Comparison

Quick Capture vs Aside

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

Aside

Features
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Aside is your private space for thoughts, designed to feel as natural as messaging yourself. Open a conversation and capture whatever matters: text, voice notes, photos, links, GPS points, and files. Reply to your own messages, add reactions, pin important thoughts, and find anything with fast search. See something worth keeping in another app? Share it directly to Aside, choose a conversation, and it is saved for later. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU THINK • Create personal conversations for ideas, projects, reminders, journals, and more • Capture text, voice notes, photos, links, locations, and files • Reply, react, pin, search, archive, and organize • Share content straight into the conversation you choose • Customize conversations with colors, images, or emoji • Start instantly from the home screen widget PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No developer-operated cloud sync. Your conversations and attachments are stored locally in the app on your device and are not sent to the developer’s servers. ASIDE FREE AND ASIDE PRO Aside Free includes up to 3 conversations. Unlock Aside Pro with a one-time purchase to create unlimited conversations. No subscription. Capture it now. Find it when you need it. Keep it yours.

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
Aside4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Capture at every 10 days against Aside's every 6 weeks. 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 Aside 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, Aside every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Quick Capture versus Aside: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureAside
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (107 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings107 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguAlessandro Chelli

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
1 purchases

Aside

One-time1
  • Aside Pro Lifetime$8.99

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aside free?
Aside is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick Capture or Aside have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor Aside shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or Aside?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and Aside every 6 weeks. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on November 4, 2026 and Aside on November 10, 2026.

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