Comparison

Quick Capture vs CamRelay

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

CamRelay

Features
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CamRelay turns your old iPhone or iPad into a private baby monitor, pet camera, or room monitor over your local Wi‑Fi. Watch the live view from another phone, tablet, or computer in the same network, without creating an account or sending your video to the cloud. Use CamRelay to: Turn a spare iPhone or iPad into a baby monitor. Check on pets while you are in another room. Watch a bedroom, nursery, living room, entryway, or office. Reuse an old device instead of buying a dedicated camera. Features: Live camera streaming over local Wi‑Fi. Open the live view from another device in the same network. Simple setup with local link. Works well with spare or older iPhone and iPad devices. Private by design, with no account required. Ideal for baby monitoring, pet watching, and room supervision. Why CamRelay: No complicated setup. No mandatory sign-in. No cloud dependency for the core local viewing experience. A simple way to give a second life to your unused Apple devices. Private home monitoring made simple with the devices you already own.

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
CamRelay3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: CamRelay at 3 against Quick Capture's 1. CamRelay also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 CamRelay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Quick Capture versus CamRelay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureCamRelay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (105 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings105 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguLuan Cu Xuan

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
1 purchases

CamRelay

One-time1
  • CamRelay Pro Lifetime$6.99

Questions

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

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