At a glance
Users who want beautifully formatted docs and notes on Apple devices
Our take
Craft blurs the line between note-taking and document design — it’s the app you use when you want a note that also looks like a well-designed deck or doc. Block-based editing feels closer to Notion than to a plain text editor, and native performance on Mac and iOS is noticeably smoother than most Electron-based alternatives. We like it for personal knowledge bases and shareable documents; it’s less suited to heavy databases or task management than Notion. Cross-platform support (especially Windows) still lags behind the Apple experience.
Key features
- ✓Block-based document editor
- ✓Native Mac and iOS performance
- ✓Web publishing for shareable pages
- ✓Real-time collaboration
- ✓Deep linking between documents
What we like
- ✓Best-in-class visual design and typography
- ✓Fast native apps on Apple platforms
- ✓Good collaboration and publishing tools
- ✓Clean block editing model
What could be better
- ✗Free tier capped by content blocks
- ✗Windows and web experience weaker than native apps
- ✗Less database power than Notion
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