Comparison

Draafts vs Ocean

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

Head to head
About

Draafts

Features
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Draafts is a light weight, minimalist note app for iPhones & iPads. It helps in focusing on writing without any distractions. What you'll love: - Minimalist single page editor - Light weight - less than an MB size - Open & start typing - Quick actions bar for easy copy & clear - No registrations or ads - Privacy first - notes stored locally only on your device - Quick glance to word count - Pinch to change text size - Full iPadOS support including Keyboard shortcuts & mouse Support - Easy one hand usage - App Lock

About

Ocean

This app intelligently sorts your Gmail inbox into actionable, reviewable, and cleanup categories. It offers smart replies, bulk email deletion, and scheduling tools to streamline your communication and save time.

Highlights
  • AI-powered email classification (Action, Review, Cleanup)
  • Smart replies tailored to recipient
  • Bulk email cleanup and unsubscribe
  • Email docking for future action
  • Meeting scheduling with availability blocking
  • VIP contact filtering
Features
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Your Gmail inbox wasn't built for the way you work. Ocean was. Ocean brings Beacon Intelligence to Gmail and Google Workspace on your iPhone. When you ask, Beacon classifies every email by what it needs from you, so you spend less time sorting and more time doing. ⎯ BEACON INTELLIGENCE Every email, handled. Beacon classifies every email into three lanes: Action, Review, and Cleanup. Within each lane, emails are grouped by kind (Needs Reply, Bills, Scheduling, Travel, and more) with the best next step ready. - Action: reply, dock to the due date Beacon found in the email, or send a meeting invite. - Review: swipe to archive or discard. - Cleanup: clear hundreds of emails in seconds. Never leave anyone hanging. Beacon spots emails waiting on your reply, so you can answer now or dock them for later. ⎯ REPLY IN YOUR OWN VOICE Smart Replies are written the way you write to that person. Or switch to casual, shorter, or formal. Add a quick guideline ("1pm Thursday works") and Ocean drafts the rest. Replies are never sent automatically. ⎯ CLEANUP Newsletters piling up? Clear the lot. Pick a category (Subscriptions, First Timers, Persistent Pingers, Forgotten, and more) and clear the whole list in one go. Archive or trash, unsubscribe, and add senders to WaveGuard, which routes their future emails out of your inbox and deletes them after 30 days. Nothing comes back. Your first cleanup each day uses 1 Credit. ⎯ CREDITS: INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT THE COMMITMENT Every new account gets 25 free Credits, enough for about a week of daily use. Credits never expire and are only used when you ask for intelligence. Skip a day, skip a week; you don't pay for days you're not working. Need more? Credit packs are available for quick top-ups. Or go Ocean Blue, our yearly membership: 25 Credits every day, refreshed at midnight. No subscription, no auto-renewal, nothing to remember to cancel. Prefer to wait? Ocean's core features stay free forever. ⎯ CORE FEATURES: ALWAYS FREE Email: compose, reply, forward, and manage your Gmail. A full email client, always free. Dock: Not now? Dock it. Swipe into Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend, This Week, Next Week, This Month, Next Month, or Whenever, or set an exact due date for bills and deadlines. Docked emails come back right when you need them. Invites: Meetings without the back-and-forth. Propose a few times in one email; they pick one, and it lands in Google Calendar with a Google Meet link. Slots you've already offered stay off the table, and a lead time blocks last-minute bookings. Global Search: search across emails and invites from one place. VIP Contacts: mark important senders as VIP and never miss their emails. ⎯ PRIVACY FIRST Your emails are never stored on our servers. Beacon only runs when you ask: we request your consent before sending email conversations to our AI provider for analysis. Nothing happens in the background. ⎯ BEAUTIFULLY NATIVE, AND IN SYNC Dark mode, clean design, built for iPhone. Not a web wrapper. Beacon results and docked emails sync with Ocean on Mac through iCloud. ⎯ Built in Canada by a small team who actually use this thing every day. Privacy Policy: https://ocean.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://ocean.app/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Draafts3 screens
Ocean4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Draafts at none against Ocean's 8. Ocean's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (18 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Ocean sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Draafts asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Draafts ships an update every 6 months, Ocean every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Draafts versus Ocean: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraaftsOcean
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Mac
Requires iOS26.018 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLazim MohammedBigWave Labs Inc

In-app purchases

None

Draafts

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Ocean

One-time8
  • Ocean Drops Small$1.99
  • Ocean Drops Small$2.00
  • Ocean Drops Medium$3.00
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  • Ocean Drops Medium$3.49
  • Ocean Drops Large$5.00
  • Ocean Drops Large$5.99
  • Ocean Drops XLarge$9.00
  • Ocean Blue Access$57.99

Questions

Is Draafts free?
Draafts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ocean free?
Ocean is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Draafts or Ocean have ads?
Neither Draafts nor Ocean shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Draafts or Ocean?
Draafts ships an update every 6 months, and Ocean every 8 days. Most recently, Draafts was updated on October 26, 2026 and Ocean on October 30, 2026.

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