Comparison

Penloop 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

Penloop

This app helps you organize your life by capturing events, todos, notes, and more. It offers a flexible system with calendars, folders, and tags to manage your information privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Capture events, todos, notes, journals
  • Organize with calendars, folders, tags
  • Private, on-device data storage
  • Automatic backups
  • Create multiple spaces
  • Sync via iCloud Drive
Features
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Penloop isn’t just a tool for storing information—it’s a space for thinking, creating, and growing. It adapts to your needs, so you can focus on what truly matters. Designed for doers, creators, and those who want to make a difference, Penloop is for the ones who are always thinking, moving, and striving to be better. It’s for those who want to live more mindfully and seek more than just an app. It’s for people who value privacy, clarity, and balance—those who are tired of tools that control them, and instead, want something that empowers them. It’s where your life can thrive. Rethink how you organize your life. At its core, Penloop isn’t just a note-taking app. It’s a better way to think, plan, and create. In one place, you can capture everything: • Events — so you’re always on top of your appointments • Todos / Reminders — so you never forget what matters • Notes and Journals — for your ideas and reflections • Timers and Stopwatches — to master your time • Logs — to monitor progress on what matters most • Bookmarks — for inspiration and future plans A system, tailored to you. With Penloop, you’re in control. Organize your world using: • Sleek Calendars — Keep your schedule on track by planning and visualizing events and appointments. Organize your day, set reminders, and never miss an important event, all while boosting your productivity and reducing stress. • Intuitive Folders — Streamline your workflow by grouping related items and reducing clutter. Folders help you stay organized, improve efficiency, and maintain focus, making it easy to find and manage your content. • Powerful Tags — Quickly organize, search, and filter your notes, tasks, and events. Tags help you find related content, track progress, and stay focused, so you can stay organized and effortlessly boost productivity. Privacy, Built Right In. • Your data stays yours. Always. Penloop doesn’t rely on servers. It stores your notes as ‘.space’ files directly on your device. Move them effortlessly between your project folders or sync them via iCloud Drive. This is your digital space—beautiful, flexible, and private. Reliable. Intuitive. Effortless. • With automatic backups and the ability to create multiple spaces, Penloop ensures your notes are safe and ready whenever inspiration strikes. It’s not just a tool. It’s a leap forward in how you organize your life. This is Penloop. Start today.

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

Penloop4 screens
Quick Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Quick Notes at Free against Penloop's $6.99. Quick Notes also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (30 vs 3). Penloop's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On review sentiment, 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

Quick Notes is free to download; Penloop costs $6.99 up front. Quick Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Penloop asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Penloop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Notes has 30 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Penloop ships an update fortnightly, Quick Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on August 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Penloop versus Quick Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPenloopQuick Notes
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.7 (30 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings330 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB95 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperDynaPlastic Ltd.Pradeep Burugu

Customer experience

Penloop

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Quick Notes

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

In-app purchases

None

Penloop

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Quick Notes

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

Questions

Is Penloop free?
Penloop costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quick Notes free?
Quick Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Penloop or Quick Notes?
Penloop is rated higher. Penloop averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Quick Notes averages 4.7 from 30 ratings.
Do Penloop or Quick Notes have ads?
Neither Penloop nor Quick Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Penloop or Quick Notes?
Penloop ships an update fortnightly, and Quick Notes every 3 days. Most recently, Penloop was updated on August 2, 2026 and Quick Notes on October 1, 2026.

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