Comparison

Quick Capture vs Hum Memo

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

Hum Memo

This voice-first productivity app transforms spoken thoughts, conversations, and meetings into organized notes, actionable tasks, and calendar events. It offers advanced features like multilingual transcription, speaker separation, and AI-powered insights, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Voice note and meeting recording
  • Speech-to-text transcription
  • Task and event extraction
  • Multilingual and speaker recognition
  • Searchable notes and folders
  • Calendar integration
Features
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Think out loud. Leave with a plan. Turn a passing thought, a meeting recap, or a brain dump into organized notes and clear next steps. Hum Memo brings voice capture to your iPhone and Apple Watch. CAPTURE THE MOMENT • Speak naturally. Turn recordings into transcripts, summaries, titles, and tags. • Record from your wrist. Save a voice note on Apple Watch and send it to your paired iPhone for processing. • Type when talking isn’t convenient, or save supported links alongside your notes. • Record in multiple languages, including conversations that switch between them. MAKE YOUR WORDS USEFUL • Find the next step. Hum Memo suggests tasks and calendar events from your notes for you to review and add. • Keep things organized. Search your notes and group them into folders. • Make it yours. Edit titles, summaries, and transcripts. • Take your work with you. Export notes to Notion or Obsidian, send tasks to Reminders, Todoist, or Things, and add events to your calendar. GO DEEPER WITH HUM MAX • Ask questions across your notes, with references back to the source. • Explore connections between people and topics. • Recognize enrolled speakers in your recordings. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS No ads. Your content is never sold or used for advertising. Cloud features process recordings and text through our service providers. You can delete your account in Settings; see our Privacy Policy for retention details. MEMBERSHIP Hum Memo requires an account and an active Hum Pro or Hum Max subscription. Monthly and yearly plans are available, with free trials for eligible customers. Features and monthly usage allowances vary by plan. Current prices, allowances, and available trial offers are shown in the app before purchase. The Apple Watch companion requires Hum Memo on your paired iPhone. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://hummemo.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://hummemo.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
Hum Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hum Memo at 5.0 against Quick Capture's 4.5. Hum Memo also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Quick Capture's advantage is ratings volume (103 vs 7) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, 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 Hum Memo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hum Memo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Capture has 103 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Quick Capture's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hum Memo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Hum Memo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Quick Capture versus Hum Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureHum Memo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (103 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB771 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguJZMB GmbH

Customer experience

Quick Capture

All ratings103 ratings
Positive84.5%
Neutral7.8%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive73.7%
Neutral12.3%
Negative14.0%

Hum Memo

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
4 purchases

Hum Memo

Subscriptions4
  • Hum Memo Pro7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Hum Memo Max7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Hum Memo Pro7 Days trial$89.991 Year
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  • Hum Memo Max7 Days trial$149.991 Year

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hum Memo free?
Hum Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quick Capture or Hum Memo?
Hum Memo is rated higher. Quick Capture averages 4.5 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while Hum Memo averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Quick Capture or Hum Memo have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor Hum Memo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or Hum Memo?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and Hum Memo weekly. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on October 7, 2026 and Hum Memo on September 26, 2026.

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