Craft

So what makes Craft different from the other twenty notes apps? It cares how things look.

Every doc can have a cover picture, its own font, a backdrop and paper-style pages. Type up a trip plan and it looks like something you'd send to a client, not a scrappy note.

Sharing is the other half. Publish a doc and it becomes a web page with its own link. People can read it on their phone and leave a comment without making a Craft account.

It isn't only docs, either. There are tasks, daily notes, a calendar, whiteboards and Collections, which are small databases you can view as a table, a gallery or a kanban board.

It works offline too. On a Mac, iPhone or iPad everything syncs in the background, so your notes are still there on the plane.

And a nice surprise if you like to tinker: the API and MCP server come with every plan, the free one included. So you can point Claude or ChatGPT at your own notes.

The free plan runs out. 1,500 blocks sounds like plenty until you learn that every paragraph, heading and picture is a block.

Keep a daily note with ten lines in it and you'll hit the wall in about five months. Then it's Plus, and one Hacker News commenter summed that up nicely: good app, but it gets pricey the moment you have to pay.

It's also happiest on Apple. Calendar events, Reminders, Shortcuts and Apple Pencil only work on Mac, iPhone and iPad. On Windows, Android and the web, offline has to be switched on in settings, and it only keeps the docs you've already opened.

Even then, offline has gaps. You can't make a new document, search or use the AI without a connection.

The Android app only arrived in November 2025, so it's the youngest of the lot. And there's no Linux app on the download list.

Want a shared space with other people? That needs Family or Team, and those stop at 6 and 10 accounts.

Start on Starter. It's free, and the limit is how much you can keep: 1,500 blocks, 1 GB of storage and files up to 25 MB.

Plus is $96 a year, which works out at $8 a month, or $10 if you pay monthly. That takes the block limit away and gives you 5 spaces of 1 TB each, files up to 5 GB and 50 AI credits a month.

Family is the clever one. $180 a year covers 2 to 6 people, each with their own Plus account. With six of you, that's $30 a head for the year!

Team is $600 a year for up to 10 people, and there's a 15-day free trial with no payment up front. It's a flat price, so a team of four pays the same as a team of ten.

Students and teachers, look at the Education plan first. A school email gets you the paid features for free, and you re-verify every 12 months.

Don't be surprised if their site shows you different numbers. Craft sets its prices per country, in local currency.

Craft has 4.8 on the App Store from about 6,600 ratings, and roughly nine in ten are five stars.

What do people rave about? The look, mostly. One reviewer wrote a blog draft, dropped in a picture, shared it as a web page in a couple of clicks and got a compliment from the friend they sent it to.

Another calls it the sweet spot: less to learn than Notion, less to set up than Obsidian.

Then there's the price. Our favourite review is from someone who told their wife they'd happily pay a hundred dollars for it, then found out that's about what a year costs. They weren't so sure after that.

It's not all praise. A two-star review from February 2026 says the Mac app crashed on them daily and kept choking on pasted text, though they still liked it on iPad. And one Hacker News commenter files Craft under apps they find clunky or slow.

Older reviews grumble about missing tags. Craft's release notes show tags have been added since, so that one's sorted.