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About Drafts
Drafts opens to a blank page with the keyboard ready, so you can type or dictate before deciding where the text belongs. There are no folders or file names to deal with at the moment of capture.
Once written, text is sent on with actions: copying it, sharing it or passing it to other apps and services. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, and a public changelog and documentation site cover its features.
Strengths
- Opens straight to a new page for immediate typing
- Actions send text to other apps and services
- Dictation support and an Apple Watch app
Limitations
- Apple platforms only
- Closed source
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree download from the App Store, with paid features available.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- macOS, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- iPhone and Mac users who capture text first and file it later
- Categories
- Note-taking, Automation
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Drafts
Compare allSoftware that can replace Drafts for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Tot
A small text scratchpad for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that syncs through iCloud.
Tot is a minimal Apple scratchpad with iCloud sync across Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch and Shortcuts actions, but it lacks Drafts' actions for sending text.
Apple Notes
Apple's built-in notes app with sync, sketches, and text recognition.
Apple Notes is free and preinstalled on Apple devices with sync and text recognition, but it does not open to a new page or send text through actions.
SideNotes
A Mac note-taking app that slides in from the side of the screen for quick notes.
SideNotes is a paid Mac-only app whose notes panel slides in from the screen edge for quick notes, with no iPhone app listed.
Google Keep
A note service from Google for quick notes, checklists and reminders that sync across devices.
Google Keep captures quick notes and checklists with reminders through a Google account on the web, moving notes onto Google's servers.
Bear
Apple-exclusive markdown notes app with tag-based organization and a polished editor.
Bear is an Apple-only Markdown notes app with tag-based organisation, aimed more at keeping notes than at capturing and routing text elsewhere.
Twos
An app for quickly writing down notes, to-dos, reminders and events organised by day.
Twos captures notes, tasks and reminders quickly in a daily view and runs on Windows, Linux, Android and web as well, though it is also closed source.
Simplenote
Minimal note app that syncs plain-text and Markdown notes across devices.
Simplenote is an open-source minimal app syncing plain-text notes free across Windows, Linux, Android and macOS, without Drafts' action system or iOS listing.
Drafts as an alternative
Listings that name Drafts as an alternative.
Napkin
An iPhone app for collecting quotes and ideas and resurfacing them for reflection.
Drafts opens straight to a new page for quick text capture on Mac and iPhone, with dictation and actions, but does not resurface saved ideas.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
iA Writer
Minimalist Markdown writing app focused on the text.
Ulysses
A focused writing app for Mac, iPad and iPhone with project management, sync and export.
Unclutter
A macOS pull-down panel that holds clipboard history, quick notes and a file drop zone.
NotePlan
A daily-note app that combines notes, tasks and Apple Calendar events for Mac, iOS and web.
Memos
A self-hosted, open-source note-taking service that keeps quick Markdown notes in a private timeline.
