Comparison

Quick Capture vs MarkLift

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

MarkLift

Features
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MarkLift turns any document on your iPhone into clean markdown. PDFs, images, Word documents, web pages, CSV and JSON — converted in two taps and ready to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Obsidian, Bear, Drafts, or your notes. Your documents are converted entirely on your device. The files you convert never leave your phone. WHAT IT CONVERTS - PDF, including scanned pages read with on-device text recognition - Photos and screenshots, with text pulled out automatically - Word documents (.docx), with headings, bold, italics, lists and tables - Web pages — paste a link or share from Safari - CSV to markdown tables, JSON and XML, plain text and markdown AI ENHANCED CLEANUP Apple Intelligence restructures messy text into clean markdown: it fixes broken line wraps, rebuilds tables, removes page numbers and headers, and infers heading levels. Cleanup is optional and reversible — the raw conversion is always kept, so you can switch back with one tap. SHARE SHEET ANYWHERE MarkLift lives in the share sheet. Convert from Safari, Files, or Mail without opening the app. Copy the result, save it as a .md file, or open it straight in your markdown editor. SIMPLE PRICING Three conversions a day are free, in every format. Need more? Watch a short ad for one extra conversion, or unlock unlimited conversions and your full history with a single $4.99 purchase. No subscription. Apple Intelligence cleanup requires a supported device. Conversions work without it. Privacy Policy: https://embay.dev/marklift/privacy Terms of Use: https://embay.dev/marklift/terms

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
MarkLift3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Quick Capture at none against MarkLift's shown. Quick Capture also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MarkLift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, MarkLift every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Quick Capture versus MarkLift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureMarkLift
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (107 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings107 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguEmbay, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
1 purchases

MarkLift

One-time1
  • MarkLift Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MarkLift free?
MarkLift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick Capture or MarkLift have ads?
MarkLift shows ads; Quick Capture does not.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or MarkLift?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and MarkLift every 2 months. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on November 4, 2026 and MarkLift on October 31, 2026.

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