Comparison

Quick Capture vs Rain, From Below

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

Rain, From Below

Features
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Lie five metres down in a freshwater lake and watch the rain arrive from underneath. Every drop writes its own ring on the surface and drags a puff of air under with it. The sky fits into a bright disc above you - that is what water does to light - and around it the surface turns to mirror. A sandy bank rises toward shore with eelgrass swaying and lily pads floating overhead. A school of small fish drifts through; larger ones cruise past; now and then a turtle, an eel or a yabby wanders by. The sound is what a hydrophone would hear: the ringing of air bubbles, shifted down to where you can hear it, thickening into a roar when the rain comes on heavy. Distant thunder in a storm, wind across the surface, a boat passing far off. Nothing here is a recording. The scene is generated live, so ten hours run without a loop, and the fish never repeat. WHAT YOU CAN CHANGE • Three modes: Sleep (dim, calm, quiet), Focus, Showcase • Time of day on a 24-hour slider, or let it follow the real clock - dawn, overcast, dusk, night with a moon that matches tonight's phase • Rain, hail or snow; storms with lightning and thunder • Waves from glass-calm to a rolling swell; four kinds of water • How many fish, how much eelgrass, lily pads, creatures, birds, insects • A timer up to ten hours or an end time, with a fade-out or a wake-into-dawn ending • Lock-screen play/pause; keeps playing with the screen off Made for sleeping, studying and sitting still. PRO Pro adds the reef, the river and the pool, seasons, Match the sun, the sound mixer and the night programme. It is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription (A$2.99 a month or A$19.99 a year in Australia; prices differ by country), or a one-off lifetime unlock (A$39.99). Subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://frombelowstudios.netlify.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Quick Capture4 screens
Rain, From Below4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Rain, From Below at every 3 days against Quick Capture's every 10 days. 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 Rain, From Below sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, Rain, From Below every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Quick Capture versus Rain, From Below: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick CaptureRain, From Below
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (103 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings103 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPradeep BuruguJack Johnson

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Capture

One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$5.99
3 purchases

Rain, From Below

Subscriptions2
  • Pro$1.991 Month
  • Pro$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Quick Capture free?
Quick Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rain, From Below free?
Rain, From Below is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick Capture or Rain, From Below have ads?
Neither Quick Capture nor Rain, From Below shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Capture or Rain, From Below?
Quick Capture ships an update every 10 days, and Rain, From Below every 3 days. Most recently, Quick Capture was updated on October 7, 2026 and Rain, From Below on October 10, 2026.

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