Comparison

Quick Capture vs mDone

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

mDone

A native task manager for Apple devices that syncs with your self-hosted Vikunja server. It offers a focused interface for managing tasks, projects, and deadlines with features like smart lists, Kanban boards, and Siri integration.

Highlights
  • Quick Add with natural language parsing
  • Smart Lists (Today, Upcoming, Overdue)
  • Kanban Boards for projects
  • Subtasks, Checklists, and Labels
  • Siri and Hands-Free integration
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Focus Timer with Live Activities
  • Offline Support
Features
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Take control of your tasks with mDone, a native task manager for iPhone, iPad and Mac, built for your self-hosted Vikunja server. If you run your own Vikunja instance and want a polished, native way to manage your tasks, mDone is made for you: a thoughtful, focused interface for your self-hosted productivity setup. KEY FEATURES Quick Add That Understands You Type "Buy milk tomorrow at 5pm +Home !2 *shopping" and mDone files it in the right project, with the due date, priority and label already set. Everything it picks up shows as a chip before you add the task, so nothing happens by surprise. Switch it on in Settings. Smart Lists Stay on top of what matters. Today, Upcoming and Overdue views organise your tasks, so you always know what to focus on next. Current Tasks Keep long-running work top of mind. Mark a task as Current and it stays pinned above Today, with a progress bar you can update and a gentle nudge when it has sat untouched for too long. Kanban Boards Open any project as a board. Drag cards between columns and reorder them, exactly as they appear in Vikunja's web app. Subtasks, Checklists and Labels Break big tasks into subtasks, link related tasks, tick off checklists written in a task's description, and add or create labels without leaving the app. Projects and Favorites Organise tasks into projects and sub-projects, sort them by date, priority or your own manual order, and keep the ones you use most one tap away. Siri, Hands-Free Say "Add a task in mDone" and Siri adds it without opening the app. Works over CarPlay, on AirPods and on Apple Watch. Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets See your tasks at a glance: today's agenda, what is coming up, and anything overdue. Focus Timer with Live Activities Work through a task with purpose. Live Activities keep the timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Repeating Tasks Daily, weekly, monthly or custom intervals. Completing a repeating task schedules its next occurrence. Calendar View See your tasks across days and weeks alongside your calendar events. Spot the gaps and plan ahead. Offline Support mDone caches your tasks so you can keep working without a connection. Changes sync back to your server when you are online again. Privacy First Zero analytics, zero tracking, zero third-party SDKs. mDone talks only to your Vikunja server, and your data stays entirely under your control. Available in English and Simplified Chinese. REQUIREMENTS - A self-hosted Vikunja server (vikunja.io) - An account on that server mDone is open source. Visit the GitHub repository to report issues, request features, or contribute.

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
mDone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: mDone at 5.0 against Quick Capture's 4.5. mDone also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Quick Capture's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 8). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. mDone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

mDone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 107 ratings behind it against 8, 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 mDone's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, mDone weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Quick Capture versus mDone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CapturemDone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (107 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings107 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguMarcus Williams

Customer experience

Quick Capture

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

mDone

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
None

mDone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mDone free?
mDone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quick Capture or mDone?
mDone is rated higher. Quick Capture averages 4.5 out of 5 from 107 ratings, while mDone averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Quick Capture or mDone have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor mDone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or mDone?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and mDone weekly. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on November 4, 2026 and mDone on November 5, 2026.

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