Drafts: Quick Capture App Reviews

Love it.. Will save me loads of time!

Thats it, Im done with this app and deleting it. I must say its one of the most horribly bugged ones Ive ever used. Im gonna give it another try around perhaps 6 months from now. Hopefully the development team will work their arses off to amend it somehow. Good luck.

No onedrive sync. Addons available only in usa.

Very useful app!

Very nice update guys!

I have tried every note/idea/writing app out there, drafts is the fastest, easiest to use. I store everything in Dropbox or Evernote. While I love Evernote, the speed, ease of use, and versioning in drafts is way better. I end up using drafts as my canvas and blank sheet of paper.

I like how fast this app opens. I have this app on my home screen BTW, one cool feature is if you swipe from left to right it will open the list of all your notes. It works great on my iPhone 6 Plus and syncs with my iPad too. I wish I could hide the markup bar Its nice that I can add things from my Apple Watch. I would also like to be able to read the ones that I have on my Apple Watch too.

I have placed Drafts on the home screen of my iPad in the most prominent spot I could think of because it is the first place I go most of the time I open the iPad. I first heard about this on Mac Power Users. It is everything they said. Drafts has improved my workflow significantly. So easy and so useful.

Excellent quick app to take notes or create calendar events. Love how quickly it opens up ready to type, no extra taps needed. This app sits on my front page and used throughout the day. Cant go wrong.

As long as Ive had an iPhone, Ive used Drafts. Ive never used it to its full potential, but found it unflappable whatever uses I have required. I miss the full-screen mode of the previous version of Drafts, but thats a drop in the bucket compared to how far this app has come along. I love Drafts and wouldnt hesitate to recommend it.

The best notes app I have used. No issues, just works as advertised. easy to add notes, and easy to recall the on the phone or watch. I tried most of the “notes apps” and this one works best.

If this app had a physical button, it would need replacing. I use the Drafts app more than the Phone app. I am considering the iWatch because this app supports it.

I have like 5000 notes in drafts, many of them 500 words or more. Drafts never stutters searching, opening, or editing any of them. Essential to my workflow. My phone isnt useful without it.

I am incredibly thankful for this app. It has been so thoughtfully developed, and it turned my phone from a fun gadget into a powerful productivity machine. I love being able to get thoughts out of my head and having them captured in a place where they are safe and can be acted on when needed. I cant rave about this app enough. Thank you, thank you!

I had always used this on my iPhone and liked it, though I didnt always know how best to use it, since I did most of my writing on my Mac. Now that I have an iPad, I use it all the time. I do most of my writing on my iPad. I start drafts in Drafts, then send it to Dropbox for final editing in a Dropbox-connected app.

First off, this is probably a 5-star app for most people. Fast, good looking, super-flexible with comprehensive options and the ability to create custom actions. Why the low rating? One. Stupid. Thing. Tables. I use tables a LOT (just the nature of my work), and Drafts 4 does not give me the tables I need when I export it’s markdown. It’s not that the tables don’t export. They just export without any lines, so when I send from Drafts to email, or to a Wiki, or to Coda, or to Evernote…I get line-less tables. For me, this is a deal breaker. Every other markdown editor I’ve used has managed to put out tables that looked like tables in Mail and other HTML compatible apps. So sadly, I have to go back to my much uglier $1.99 markdown app that is so much less flexible..but gives me valid HTML tables. For most people, this shouldn’t stop you from buying the app. It’s still very nice. My rating reflects it’s usability for ME, and I thought it was important that people know about the table problem before dropping $10.

I rarely write reviews, but I feel its important for people to know what a great app this is. At a $9.99 price point, there can be a sense of purchasing inertia for what might at first seem like "just" a note taking app. But for me, the automatic backups alone make this worth the money (and it keeps backups of every edit you make, not just the last version). If you have notes that you cant afford to accidentally delete, this is the app for you.

Think. Start typing… Decide where the text goes when youre done with one of the user configurable actions. Brilliant app with great customer support.

4/5 stars ( mostly because I dont like paying for apps twice) but this one deserves it UPDATED from 2/4 stars.

Drafts has become a first-screen app, for me. Im not sure "first-screen" is a real phrase, and while its meaning may be obvious, i should clarify so im not seen as being vague. first-screen apps are those apps on which i depend most. i move most of the default apple apps to screen two and use screen one for my prize apps that are used daily. Drafts 4 is the king of first-screen! This review? written in Drafts (using TextExpander). You see, TextExpander allows you to create preformatted templates within which you can populate comments. Because the app store review format is consistent across reviews, I built a template in TextExpander that launches from Drafts 4. I use a small code, something like, "blah", in a new Drafts document and this tells TextExpander to invoke my review template. My review template contains a field for the title, a drop down menu so i can select 1-5 stars, and an open text area for writing the actual review, then i click done and this predefined format is pushed back into Drafts as a finished document. At this point, all i do is add my review then copy and paste it into the app store review screen. This is ONE example of what Drafts 4 can do for you. Want to sort your documents? No problem! Drafts comes with a handful of tabbed screens, but you can easily add more...and you can identify search terms that will look through your documents and make those documents appear on the tab that you created! Naturally, I have a tab for app store reviews and the tab i created simply searches for the unique phrase that i use to start each review. Because that phrase occurs in no other documents, they only show up on the tab for reviews. simple simon! Then there are the operations that are not only built into the app, but also open to you to self-create. You can write in Drafts, then export to any number of apps, or to a wifi printer or save a copy to iCloud Drive, or...well you get the idea...the same concept applies to extended keyboard features. Do you want to UPPER CASE A DOCUMENT? You can go to the app website and download a small script that appends to the keyboard; its simply called UPPER CASE. Want to easily add a parenthetical with as few keystrokes as possible? same deal...add the () keyboard extension tap () before you type your statment, and it knows to start off with (, then type your statement and press () and it knows to end with ). In a world measured by screen-taps, this is a life saver.