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1. [R1] Craft 2/5 · US 🤬 Are the Devs even fixing stuff?!: I’m having a crazy new issue where I can’t type into anything now. I click and nothing happens. I tap and nothing happens. The only place I can actually type is on the desktop app and the web app but the mobile phone on iPhone I can’t do anything. I am so thankful this got fixed below the dev’s are there!! they’re listening!! Now I can’t “tap and drag!” Below
2. [R4] Craft 1/5 · US Constant display problems: Using Craft when I work on my iPads has become a nightmare for a long while now. I am regular Craft user for a few years now. I rely on this application to process large amounts of information. Sometimes I use my MacBook Pro. Another times use my iPad Pro or iPad Air combined with an Apple Magic Keyboard and Magic trackpad. My software is always up to date with the lates
3. [R6] Craft 3/5 · US Weird glitches: Pretty good app. It’s still a bit cumbersome to find the menus to adjust the text and pages. But I still prefer Craft over searching for a ton of files in folders. The latest issue I’m having is with odd glitches. For instance, after editing a page (or just opening it) I notice some of the text has weirdly shifted to the left of the page. Even weirder, I can’t select the displaced
4. [R21] Craft 3/5 · US Still a good app, but complex with bugs: I have used Craft since its initial release, and while it has improved greatly, they have made the interface more complex and some unaddressed bugs have harmed my workflow. On the Mac, you cannot duplicate or delete notes by using the right-click menu…. You can click all you want but nothing happens. Apparently this is a known bug…. But it has persisted
5. [R10] Craft 1/5 · US App is good but freezes up on me; Really eats credits…: Update: They updated AI and now it won’t even do what it did before. Such a waste of money., , , -So I changed from another app that quadrupled in price and I do like the app BUT you can’t see how many credits each run costs you and the rate of credit “cost” doesn’t seem consistent. I ask complex questions like translate a study guide and its
6. [R31] Craft 1/5 · US I Hate You Now: I praised your app, saying it was better than Noting Note, but after less than a month of use, it's showing "Block Limit Reached." It's incredibly low quality. Other apps don't limit things like yours. Therefore, I'm switching to Noting Note instead of this limiting, money-hungry, low-quality, brainless app.
7. [R33] Craft 3/5 · US ⭐️⭐️⭐️: I’ll stick to Apple Notes for $99 a year. Looks great, and has lots of useful features, but I’m out on the subscription price.
8. [R40] Craft 1/5 · US What a JOKE!: A notes app that wants you to pay $100/year to write notes with 0 improvements over Apple Notes and Notion.
9. [R9] Craft 3/5 · US Internal Help AI Limits Use: It would have been good to know I had a limited number of “credits” to use the AI when I was using it to learn how to use the app. How do I know if I want to buy the app if I don’t know how to use it? I watched numerous tutorial videos but still didn’t know if it would work for my purposes. Now I find that even with a paid subscription I would have limited use of the f
10. [R15] Craft 3/5 · US AI Assistant: I am seeing two AI Assistant: one is for craft assistance and the other is general. I have no idea how to get to one or the other. It is very confusing when I want the general assistant who knows my writing voice but It just disappears. For this reason I cancelled my subscription.
11. [R39] Craft 3/5 · US Awesome! But could use some new AI models.: Craft is an excellent notes, productivity, and AI writing app. However, like most apps, it has room for improvement, particularly regarding its AI models. The local AI features are impressive, but it would be beneficial to include more modern models, such as Qwen 3 with 0.6B parameters for local processing, or Llama 3.3. For cloud-based AI, while Craft
12. [R7] Craft 2/5 · US Not for me: For my writing and organization style, this app is complicated in all the wrong places, and is smug about that. There is no data portability to speak of, as far as I can tell, and it signs me out and repeatedly asks for information I have already provided, which is a telltale hallmark of privacy abusing services having to alter agreements and terms due to legal issues. I would not trus
13. [R12] Craft 3/5 · US Inconsistent.: A very nice beautiful app. If you’re all for quick customization and nice themes, go for it. But the organization can get absolutely horrid with this app. For the past few years, it feels like they have been really lost. They should’ve kept focusing on the note-taking aspect. Instead they added AI, barely functional tasks, and redid UI 3-4 times. Shifting around stuff everywhere.
14. [R18] Craft 3/5 · US A lot of good stuff, some baggage: Craft looks great--much better than other notes apps I've tried. I love all the options for formatting (color, font, etc). I use a ton of visual formatting in my notes to make them eye-catching, and this remains a struggle for most, if not all notes apps. That said, the application of those formatting options is often clunky, unpredictable, or frustrating, m
15. [R2] Craft 5/5 · US My only complaint…: How do I undo something I accidentally deleted?! Or am I missing something? But seriously, this app is amazing. I’ve been using it for work/ life for about a year now. I Loveeee. You can access it from anywhere: phone, iPad, or desktop. I’m able to save & Send my notes no Matter what device I’m using. They sync up Perfectly, which has narrowed down the amount of lists I make
16. [R13] Craft 1/5 · US Highlighting: I see no simple way of highlighting with the Apple Pencil. Why an expensive app cannot do such a simple thing is beyond me very poor design.
17. [R16] Craft 1/5 · US poor accessibility / can’t enlarge text: doesn’t support system text enlargement, super basic feature one would expect a text based app to have
18. [R30] Craft 3/5 · US The app is great but…: love the control over content available with Craft. However, two things are missing for me. the ability to search inside e PDFs and OCR. For now, I’ll stick with the limited formatting capabilities of Apple Notes. With over 3,000 notes, being able to search inside PDFs is essential.
19. [R48] Craft 3/5 · GB Almost perfect. Almost.: I don't want to have to rely on a third party cloud service, especially one that doesn't even offer end to end encryption. I would much rather have the option to store my notes on my device, like obsidian does.
20. [R27] Craft 3/5 · US Outstanding Till You Ask Questions: I tried Craft for about 2 weeks, and found many positives. I especially liked the templates, and just how well it all worked. The share and export functions were excellent too. Where it all fell down for me was contacting support, who couldn’t give me a straight answer to a simple question. As long as you don’t need to contact them, I think Craft is an outstandi
21. [R28] Craft 2/5 · US Incredible writing / notes app with terrible customer support: I have been using this app for all my writing this year and absolutely loving it, from the design to the performance of it. But, after the iOS and MacOS 26 updates, the app stopped working on two devices and tech support was basically non-existent. This has caused me to reconsider my heavy reliance on the app. Update: The app has rec
22. [R36] Craft 3/5 · US Craft was essential but I can’t get text the way I want it anymore: All of a sudden the application displays text differently and although I’m a paying customer I can’t seem to find a phone number to get someone to help me fix it. Prospective customers might want to seek another application with more accessible customer support. I’ll update if anyone ever responds to my email and addresses the iss
23. [R61] Notes 5/5 · US Plz add audio clip inserts!: Absolute 10/10 app I’ve been using it mostly to world build my fanfiction plots and organize my OC’s and it’s so useful for so many things but would love if there was a way I could add an audio file in a note
24. [R63] Notes 5/5 · US Wonderful easy: I like it bc it is quick and easy to use
25. [R66] Notability 5/5 · US A Perfect Tool - Best in Class!: I an a stage director. I have been using Notability daily, since it first appeared in the App Store, to annotate scripts, notate edits, mark-up new drafts, diagram blocking, etc. It is an INVALUABLE and ESSENTIAL tool in my work. Best of all, when I’m working on new musicals, I can record the demos or instrumental tracks right into the document! Thank you, Notabili
26. [R70] Notability 3/5 · US Not for laptop: I love Notability for iPAD but using it on any other device is terrible. The website is plain text and the MacOS app does not support different fonts and formatting. I use my laptop almost exclusively at work and I can’t take notes on here in the same way I can with my iPad. If it were better for laptops, I would love this app. Such a bummer.
27. [R75] Notability 5/5 · US Notability is Incredible: I have been using for a few years now. The ease to create folders, and files within is easy. The tools inside of the notes are also just perfect. Whether to teach, or take classes, this is a perfect app. Learning curve is not much once you ply with all the tools within the app. Very logical and makes note taking or teaching great fun! Thank you!
28. [R83] Goodnotes 5/5 · US 🤩The way the AI works 🤩: The AI helps me with writing a story
29. [R86] Goodnotes 5/5 · US Goodnotes app review (from someone who has used Goodnotes for years!): Absolutely amazing! Super good for taking notes and studying. Definitely worth the money.
30. [R92] Goodnotes 5/5 · US Excellent: Good notes is phenomenal, if your student, teacher or even doctor this will help out tremendously.
31. [R29] Craft 4/5 · US Beautiful nice features, but missing organization: Coming from Notion there’s some to be desired. It is so close though. their collections feature is almost as good as notions database. But because of the Waze deals with the collection, it’s just not there. you don’t really get the ability to make yourself a nice little digital home the way you do in an app like Notion. However, it does make up fo
32. [R94] Notion 5/5 · US One Day: I have severe ADHD and always say “one day I’ll get my life together” today was that day!!
33. [R97] Notion 5/5 · US Wish I Could Rate it Higher: I run everything in my life on Notion, I would be lost without it.
34. [R103] Notion 5/5 · US Best app ever: I organize my whole life here
35. [R108] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 5/5 · US Great Practical free app: I’ve been using this for years now and I love it. It’s so easy to use and easy to learn. It doesn’t just transcribe, it fixes the mistakes intelligently. There’s chat feature for any further requests and so many more. All in all, I highly recommend it.
36. [R111] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 5/5 · US As a tool: This has been great for meetings where you won't be able to absorb all the detail. The summaries are awesome.
37. [R112] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 3/5 · US Best Assistant Ever: This application is the best and most helpful tool to capture notes and deliverables in my meetings. It’s always accurate and detailed.
38. [R114] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 5/5 · US Great app: Love the app it allows me to stay engaged in meetings
39. [R24] Craft 3/5 · US Beware - Craft LIMITS number of characters per note!: Maximum of 20,000 characters per text. Maximum of 1,000 lines in a text. Maximum of 10,000 characters per line. Those are applicable to all types of subscriptions., , , , , , , - The above is the answer I received from support when I asked why I can’t copy/paste a full transcript of a 2-hour lecture. (It would only paste part of it). I don
40. [R11] Craft 5/5 · US Obsessed: I’m obsessed with this app, especially after trying 4 other word processor apps before this one and concluding notes was gonna have to be it. This is such a fun, attractive, and organized app. Slight learning curve but easy to use once you get it. Note there is some free functions but I did subscribe to the $9 per month. I can’t speak to free use because I’m pretty sure I subscribed the
41. [R38] Craft 5/5 · US HANDS DOWN THE BEST APP: Not gonna cap, ts so fire and best part its free! But if you want more cool stuff gotta pay for that ofc but overall ts so gasssssss
42. [R34] Craft 1/5 · US Not recommended for voiceover users: It appears that accessibility and universal design were not considered as part of the design for this app. Blind or low vision voiceover users will find the app to be mostly unusable, unfortunately.