Comparison

Draft vs Captured!

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

Head to head
About

Draft

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Draft​-it is a fast, privacy-focused app for quickly capturing, shaping, saving and sharing drafts. Use it for eMails, letters, notes, messages, ideas and longer text you want to prepare before sending. Draft-it keeps the writing space clean and focused, while giving you practical tools for saving drafts, translating text, checking clarity, exporting, printing and recovering deleted drafts. Drafts are stored on your device. If you enable iCloud Sync, they can sync using your private iCloud storage. Key Features: • Clean editor for writing drafts • Save and manage multiple drafts • Auto-save while writing • Recently deleted for restoring drafts before permanent deletion • Translation between supported languages • AI Check for grammar, spelling, clarity and tone feedback • Print drafts directly from the app • Export or share draft text using the iOS share sheet • Optional iCloud Sync using your private iCloud storage • In-app help covering core features and gestures • Customizable button color scheme Draft-it Pro Features: • Writing templates for common draft types • AI Draft generation from a short prompt, tone and length • Tags for organizing saved drafts • Advanced filters for finding drafts faster • Version history for reviewing and restoring previous text snapshots • App Lock with Face ID, Touch ID or device passcode

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Draft4 screens
Captured!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Captured! at none against Draft's 1. On price, update cadence, 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. Draft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Captured! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Draft versus Captured!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraftCaptured!
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.117.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperWolfram WackerAlexandre Fenyo

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Draft

One-time1
  • Draft-it Pro$0.99
None

Captured!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Draft free?
Draft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Captured! free?
Captured! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Draft or Captured! have ads?
Neither Draft nor Captured! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Draft or Captured!?
Draft ships an update fortnightly, and Captured! fortnightly. Most recently, Draft was updated on November 9, 2026 and Captured! on October 31, 2026.

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