Comparison

Cache vs Captured!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cache

This app offers a private and secure way to manage your notes and tasks using Markdown and Git for synchronization. It prioritizes user control, speed, and offline access, ensuring your data is always yours and accessible.

Highlights
  • Private notes and tasks
  • Markdown format
  • Git synchronization
  • Version control
  • Offline access
  • Instant search
  • Task tracking
Features
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For users who value complete control over their knowledge. Powerful personal knowledge management with no vendor lock-in, no privacy compromises—just fast, portable notes synced through git. --- **Highlights & Features** ## Your Notes, Your Data You are in total control of your notes and privacy. Your notes never touch our servers - everything stays on your devices, synced through your own git server. Complete privacy. No tracking. No exceptions. ## Beautiful Markdown Your notes are stored, viewed and edited as clean portable markdown. No proprietary formats, no lock-in. Your knowledge remains accessible forever in files you own, readable in any text editor. ## Git Sync Cache is a Git client - use GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, your own server, or any Git service. Version control built-in means you never lose your work and you control who has access. ## Every Task, Tracked Every checkbox across every note, individually tracked with due dates and priorities. Cache surfaces what's overdue, due today, or coming soon — so nothing slips through the cracks. ## Lightning Fast Built around speed to get ideas out of your head quickly. Fluid touch gestures or comprehensive keyboard shortcuts, minimal interface, instant search - nothing slows you down on any device. ## Instant Search Find anything instantly across your entire knowledge base. Line-level results show context immediately and feel magical. No waiting, no indexing delays, no network requests, just results. ## First-Class Journaling Date-based notes with first-class support for effortless journaling. Browse, search, and edit your daily entries seamlessly. Journals and reference notes coexist with fully configurable categories. ## Modal Editing (Alpha) Optionally use powerful modal editing with Vim and Helix motions. For power users who want maximum efficiency, or stick with simple mode for traditional editing. ## Offline First Carry your notes with you. Your devices always have your full notes repository. Work anywhere, anytime, without depending on internet connectivity. ## Seamless on iPhone & Mac Optimized for iPhone with a minimal interface that feels right at home. Your notes sync across all your Apple devices through Git. ## Opinionated Minimalism Every feature serves one purpose: managing your markdown notes faster and better. No plugins means no bloat, no distractions, no performance compromises. Just powerful note-taking, nothing more. --- Terms of service: https://www.cachenotes.app/docs/terms-of-service/ Privacy policy: https://www.cachenotes.app/docs/privacy-policy/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Cache4 screens
Captured!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Captured! at 100% against Cache's 0%. Captured! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Captured! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Cache's written reviews are positive against 100% of Captured!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cache ships an update every 3 weeks, Captured! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cache versus Captured!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCacheCaptured!
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRocketware LimitedAlexandre Fenyo

Customer experience

Cache

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Captured!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cache

No in-app purchases

None

Captured!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cache free?
Cache is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Captured! free?
Captured! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cache or Captured!?
Captured! is rated higher. Cache averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Captured! averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cache or Captured! have ads?
Neither Cache nor Captured! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cache or Captured!?
Cache ships an update every 3 weeks, and Captured! fortnightly. Most recently, Cache was updated on September 20, 2026 and Captured! on September 22, 2026.

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