Quick Capture vs Kumo Countdown Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Kumo Countdown Timer
This app visually displays the remaining time until your next scheduled event, helping you manage your focus and avoid being late. It syncs with your existing calendar and shows live countdowns on your lock screen and device.
- Live countdown display
- Lock screen widget
- Dynamic Island integration
- Calendar sync (iCloud, Google, Outlook)
- Automatic updates from calendar changes
- No accounts or subscriptions required
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An alarm tells you when you're already late. Kumo does the opposite: it shows the time you still have, counting down to your next event before it arrives. Pick events from your existing calendar. Kumo shows a live countdown at the top of your screen and on your lock screen. No math in your head, no surprises once your event arrives. Just a clear amount of focus time sitting in plain sight, so you can settle into what you're doing now with room to breathe. Made for people with time blindness, ADHD, or anyone whose sense of time doesn't run on a clock. How it works: Connect the calendar already on your iPhone Tap one event or several to start their countdowns Watch the time count down on your lock screen and the top of your phone (Dynamic Island) Pick as many events as you like, and Kumo keeps up as your calendar changes: add, move, or cancel something, and your countdowns follow. Works with iCloud, Google, Outlook, and any other calendar in the iOS Calendar app. Your calendar stays yours. Kumo reads your events on your device to show your countdowns. No subscriptions. No accounts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quick Capture at Free against Kumo Countdown Timer's $2.99. Quick Capture also leads on ratings volume (103 vs 4) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.1). Kumo Countdown Timer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads 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
Quick Capture is free to download; Kumo Countdown Timer costs $2.99 up front. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kumo Countdown Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kumo Countdown Timer 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 4, 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 Kumo Countdown Timer's.
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Kumo Countdown Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Capture | Kumo Countdown Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (103 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pradeep Burugu | Tiny Tools Studio LLC |
Customer experience
Quick Capture
Kumo Countdown Timer
In-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
Kumo Countdown Timer
No in-app purchases
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