Agile Tortoise
For productivity-focused users and developers who require advanced automation and cross-platform text-capture capabilities.
Known forDrafts
For productivity-focused users and developers who require advanced automation and cross-platform text-capture capabilities.
Providing a high-velocity text-capture and automation hub for power users. Streamlining complex workflows across Apple devices.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 3Last updated
Drafts
v51.0.5
3mo ago
Primary focus
Productivity tools for power users
Scale
indie
Target audience
Productivity-focused users and developers who require advanced automation and cross-platform text-capture capabilities.
Released 12 updates in the last 6 months for their single active application, indicating a high-frequency development cycle.
3 apps analysed
Deep automation library creates high switching costs for power users.
Analysis in progress
Analysis in progress
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Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
78/100
Avg sentiment score
Obsidian dominates the text-based productivity niche by offering a local-first, graph-based knowledge management system that directly competes with Drafts' role as a primary text capture hub.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
iA Writer is a direct competitor in the minimalist text-editing space, prioritizing focus-driven writing environments over Drafts' automation-heavy approach.
Ulysses serves the same prosumer writing audience as Drafts but focuses on long-form document management and professional publishing workflows.
Things 3 competes for the user's 'productivity time' by focusing on task management, often acting as the destination for text captured in Drafts.
Notion operates in the broader productivity space, offering a comprehensive workspace that includes databases and project management alongside note-taking.
Reflect is an emerging competitor that combines rapid note-taking with networked thought, showing high velocity with 4 releases in the last 3 months.
