Edmund vs Drafts
Both put capture first. Drafts is a brilliant, scriptable home for text; Edmund reads what you captured and files it for you. Here’s an honest look at where each one fits.
Drafts is the best pure text-capture app on Apple’s platforms, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Open it and you’re already typing, with no note to name first, and its action system will send that text just about anywhere you can imagine, if you’re willing to wire it up. If you love building your own workflow, you’ll love Drafts. Edmund takes a different bet: that most of the time you don’t want to build the workflow, you just want the thought filed and gone.
The same job, two ways.
Neither one’s wrong. It depends on you.
- You want to build and script your own capture-to-anywhere workflow.
- You draft longer text (posts, emails, documents), not just quick notes.
- You already have a set of actions you love and don’t want to change them.
- You want the sorting done for you, not another workflow to maintain.
- Your notes end up as issues in Linear, GitHub or Jira, and you want that in one tap.
- You want it to know when a routed note is finished, without you checking.
Try the one that files itself.
Free to start, on the iPhone, iPad and Mac you already own. No account, nothing leaves your device.
Drafts is a genuinely great app, made by people who’ve been at this far longer than me. This compares the jobs the two apps do, not their quality. Its features and pricing are theirs and change over time, so check the Drafts site for the current details.