The Drafts app takes the idea of managing local .txt files seen in Scrivener and iA Writer and jacks it up to eleven. It describes itself as a “launching-off point for text,” or a “Swiss Army knife for text” rather than a text editor. Think of it as an overlay that grabs text from all your other apps so you can edit and organize it from a single location. It pulls from your email, your messages, and even your tweets, and lets you organize it all via Tags, Flags, or the built-in Archive. Similar to Bear, there’s a “write first, organize later” mentality at play here. For writers who have hands in all sorts of cookie jars — that is, all sorts of apps – Drafts may be the thing you’ve been looking for.
All this power may seem like it comes at a steep price, but that’s where Drafts defies your expectations: it’s totally free on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and even watchOS. Subscribing to Drafts Pro for $19.99 a year unlocks the feature set even further. You’ll be able to customize actions and integrations with third-party apps, change themes and syntax, automate some of your processes, and set up a special Drafts email address to send text directly to the application. Our only complaint about Drafts is that there’s a bit of a learning curve for new users.
