Comparison

Drafts+ vs BaseMind

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

Head to head
About

Drafts+

Create presentation blueprints and prototypes quickly. Collaborate with colleagues, enrich content with text and graphics, and design professional-looking drafts. Organize ideas efficiently with customizable themes and auto-layout features for seamless presentation creation.

Highlights
  • Create presentation blueprints
  • Collaborate with colleagues
  • Add text, images, tables, and graphs
  • Customizable themes and auto-layout
  • Organize projects by topics
  • Securely share projects
  • Export to PDF and HTML
Features
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Create blueprints of presentations in no time. Prepare pages to be shared and discussed with colleagues. Work in parallel with others (even remotely) leveraging the sharing functionalities. Paste text or graphics from the web or other documents to enrich your content. Unleash your creativity with tables and graphs and provide guidelines for drafting the final version! This application will help you to organize your ideas efficiently: > Reuse the previous formats and themes, significantly increasing your productivity. > Work with your team wherever you are. You will be surprised to see how flexible and easy it is to design a slide deck. To publish professional-looking presentations means to start from a well-defined draft. Some typical scenarios: > You need your team to prepare a proposal for a presentation. > You have been asked to create a slide deck, and you would like to share it with your team for more comments. > You have to prepare a presentation in pdf quickly. Let's take a look at the main features... Stickers: You can add content to the page, such as images, text, tables, and graphs. Each sticker can be customized. If you know HTML, you can also format the content using standard HTML constructs. Each table can be displayed as a graph simply with a gesture. Themes: Once you've found the colors and the font you want to use, set them as default, and each new presentation will have the same format and appearance. Auto-Layout: Items added to the page, reorganize accordingly to the orientation of the device. You can print the same document/page in two different versions (horizontal or vertical) with a simple movement. Add external content: Using the device's copy functionality, you can paste the content (image or text) on any page, directly from the web or other documents that allow the copy function. Creating storyboard: You can assign a name to each page together with a note. Build your story, assigns an order to the pages, add comments. Export your project: The entire project can be exported and sent by e-mail to others that have this application. Export Draft Outline: Once you are ready to export, you can choose to publish the page in symbolic format. The page is rendered in HTML format. Export Pdf Project: You export what you see on the screen. Export Snapshots: You can also take snapshots of your pages and send them with additional comments by e-mail or export them in the Gallery of photos of the iPad. Organize projects by topics: Whenever you create a new set of pages, you can assign them to a group. A group has attributes that you can use to better archive projects based on themes, descriptions, authors, etc. Share with secure encryption: All publishing functionalities have a secure-share option. You can share projects and snapshots with friends and colleagues with a simple gesture. The information is encrypted and can be accessed if the recipient knows the password. Working remotely with the team everywhere: Any project can be shared with other people using the same application. So you can work with groups by simply editing your presentation, sending it via secure e-mail, and receiving back the new version. Anywhere.

About

BaseMind

This tool revolutionizes note-taking and data organization with an intuitive interface. Create expansive mind maps with customizable elements and freehand drawing capabilities. Seamlessly integrate with iCloud Drive for effortless data management.

Highlights
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Infinite depth mind maps
  • Customizable colors and pen widths
  • Manual node organization
  • Freehand drawing
  • iCloud Drive support
Features
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BaseMind is a next-generation mind mapping tool! It will completely change the way you take notes and organize data. Features: โ€ข Extremely friendly and intuitive user interface โ€ข Mind maps of infinite depth โ€ข Multiple colors and pen widths โ€ข Colors adapt to light / dark modes โ€ข Easy, manual node organization by just tapping and dragging โ€ข Map node reparenting โ€ข Freehand drawing โ€ข Retain orientation of freehand nodes even when reorganizing and reparenting โ€ข Full iCloud Drive support

Screenshots

Drafts+4 screens
BaseMind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BaseMind at $4.99 against Drafts+'s $8.99. Drafts+'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 16 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Drafts+ costs $8.99 and BaseMind $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drafts+ ships an update every 5 months, BaseMind every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Drafts+ versus BaseMind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrafts+BaseMind
Price$8.99$4.99 โ€” better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 5 months โ€” betterEvery 16 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 โ€” better16.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size9 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DevelopermorePaths.comSimo Virokannas

Customer experience

Drafts+

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative80.0%

BaseMind

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Drafts+

No in-app purchases

None

BaseMind

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drafts+ free?
Drafts+ costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BaseMind free?
BaseMind costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drafts+ or BaseMind have ads?
Neither Drafts+ nor BaseMind shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drafts+ or BaseMind?
Drafts+ ships an update every 5 months, and BaseMind every 16 months. Most recently, Drafts+ was updated on September 19, 2026 and BaseMind on September 12, 2026.

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