Comparison

Mark Draft vs Prexy

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mark Draft

Easily add numbered callouts, drawings, and text labels to screenshots and photos. Save your work as a draft to continue later, then share or copy the final image. Ideal for quick visual feedback and bug reporting.

Highlights
  • Numbered callouts with editable labels
  • Drawing tools (pen, arrow, shapes)
  • Adjustable stroke size and color
  • On-device drafts for continuity
  • Share Extension integration
  • Undo/redo functionality
Features
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Mark Draft helps you leave clear, numbered notes on screenshots and photos — then save a draft, pick up later, and share, copy, or save to Photos when you are ready. Open a photo from your library (or hand off from the Share Extension). Place numbered callouts, draw with pen or highlighter, add arrows and shapes, type text boxes, and edit short labels. Hold to peek the original under your markup. Everything stays on your device until you export it. FEATURES • Numbered callouts with editable labels • Pen, highlighter, arrow, rectangle, ellipse, text box, and eraser • Adjustable stroke size and color palette • Hold to peek the original photo under markup • On-device drafts — continue where you left off • Share Extension — send a screenshot into Mark Draft • Share, copy, or save the finished image to Photos • Undo / redo and clear markup (keeps your photo) • English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese • Optional one-time purchase to remove ads (not a subscription) Core markup, drafts, and sharing stay available without buying anything. Ads help keep Mark Draft free; remove them anytime with a single purchase tied to your Apple ID. Built for quick visual feedback — UI review, bugs, design notes — without a heavy editor.

About

Prexy

Features
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Prexy is a notes app for people who work in stories. Every note carries a slug, a beat and a status. That one decision is the whole app: the file you write in and the list of what you owe are the same object, so nothing has to be copied from your notes into a tracker, and the tracker can never quietly go stale. THE BOARD Your stories, sorted by how work actually moves: Not Started, In Progress, Completed. Filter by beat. Beats are yours to define — the list ships generic and every one of them is renameable, deletable and reorderable, so it can describe your desk instead of somebody else's. On iPad the board and the story sit side by side, and the list steps aside when you want the whole screen for writing. On the Mac, one keystroke from inside any app opens a small panel: type a few letters of a story's name and you are writing in it. WRITING A real editor, not a text box. Bold, italic, inline code, strikethrough and links, and find-in-note for long files. Story text follows your Dynamic Type size, with a proper dark mode, a warm paper or bright white page, and a typeface chosen for reading a screen full of prose. PLAIN FILES, ALWAYS On the Mac, Prexy keeps a plain-Markdown copy of every note in a folder you choose, alongside any files you attached. Ordinary text in ordinary folders: readable in any editor, searchable with any tool, backed up by Time Machine without knowing Prexy exists. This is the part worth caring about. Your work outlives any app it was written in, and it should never need this one to be readable. ATTACHMENTS AND LINKS Add any file or photo to a story — a document, an image, a PDF, a transcript. Link one story to another, and the story you linked to shows you what points at it — so the background you filed under one slug surfaces when you need it under a different one. TASKS THAT LIVE IN THE STORY A checkbox line inside a story can become a reminder in Apple Reminders, ticked off from either side. Notes are where the work is described; Reminders is where scheduling and notifications already work well. Prexy connects the two and then stays out of the way — it never sets a due date, and never overwrites one you set. SYNC THAT IS YOURS Your notes sync between your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud account. Not through a server of ours — there isn't one. Edit the same story in two places before they can reconcile and Prexy keeps both versions rather than picking a winner, and every note holds a version history you can read. NO ACCOUNT, NOTHING COLLECTED No sign-up, no subscription, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party services. Prexy makes no network requests of its own. Nobody but you can see your notes, and that is a property of how it is built rather than a promise in a policy. PRICING Prexy for iPhone and iPad is free, with nothing to unlock. Prexy for Mac is free for 14 days, then a one-time purchase. Built for reporters. Useful to anyone who thinks in stories.

Screenshots

Mark Draft3 screens
Prexy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Prexy at none against Mark Draft's shown. Prexy also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Mark Draft's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mark Draft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Prexy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mark Draft ships an update monthly, Prexy weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mark Draft versus Prexy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMark DraftPrexy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (105 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings105 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer勇强 温Mike Shear

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Mark Draft

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
1 purchases

Prexy

One-time1
  • Mac 14-Day TrialFree

Questions

Is Mark Draft free?
Mark Draft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prexy free?
Prexy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mark Draft or Prexy have ads?
Mark Draft shows ads; Prexy does not.
Which is updated more often, Mark Draft or Prexy?
Mark Draft ships an update monthly, and Prexy weekly. Most recently, Mark Draft was updated on November 6, 2026 and Prexy on November 13, 2026.

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