Quick Capture vs Litho
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.
Litho
This app streamlines the process of converting screenshots into editable Markdown notes for Obsidian. It extracts text on-device and allows for quick saving to your chosen folders, with options for advanced editing before finalization.
- On-device text extraction
- Save directly to chosen folders
- No account required
- Capture history
- Open notes in preferred Markdown app
- Advanced capture controls
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Litho helps you get useful screenshots out of Photos and into Obsidian fast. Share a screenshot, extract the text on-device, and save a clean Markdown note to your chosen folder in seconds. Use Quick Save for fast capture, or take control before saving with tags, added context, image options, cropping, and rerun text extraction. Why Litho fits Obsidian and other file-first workflows: • On-device text extraction with Apple Vision • Save directly to your chosen folder • No account required • Capture History included • Open saved notes in your preferred Markdown app Free and Pro: • Free tier includes note saving and stays useful forever • 5 Pro Preview Saves included to test advanced capture controls • One-time Pro purchase unlocks unlimited advanced controls Great for tweets and Reddit threads you want to keep, article highlights, lecture slides, code snippets, software design patterns, product feedback, and other screenshots you want as usable notes instead of lost images in your camera roll.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Litho at 5.0 against Quick Capture's 4.5. Litho also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). Quick Capture's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 2). 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 Litho sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Litho 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Litho every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Capture | Litho |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (107 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 107 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pradeep Burugu | Dorde Krecar |
Customer experience
Quick Capture
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In-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
Litho
- Litho App Pro$9.99
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