Quick Draft for Obsidian vs Embedded Smart Voice Recorder

Quick Draft is a quick capture app for Obsidian on iPhone and iPad. Open it and a blank page is ready: type, dictate or snap a photo, and your note lands in the right file of your Obsidian Vault. Built by an Obsidian fan, for the Obsidian community CAPTURE IN SECONDS - Quick notes straight into your Obsidian vault, with no sign-in - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for text, voice, photos, scans, files and location - Siri and Shortcuts actions for text and voice notes, which you can also put on the Action button - Share text, links, images and files from any app to Obsidian with no extra prompts - Pasted and shared links get their page titles automatically - Drafts history, so a thought is never lost VOICE NOTES AND SPEECH TO TEXT - Record voice memos and get accurate transcription into Markdown - Start a voice note right from the Lock Screen widget - Attach the audio recording to the note PHOTOS, HANDWRITING AND FILES - Scan documents and convert text from photos to Markdown, handwriting included (OCR) - Attach images, videos, documents and other files - Save your current location with one tap AI ASSIST - AI Rewrite fixes grammar and tidies a note, with a prompt you can customize - Use your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Mistral and ElevenLabs - On-device AI with Apple Intelligence: private and works offline - Self-hosted AI with Ollama, Whisper and LocalAI (beta) WORKS THE WAY YOUR VAULT WORKS - Create new notes or add to existing ones: append, prepend or insert text - Daily notes, an inbox note, fleeting notes or a journal: send each capture where it belongs - Future Notes: save into past or future daily notes - Templates and properties, from presets or from your own notes - WYSIWYG Markdown editor with a customizable toolbar - Unlimited notes, Routes and vaults ROUTES Routes send one capture to several Destinations, apply formatting and run actions for you. Set up a route for meeting notes, one for your reading list and one for your daily journal, then switch with one tap. Long press a route to open its note in Obsidian. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Quick Draft never needs full access to your vault. You choose the exact files and folders (Destinations) it can write to. No account needed. A short in-app tutorial walks you through setup. Notes are saved as plain Markdown files in the folders you pick, so they show up in Obsidian like any other note. Quick Draft is free to use. Optional Pro plans (monthly, yearly or lifetime) unlock AI features and cover their server costs. Quick Draft is developed independently. Obsidian® name and logo are trademarks of Obsidian.md, used here for identification only. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Embedded — Your Voice, Your Knowledge Every great idea starts as a thought. Embedded makes sure none of them get lost. Record voice memos on the go — from meeting notes and brainstorms to quick ideas and personal reflections. Embedded uses AI to automatically transcribe your recordings, generate concise summaries, and organize everything so you can find it later. How it works: 1. Hit record and speak your mind 2. Embedded transcribes your audio using advanced AI speech recognition 3. A smart summary is generated instantly 4. Your memo is tagged, categorized, and stored securely in the cloud That's it. No typing. No manual organizing. Just talk and let Embedded handle the rest. Built for your knowledge workflow: Embedded isn't just a voice recorder — it's the front door to your personal knowledge base. Every memo is processed with AI embeddings that power semantic search, so you can find recordings by meaning, not just keywords. Looking for "that idea about the product launch"? Embedded finds it even if you never said those exact words. Export to Obsidian and beyond: Your data belongs to you. Embedded includes a built-in export tool that converts your memos into clean Markdown files with YAML frontmatter — ready to drop into Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, or any markdown-based knowledge system. Transcriptions, summaries, tags, and metadata all come with it. Key features: - One-tap voice recording with live duration timer - AI-powered transcription and summarization - Smart categorization: Ideas, Meetings, ToDos, People, and more - Custom tags for flexible organization - Semantic search powered by AI embeddings - Full data export to Markdown for Obsidian integration - Sign in with Apple for fast, private authentication - Secure cloud storage with end-to-end user isolation - Clean, modern interface designed for speed Privacy and security: Your recordings and data are stored securely and isolated to your account. No one else can access your memos. Embedded uses Firebase Authentication, encrypted cloud storage, and row-level database security to keep your knowledge private. Who is Embedded for? - Professionals who want to capture meeting takeaways without typing - Creators and writers who think best out loud - Students recording lectures and study notes - Anyone building a personal knowledge base - Obsidian users who want a voice-first capture tool Stop losing your best ideas. Start talking. Embedded takes care of the rest.