Comparison

Quick Notes vs Excerpt

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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...

About

Excerpt

Features
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Turn your audiobooks into usable notes. Capture the passage you just heard, transcribe it into editable text, and export your highlights into the tools where you think, write, study, and remember. Highlight spoken ideas in one tap When something stands out, tap once to save the moment. Excerpt clips the audio around that point and turns it into a text highlight, so the ideas in your audiobooks are no longer trapped in playback history. Review, edit, and organise Highlights are grouped by chapter and separated into fresh and archived notes. Search your highlights, edit the transcript, adjust clip timing, or replay the original audio excerpt in isolation. Read Along Add an epub file of the same book, and on-device text-to-audio matching means you can open the ebook chapter to read your highlights in context, and even extend them, and create new highlights by highlighting the ebook text. Built for serious listening Listen with variable speed from 0.5× to 2×, chapter navigation, configurable skip intervals, background playback, and lock-screen controls. You can also create a highlight from the skip-back control, making it easy to capture something immediately after you hear it. Export your knowledge Send highlights to Readwise, or export them as Markdown, HTML, CSV, or JSON. Excerpt keeps your notes structured by book and chapter, ready for writing, research, study, or review. Bring your own audiobooks Import your own audio files and keep your library organised in one place. Excerpt supports chapter navigation and preserves the structure that makes long-form listening easier. Browse public-domain classics Search and download public-domain audiobooks from Librivox directly inside the app. Excerpt can fetch, unzip, and assemble multi-part recordings into a continuous audiobook with chapter markers. Private by design Excerpt is built around your own library, your own notes, and your own listening history. Audio highlights and transcripts stay part of your personal audiobook workflow.

Screenshots

Quick Notes4 screens
Excerpt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Excerpt at none against Quick Notes's 2. Excerpt also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Quick Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Quick Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Excerpt asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Notes ships an update every 3 days, Excerpt every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Quick Notes versus Excerpt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick NotesExcerpt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB66 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguSean Laidlaw

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Quick Notes

One-time2
  • Discount plan$8.99
  • Lifetime Plan$10.99
None

Excerpt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Notes free?
Quick Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Excerpt free?
Excerpt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Quick Notes or Excerpt have ads?
Neither Quick Notes nor Excerpt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Notes or Excerpt?
Quick Notes ships an update every 3 days, and Excerpt every 3 months. Most recently, Quick Notes was updated on October 1, 2026 and Excerpt on October 3, 2026.

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