Is there a good app for take quick notes?
Too Expensive: 43 apps already serve this, and 9 data points mined from real user reviews across 4 sources show where they fall short. The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to take quick notes, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| cannot take notes while recording | missing-feature | 1 | you will think you can take notes while it records, but no |
| quick note input delay | ux | 1 | When I open quick note I can neither type nor doodle immediately |
| quick notes disappear after sync | reliability | 1 | if I were to try and use the quick notes; they also disappear after it “finishes” |
| note list for a notebook group | missing-feature | 1 | нельзя выбрать список заметок группы блокнотов - только каждый блокнот отдельно |
| no quick note/todo widget | missing-feature | 1 | a quick note/todo add widget would be nice |
| lagging while taking notes | performance | 1 | the app keep lagging for me even though I restarted my iPad Air (M4) |
| hard to add notes / tap into reminders | ux | 1 | easier to add notes to reminders. It it difficult to click into them |
| basic note-taking now paywalled by subscription | price | 1 | requesting I pay $6/month for BASIC functionality |
| session notes | missing-feature | 1 | I want to be able to add notes to a work session |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notes - Professional | 4.4 | 40 | $2.99 |
| Notes | 4.8 | 614,456 | Free |
| Voicenotes AI Notes & Meetings | 4.8 | 6,590 | Free |
| SuperNote Notes Recorder+Photo | 4.9 | 4,461 | $19.99 |
| Easy Notes - Note Taking Apps | 4.7 | 411,496 | Free |
| AudioNote™ | 4.2 | 117 | $12.99 |
| Plaud Note | 0.0 | 0 | $2.99 |
| Coconote - AI Note Taker | 4.8 | 15,915 | Free |
Should you build it?
The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier. Opportunity here scores 21 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
3 attempts, one abandoned, peaking at 166 stars — modest, scattered tooling with no dominant or sticky solution.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| docpht/docpht | abandoned | 166 | PHP |
| RutaTang/quicknote.nvim | active | 146 | Lua |
| boydvoid/vs-org | stale | 47 | TypeScript |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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