The 8 best Craft alternatives
Craft scores 8.1 out of 10 here, and its weak spots are specific: structure is shallower than notion once you need databases. These are the apps that fix that, ranked by overall score.
Grape
Take the note. The AI does the filing, the studying and the searching.
Mac / Win / Linux / iOS / Android
Gains you: audio transcription, speaker identification, meeting recording. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$3/mo
Notion
The all-in-one workspace that swallowed the note app category.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Web
Gains you: audio transcription, speaker identification, meeting recording. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$12/mo
Obsidian
Plain markdown files on your disk, with a plugin ecosystem bolted on top.
Win / Mac / iOS / Android / Linux
Gains you: audio transcription, meeting recording, ocr / handwriting search. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$4/mo
Apple Notes
Already on your phone, and better than it has any right to be.
Mac / iOS / Web
Gains you: audio transcription, meeting recording, ocr / handwriting search. Same territory: minimal & fast.
Free
Granola
Meeting notes that write themselves, with no bot in the call.
Mac / Win / iOS / Android
Gains you: audio transcription, speaker identification, meeting recording. Same territory: teams.
$14/mo
Day One
A journal that has been quietly perfecting one job since 2011.
iOS / Mac / Android / Win / Web
Gains you: audio transcription, ocr / handwriting search, saved searches. Same territory: minimal & fast.
$49.99/yr
Tana
Supertags turn loose bullets into a structured database as you type.
Web / Mac / Win / iOS / Android
Gains you: audio transcription, speaker identification, meeting recording. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$10/mo
AFFiNE
Docs and an infinite whiteboard that are the same document.
Web / Win / Mac / Linux / iOS / Android ยท Open source
Gains you: meeting recording, ai agent with tools, ai web search. Same territory: all-in-one workspace.
$8.90/mo
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