Comparison

Drafts vs P.Todo

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

Head to head
About

Drafts

Quickly capture text and send it to other apps with this versatile writing tool. It functions as a notebook, editor, and automation tool, allowing for seamless integration with various services and AI LLMs. Organize, customize, and process your text efficiently across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Quick text capture
  • Send text to other apps
  • Writing automation tool
  • Cross-device sync
  • Text manipulation actions
  • Customizable interface
  • AI LLM integration
Features
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Drafts is where text starts. Quickly capture text and send it almost anywhere! Drafts turns text into action with almost limitless possibilities – it’s a quick notebook, handy editor, and writing automation tool, all in one. Capture all of your text in Drafts and send it to other apps without the extra taps. Just open it and start typing! **Drafts is a multi-award winner!** - App of the Day, TIME Magazine’s Best Apps - MacStories “Lifetime Acheivement” and “Reader’s Choice” Awards ## WHY YOU’LL LOVE DRAFTS ## CAPTURE EVERYWHERE: Drafts opens to a new page with the keyboard ready — just waiting for your words. Alternatively, go hands-free with dictation. Drafts helps you write ideas down before you can forget them so and they’ll always be there, ready and waiting. Capture on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, and Drafts’ fast sync will make your text available everywhere. USE YOUR WORDS: Drafts is a jumping-off point for text — use actions to copy it, share it, or deep-link into other apps and services. Compose a tweet, draft a message, create a file in Dropbox, send a task off to Reminders – Drafts works with tons of your favorite apps and services. Hone your text through integrations with popular AI LLMs. REMEMBER IT NOW – OR LATER: New entries go into the Inbox. Once there, you can Tag them for organization, Flag them for importance, or Archive them for long-term storage. TAKE TEXT TO A NEW LEVEL: Customize Drafts to look and work the way you want with tons of interface adjustments — custom fonts and control over spacing, line height, and margins. Use the customizable buttons above the keyboard to convert, manipulate, and transform your writing quickly. Using Drafts as a global inbox for all of your text? Process everything quickly using unique features like Link Mode, Arrange Mode, and text manipulation actions. LEVERAGE THE POWER OF YOUR WRIST COMPUTER: Use your Apple Watch to quickly capture text using nothing more than your voice — and your ideas will be waiting on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac ready to be fleshed out. GETTING WORDS DOWN HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER: Drafts opens lightning fast and with support for capture via Siri, the widget, share extension, file import, and dictation - Drafts is like post-its updated for the smartphone era. ## JOIN THE COMMUNITY ## Check out our Directory (actions.getdrafts.com) for ready-to-use actions and themes. Join the Drafts Community (forums.getdrafts.com) to get help, integration guides, and a regular flow of tips & tricks. ## DRAFTS PRO ## Drafts is always free to use, but you can get more out of Drafts with a Drafts Pro subscription: • Create and Edit Actions • Themes and Icons - suit the experience to your tastes with themes, custom app icons, and more • Workspaces - Apply preferred tag, query, and sort settings for your drafts list with Workspaces • Extra widgets and better share extension options • Enhanced Automation We are always working hard to expand the capabilities of Drafts and keep it up-to-date with the latest technologies. Your support helps keep the app growing – thank you to Drafts Pro subscribers! ## SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS ## • Monthly and annual subscriptions are available • Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase • Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period • Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription • Subscriptions can be managed or canceled by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase Have questions? Contact us on Twitter at @draftsapp or email support@getdrafts.com. Terms: https://getdrafts.com/support/terms Privacy Policy: https://getdrafts.com/support/privacy

About

P.Todo

Features
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Writing down tasks and offload thoughts from our brain onto paper or any physical form is supposed to help us clear our mind and focus on the task at hand. However when there is too much in life to juggle with, as it often is, our todo-list could get too long too easy. When there are dozens of todos in our todo list, checking it becomes overwhelming, the very tool meant to liberate us becomes a source of stress. That's why so many to-do list would have folders, tags, priorities, and all kinds of other sorting mechanism to manage tasks. However I find that kind of mechanism to be quite useless and mechanical, how can you quantify a task's importance and urgency? when something is urgent enough, wouldn't you just do it instead of write it down in your todo list? If something is not urgent now, wouldn't it automatically becomes urgent in the future? Wouldn't it be wonderful if instead of the arbitrary folders, manual labels and made-up priorities there were a more organic way to manage tasks? Actually, there is, your tasks could be managed by TIME. Think about it, no matter how many things you got at hand, you can only do one thing at a time, and if something is important and urgent you would want to do it in the near future (or now), if something is not so urgent, then you would arrange it in a more distant future. And there are also things that cannot be done until a certain time, so it need not to be shown in our todo list NOW. Thus, problem solved, when we are presented with a lot of tasks, instead of just do everything (which is honestly not possible) or just leave it there because you couldn't do it which is frustrating, you could just POSTPONE your tasks. If it is something you want to do or relatively urgent, but you don't feel like do it now, or certain conditions are not met so you cannot do it now, then you can postpone it to the near future such as 40min later or even 15 minutes later, and then the task is gone, no longer something you need to do now, if it is something not very urgent or important, but you still want to do when you got time, you can postpone it to maybe 3 or 4 days or even a week later. Thus based on your intuition, you can quickly determine how far in the future you would like to postpone a task. The process in and of itself is stress free, because the task is not gone, it is just rearranged to a later time, you don't have the remember the task's label or tag or which field it belongs to or anything, it will reappear in the future, and if you really do not have anything to do at hand you can look into the calendar to see the tasks you postponed into the future. In P.Todo, this POSTPONE action is made crazy easy and intuitive, you can just swipe a task item to the left to postpone a task to the future and the harder you swipe the more distant the future the task is pushed to, and if you wish to delegate a task to reappear in a certain date you can swipe the task item all the way left to call out a calendar to delegate an exact date. For task that you do want to do now, you can swipe the task item to the right, depending on how much you swipe a timer will show up playing white noise music and helping you to focus, if you swipe a bit further you can also mark the task as complete or swipe even further to delete the task. With this simple app, I find my chaotic and dramatic day become much more manageable. It becomes significantly easier for me to get into the zone, and get things done. On the other hand, it becomes much less likely for me to miss important deadlines, as everything is organized in my todo app's calendar. P.Todo is a project that I build for my own need, as all other todo app couldn't satisfy me, but it turns out other people seems to like it as well. So I decide to pack it up and share it in app store, hope you enjoy!

Screenshots

Drafts4 screens
P.Todo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: P.Todo at none against Drafts's 3. Drafts's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Drafts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. P.Todo asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Drafts versus P.Todo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraftsP.Todo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (11K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings11K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.814.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAgile Tortoise德春 李

Bugs and requests

Drafts

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Paste function not working properly
  • Syncing issues between devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved integration with other apps
  • Ability to edit custom actions without subscription
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription

P.Todo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Drafts

Subscriptions3
  • Drafts Pro - Monthly [i]$2.991 Month
  • Drafts Pro - Annual [i]7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Drafts Pro - Patron [i]$39.991 Year
None

P.Todo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drafts free?
Drafts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is P.Todo free?
P.Todo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drafts or P.Todo have ads?
Neither Drafts nor P.Todo shows ads.

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