Comparison

Quick Notes vs NearNotes

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

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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

NearNotes

This app allows you to set reminders tied to specific locations. Receive alerts when you arrive at or leave a chosen place, with options to manage reminders directly from notifications. It prioritizes privacy and battery efficiency.

Highlights
  • Location-based reminders
  • Smart location alerts
  • Fast place selection
  • Actionable notifications
  • Lock screen radar
  • Private iCloud sync
  • Battery-efficient operation
Features
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Remember it where it matters. NearNotes is a private, location-first reminder app that connects reminders to real places. Create a reminder, choose a location, and receive an alert when you arrive or leave. NEARBY REMINDERS See active reminders ordered by distance, so you immediately know what matters around you. FAST PLACE SELECTION Find places using Apple Maps search, pick directly on the map, use saved places, or paste links from Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Waze. SMART LOCATION ALERTS Choose a specific place or, for supported categories, ask NearNotes to remind you at another nearby similar place. USEFUL ACTIONS Complete, archive, resume, snooze, navigate, or wait for the original place directly from the app and supported notifications. LOCK SCREEN RADAR Show a selected reminder on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with distance updates while NearNotes is active. SAVED PLACES Save Home, Work, or any custom place for faster reminder creation. PRIVATE ICLOUD SYNC Reminders and saved places use local-first storage and synchronize through your private iCloud database across your devices. BATTERY-EFFICIENT NearNotes uses Apple’s region-monitoring technology instead of continuously running GPS in the background. PRIVACY FIRST • No separate NearNotes account • No advertising • No cross-app tracking • No continuous location history • Anonymous diagnostics are off by default NearNotes works on iPhone and iPad and includes actionable notifications, quiet hours, adjustable reminder radius, widgets, and private iCloud synchronization.

Screenshots

Quick Notes4 screens
NearNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NearNotes at none against Quick Notes's 2. NearNotes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Quick Notes's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. NearNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NearNotes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Notes has 33 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Quick Notes versus NearNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick NotesNearNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (33 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB12 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguMosaab Yassir Lafrimi

Customer experience

Quick Notes

All ratings32 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NearNotes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Quick Notes

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

NearNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Notes free?
Quick Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NearNotes free?
NearNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quick Notes or NearNotes?
NearNotes is rated higher. Quick Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while NearNotes averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Quick Notes or NearNotes have ads?
Neither Quick Notes nor NearNotes shows ads.

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