Craft alternatives for Mac
Craft — Native document editor — is installed 106 times a month through Homebrew. These are hand-picked alternatives that occupy the same slot, ordered by how comparable their user base is.
Run
brew install --cask craft to install Craft itself.- Typora9.0× the installs
- Obsidian186.7× the installs
- Zotero15.8× the installs
- bear7.6× the installs
- Joplin4.4× the installs
- Anytype174 installs/mo
- Logseq3.4× the installs
- Notion47.3× the installs
Full comparison
| Craft | Typora | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | GUI app | GUI app |
| Category | Utilities | Utilities |
| Open source | Not declared | Not declared |
| Licence | Not declared | Not declared |
| Apple silicon | Universal | Universal |
| Latest version | 3.7.0 | 1.14.15 |
| Dependencies | 0 | 0 |
| Installs (30 days) | 106 | 958 |
| Install command | brew install --cask craft | brew install --cask typora |
How we picked these
The list comes from a hand-maintained set of same-purpose apps, not from keyword matching. Alternatives are removed automatically when Homebrew no longer carries them. Ordering reflects 30-day install volume, not paid placement. Data updated 2026-10-26.