SaveIt vs Captured!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SaveIt
Organize your digital life with a minimalist, privacy-focused app. Save links, notes, and bookmarks with zero tracking and no ads. Enjoy rich visual previews and intuitive organization for a clutter-free experience.
- Save links and notes
- Zero tracking and ads
- Rich visual previews
- Intuitive organization with tags
- Secure hidden mode with Face ID
- Seamless iCloud sync
- Apple Watch app
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SaveIt keeps everything you want to save in one place. Add a link, write a note, or capture what is in front of you, and it is there on every device, ready when you need it. Saving links and notes is free, with no limits. So are Hidden Mode and iCloud sync. FREE, ALWAYS • Save unlimited links, with a preview and icon added automatically when available • Write notes in Markdown, styled as you type and drawn right on your cards • Save from any app with the Share extension, or scan a QR code to save where it points • Hidden Mode locks private items behind Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID • Sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and Apple Watch with your own iCloud • Organize with tags and find anything with fast search • Spotlight finds your library from the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, and Finder • A widget and Control Center buttons put a new note, link, or capture one tap away • Export notes as text, Markdown, or PDF, and links as QR codes • Your items stay private, on your device and in your personal iCloud, never on our servers SAVEIT PRO When you want to keep more than links and notes, Pro unlocks the rest: • Save images, videos, files, and audio of any kind • Take a photo or video, or record a voice memo, without leaving the app • Search inside your media on device, so text inside a photo can be found • Set reminders on any saved item so nothing slips away • Premium note fonts and custom app icons One subscription covers all your devices, and a free trial lets you try Pro first. Links and notes are the heart of SaveIt, and they are yours for free, along with Hidden Mode and sync across your devices. Pro is there for the day you want to save everything else. -- Questions or ideas? Email disfordave@proton.me Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://saveitbydave.com/privacy
Captured!
This app acts as a universal clipboard, saving links, photos, videos, audio, files, and texts shared from other applications. It offers on-device processing for previews, AI descriptions, OCR, and transcription, with smart organization and full-text search capabilities.
- Universal content capture from any app
- Automatic previews and AI enrichment
- On-device OCR and transcription
- Smart organization with folders and views
- Full-text search and Spotlight integration
- iCloud sync for selected folders
- JSON backup and restore
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Tired of losing links, photos, videos, audio, files or texts shared from your apps? Captured is your universal clipboard. Tap Share from any app and choose Captured — everything is instantly saved, previewed and enriched, on-device by default. UNIVERSAL CAPTURE Accepts URLs, photos, videos, audio, files and text from any app. Automatic source detection (Safari, YouTube, Instagram, X, Photos...). AUTO-GENERATED PREVIEWS Every item gets a thumbnail: web pages via live browser, photos/videos from first frame, files via QuickLook, audio as waveform, text as typographic render. Thumbnail gallery with on-demand regeneration. AI DESCRIPTION, OCR & TRANSCRIPTION AI image/video description: Apple Vision (free, on-device), OpenAI GPT-4 Vision or Anthropic Claude. Built-in OCR on photos and videos. Audio speech-to-text transcription — all on-device by default, no cloud required. SMART ORGANIZATION Folders with batch move/delete and drag-and-drop reorder. Smart Views: All, Recent (7 days), Unread, With Location, With AI. Configurable sort: manual, newest, oldest, title, source. Filter by type: URL, file, photo, video, audio, text. FULL-TEXT SEARCH & SPOTLIGHT Instant search across titles, URLs, notes, AI descriptions and transcriptions. All items indexed in system Spotlight — searchable from the home screen. RICH METADATA Auto-fetch of web page title and last-modified date (bold title signals updated content). Reverse geocoding of GPS coordinates in photos. WIDGET WidgetKit widget in small, medium and large sizes showing unread items in real time. BACKUP & RESTORE Full JSON export/import (items, folders, settings, thumbnails) with Replace or Merge mode. PRIVACY All your data stays on your device. No account, no server, no ads. Network calls only when you explicitly enable web fetching or AI description via your own API key. iCloud sync, folder by folder Choose exactly which folders you want to find on your other devices. A long press on a folder offers "Sync with iCloud": its photos, videos, files and links — including previews — automatically appear on your iPhone, iPad and Mac linked to the same Apple account. Folders that are not synced remain strictly local. A "Resync iCloud" option lets you reconcile state across devices in one gesture. Link previews: lock, zoom, crop You can now lock a link's preview so it never changes, or enlarge the preview by a factor of 2 to better see thumbnails from your favorite sites. A new setting automatically crops the white or black bands surrounding some previews. Organization: everything by drag-and-drop Reorganize your folders by dragging them in the sidebar. Move an item from one folder to another simply by dragging it onto the destination folder. No more drop-down menus. Paste a link from the clipboard A new menu entry lets you directly add the currently copied link, without going through another app's "Share" menu. Manage your space better The info panel now shows the space used in iCloud when sync is active. A long press on each line gives access to quick actions. The "Delete local data only" option frees up space while keeping your synced folders intact.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Captured! at none against SaveIt's 6. Captured! also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.1). SaveIt's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and device support (5 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. SaveIt sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Captured! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SaveIt against 5.0 for Captured!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
SaveIt ships an update every 4 days, Captured! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SaveIt | Captured! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Seokwoo Hong | Alexandre Fenyo |
Customer experience
SaveIt
Captured!
In-app purchases
SaveIt
- SaveIt Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Tip Jar - Small$1.99
- Tip Jar - Medium$4.99
- Tip Jar - Large$9.99
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- SaveIt Pro (Upgrade to Lifetime)$19.99
- SaveIt Pro (Lifetime)$29.99
Captured!
No in-app purchases









