Comparison

Quick Capture vs heaper

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

heaper

Organize notes, files, and tasks using a flexible tag-based system. Create a network of knowledge with cross-linking and choose offline-first or cloud syncing. Self-hosting options provide full data control and privacy.

Highlights
  • Flexible tag system for organizing content
  • Cross-linking for creating knowledge webs
  • Offline-first data storage
  • Optional cloud syncing
  • Self-hosting for data privacy
  • Manage notes, files, images, and tasks
Features
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Heaper is your flexible digital workspace for managing notes, images, documents, videos, and tasks - all in one place. Whether you’re writing, planning, researching, or organizing a creative project, Heaper lets you throw everything into one heap and organize it later with powerful tags. There are no folders to maintain - just blocks of content that you can freely tag and link. Tags provide a powerful yet simple way to organize even the biggest workspaces. Heaper works offline-first with optional syncing via the cloud and supports self-hosting for full control and privacy. Features • Flexible Tag System: Forget rigid folders. Tag anything - notes, files, images, links - and access it from anywhere. • Each Tag is its own document called a Block, add context to everything. • Cross-Linking: Create a web of knowledge with mentions and tag relationships. • Offline-first: Your data is saved locally and syncs when you’re online. • Self-Hosting Option: Use our cloud or host it yourself - your data, your rules. Ideal for: • Personal knowledge management (PKM) • Creative workflows and project planning • Task and goal tracking • Bookmarking, journaling, and archiving • Managing photos and research libraries Get started for free with no account required to it offline. Heaper is built by a solo developer passionate about organization and freedom, no lock-in, no bloat, just a sane fundament for you to manage your data.

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
heaper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: heaper at 5.0 against Quick Capture's 4.5. heaper also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Quick Capture's advantage is ratings volume (103 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 heaper sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

heaper 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 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 100% of heaper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, heaper every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Quick Capture versus heaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick Captureheaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (103 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguJan Vincent Lunge

Customer experience

Quick Capture

All ratings103 ratings
Positive84.5%
Neutral7.8%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral12.3%
Negative14.0%

heaper

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
10 purchases

heaper

Subscriptions10
  • Heaper Core Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Heaper Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Heaper Cloud Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
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  • Heaper Ultra Monthly$39.991 Month
  • Heaper Core Yearly$49.991 Year
  • Heaper Cloud Ultra Monthly$59.991 Month
  • Heaper Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
  • Heaper Cloud Pro Yearly$149.991 Year
  • Heaper Ultra Yearly$399.001 Year
  • Heaper Cloud Ultra Yearly$599.001 Year

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is heaper free?
heaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quick Capture or heaper?
heaper is rated higher. Quick Capture averages 4.5 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while heaper averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Quick Capture or heaper have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor heaper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or heaper?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and heaper every 3 weeks. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on October 7, 2026 and heaper on September 25, 2026.

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