Comparison

Quick Capture vs Automation Control

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Automation Control

Enhance your existing automation workflows with advanced management and conditional execution. This tool allows you to enable, disable, or pause automations based on specific criteria like time, location, or focus modes. It provides a centralized dashboard for organizing and monitoring your automated tasks.

Highlights
  • Conditional execution of automations
  • Enable/disable/pause automations
  • Sort and filter automations
  • Backup and restore configurations
  • Log view for completed automations
  • Set conditions (Date, Time, Location, Focus Modes, Weather)
  • Search and pin automations
Features
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If you use the Shortcuts automations like I do, surely you can find it difficult to manage them. Automation Control works with the Shortcuts app to provide a better way to manage your Shortcuts automations. This app, in a nutshell, is a glorified IF statement that determines if your automations should run or not. By simply adding Automation Control's Get Status of Item action to your Shortcuts Automations or by using the Automation Control Template shortcut, you now have better control over enabling, disabling, pausing, or setting conditions for your automations unlike ever before. This does not replace your Shortcuts automations tab; you still need to do some setup there for this app to manage them. Originally a shortcut a few years ago, and now an app, and with it, here are some things that you can do... - Name your automations along with adding an icon and a description - Sort your automations in order of A-Z, Z-A, Status, or Manually - Quickly toggle on/off your items with a simple double tap and view its status right on the item row - Multiple indicator views to choose your favorite way of viewing the on and off status of your items - 12-hour and 24-hour timing support - Backup and Restore - Log View to see a log of when your automations completed successfully - Send or Receive a text variable between Shortcuts and this app - Filter/Group automations based on status - Search bar to search for specific automations - Pin automations - Set timers on your automations - Multiple layouts - Set conditions such as Date & Time, Location, Focus Modes, Weather, and more... - More and more to come... How to use: - Create an Automation Control item by tapping the + button in the top right. - Name, describe, and select an icon and, of course, enable it. - Leave it as a Controller item by simply saving the new item or tap the Controls button and set various conditions. - Download the Automation Control Template shortcut, rename it to the same name as the control item you’ve just created, and set up your actions. - Set up your automation via the Automation tab in the Shortcuts app and add a Run Shortcut action from the list of actions and select the shortcut you’ve just modified. Full details found at https://ibanks.craft.me/6kbyyNVhWXjawv

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
Automation Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Automation Control at 4.8 against Quick Capture's 4.5. Quick Capture's advantage is ratings volume (102 vs 11). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Automation Control sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Automation Control holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 102 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Quick Capture's written reviews are positive against 80% of Automation Control's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Automation Control weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Quick Capture versus Automation Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureAutomation Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (102 ratings)4.8 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings102 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguJerrod Banks

Customer experience

Quick Capture

All ratings102 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral7.8%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral12.3%
Negative14.0%

Automation Control

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$4.99
3 purchases

Automation Control

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Automation Control free?
Automation Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quick Capture or Automation Control?
Automation Control is rated higher. Quick Capture averages 4.5 out of 5 from 102 ratings, while Automation Control averages 4.8 from 11 ratings.
Do Quick Capture or Automation Control have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor Automation Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or Automation Control?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and Automation Control weekly. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on September 20, 2026 and Automation Control on June 10, 2026.

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