Comparison

Quick Capture vs Colophon

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

Colophon

Features
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Colophon is a private read-later app for people who want to keep articles, feeds, PDFs and EPUBs in one calm library. Save pages from Safari or any app, subscribe to RSS feeds, import books and PDFs, then read with clean typography, progress tracking and device-wide search. Colophon keeps your highlights, margin notes, handwritten ink and reading history attached to the piece you saved. Built for focused reading: - Save URLs, RSS/Atom feeds, EPUBs, PDFs and local HTML - Import Instapaper CSV or HTML exports with Colophon Pro - Read in an adaptive iPhone and iPad interface - Highlight passages, add margin notes and search your saved library - Draw with Apple Pencil on articles, books and PDFs - Resume visual reading or read-aloud listening where you left off - Review saved highlights and handwritten notes over time - Use widgets for quick access to your reading - Export rich Markdown to an Obsidian vault - Sync supported data with iCloud when enabled - Connect an optional Miniflux account for two-way feed sync Private by design: - No tracking - No account required - No collected data in the app privacy manifest - On-device AI features, when available, run on your device for summaries, key points, tags and article Q&A Colophon is designed as a quiet desk for serious reading: capture what matters, mark it up, and let your library become searchable knowledge.

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
Colophon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Quick Capture at 17.6 against Colophon's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Colophon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Quick Capture versus Colophon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureColophon
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, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguSIRWAN AFIFI

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
1 purchases

Colophon

One-time1
  • Colophon Pro$9.99

Questions

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

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