Quick Capture vs FieldNotes
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.
FieldNotes
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FieldNotes e' il compagno ideale per il lavoro sul campo in archeologia, etnografia e ricerca ambientale. Raccogli dati geospaziali, note vocali, foto, sketch e scansioni 3D, tutto offline e tutto in un'unica app. RACCOLTA DATI SUL CAMPO - Crea survey etnografiche, archeologiche, architettoniche e paesaggistiche - Geotagging automatico con coordinate GPS, altitudine e precisione - Modalita' Quick Entry per acquisire dati rapidamente - Sistema di tag per organizzare e ricercare le osservazioni NOTE VOCALI E TRASCRIZIONE - Registra note vocali in alta qualita' - Trascrizione automatica on-device con Apple Speech - Dettatura in tempo reale per inserimento rapido - Supporto italiano e inglese FOTO, VIDEO E SKETCH - Scatta foto e registra video direttamente dall'app - Galleria multimediale con anteprime - Disegno a mano libera con PencilKit e supporto Apple Pencil - Annota foto con sketch sovrapposti SCANSIONI 3D (dispositivi con LiDAR) - Scansione oggetti, stanze, ambienti esterni - Fotogrammetria da foto (iOS 17+) - Visualizzatore 3D interattivo - Esportazione in USDZ, OBJ, PLY, DXF - Estrazione automatica planimetrie GEOSTATISTICA E ANALISI SPAZIALE - Matrice delle distanze tra punti di rilievo - Analisi altimetrica e calcolo pendenze - Modello di Tobler per tempi di percorrenza - Minimum Spanning Tree e statistiche descrittive - Grafici e visualizzazioni INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE (opzionale) - Analisi immagini con OpenAI o Anthropic - Miglioramento note e suggerimento tag - Generazione report professionali in 9 sezioni - Assistente AI per il campo - Apple Intelligence on-device (iOS 26+) - Ricerca web con Brave Search ESPORTAZIONE PROFESSIONALE - Report PDF con mappe, foto e trascrizioni - Esportazione GeoJSON per software GIS - GeoPackage per dati geospaziali - Condivisione via email con allegati PRIVACY E OFFLINE - Funziona completamente offline - Tutti i dati restano sul dispositivo - Nessun server, nessun tracciamento - Chiavi API nel Keychain sicuro Disponibile per iPhone, iPad e Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FieldNotes at none against Quick Capture's 1. Quick Capture's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). 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. FieldNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, FieldNotes monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Capture | FieldNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (103 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pradeep Burugu | enzo cocca |
In-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
FieldNotes
No in-app purchases
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