Quick Capture vs Taskdown.md
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.
Taskdown.md
This app automatically extracts tasks from your Markdown notes, keeping them linked to their original context within your Obsidian vault. It offers a simple interface for editing, setting reminders, and due dates, syncing seamlessly with your existing files.
- Automatic task extraction from Markdown
- Links tasks to Obsidian context
- Simple interface for edits
- Reminders and due dates
- Seamless Obsidian vault sync
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Automatically gather your tasks from Markdown notes (no more manual cross-checking). Keep tasks linked to their original Obsidian context.Simple interface for quick edits, reminders, and due dates.Syncs seamlessly with your existing Obsidian vault.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quick Capture at 4.5 against Taskdown.md's 2.5. Quick Capture also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 33%) and ratings volume (103 vs 2). Taskdown.md's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). 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. Taskdown.md asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Capture holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 103 ratings behind it against 2, 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 33% of Taskdown.md's.
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Taskdown.md daily. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Capture | Taskdown.md |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (103 ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pradeep Burugu | KAI RICHARD KONIG |
Customer experience
Quick Capture
Taskdown.md
In-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$4.99
Taskdown.md
No in-app purchases
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