Scratchpad vs Quick Capture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scratchpad
Capture fleeting thoughts and ideas instantly with a clean, distraction-free interface. This lightweight app offers quick drafting, word counts, and iCloud sync for seamless access across devices. It's designed for simplicity and speed, making note-taking effortless.
- Distraction-free interface
- Lightning-fast and lightweight
- iCloud sync
- Word and character count
- Linkifies URLs
- Shortcuts and share sheet support
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Capture your thoughts instantly in a single, always-accessible note. Perfect for brain dumps, quick drafts, one-off jots, and fleeting ideas. Your thoughts are just a tap away. • Clean, distraction-free interface • Lightning-fast and lightweight • Sync with iCloud, or not • Word and character count • Font settings • Linkifies URLs • Support for Shortcuts and share sheet Plain text only. Simple by design.
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 price: Quick Capture at Free against Scratchpad's $12.00. Quick Capture also leads on ratings volume (103 vs 25) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Scratchpad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (96% vs 74%). On update cadence and ads 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
Quick Capture is free to download; Scratchpad costs $12.00 up front. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scratchpad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scratchpad holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 103 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Scratchpad's written reviews are positive against 74% of Quick Capture's.
Scratchpad ships an update every 2 weeks, Quick Capture every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scratchpad | Quick Capture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.00 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better | 4.5 (103 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.0% of reviews — better | 73.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 103 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #142 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Pradeep Burugu |
Customer experience
Scratchpad
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In-app purchases
Scratchpad
No in-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
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