Quick Capture vs Dim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Dim
Effortlessly organize your thoughts and ideas. This application automatically categorizes your notes with relevant tags as you write, saving you time and improving recall. Focus on capturing inspiration while the app handles the organization.
- Automatic note tagging
- Effortless organization
- Intuitive writing interface
- Improved recall
- Idea capture
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Dim adds tags to your notes automatically. You can just write whatever comes to mind. Dim handles the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dim at 5.0 against Quick Capture's 4.5. Dim also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Quick Capture's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (103 vs 6). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dim asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dim holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 103 ratings behind it against 6, 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 100% of Dim's.
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Dim every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Quick Capture | Dim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (103 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 275 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pradeep Burugu | 碧玉 卢 |
Customer experience
Quick Capture
Dim
In-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
Dim
No in-app purchases
