The 8 best Drafts alternatives
Drafts scores 6.8 out of 10 here, and its weak spots are specific: apple only, with nothing on windows, android or the web. These are the apps that fix that, ranked by overall score.
Grape
Take the note. The AI does the filing, the studying and the searching.
Mac / Win / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: speaker identification, meeting recording, handwriting / stylus. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$3/mo
Obsidian
Plain markdown files on your disk, with a plugin ecosystem bolted on top.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Linux
Gains you: meeting recording, handwriting / stylus, drawing canvas. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$4/mo
Apple Notes
Already on your phone, and better than it has any right to be.
Mac / iOS / Web
Gains you: meeting recording, handwriting / stylus, drawing canvas. Same territory: minimal & fast.
Free
Craft
Documents that look designed before you touch anything.
Mac / iOS / Win / Android / Web
Gains you: handwriting / stylus, drawing canvas, images. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$10/mo
Day One
A journal that has been quietly perfecting one job since 2011.
iOS / Mac / Android / Win / Web
Gains you: handwriting / stylus, drawing canvas, ocr / handwriting search. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$49.99/yr
Supernotes
Every note is a card, and cards were built to be shared.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: images, pdf & documents, folders / notebooks. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$10/mo
UpNote
What Evernote used to be, for a one-time forty dollars.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android
Gains you: images, pdf & documents, folders / notebooks. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$2.99/mo
Bear
The best-looking markdown editor on Apple platforms.
iOS / Mac
Gains you: ocr / handwriting search, images, pdf & documents. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$2.99/mo
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