Comparison

Hotstash vs Draftline

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

Head to head
About

Hotstash

Features
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Your clipboard, everywhere. Copy on your Mac, paste from your iPhone keyboard. Pin favorites, transform text instantly, and never lose something you copied again. Hotstash keeps your clipboard history synced across your Mac and iPhone, making everything you’ve copied easy to search, organize, and reuse. THE KEYBOARD THAT PASTES ANYTHING Switch to the Hotstash keyboard in any app to access your clipboard instantly. Tap to paste without switching apps or copying again. Swipe between Recent and Pinned clips, paste your last 2–5 clips in sequence, or transform text before inserting it with UPPERCASE, Trim, Base64, JSON formatting, and more. SYNCED WITH YOUR MAC Copy something on your Mac and it’s ready on your iPhone. Clipboard history, pinned items, and installed transforms sync privately through iCloud. Your data never passes through our servers. CAPTURE ON THE GO •⁠ ⁠Copy text anywhere and it’s automatically saved •⁠ ⁠Save text from any app using the Share Sheet •⁠ ⁠Save with one tap from Control Center •⁠ ⁠Search text inside screenshots using OCR on your Mac TRANSFORM MARKETPLACE Browse community-made text transforms and install them with a single tap. They appear throughout the app and sync automatically to your Mac. Create your own transforms on your Mac and use them on your iPhone. PRIVACY FIRST Your clipboard often contains sensitive information. Hotstash keeps everything on your devices and in your private iCloud account. No analytics. No tracking. No account required. Password manager clipboard entries are never captured on your Mac. HOTSTASH PRO — ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE A single purchase unlocks Hotstash Pro on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No subscription. On Mac, Pro includes unlimited clipboard history, Paste Stack (each ⌘V pastes the next item), instant text transforms with global shortcuts, file and rich text support, and a menu bar panel that’s always one keystroke away.

About

Draftline

Features
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Draftline is a Markdown editor that uses your GitHub repositories as its file system. Open a repo, pick a branch, write in a clean editor, and commit when you are done. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is built for people who publish from a repository: blogs on Jekyll, Hugo, Astro or Eleventy, documentation sites, and plain notes in git. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Bytes you did not touch come back byte-identical. Edit one paragraph and the commit shows one paragraph. Frontmatter, raw HTML, Liquid tags and anything else the editor cannot render are kept exactly as written and shown as chips, never rewritten. • Real commits on real branches. Edits are kept per branch until you commit them with your own message, and a commit is refused when the branch moved under you, so nothing is overwritten silently. • Works offline. The last repository, branch, file tree and open file come back from the cache at launch. Edits wait until you are back online. • Knows about pull requests. See the branch's pull request, its checks and deployments, and open the preview site in one tap. • Nothing leaves your device except to GitHub. No analytics, no server of ours, no account to create. SIGN IN Sign in with GitHub through the Draftline GitHub App, or paste a fine-grained personal access token. Your credential is stored in the system Keychain. Draftline is a native SwiftUI app.

Screenshots

Hotstash4 screens
Draftline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Draftline at none against Hotstash's 1. Hotstash's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 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. Hotstash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Draftline asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Hotstash versus Draftline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHotstashDraftline
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZeyad AmerCecil Woebker

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hotstash

One-time1
  • Hotstash$9.99
None

Draftline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hotstash free?
Hotstash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Draftline free?
Draftline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hotstash or Draftline have ads?
Neither Hotstash nor Draftline shows ads.

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