Afterthought vs Keyboardrop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Afterthought
Effortlessly transform spoken thoughts into actionable items like notes, reminders, and calendar events. This app integrates with your favorite productivity tools, allowing you to capture ideas naturally and organize them into collections for easy review.
- Voice-to-action conversion
- Integration with productivity apps
- Organize notes into collections
- Search by voice or text
- Long-form recording (Sessions)
- On-device transcription and AI
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Afterthought turns spoken thoughts into prepared actions for the apps you already use, and longer recordings into Sessions you can review. Capture from iPhone, Apple Watch or Action Button. Afterthought transcribes your voice, understands what you meant and prepares notes, reminders, tasks, calendar events, messages and other actions while keeping you in control of what happens next. YOUR THOUGHTS, WHERE YOU WANT THEM Not every thought needs to become a task or reminder. Set a Default Information Destination and Afterthought can route captured information to your preferred app, such as Notion or Todoist, even when you haven't specified an action. Capture naturally, without deciding where everything belongs before you speak. NEW IN 2.7 — SEARCH, COLLECTIONS & RECORDING Find saved thoughts by voice or text straight from Home. Bring related notes and actions together in collections, with optional summaries to help make sense of them. • Search by voice or text straight from Home • Organise related notes and actions into collections • Pause and resume Quick Capture and Session recordings • Smoother recording visuals on iPhone and Apple Watch, clearer controls and accessibility improvements SESSIONS Sessions are a deliberate workflow for longer recordings. Choose Meeting, Interview, Lecture or Thinking and keep the original audio, final transcript and useful overview together. • Record meetings, interviews, lectures and longer thinking • Follow a provisional on-device transcript while recording • Keep the original audio and final transcript • Review an Apple Intelligence summary on supported devices • Recover interrupted recordings • Share Overview + transcript, Overview only, or Transcript only QUICK CAPTURE • Capture from iPhone, Apple Watch or Action Button • Capture on Apple Watch even when your iPhone is away, then transfer later • Choose Transcribe Only, Classify & Review or Classify & Send • Turn speech into notes, reminders, tasks, calendar events, messages and more • With Pro, split one natural recording into several ordered, reviewable actions • Review and edit content, dates, fields and destinations before sending • Correct prepared actions by typing or speaking YOUR APPS, YOUR WORKFLOW Prepare content for Apple Notes, Reminders, Apple Calendar, Apple Journal, Todoist, Notion, Slack, Things 3, Bear, Obsidian, TickTick, Day One, Evernote, Messages, Email, Shortcuts and other supported workflows. Afterthought does not replace your notes app, task manager, calendar or journal. It makes voice an easier way into them. PRIVATE, CONTROLLED INTELLIGENCE Capture and transcription are local-first. Apple Intelligence, Classic and downloaded Local AI Models process on device. Optional Cloud AI sends transcript text only to the provider you configure. External destinations receive content only when you use them. Free includes unlimited capture and transcription, review, supported Apple workflows and a monthly classification allowance. Pro adds unlimited classification, multi-action splitting, writing actions, third-party destinations, extra Nature Mode options, Local AI Models and optional Cloud AI. Speak once. Make it happen. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Keyboardrop
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Keyboardrop is a simple clipboard helper that lets you collect the text, URLs, and images you copy as temporary "drops." Saved drops are always a tap away from the built-in keyboard, so you can paste what you need — in order — into chats, notes, browsers, and AI apps. You can also add to Keyboardrop straight from the share sheet, such as from Maps or Photos. WHEN IT HELPS • Reuse something you just copied in a different app • Collect images, maps, and URLs and paste them right into a chat • Bring long text or several prompts into an input field together • Hand a drop to another device or a person nearby via QR FEATURES • Drop up to 10 items (text / URL / image) • Tap to paste from the built-in keyboard • Add to Keyboardrop directly from the share sheet • Automatic title and preview image for URLs • Send and receive drops via QR code • Auto-delete on a timer (10 min / 30 min / 1 hour / today / manual) • English / Japanese • iPhone / iPad HOW TO USE 1. Copy text or a URL, or share a photo or map 2. Add a drop from the keyboard's Save button or from Keyboardrop in the share sheet 3. Open the Keyboardrop keyboard in the app where you want to paste 4. Tap the drop you want to insert To hand a drop to another device, touch and hold it, choose "Send via QR," and scan the code on the other device. PRIVACY • No account required. • Drops are stored on your device. • We don't collect any data. • Nothing is sent to our servers. • We connect to a linked site only when fetching a URL preview. ABOUT FULL ACCESS The keyboard needs "Full Access" to save what's on your clipboard. Full Access is used only for saving and pasting — it never collects your input or sends it anywhere. Keep your copies in Keyboardrop, only when you need them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keyboardrop at none against Afterthought's 2. Afterthought's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Afterthought sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Keyboardrop asks for nothing beyond the download.
Afterthought ships an update every 3 days, Keyboardrop every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Afterthought | Keyboardrop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Toco Labs Ltd | MASAHITO MATSUSHITA |
In-app purchases
Afterthought
- Afterthought Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Afterthought Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Keyboardrop
No in-app purchases









