Overview

Quick Draft for Obsidian is an unofficial companion app for the Obsidian® note-taking platform. It is built for one job: getting ideas from your phone into your Vault as fast as possible. You type, dictate, snap, scan or share something, tap Save, and it lands in the right note, formatted the way you want.

Disclaimer: Obsidian® and its logo are trademarks of Obsidian.md. They are used here solely for identification purposes. All rights remain with the respective owner.

What you can do

Capture

• Write in a live Markdown editor with Properties (frontmatter).
• Capture text, audio, photos, images, videos, files and your location.
• Record voice notes, with pause and resume.
• Transcribe new recordings or audio files from your phone in 57 languages: detect the language automatically or choose it yourself, including mixed languages.
• Read printed or handwritten text from screenshots or photos.
• Automatically resolve page titles for pasted URLs and format them as [Page title](url).
• Tweak the interface until it feels just right.
• Open the note in Obsidian right after saving, or close Quick Draft automatically.

Save to the right place

• Quickly switch between target notes and saving rules.
• Add to existing notes, or create new ones such as Daily Notes.
• Write to a note in the past or the future, such as yesterday’s or tomorrow’s Daily Note.
• Add to the top or bottom of a note, or under a specific heading.
• Save one draft into several notes at once.

Templates, names and paths

• Create new notes from a template.
• Name new notes by date, by their first line, or with an AI-generated title.
• Wrap each capture in your own template, for example with a timestamp or divider.
• Choose file names for new photos and voice recordings.
• Define dynamic paths for saving notes and attachments, such as Daily/2026/W-39/2026-09-23 or Attachments/2026/09/.

Date formatting

• Compatible with Obsidian’s date syntax (Moment.js), so your existing templates and Daily Note formats work as they are.
• Set the date language separately from your phone’s language, for example German dates on an English phone: dddd, D. MMMM YYYY gives Mittwoch, 23. September 2026.

Share from other apps

• Share text, links, photos, videos, audio and documents from any app.
• Save shared content in one tap, without extra prompts.

AI Features

• Transcribe audio.
• Generate note tittle.
• Rewrite selected text.
• Fill in empty Properties.
• Customize prompts for title generation AI rewrite, Property autofill and text recognition
• Use your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Mistral or ElevenLabs.
• Use on device AI models like: Gemini Nano or Apple Intelligence.
• Connect your own AI server, such as Ollama, Whisper or LocalAI.

History and safety

• Your unsent draft is kept automatically and restored when you open the app. Media included.
• Review everything you saved to your Vault in History, check which step failed, and resend a capture to its note.

Android

• Dictate over any app with the floating Voice Bubble.
• Capture from Home or Lock screen widgets.
• Capture from Quick Settings tiles.
• Long-press the app icon for shortcuts, or pin any capture to your home screen.
• Trigger captures from automation apps like Tasker or MacroDroid.

iOS

• Capture from Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets.
• Start a text or voice note with Siri, Spotlight, the Action button, Back Tap or a Control Center control.
• Trigger captures from Shortcuts or with quickDraftObsidian:// links.

Next steps

1. First setup: create your first Destination and Route.
2. Key concepts: how Destinations, Routes and templates fit together.
3. Home screen: start capturing.