Fantastical vs Craft
Which is better in 2026? Five scores, side by side.
Fantastical is the better app overall, scoring 8.9 to 8.4. Fantastical wins on 3 of the 5 scores, Craft on 1, with 1 tied.
Busy Apple users juggling work and personal calendars
Writers and Apple users who want beautiful notes and docs with little effort
Score by score
The details
| Feature | Fantastical | Craft |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity & Notes | Productivity & Notes |
| Category rank | #6 of 13 | #9 of 13 |
| Developer | Flexibits | Craft Docs Limited |
| Pricing | Free + paid plans | Free + paid plans |
| Usable for free | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone & iPad | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android | — | ✓ |
| Mac | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web | — | ✓ |
Common questions
Is Fantastical better than Craft?
Fantastical is the better app overall, scoring 8.9 to 8.4. Fantastical wins on 3 of the 5 scores, Craft on 1, with 1 tied.
Which is cheaper, Fantastical or Craft?
Fantastical: Free basics; Flexibits Premium is $6.99 a month or $56.99 a year on the App Store. Craft: Free Starter plan; Plus $8/month billed yearly, or $10 monthly. On value for money, Craft scores higher.
Do Fantastical and Craft work on the same devices?
Only Craft runs on Android, Web.
Which is more private, Fantastical or Craft?
Fantastical scores higher on privacy (8.4/10). App Store label: no tracking; email, name, IDs, usage and crash data are linked to you. Flexibits says most synced data is end-to-end encrypted, never sold, and forwarded emails aren't used for AI training.
Strengths and weaknesses
Fantastical
- Add events by typing a normal sentence
- Polished apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows
- Works with Microsoft 365 and Google accounts
- Most power features need the subscription
- No Android phone or tablet app yet
- Microsoft 365 users must switch to Graph sync
Fantastical lets you add an event by typing a normal sentence with the who, what and when, and it fills in the rest. Around that you get the DayTicker, Calendar Sets, tasks from Todoist and Google Tasks, Openings and Proposals for scheduling, weather, and AI that turns forwarded emails and screenshots into events. Most of the best parts need Premium, and Android phones aren't supported yet.
Full Fantastical review
Craft
- Beautiful documents with almost no formatting work
- Fast, native apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad
- Easy sharing of polished pages on the web
- Database and team features trail Notion
- Free plan caps you at 1,500 blocks
- Offline use needs setup on Windows, Android and web
Craft makes writing and organizing notes feel good. Pages nest inside each other as cards, documents look polished with no effort, and you can share any doc as a clean web page. Daily notes, tasks, whiteboards, kanban collections and an AI assistant round it out. It now runs on Android too, though the Apple apps are still the best. The catch: databases trail Notion, and the free plan's block limit fills up fast.
Full Craft review
