Braintoss vs Drafts

Braintoss

• People who treat their email inbox as the place to process to-dos
• Capturing a thought by voice, photo or text in a few seconds
• Feeding notes into a to-do app through its email address or a webhook

Drafts

• Jotting text down quickly on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch
• People who route notes into other apps such as task managers
• Automation fans who script their own text workflows

Braintoss

• There is no free version or trial: the app is paid up front, at $2.99 on the US App Store and $2.79 on Google Play.
• Captures are delivered to email or a webhook rather than organized in the app, and the vendor says it keeps no hosted archive of them.
• There is no Windows or web app, and the App Store marks the iPad app as not verified for macOS.
• Version 10 cannot be installed on an iPhone 7 or older, and the vendor says the service behind the old Android app (version 8) is failing.

Drafts

• Apps exist only for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. The Web Capture page can create drafts in any browser but cannot review or edit them.
• Creating and editing actions, workspaces, themes, Mail Drop and the AI chat console all require the Drafts Pro subscription.
• Sync runs through iCloud and needs the same iCloud account, with iCloud Drive active, on every device.
• A subscription bought on iOS cannot be restored on the Mac App Store or the reverse; it carries over only through a shared iCloud account.

Braintoss

One-tap send to your inbox

The app opens on the capture screen, and one tap on Send emails the note to a default address. Setup consists of entering an email address.

Voice notes transcribed on the phone

Spoken notes are turned into text by the phone's built-in speech recognition and then emailed. Since version 10 the transcription happens on the device.

Photo capture

A photo of a whiteboard, receipt, document or business card is sent with a subject line filled in from the image. Text in photos is read on the device.

Several destinations and webhooks

A long press on Send chooses the destination, subject and message first. Destinations can be extra inboxes, the email address a to-do app provides, or your own webhook.

History and offline queue

History lists earlier notes to find, edit and resend. Without a signal the note is kept and sent in the background once the phone is back online.

Watch apps, widgets and sharing

Apple Watch and Wear OS apps record a voice note from the wrist. Android adds home screen widgets, and both versions accept content shared from other apps.

Drafts

Capture first, file later

The app opens to a new page with the keyboard ready. Entries go to an inbox and can be tagged, flagged or archived afterwards.

Actions

Actions copy, share or send text to other apps and services. Running installed actions is free; creating and editing them needs Drafts Pro.

Dictation and transcription

A custom dictation interface built on Apple's speech recognition, plus transcription of existing audio and video files into text.

Workspaces

Saved views of the drafts list that restore a preferred tag filter, query and sort order. Workspaces are a Drafts Pro feature.

Capture from outside the app

Text can arrive through Siri, widgets, the share extension, a personal Mail Drop email address (Pro) and a Web Capture page for any browser.

Automation hooks

Supports Shortcuts, URL schemes, AppleScript and JavaScript scripting in actions, and Pro adds an AI chat console that can query and edit drafts.

Braintoss

• Braintoss for Android$2.79

  one-time purchase (US Google Play)

  The Android app, with home screen widgets for voice, text and photo capture and a Wear OS app for voice notes.

• Braintoss for iPhone$2.99

  one-time purchase (US App Store)

  The iPhone and iPad app with its Apple Watch app. The listing shows no in-app purchases, and Family Sharing covers up to six people.

Drafts

• Free$0

  Unlimited drafts, editing and iCloud sync, plus the actions that ship with the app or come from the Drafts Directory.

• Drafts Pro$19.99

  per year; $1.99 billed monthly

  Create and edit actions, themes and custom icons, workspaces, the AI chat console, Mail Drop and enhanced widgets on all Apple devices.

• Drafts Pro Patron$29.99

  billing period not shown on the App Store listing

  A supporter tier with the same features as Drafts Pro, for people who want to pay more toward development.

Braintoss

No public discounts listed.

Drafts

• Annual discount

  Annual billing costs about 16% less

  Drafts Pro is $19.99 a year or $1.99 a month, so twelve monthly payments come to $23.88 against $19.99 for the annual option.

• Other savings

  Family Sharing on both subscriptions

  The monthly and annual Drafts Pro subscriptions support Apple Family Sharing, so one subscription can unlock Pro features for the family group.