Quick Capture vs Camera Scanner
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.
Camera Scanner
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Turn paper into a clean, organized document in seconds. Cam Scanner automatically detects document edges, improves readability, and turns photos into professional files you can save or share. Scan one page or a complete document, adjust every page, then export as PDF, Word, PNG, or JPG. MORE THAN A PDF SCANNER AI document analysis helps you understand and organize what you scan. It can recognize receipts, bills, IDs, contracts, notices, and homework, then suggest useful details such as a title, category, date, amount, tags, and a concise summary. For bills and notices, you can also create reminders so important due dates do not get forgotten. FAST, CLEAN SCANNING • Automatic edge detection and perspective correction • Clear document enhancement and color filters • Multi-page scanning with page reordering • Crop, rotate, edit, or delete individual pages • Optimized output for reading, printing, and sharing AI ORGANIZATION • Summarize scanned documents • Extract useful dates, amounts, and categories • Organize receipts, invoices, and everyday paperwork • Search and find saved documents quickly • Set due-date reminders for bills and notices FLEXIBLE EXPORT • Export to PDF, Word, PNG, or JPG • Share documents with other apps in one tap • Keep multi-page scans together • Back up, restore, and use an iCloud Drive document folder MADE FOR EVERYDAY DOCUMENTS Use Cam Scanner for receipts, bills and invoices, ID cards and passports, contracts and forms, notices, notes, homework, and other paper records. Scan it once. Find it later. Take action before it is due. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Quick Capture at none against Camera Scanner's shown. Camera Scanner's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Quick Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Camera Scanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Camera Scanner every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Capture | Camera Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (103 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pradeep Burugu | Kwan Shum |
In-app purchases
Quick Capture
- Lifetime plan$5.99
Camera Scanner
- Cam Scanner Pro Weekly7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Cam Scanner Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Questions
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