Comparison

Quick Capture vs Dossier

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

Dossier

Features
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You've bookmarked thousands of tweets. Can you find any of them? Dossier syncs your X/Twitter bookmarks, runs them through an AI categorisation engine, and stores everything locally on your device. Search instantly. Export anywhere. Own your data. WHAT DOSSIER DOES Every bookmark gets an AI-generated title, summary, categories, and tags - automatically. No manual sorting. No folder shuffling. Just open the app and your entire bookmark history is searchable, organised, and ready to export. SEARCH THAT ACTUALLY WORKS X gives you a single chronological feed. Dossier gives you full-text search across tweet text, authors, AI summaries, categories, and tags. Find anything in under a second. EXPORT TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM Dossier is the bridge between X and the tools you already use: - Obsidian - frontmatter, wikilinks, Dataview-compatible, with index and map of content files - CSV - open in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets - Markdown - clean, portable, universal - JSON - structured data for developers - PDF - dark-themed, print-ready archive BOOKMARKS THAT SURVIVE When tweets get deleted or accounts get suspended, your bookmarks vanish. Not with Dossier. Everything is stored locally on your device. Your archive is permanent. AI CATEGORISATION Powered by GPT-4o-mini, every bookmark is automatically analysed and tagged. Bring your own API key if you prefer your own provider - OpenAI, Anthropic, or any compatible endpoint. BYOK is included with Pro. BUILT FOR PRIVACY No user accounts. No server-side storage of your bookmarks. Your data lives on your device. The backend exists only to sync and categorise - it never stores your content. DOSSIER PRO Monthly or yearly subscription. Full archive backfill, ongoing sync, every export format, and BYOK included. 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime. Terms of Use: https://mashdev.co.za/terms

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
Dossier4 screens

Verdict

The call

Quick Capture and Dossier are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Dossier sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Quick Capture versus Dossier: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureDossier
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (103 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings103 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguKamogelo Mashishi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
4 purchases

Dossier

Subscriptions4
  • Dossier Standard Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Dossier Pro Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Dossier Standard Yearly3 Days trial$79.991 Year
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  • Dossier Pro Yearly7 Days trial$109.991 Year

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dossier free?
Dossier is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick Capture or Dossier have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor Dossier shows ads.

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