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2026-05-02 01:18 UTC

For interested folks, this chart shows active subscriber trend since Drafts Pro was offered as part of the Drafts 5 release in 2018. It's been a slow decline since its peak in 2022. Having a bit of an uptick this year, and hoping to figure out how to leverage that…but also pretty comfortable with the idea that Drafts has found its niche and is not likely to ever be more mainstream. I'd rather serve that core audience better than make changes to gain broader appeal.

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@tantramar@zeroes.ca 2026-05-02 01:40

@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Migrating my data from Drafts 3 to Drafts 4 seems like just a couple of years ago. 😬

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@DrussTheLegume@mastodon.wssmagazine.com 2026-05-02 06:33

@agiletortoise@mastodon.social Drafts Pro has been my go-to text editor since I first got it ‘several’ years ago. I think I heard about it on Mac Power Users. IMHO it’s unmatched in its power and simplicity - hope it continues for at least another ten years 👍👍

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@cdf1982@iosdev.space 2026-05-02 12:50

@agiletortoise@mastodon.social From a loyal user’s standpoint, I’m 😃 to hear we’re your focus for the long run. I do wonder why it’s not a stick going up, considering how great the app and ecosystem are. I think the two exceptions I’ve heard from people I’ve showed my Drafts setup have always been in two buckets: - Inline media, especially images and PDFs; - Filesystem storage instead of database. Both would be great additions for me as well, but then again, they’d change the app drastically.

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@davidrperry@worldkey.io 2026-05-02 21:09

@agiletortoise@mastodon.social thank you for always being the reliable, fast, simple (yet complex when I need it) text-based solution I use every single day to organize my thoughts and memories.

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