A- · out of 10
Craft is a block editor with unusually good taste. Documents feel like something you would send to a client, public links look like a small website, and daily notes plus backlinks give it enough structure for personal knowledge work. The AI assistant supports custom prompts you can save and reuse.
How it scores
Features25% of score
8.2Depth and breadth of what the app can do.
Ease of use20% of score
9.0Speed, polish and how long it takes to feel at home.
AI15% of score
7.4Quality and usefulness of the built-in AI, not just its presence.
Sync & reliability15% of score
8.0How dependably notes move between devices.
Value15% of score
7.4What you get for what you pay.
Platform coverage10% of score
7.8How many places you can actually use it.
Pricing
$10/month · $96/year
Free tier: A capped number of documents with full formatting and sharing.
Paid plans sit around $10/month with an annual discount. Craft has reshuffled its tiers more than once.
Platforms
- Windows
- macOS
- iOS
- Android
- Linux
- Web
53 tracked features supported
What it does well
- Shared documents look professional with no effort
- Saved AI prompts are more useful than a generic chat box
- Daily notes and backlinks without the PKM homework
- Strong offline behaviour for a hosted app
Where it falls short
- Structure is shallower than Notion once you need databases
- Tagging is weak compared to rivals
- Pricing and plan names keep changing
- The Android app trails the Apple versions
Our take
The best-looking documents in the category, with just enough linked-notes structure to be a real second brain.
Best for: People who share their notes and want them to look good.
Feature by feature
Capture & input
How notes get into the app in the first place.
- Voice recordingPartly
- Audio transcription
- Speaker identification
- Meeting recording
- Handwriting / stylusPartly
- Drawing canvasPartly
- OCR / handwriting search
- Web clipper
- Share extension
- Quick capture
- Images
- PDF & documents
- Document scanningPartly
Organization
How notes are structured, linked and found again.
- TagsPartly
- Folders / notebooks
- Multi-level folders
- Internal links
- Backlinks
- Graph view
- Databases / boardsPartly
- Daily notes / journal
- Note templates
- Saved searches
- Pins / favorites
- Merge notes
AI
Assistants, generators and meaning-based search.
- AI chat / writing assistant
- AI agent with tools
- Custom AI agents
- Semantic searchPartly
- AI web search
- Connected apps for AI
- Prompt templates
- Custom AI instructionsPartly
- AI memory
- Scheduled AI tasks
- Flashcard generator
- Spaced repetition
- Quiz generator
- Fill in the blank
- Mind maps
- AI image generation
- Infographic generator
- Slide deck generatorPartly
- AI mini apps
- Brainrot video generator
- AI audio overview
- Bring your own model
- AI job notifications
Writing & editing
What the editor itself can actually do.
- MarkdownPartly
- Rich text
- Code blocks
- Math / LaTeX
- Tables
- Find and replace
- Version history
- Note info
Sync & data ownership
Where your notes live and how easily they leave.
- Cloud sync
- Sync through your own cloud
- Offline support
- Offline-first / own your dataPartly
- Self-hosting
- End-to-end encryption
- Locked notesPartly
- Daily backup
- Import
- Export
- Public APIPartly
- Command line tool
- Remote MCP server
- Plugins / extensions
Sharing & collaboration
Working with other people inside your notes.
- Share with people
- Real-time collaboration
- Comments
- Public sharing
Experience
The everyday polish around the writing surface.
- Dark mode
- Custom themes
- Multi-language
- Command palette
- Split viewPartly
- Focus mode
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Shortcuts
Compare with
All Craft alternatives
Craft vs Grape
Adds: AI agent with tools, AI memory
Craft vs Notion
The all-in-one workspace that swallowed the note app category.
Craft vs Obsidian
Plain markdown files on your disk, with a plugin ecosystem bolted on top.
Craft vs Apple Notes
Already on your phone, and better than it has any right to be.