Drafts is a capture-first notes app for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Open it and begin typing immediately; the decision about whether that text becomes a note, task, message, file, or something else can come later.
That makes it useful for fleeting ideas, dictated notes, meeting fragments, response drafts, and any text you would otherwise lose while deciding where it belongs. New entries land in an inbox, where you can tag, flag, archive, search, or send them onward through an action.
Features
- Open directly to a new draft with the keyboard ready, and capture text through typing, dictation, Siri, widgets, share sheets, and file import.
- Keep new material in an inbox, then organize it with tags, flags, archives, and workspace views when it needs to remain in Drafts.
- Run actions that copy, share, transform, or send text into other apps and services, including tasks, files, and messages.
- Customize the writing interface with fonts, spacing, margins, and other editing preferences.
- Extend Drafts through its action directory, community resources, and JavaScript scripting library when off-the-shelf actions are not enough.
- Use the current Apple-device apps as one capture and writing workflow, then review the selected sync and account settings for your data.
Where it fits
Drafts fits people who capture words constantly and prefer to decide their destination after they have been written. It can sit in front of a notes app, task manager, calendar, or file system instead of competing with all of them.
Its flexibility can be unnecessary if every note has one obvious home. The action system is powerful, but it takes some setup and maintenance to become a reliable personal automation layer.
Privacy and requirements
Drafts stores and syncs text within its Apple-platform data model, with iCloud used for its normal cross-device workflow. Actions can deliberately send text to websites, APIs, scripts, and other applications, so each installed action has its own privacy implications. Review third-party actions and credentials before running them on confidential drafts.
Pricing
Drafts includes a free tier. Pro $1.99/month or $19.99/year.
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