Drafts 5 for iOS goes subscription

Posted by satis
Apr 18, 2018 at 12:49 AM

I ‘preordered’ - a slightly strange thing, since it’s a free download, so that just means it will auto-download to my iPhone on tomorrow. (A week or so ago the dev asked on Twitter whether he should so that and everyone basically responded Why Not.)

The app does some whizzy coding to bypass iOS’s 45-second limit on recording/transcribing voice dictation. The editor in v.5 is customizable, with themes and light threshold adjustments based on light in room. v.5 has tags, a robust tag editor and filtering by tag, and the custom keyboard lets you tap tags on active docs.

Fonts! Spacing! One thing I *really* like is the Focus Mode option, which disables the creation of new drafts, so going back to the app won’t hide the previously edited document.

Since I have v.4 I’m not in too much of a rush to go for the v.5 subscription, but there is a (7-day?) free trial of those features.

I use Drafts mainly for quick notes that go into other apps (or, just as often, to compose text to send into Messages). Not sure if I need to spend $20/yr on the Pro features, but the idea of getting rid of that bright white background and using my own fonts is appealing….