⚡ Quick Verdict:
- Pricing: Craft starts at $4.79 per month. Notejoy starts at $4 per month on the Solo plan.
- Best for: Craft suits personal writing, daily notes, and polished sharing. Notejoy suits shared team libraries.
- Key difference: Craft ships an AI assistant and presentation mode. Notejoy ships powerful search operators and team libraries.
- Our pick: Craft, rated 4.3 against 3.8 for Notejoy, wins on features and polish for most people.
Two note taking app options. Two very different ideas about notes.
Notejoy sells itself on fast and focused notes for a team.
Craft sells itself on beautiful documents you feel proud to share.
One is a shared workspace. The other is a personal writing tool.
This guide shows you which one fits your work.
Overview
This Notejoy vs Craft comparison covers pricing, features, speed, and ease of use.
We reviewed documentation, pricing pages, and user reviews for both apps.
Our writers also spent hands-on time with each tool.
Those notes appear in the “What Our Team Noticed” sections below.
By the end you will know which app fits your team.
What is Notejoy?
Notejoy is a fast and focused notes app built for teams.
It works as a shared workspace for a project, department, or company.
Any note added to a team library is shared with every member.
You can organize notes with nested notebooks, nested tags, and inline hashtags.
A double bracket shortcut lets you link notes together in seconds.
The app runs on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and the web.
The short review below walks through the app in real time.
Notejoy
A shared workspace for fast and focused notes. Search runs across images and PDF files. The free plan gives you 100MB of storage.
Notejoy Pricing
Here is what Notejoy costs in 2026. Every price below comes straight from the plan sheet.
| Plan | Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Testing the app with limited storage |
| Solo | $4 | One person who wants premium features |
| Plus | $8 | Small teams sharing a library |
| Premium | $12 | Larger teams needing tighter security |
Pricing verified July 2026.
Free trial: Yes. The free plan runs forever with no card needed, so you can test before you pay.
Money-back guarantee: Notejoy does not publish a refund window. Cancel anytime and your paid access runs to the end of the billing period.
📌 Note: The free plan is capped at 100MB of storage. Offline access and end-to-end encryption sit behind the paid tiers.
⚠️ Pricing conflict: Some review sites list a single premium plan at $48 per year. Our plan data shows four tiers instead. Check the pricing page before you buy, since annual billing may bundle the tiers differently.
Key Benefits of Notejoy
Here is what makes Notejoy worth a look:
- Powerful search with OCR: Search reads text inside images and PDF files. You can find a certain word buried in a scanned receipt.
- Real time editing: Several people can edit one note at once. Changes sync instantly across every device.
- Chatter for feedback: Each note carries a comment thread with reactions and @mentions. Discussion stays next to the work.
- Google Docs previews: Notes can embed images, checklists, code, and live previews of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
- Permission control: Give a user view-only or comment-only access. Sensitive details stay locked down.
- Read receipts: You can see who opened a note and when. That transparency helps managers chase sign-off.
- Integrations: Notejoy connects to Slack, Trello, HubSpot, and Zoom so notes reach the other apps your team already uses.
What Our Team Noticed
Our writer signed up for Notejoy and spent several days moving a real project into a team library. Here is what stood out:
Notejoy Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Team libraries share every note with the whole group automatically
- Search reads text inside images and PDF files using OCR
- The web clipper is quick and accurate, and it lets you set the location and tags before saving
- Lightweight design keeps the app fast on older machines
❌ Cons
- Search can feel clunky because it needs a specific search language
- There is no global keyboard shortcut for creating a note
- The free version is limited to 100MB of storage
- Offline support and end-to-end encryption are premium features only
What is Craft?
Craft is a note taking app built around blocks of content.
Every paragraph, image, or table is a block you can move.
That structure makes long documents easy to manage and reshape.
Craft adds daily notes, a calendar view, templates, and backlinks.
An AI assistant sits inside the editor to draft and summarise text.
The platform runs on Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, and the web.
Watch the walkthrough below to see the editor in action.
🏆 Winner: Craft
Beautiful documents with an AI assistant built in. Daily notes and a calendar keep your week in focus. The free plan costs nothing to start.
Craft Pricing
Craft keeps its pricing short. Three tiers cover most users.
| Plan | Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 per month | Trying the editor with limited documents |
| Personal | $4.79 per month | One user who wants full AI and sharing |
| Friends & Family | $8.99 per month | A household or a very small team |
Pricing verified July 2026.
Free trial: Yes. The free plan needs no card, and paid features unlock the moment you upgrade.
Money-back guarantee: App store purchases follow Apple or Google refund rules. Web billing cancels at the end of the term.
📌 Note: Craft has no true business tier here. A large company with many users will outgrow the Friends & Family plan quickly.
⚠️ Warning: Subscriptions bought through an app store renew on their own. Cancel in your device settings, not inside Craft, or the charge will still land.
Key Benefits of Craft
Here is why Craft earns its 4.3 rating:
- Documents that look finished: Styles, covers, and text highlighting turn rough ideas into pages you can send to a client.
- Backlinks: Craft shows every note that points at the page you are reading. Your strategy notes connect on their own.
- Daily notes and calendar: Craft opens a fresh page for each day and pulls in your meetings so you can respond faster.
- AI assistant: Ask it to summarise, translate, or rewrite a block. It works on the words already on the page.
- Presentation mode: Any document becomes slides with one click. No export step and no second tool.
- Share to the web: Publish a note as a website link with its own design. Readers need no account.
- Rich media: Drop in images, videos, and files, then align them inside the page without breaking the layout.
What Our Team Noticed
Our writer used Craft for daily planning and client documents across several weeks. Here is what stood out:
Craft Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Block-based editor makes long documents easy to restructure
- Backlinks connect related notes without manual filing
- Built-in AI assistant drafts, rewrites, and summarises inside the page
- Presentation mode turns any document into slides in one click
- Personal plan costs $4.79 per month
❌ Cons
- Search is basic next to Notejoy’s search operators
- No shared team library with automatic access for every member
- The top plan tops out at a household, not a company
- The name is easy to confuse with Craft.io, a different product
Feature Comparison
Ready to see how Notejoy and Craft handle the same job? We compared ten areas that decide which tool you should keep.
| Feature | Notejoy | Craft |
|---|---|---|
| Starting Price | $4 | $4.79 per month |
| Free Plan | ✅ (100MB) | ✅ |
| Shared Team Libraries | ✅ | ❌ |
| OCR Search in Images | ✅ | ❌ |
| Link Notes / Backlinks | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI Assistant | ❌ | ✅ |
| Presentation Mode | ❌ | ✅ |
| Google Docs Previews | ✅ | ❌ |
| Offline Access | ✅ (paid only) | ✅ |
| Best For | Shared team notes | Personal writing and sharing |
1. Writing and Formatting Notes
Notejoy: The editor supports markdown, so you type a symbol and the formatting appears. You can add images, checklists, code, and highlighting to any note. The design stays plain on purpose to keep speed high.
Craft: Every element is a block you can drag, nest, or turn into a card. Style controls cover fonts, covers, and page colour. The result reads more like a designed page than a raw note.
2. Organizing Notes
Notejoy: Notes sit inside nested notebooks and nested tags. Inline hashtags let you file a note while you write it. Starring pulls the pages you touch daily to the top.
Craft: Spaces hold documents, and documents nest inside each other without limit. Templates give repeat work a fixed shape. There are no tags in the Notejoy sense, which some users miss.
3. Linking Notes Together
Notejoy: A double bracket shortcut lets you link notes as you type. Those links run both ways, so a related page shows the connection back. It is quick, though the view of your web of ideas stays basic.
Craft: Backlinks are a headline feature. Open any document and Craft lists every page that mentions it. That turns loose notes into a map you did not have to build by hand.
4. Search
Notejoy: This is the strongest part of the app. Powerful search operators narrow results by author, notebook, or date, and OCR reads a certain word inside images and PDF files. The catch is that you must learn the search language first.
Craft: Search is simple and quick. Type a word and Craft shows matching documents and blocks. There is no OCR and no operator syntax, so deep archives get harder to dig through.
⚠️ Warning: If you scan receipts or contracts, this single feature may decide it. Craft cannot find a phrase locked inside an image file.
5. Team Collaboration and Real Time Editing
Notejoy: Team libraries share every note with the group the moment it is created. Several people edit in real time and changes sync instantly. A comment thread called Chatter carries reactions and @mentions beside the text.
Craft: You invite people to a single document or space. Editing together works well, but there is no library that grants a whole team access on its own. Craft treats sharing as a per-document choice.
6. AI Assistant and Calendar
Notejoy: There is no AI assistant and no calendar view. Notejoy keeps its focus on capture, search, and sharing. If you want a human-written record with no machine help, that restraint is a feature.
Craft: The AI assistant summarises, translates, and rewrites blocks in place. A calendar view shows your meetings beside daily notes, so you can track progress across the week without leaving the app.
7. Integrations and Web Clipping
Notejoy: Slack, Trello, HubSpot, and Zoom all connect, and notes can embed live previews of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The web clipper is fast and accurate, and it lets you set the location and tags before the page is saved.
Craft: Craft leans on native share sheets and a smaller set of partners. It pastes cleanly from other apps and keeps formatting intact. For deep workflow links, Notejoy has the wider reach.
8. Design, Personalization, and Presentation
Notejoy: A custom sidebar lets each user pin the notebooks and categories they open most. Beyond that the look is fixed. Notejoy is built to disappear, not to impress.
Craft: Style controls, cover images, and text highlighting let you shape a document to match your brand. Presentation mode then turns that same page into slides. You can send a client a website link with real design behind it.
9. Cross-Device and Offline Access
Notejoy: Native apps cover Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and the web. Offline access is a premium feature, so free users lose their notes when the connection drops.
Craft: Craft is offline-first on every device, including the free tier. Documents open with no network at all. Android arrived later than the Apple apps and still feels a step behind.
10. Pricing & Cost
Let’s compare the pricing plans side by side.
| Tier | Notejoy | Craft |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | $0 per month |
| Entry paid | Solo: $4 | Personal: $4.79 per month |
| Mid paid | Plus: $8 | Friends & Family: $8.99 per month |
| Top paid | Premium: $12 | ❌ None |
Notejoy: Four tiers give a growing team somewhere to go. The Solo plan at $4 unlocks premium features for one person. Premium at $12 adds the security controls a bigger company will ask about.
Craft: Personal at $4.79 per month buys the AI assistant, sharing, and full styling. That is 79 cents above Notejoy’s Solo plan for a much larger feature set. The ceiling is low, though, since nothing sits above $8.99.
Craft vs Craft.io: Two Different Companies
Search for Craft and you will hit two unrelated products. This article covers Craft, the note taking app at craft.do.
Craft.io is a separate end-to-end product management platform. It is built for product teams, not for personal notes.
💡 Quick check: If a review mentions RICE and MoSCoW prioritization, OKRs, or a Spec Editor, it is describing Craft.io. None of those features exist in the Craft app compared here.
Craft.io helps a product organization manage the entire product lifecycle in one place, from feedback collection through to execution. Teams collect valuable feedback on a product through a portal open to internal and external stakeholders. It gives product teams a single source of truth for product data, so a company avoids duplicative and redundant work. Built-in best practices support smart product decisions and clear prioritization, while capacity planning shows each team’s workload in real time. Interactive roadmaps align design, engineering, and leadership on a shared vision, and let teams tell a compelling product story to different audiences. Two-way integrations with development tools track progress toward successful execution. Craft.io prices in enterprise territory: Essential is $49 per month, Pro is $109 per month, and Enterprise is fully customizable.
So if your goal is to build great products with confidence, Craft.io is the tool to look at. If your goal is fast, beautiful notes, stay on this page.
Different Scenarios
| If You Need… | Choose | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Shared team notes | Notejoy | Team libraries share automatically |
| Documents clients will see | Craft | Design controls and web sharing |
| Search inside scanned files | Notejoy | OCR reads images and PDFs |
| AI help while writing | Craft | Assistant works on the page |
| Slides without a second app | Craft | One-click presentation mode |
| Offline notes on a free plan | Craft | Notejoy locks offline behind paid |
💰 Your Budget
The gap between the two entry plans is 79 cents. At that distance, price should not drive your choice at all.
🔌 Your Tech Stack
Notejoy plugs into Slack, Trello, HubSpot, and Zoom, and previews Google Docs inline. Craft expects you to paste and share instead.
📝 Your Writing Style
Craft rewards people who care how a page looks. Notejoy rewards people who want the words down and forgotten.
🎓 Your Experience Level
Craft is easier on day one. Notejoy asks you to learn its search language before the app repays the effort.
🆓 Free Trials and Demos
Both free plans are limited but real, and neither asks for a card. Move one live project across and verify the fit yourself.
🛟 Security and Support
Notejoy adds end-to-end encryption and permission details on its paid tiers, which matters for regulated work. Check both privacy pages before you commit sensitive data.
Switching Guide
Already using one of these? Here is what changes.
🔄 Switching from Notejoy to Craft?
✅ What you’ll gain:
- An AI assistant that works on the words already written
- Presentation mode and polished web sharing
- Offline access on every plan, including the free one
❌ What you’ll lose:
- Team libraries that share notes with everyone automatically
- OCR search across images and PDF files
- Chatter comment threads and read receipts
📋 How to switch:
- Export your Notejoy notebooks to markdown files
- Create a Craft account and set up one space per notebook
- Import the markdown, then rebuild your tags as nested documents
🔄 Switching from Craft to Notejoy?
✅ What you’ll gain:
- Shared libraries that give a whole team access at once
- Search operators plus OCR inside images and PDFs
- A wider set of integrations and a stronger web clipper
❌ What you’ll lose:
- The AI assistant and the calendar view
- Presentation mode and full document styling
- Offline access unless you pay for a premium tier
📋 How to switch:
- Export Craft documents as markdown or PDF
- Create a Notejoy team library and invite your group
- Import the files, then add hashtags so search can find them
What Our Review Didn’t Cover
This comparison focused on individuals and small teams. We did not test large migrations of tens of thousands of notes, and we did not review either developer API in depth. Enterprise contracts, custom billing, and admin controls for fifty or more seats fall outside what we looked at. Our notes reflect the July 2026 versions of both apps, so features may have moved since. If you are managing a regulated archive, treat this as a starting point and not a security audit.
Final Verdict
| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| 💰 Pricing | Notejoy |
| 🚀 Core Features | Craft |
| ⚡ Search | Notejoy |
| 🎨 Design and Presentation | Craft |
| 👥 Team Collaboration | Notejoy |
| 👶 Ease of Use | Craft |
| 🔌 Integrations | Notejoy |
| 🤖 AI Features | Craft |
| 📱 Offline Access | Craft |
| 🏆 Overall Winner | Craft |
🏆 WINNER: CRAFT
Craft wins 5 out of 9 categories and scores 4.3 against 3.8.
Best for: Personal knowledge work, client-facing documents, daily planning
Craft and Notejoy are aimed at different people, and the scorecard shows it. Craft is a writing tool that happens to sync. Notejoy is a shared workspace that happens to hold notes.
Notejoy is the better pick if your notes belong to a group. Team libraries, powerful search, and Chatter comments do real work that Craft cannot match.
For most people writing for themselves, though, Craft wins. Better editing, an AI assistant, offline access on the free plan, and presentation mode add up. At $4.79 per month it is the stronger buy.
More of Notejoy Compared
Here is how Notejoy stacks up against its closest rivals:
Notejoy wins on: Collaborative team notes, a lighter app that loads faster, cleaner permission control per note
Evernote wins on: Building a large personal knowledge library, a stronger web clipper, deeper note organization after years of features
Notejoy wins on: Search operators that actually narrow results, read receipts on shared notes, a far simpler sharing model
OneNote wins on: Costing nothing at all, freehand pen input on tablets, tight links to the rest of Microsoft 365
Notejoy vs Notion
Notejoy wins on: Speed on older hardware, OCR search inside images, far less setup before the first note
Notion wins on: Databases and linked views, a huge template gallery, wikis that scale to a whole company
More of Craft Compared
Here is how Craft measures up against other note apps:
Craft wins on: Typography and page design out of the box, offline-first behaviour on Apple devices, presentation mode with no export
Notion wins on: Relational databases, team wikis with permissions, a much larger third-party template market
Craft wins on: Working the moment you open it, sync included in the price, documents that look presentable to outsiders
Obsidian wins on: Plain files you own on disk, a graph view of your ideas, a plugin library that reshapes the whole app
Craft vs Capacities
Craft wins on: Polished native apps on Mac and iOS, sharing a page as a real website, faster everyday writing
Capacities wins on: Object types that structure knowledge, a daily note system built for research, stronger linking between categories of content
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Notejoy safe?
Yes. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and paid tiers add end-to-end encryption. Admins can also set view-only or comment-only access on sensitive notes.
Is Notejoy free?
There is a free plan capped at 100MB of storage. Paid tiers start at $4 and add offline access, encryption, and larger libraries.
Can you use Craft for free?
Yes. The free tier costs $0 per month and limits how many documents you keep. Personal at $4.79 per month removes that cap and unlocks AI.
What is the difference between Craft AI and Notion AI?
Craft’s assistant is included in the Personal plan and edits blocks in place. Notion AI is a paid add-on aimed at databases and workspace-wide questions.
Which is the best free notes app?
Craft’s free tier is the better one here, since offline access is included. Choose Notejoy’s free plan instead if you need shared team libraries.
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