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What is Craft?

Craft is a note-taking, document & internal wiki app suitable for individuals and teams.

Think of Craft as a posh documents app that allows you to organize all aspects of your life and your team documents better. It's strange to describe it as so many people use it from creating a simple document, to a more advanced document for your team with cards & databases.

Craft has similar abilities to tools like Notion, but without as powerful databases.

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What does Craft do?

Craft is a popular application thanks to the speedy iOS and macOS apps that are not only easy to use but widely praised for their fluidity and power. One of the most common things we hear from Craft users is "wow, Notion needs to be offline & this fast!".

Craft combines a bundle of things into one experience giving it a multi-purpose tool:

  • Notes - Many people credit Craft for organizing their notes in one base
  • Journal - Thanks to the daily notes feature in Craft you can add notes per day
  • Internal Wiki - For teams, it acts as a knowledge base or second brain app for teams
  • Documents - Much like Google Docs, it serves as a way to create stunning docs

So as you can see, a series of different use cases and maybe many under one roof. Craft, of course, is continuing to evolve this with additions of whiteboard collaboration, reminder abilities and even task & attachment management too.

What I like about Craft

Craft is one of these tools that once you try it out, more use cases continue to spill out towards you and you then see yourself seeking it out for all digital organization.

Here's what I personally like about Craft:

  • Daily Notes - One of the best bits about Craft is that closeness to journaling, without that being to intrusive. Daily notes can be created with a click of the day and connected to any of the notes you make inside of Craft and that just makes it so much more of an opportunity for you to combine notes, docs & journal entries all in one place.
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  • Card Styling - The power feature of Craft aside from the speedy abilities on mobile access (and I mean fast) is the card styling. This is hard to explain, but very simply, Craft takes the weight out of creating new page cover images. This isn't just handy for making your own internal wiki for your life, but also for creating beautiful documents you might want to share externally, this is such a winning feature for Craft, under-rated!
  • Evolution & updates - Craft are constantly updating, ever since I first reviewed them. They have been keeping Craft updated and listening to the community almost every 2-3 months with a pretty important update. A good example is the upcoming release of v2.0 whiteboards that is coming to the platform.

Overall, Craft has impressed me as a tool for the masses that has built a sturdy, well-rounded notes and docs app that packs a punch for the many who want organization.

What I don't like so much

Craft isn't for everyone, so here are the elements that didn't quite go down as well compared to when we reviewed it.

  • Strange Free Plan - Free is complicated. You get 10 free documents, then after that, you get 2 every week that you remain on free. Not bad, but not good. A strange plan that keeps you looking at the free plan structure and making sure you don't over-span your use, to avoid the initial flavor of the application.
  • Cards Might Confuse - Building cards are an art inside of Craft and take some time to learn and for many people the way you build cards to connect to pages instead of simply creating pages in a traditional manner like in Notion might be alien. It certainly was difficult when getting started.

Is Craft worth it?

So you've come to that point in the review where I'm going to tell you whether or not to get Craft for you work and life. Here's my take on it for you, but remember here context is important as Craft is a powerful tool and works for many use cases.

Zoom out. Craft is a brilliant way to create documents, create an internal wiki to organize your lifestyle (travel, goals, plans) and as a way to bring your team together in one place. If you meet two or more of these criteria, Craft is a compelling option.

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My take is that Craft is a great all-round way to do all that, but if you aren't using it for more than two use cases mentioned above, you might as well consider Notion.

Largely, Craft presents a more offline, more friendly on mobile and easy-to-use way to do all of that compared to Notion and that might be a winner for many people.

But it is important to really find the use case for Craft before you just in. If you want to replace Notion for LifeOS and your team's internal doc, great. If you just want a new journal app, maybe not, and if you want to handle creating beautiful docs, then that works too.

Craft is a beautiful, fun and brilliant tool that you'll likely get on with - just find a use case before you jump in and you'll track really well with it.

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Michel DáLnonk

03 Feb 2025

Distraction Deflector

10 / 10

🚀 Craft: The Best of Both Worlds in PKM, Notes & Tasks

I’ve tried many PKM and note-taking apps, but Craft is the one I always come back to. It strikes the perfect balance between beauty ✨ and functionality ⚡. ✅ Offline-first – Unlike some cloud-based tools, Craft works flawlessly offline and syncs instantly when you’re back online. No more waiting! ✅ Apple-first, but everywhere 🍏 – Feels native and smooth on macOS & iOS, but also runs great on Windows and the web. Truly cross-platform. ✅ Fast, intuitive, and beautiful 🎨 – Writing, organizing, and linking notes feels effortless, and everything looks stunning out of the box. ✅ Tasks & Notes Together ✅ – No need for separate apps! Tasks are now well-integrated, making Craft great for project planning & daily to-dos. ✅ Calendar integration is 💯 – Perfect for meeting notes, daily journaling, or tracking past events at a glance. Craft isn’t trying to be an all-in-one behemoth, and that’s what makes it so good. It’s lightweight, fast, and a joy to use. If they keep refining things like task management and expand integrations, it’ll be unstoppable. 🚀

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Taras Lukavyi

18 Jan 2025

Zen of Zero Inbox

10 / 10

Craft solved by PKM struggle

A year later I can conclude Craft is the perfect PKM + task management tool for me. I've tried everything: - obsidian/logseq(bad/slow mobile app and sync) - notion(doesn't work offline, ios app is just a web wrapper) - mem(terrible linking between notes) - apple notes(quickly gets cluttered with many notes) For PKM tried PARA, didn't work for me, currently Johnny Decimal approach for structuring works amazing. Craft+JD solved every problem I had. Amazing native apps, fast and reliable sync, task support made me remove Things 3 and completely switch to Craft. Can't recommend it enough.

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Phil Quist

15 Feb 2025

Inbox Invincible

9.8 / 10

Great note-taking app

Craft is one of the best-designed note-taking apps, offering a clean, fast, and intuitive experience. Its block-based editor allows for easy organization, while seamless offline support and iCloud syncing make it reliable. Real-time collaboration, rich text editing, and powerful export options make it a strong contender against Notion. However, it lacks advanced databases and deep automation. Ideal for structured writing, knowledge management, and team documentation, Craft is perfect for Apple users who want speed, simplicity, and elegance in their workflow. Beautiful, efficient, and highly functional, but limited for power users.

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Martin Truckses

19 Jan 2025

Deadline Whisperer

9.8 / 10

Loving Craft since more than four years now...

...and still using it everyday! Despite some minor quirks and typical process issues, it's the app I rely on as a teacher and in my daily life for organizing, completing tasks, remembering things, sharing, creating, and writing.... Love the versatility of the app and the various possible workflows within, love the synch-speed between devices, love to be able to share beautiful documents easily with everyone (even with the possibility to collaborate), love the integrated ai help, love the sleeck & beautiful UX... All these features, along with the many I haven't mentioned, and the Craft team's dedication to adding new features, keep me loyal to this app.

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Tony Costanzo

19 Jan 2025

Deadline Demolisher

9.8 / 10

Great tool. Fast dev cycle

Long time user. Great development cycle. Incredibly involved ownership that have opened themselves up to a community of boisterous users. Got into it as a work tool, it now runs my life.

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