Comparison

Quick Capture vs Open Invite

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

Open Invite

Features
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Welcome to Open Invite — the beautiful way to open .ics calendar files on iOS. • Tap to open calendar invitations from Mail, Safari, or Files • Preview events before adding with gorgeous invitation cards • Catch scheduling conflicts with visual timeline view • Choose which calendar to use for each event • Swipe through multi-event files as a card stack • Complete privacy — everything happens on-device Open Invite handles .ics files the way they should work — tap, preview, add. One second, not one minute. Stop forwarding calendar invites to yourself: Receive a meeting invitation in Mail, download an event from Safari, or find an .ics file in Files? Just tap it. Open Invite shows you a beautiful preview card with every detail — title, time, location, organizer, attendees, notes — so you can decide before it touches your calendar. SEE BEFORE YOU COMMIT Preview the full event as a beautiful invitation card. No more blind adds. No more calendar clutter from events you didn't mean to accept. CATCH CONFLICTS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN See a visual timeline of your day alongside the new event. Spot double-bookings before you commit. KEEP WORK AND LIFE SEPARATE Pick exactly which calendar to use. Client meetings go in Work, soccer games in Family. Just want speed? Basic access adds to your default calendar instantly. ONE TAP FROM ANYWHERE Works with Mail, Safari, Files, or any app that handles calendar files. Open Invite registers as a native file handler — no forwarding to yourself, no copy-pasting dates. MULTIPLE EVENTS? NO PROBLEM Some invites contain a full season schedule or conference agenda. Swipe through them like a card deck and add events one at a time. YOUR CALENDAR STAYS YOURS Everything happens on your iPhone. Zero cloud servers. Zero tracking. Zero accounts. Progressive calendar access means you choose what the app can see — write-only to add events, or full access for conflict detection and calendar selection.

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
Open Invite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Capture at every 10 days against Open Invite's every 7 months. Quick Capture also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Open Invite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Open Invite every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Quick Capture versus Open Invite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureOpen Invite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (103 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings103 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguChristian Tietze

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
3 purchases

Open Invite

One-time3
  • Thank You$0.99
  • Appreciation Tip$2.99
  • Showing Support$4.99

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Open Invite free?
Open Invite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick Capture or Open Invite have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor Open Invite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or Open Invite?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and Open Invite every 7 months. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on October 7, 2026 and Open Invite on October 5, 2026.

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