Yearly (best value) • Lifetime: one payment, no subscription Prices are shown in the app and vary by country. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://algowisent.com/en/privacy-policy/calmshift/index.php
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Quick Notes at 5 against Calmshift's 2. On price, update cadence, 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. Quick Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Calmshift sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quick Notes ships an update every 4 days, Calmshift weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Notes | Calmshift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (316 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 316 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Furkan Simsir | Rafal Denkiewicz |
Bugs and requests
Quick Notes
Reported bugs
8 issues- Data loss/notes vanishing
- Sidebar sorting is buggy and breaks
- Mac app does not work
- App crashes frequently
- Stickie notes do not work on MacOS 14 Sonoma
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- MacOS App keeps crashing when hitting Enter key
- App keeps crashing when making lists
- Cannot share more than 1 note at a time
Requested features
19 requests- Batch operations (export/merge)
- More keyboard shortcuts for macOS
- Tags and coloring
- An "all items" view with grouping and sorting
- Calendar or timeline view
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- View and live-edit notes expanded
- Themes (black/white)
- Ability to share to Supernotes and Tasks
- Apple Watch app
- New items to appear at the bottom of the feed
- Ability to swipe left and right to move between lists
- App icon customization
- More widget presentation
- Visual customization
- Pin and archive lists
- Support for images
- WatchOS app with dictation
- Better Markdown support
- More keyboard shortcuts
Calmshift
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quick Notes
- Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
Calmshift
- Premium — Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Premium — Lifetime$39.99









