Cat Scratches vs Captured!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cat Scratches
Streamline your web content workflow by sending articles and selected text directly to your writing app. This tool offers customization options for templates and tags, ensuring content is organized as you save it. It integrates seamlessly with your preferred writing environment and provides a fallback option for broader compatibility.
- Capture selected text or full pages
- Send content directly to Drafts
- Fallback to Share Sheet
- Customize templates, tags, and filters
- Sync extension settings with iCloud
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Cat Scratches is a Safari extension for sending clean website text to Drafts. It can also use the Share Sheet for Notes, Mail, Messages, and other apps. Automatically extract the main article body, or select text to clip a passage. Use it to: • Send the page title, source URL, and text to Drafts • Save captures to Notes or other apps through the Share Sheet • Convert captures to readable Markdown • Choose templates, tags, and cleanup settings How it works: 1. Enable the Cat Scratches Safari extension 2. Open a webpage in Safari 3. Run Cat Scratches 4. Review or edit the capture in Drafts, Notes, or another app Cat Scratches only reads a page when you run the extension. It does not track browsing history or collect data. Source code is available at https://github.com/ddegner/cat-scratches.
Captured!
This app acts as a universal clipboard, saving links, photos, videos, audio, files, and texts shared from other applications. It offers on-device processing for previews, AI descriptions, OCR, and transcription, with smart organization and full-text search capabilities.
- Universal content capture from any app
- Automatic previews and AI enrichment
- On-device OCR and transcription
- Smart organization with folders and views
- Full-text search and Spotlight integration
- iCloud sync for selected folders
- JSON backup and restore
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Tired of losing links, photos, videos, audio, files or texts shared from your apps? Captured is your universal clipboard. Tap Share from any app and choose Captured — everything is instantly saved, previewed and enriched, on-device by default. UNIVERSAL CAPTURE Accepts URLs, photos, videos, audio, files and text from any app. Automatic source detection (Safari, YouTube, Instagram, X, Photos...). AUTO-GENERATED PREVIEWS Every item gets a thumbnail: web pages via live browser, photos/videos from first frame, files via QuickLook, audio as waveform, text as typographic render. Thumbnail gallery with on-demand regeneration. AI DESCRIPTION, OCR & TRANSCRIPTION AI image/video description: Apple Vision (free, on-device), OpenAI GPT-4 Vision or Anthropic Claude. Built-in OCR on photos and videos. Audio speech-to-text transcription — all on-device by default, no cloud required. SMART ORGANIZATION Folders with batch move/delete and drag-and-drop reorder. Smart Views: All, Recent (7 days), Unread, With Location, With AI. Configurable sort: manual, newest, oldest, title, source. Filter by type: URL, file, photo, video, audio, text. FULL-TEXT SEARCH & SPOTLIGHT Instant search across titles, URLs, notes, AI descriptions and transcriptions. All items indexed in system Spotlight — searchable from the home screen. RICH METADATA Auto-fetch of web page title and last-modified date (bold title signals updated content). Reverse geocoding of GPS coordinates in photos. WIDGET WidgetKit widget in small, medium and large sizes showing unread items in real time. BACKUP & RESTORE Full JSON export/import (items, folders, settings, thumbnails) with Replace or Merge mode. PRIVACY All your data stays on your device. No account, no server, no ads. Network calls only when you explicitly enable web fetching or AI description via your own API key. iCloud sync, folder by folder Choose exactly which folders you want to find on your other devices. A long press on a folder offers "Sync with iCloud": its photos, videos, files and links — including previews — automatically appear on your iPhone, iPad and Mac linked to the same Apple account. Folders that are not synced remain strictly local. A "Resync iCloud" option lets you reconcile state across devices in one gesture. Link previews: lock, zoom, crop You can now lock a link's preview so it never changes, or enlarge the preview by a factor of 2 to better see thumbnails from your favorite sites. A new setting automatically crops the white or black bands surrounding some previews. Organization: everything by drag-and-drop Reorganize your folders by dragging them in the sidebar. Move an item from one folder to another simply by dragging it onto the destination folder. No more drop-down menus. Paste a link from the clipboard A new menu entry lets you directly add the currently copied link, without going through another app's "Share" menu. Manage your space better The info panel now shows the space used in iCloud when sync is active. A long press on each line gives access to quick actions. The "Delete local data only" option frees up space while keeping your synced folders intact.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Captured! at 5.0 against Cat Scratches's 4.0. Cat Scratches's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Captured! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Cat Scratches ships an update every 4 days, Captured! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cat Scratches | Captured! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | David Degner | Alexandre Fenyo |
Customer experience
Cat Scratches
Captured!
In-app purchases
Cat Scratches
No in-app purchases
Captured!
No in-app purchases








