Quick Notes vs Life Inbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Notes
Effortlessly capture and organize your thoughts with a streamlined interface. This app turns your device into a powerful organizer, allowing you to quickly note ideas, set reminders, and sync across devices. Seamlessly export your content to over 20 other applications to manage your workflow.
- Quick note-taking for real-time capture
- Export to over 20 popular apps
- Seamless iCloud synchronization
- Intuitive reminders with badge system
- Automatic date and URL recognition
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Siri 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. • CarPlay: Talk to the Capture assistant while you drive, and save thoughts, to-dos and reminders hands-free. • Capture Keyboard: Save selected text as a capture, or insert a capture into any text field, right from the keyboard in any app. • Voice Notes: Talk instead of type. Say many thoughts in one breath, and Capture splits them up and sorts them into your lists. Recording keeps going in the background, with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen. • Export to 70+ apps: Looking to migrate your captures to other platforms like Obsidian, Things 3, Todoist, Notion, Bear, Slack, 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 Screen, Lock Screen and Control Center. 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: Ask Siri to find, create and edit your captures, even outside the app. 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/
Life Inbox
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Everything goes here. Screenshots, links, voice notes, receipts, places, ideas. Share anything to Life Inbox and it figures out what it is and what to do with it. Capture now, decide later. Nothing gets lost. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE Share from any app in two taps. Type, speak, snap a photo or scan a document. No folders, no decisions. IT UNDERSTANDS WHAT YOU SAVED A boarding pass becomes a flight with its date and time. A bill becomes a document with its amount and due date. A restaurant link becomes a place. A voice note becomes a task. Detection runs on your iPhone. TURN SAVES INTO ACTIONS Add to Calendar. Set a reminder. Open in Maps. Save to a collection. One tap, then it's done and out of your way. INBOX ZERO FOR YOUR LIFE Swipe to finish, swipe to archive. When it's empty, you're caught up. A calm daily or weekly review, never marketing notifications. FAST FROM THE LOCK SCREEN Widgets, Action Button and Siri: "Add something to my Life Inbox". PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your captures stay on your device. No account. No ads. No selling data. LIFE INBOX PRO Free includes 30 captures a month with text, links and screenshots. Pro unlocks unlimited captures, voice capture and documents (PDFs and files), as a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription with a 7-day free trial. The price is shown in the app in your local currency. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase or after the trial; the subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://lifeinbox-landing.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://lifeinbox-landing.vercel.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Notes at every 4 days against Life Inbox's weekly. Quick Notes also leads on device support (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Life Inbox sells 2 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, Life Inbox weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Notes | Life Inbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (321 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 321 — 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 |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Furkan Simsir | Benjamin Gonzalez |
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
Life Inbox
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
Life Inbox
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year









