Comparison

DRFT vs Einfall

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

Head to head
About

DRFT

This app alerts you the moment a specific word is spoken during meetings, calls, or lectures. It runs in the background using on-device speech recognition, ensuring your audio never leaves your phone. Get AI summaries of spoken content and rejoin conversations seamlessly.

Highlights
  • On-device speech recognition
  • Customizable wake words
  • AI-powered summaries
  • Background monitoring
  • Cross-device sync (iPhone/Mac)
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Set a word. Zone out. Get alerted the moment it's said. DRFT listens for your name — or any word you pick — and alerts you the second it's spoken. Speech recognition runs on-device. Audio is never recorded and never leaves your phone. Not another meeting notetaker. No bot joins your call, and there's no transcript to read afterward — just the one moment that mattered. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add the words you care about — your name, a project, a deadline. 2. Tap Start and put your phone down. 3. Get alerted the moment one is spoken. DRFT+ turns it into a one-line summary of what was said. FREE • 3 words, 10 saved moments • On-device speech recognition DRFT+ — one purchase, yours forever • AI summaries written on-device by Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and later) • Unlimited words, saved moments, and word profiles • Sync between iPhone and Mac WHAT PEOPLE SAY "I've used it for meetings and lecture videos so far, and it's really nice having something that helps catch important keywords without me feeling like I have to be on alert the whole time." — laurencl99, App Store review "With so many distractions it's perfect to be able to have something track certain keywords so that my attention can refocus and I don't miss any important detail." — flat6miami, App Store review Notifications are optional. Decline them and DRFT still saves every detection to History. No ads, no tracking, no subscription. Works on iPhone and Mac. Set a word. Tap Start. We'll get the rest. Built by one person. Terms of Use: https://bryancabrera.xyz/drft/terms

About

Einfall

Quickly capture fleeting ideas and thoughts from any device. Organize them in a simple, searchable stream and take action when you're ready. Your thoughts are private and sync securely via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Instant capture from any device
  • Simple, searchable plain text stream
  • Actionable thoughts (edit, export, integrate)
  • Optional local AI agent
  • Private, no account required
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Face ID/Touch ID lock
Features
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Einfall is a place for fugitive thoughts. The thought arrives while you are busy with something else — in a queue, on a walk, halfway through a meeting. Einfall is the fastest place to put it, and a place you can trust to keep it. Get it out of your head in a second. Deal with it later. Or never. One-time purchase. No subscription. Capture wherever you are Whichever device is nearest your hand, and never more than one gesture: • The Mac menu bar, summoned by a keyboard shortcut from any app • Home-screen and lock-screen widgets • Control Centre, on iPhone, iPad and Mac • The share sheet, for a link or a passage of text • The Services menu on Mac, for selected text in any app • Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight and the Action Button • Your voice, transcribed on your device as you speak None of them make you look at your stream first. Capture is free and unlimited, forever. One calm stream Everything you capture lands in a single flat list, newest first. No folders, no notebooks, no unread counts, no reminders that you are behind. Plain text you can read, edit and search. Tags if you want them, nothing to tend if you do not. A long stream is not a backlog — it is a notebook you trust. Do something with a thought, when you are ready Open the stream, pick a thought and fire an action: • Send it out — to Reminders, Calendar, Mail, Messages, Files, the share sheet or a Shortcut • Change it in place — tidy the phrasing with Apple Intelligence on your device, turn prose into a list, change the case, stamp the time it was caught, copy it • Fold it into another thought, so related notes gather in one place A thought that gets routed leaves the stream. A thought you no longer need is deleted, without ceremony. Both are good endings. Your own AI agent, if you use one Einfall carries an optional local server on Mac — off until you turn it on — so your own AI agent can read and work on your stream on your behalf. Whatever you can do in the app, your agent can do too. Nothing it writes changes a thought until you accept it. Private because there is nowhere else to be No account. No sign-in. No infrastructure of ours between you and your thoughts. Your stream syncs across your own devices through iCloud, and nowhere else. Dictation and Apple Intelligence run on your device. Einfall's App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, because none is. You can lock the stream behind Face ID or Touch ID, export the whole thing as one plain-text file whenever you like, and keep automatic backups in a folder you choose. Free to capture. Pay once to unlock everything you can do with your thoughts. Capturing is free and unlimited, forever. Reading and searching your stream is always free. So are the in-place actions — copy, listify, change case and timestamps. The routing layer — sending a thought out to another app, folding one thought into another, and Apple Intelligence — gives you fifteen free fires. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks it for good, on every device you own, and for your household through Family Sharing. No subscription. Nothing to renew. Nothing expires. Your own thoughts are never held behind a lapsing fee. Einfall is the German word for an idea that falls into your mind unprompted. This is the place to put those thoughts before they are gone. Mac, iPhone and iPad. Requires macOS 26, iOS 26 or iPadOS 26.

Screenshots

DRFT4 screens
Einfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Einfall at 5.0 against DRFT's 4.6. DRFT's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DRFT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Einfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Einfall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DRFT has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DRFT ships an update weekly, Einfall every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
DRFT versus Einfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDRFTEinfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBryan CabreraJEAN PIERRE MARAIS

Customer experience

DRFT

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Einfall

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DRFT

Subscriptions2
  • DRFT Pro$0.991 Month
  • DRFT Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • DRFT+$9.99
1 purchases

Einfall

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$29.99

Questions

Is DRFT free?
DRFT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Einfall free?
Einfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DRFT or Einfall?
Einfall is rated higher. DRFT averages 4.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Einfall averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DRFT or Einfall have ads?
Neither DRFT nor Einfall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DRFT or Einfall?
DRFT ships an update weekly, and Einfall every 5 days. Most recently, DRFT was updated on October 24, 2026 and Einfall on October 11, 2026.

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