Quick Capture vs Simple Memo
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.
Simple Memo
Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, and notes using text or voice input. Send memos directly to your email inbox or integrate them into your Obsidian knowledge base. Designed for speed and simplicity to prevent losing ideas.
- Quick text input
- Voice dictation
- One-tap email sending
- Obsidian integration
- Simple setup
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Catch an idea. Keep it in your own notes. Simple Memo helps you capture short thoughts by voice or text and keep them in your Obsidian workflow or your own email inbox. DIALOGUE MEMO: A NOTE THAT ASKS BACK Speak an unfinished idea and answer short follow-up questions by voice in the same memo composer. Tap the memo to stop the exchange and edit by typing. Organize the note when you are ready, then review it and use the existing Send button. Questions and note organization use Apple Intelligence on your iPhone. Dialogue Memo does not require Siri setup. A supported iPhone with iOS 26 or later, Apple Intelligence enabled, and a supported language model are required. Voice input also requires microphone permission. Your input remains available when the model cannot be used. CAPTURE THE THOUGHT Write or dictate on iPhone. Use a supported Apple Watch or Siri shortcut when your hands are busy. Save ideas, thoughts to revisit, and short notes before you forget them. KEEP IT WHERE YOU ALREADY LOOK Set up Obsidian integration to append notes as Markdown in your selected folder. Send notes to your own email address to read them in your usual inbox. SET UP YOUR DESTINATION Email delivery requires email verification and an internet connection. Obsidian integration requires selecting a destination folder and granting access. Syncing that folder across devices depends on your sync service and settings. Apple Watch and Siri workflows require supported devices and initial setup. Steps and connection requirements vary by capture method. FREE PLAN AND PREMIUM Free to download. The free plan allows up to 3 memo sends per day. Premium removes the sending limit. Saving to Obsidian without sending an email is a Premium feature. See the in-app purchase screen for current pricing, included features, and renewal terms. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled before renewal. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple account settings. Terms: https://simplememofast.com/terms Privacy: https://simplememofast.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple Memo at 5.0 against Quick Capture's 4.5. Simple Memo also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days) and review sentiment (82% vs 74%). Quick Capture's advantage is ratings volume (105 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Simple Memo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Memo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 105 ratings behind it against 1, 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 82% of Simple Memo's.
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Simple Memo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Capture | Simple Memo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (105 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pradeep Burugu | Yurika, K.K. |
Customer experience
Quick Capture
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In-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
Simple Memo
- Simple Memo Premium$2.991 Month
- Simple Memo Annual Premium$29.991 Year
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