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Craft Docs — Cross-platform AppleOS document editor built with Catalyst
Craft takes the best features of modern writing tools and combines them in a beautiful and native experience. Create structured notes, connect your thoughts via backlinks, or collaborate with others in real-time - all from one app. Available for macOS & iOS.
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Ivan X
Awesome piece of future docs tech 💥
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This is exciting — a really amazing looking cross-platform AppleOS document editor — built with Catalyst.
I'm really liking this so far! Slick user interface, super easy to use. Only complaint now is the lack of tables (I see you mentioned that's in the works).
It seems like a clear competitor to Notion, Bear, or Confluence. Out of curiosity, where are documents stored? One hang-up I've had with Notion is the inability to store anything locally.
@hypecraft Thanks! They are stored both online but also on your devices - so they are always available and you don’t need an internet connection to view or edit!
Been using Craft during the beta and I fully agree that it's a beautiful, gorgeous writing app. Though I love the look & feel of the app I've got to say that the pricing is a bit on the steep side. It's almost as expensive as a full-blown writing app like Ulysses, with only a fraction of its functionality.
@t55 Thanks for your feedback! What are you missing from Craft which you have in other apps?
@balintorosz Export as docx or rtf, keywords, subfolders, manual sorting, custom fonts, app-wide default font to name a few things.
@balintorosz @t55 Gotcha, thanks! Except for custom fonts, all of those will arrive in 3-4 weeks!
@balintorosz Great! Thanks! I mentioned my pricing concern earlier in the survey (twice), so I hope Craft's value will be upgraded soon.
@balintorosz @t55 Working hard on making it better and better every day - thanks for your support!
I have been using Craft for 5+ months now. The grouping feature on a touch device still feels magical and it is super intuitive. Can't wait to see where you guys taking this product next. 🔝
I've been using the beta of Craft for all my professional and personal writing over the last few months. I love the fact that they started with a touch-first/iPad-native experience, but also offer a native Mac app with seamless syncing. Looking forward to becoming a customer of the released product.
@balintorosz congratulations on the release! It's gorgeous and pushes the needle on what a document is supposed to be in the 21st century. Likely to become my go-to writing application.
@balintorosz @rkasturi Thanks! Let us know if you would find anything missing! ;)
Probably the best Catalyst app ever - Gruber can finally point to something good!
I’m and advisor to Craft and have been using it as a closed beta user for a while now. I love all the care and love that goes into this product and I send all of my product update emails out to my teams using Craft. Pro tip: you can override the system dark mode to be in light mode in settings in. Good luck Balint and the team.
@artom57 As our first "true" beta user and advisor we couldn't have done it without you ;)
This looks like a great tool for drafting Wordpress blog posts. I often get ideas on what I would want to add or edit while I'm away from my laptop. Related to this, two questions:
1) Can you start working on a draft on your desktop and later edit the same draft on your mobile phone or iPad?
2) Is there an option to push it to Wordpress directly?
@agatakristo Hi Agata! 1. - absolutely - the sync is realtime between devices, so it's really a magical experience. Re 2 - we are working on Wordpress and other integrations - for now what most users do is export in Markdown and import that to Wordpress!
Hey Hunters! 👋
Balint here, founder at Craft. We've been working on Craft for over 2 years, and we are finally ready to launch & share it with the Product Hunt community! 🥳
Craft is a modern writing app - It’s super simple to get started with, yet is surprisingly powerful. It grows with your ideas - and you can bend it to work the way you want to - rather than the other way around.
This starts with ensuring that it works & feels great across all devices. To achieve this we’ve re-imagined the text editing experience from the ground up - and brought back the joy of writing - even on touch devices.
We’ve also combined the best features from both the app-first and the web-first world. Craft is a native app with full support for offline editing and viewing - so you’ll never have to worry about your internet connection - at the same time it has a blazing fast sync with support for realtime collaboration and sharing. It’s incredibly fast, yet light on memory and energy.
Craft has all the capabilities you’d expect from a modern editor - from block based editing and hierarchical documents to cross page linking and bidirectional links. You can blend images, files, rich links, code blocks seamlessly, and use the full capabilities of Markdown if you’d like to.
Also - your data will never be kept hostage - you can share or export any content in a few seconds - from beautiful web links to PDF, Markdown, TextBundle or Email.
During our limited beta, thousands of people across the globe became regular Craft users - for both work & personal use cases. The sentiment we’ve heard back from them has been very consistent - after all the other apps they’ve tried, Craft is different - it’s what they’ve been looking for all this time.
Give it a try, and let us know your feedback! We can’t wait to see what you think!
Balint
I enjoy it already! Very nice writing experience!
A small thing I really like is to be able to send a link to a page where others can comment without an account. Really useful 👍
Looks super interesting Balint. I was on my way to ask for a MacOs version but I dont have to anymore.
I've been using this in beta and love how intuitive + beautiful it is.
The main use case for me that is 10x better than any alternative is the craft-to-email feature. Super super useful to send regular email updates that don't take ages to write, don't look like shit and feel consistent in their style. 👏👏👏
@raphael_daverio And getting that right was quite an investment. HTML support for email is still sooo challenging!
This is legitimately amazing, please please tell me there is URL Scheme (x-callback-url) support there (or incoming)?!?
@balintorosz You beautiful legend! Would append also be something you would consider?
@balintorosz It seems you want my money so you will get it! If append is supported on OSX (for Alfred workflows) then there is no limit to the amount
Authoring UI looks fantastic, but a bit of a non-starter for people and their collaborators who are not 100% in the Apple ecosystem. There's this great linked document format called the Web. I think it's going to be big.
@jeremiahlee 😂 Agree! On mobile especially web editor experiences are really bad though - and we wanted to address that first. But working on the web editor as well - we had to get started somewhere though!