Craft Docs or TaskForge?

Looking for a Craft Docs alternative? Both apps run on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and Android, and both put tasks with dates next to your writing. The difference is where the writing lives. Craft keeps documents in the spaces of your Craft account. TaskForge keeps every note as a plain .md file in a folder you choose, an Obsidian vault included, and needs no account at all.

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The short version

Craft is the better document app

Rich pages built from blocks, a web app, sharing and publishing, team spaces with comments, and an AI assistant built in. If you write documents other people read, or you want one app that does all of that in an account, Craft is built for it and TaskForge is not.

TaskForge keeps your notes as files you own

Every note is a .md file on your device, readable by Obsidian, a text editor or a script. The whole folder works offline on every platform, there is no account to create, and checkboxes in a note are tasks with due dates that show in a calendar.

Side by side

Craft's column was checked on 30 October 2026 against Craft's own help center, download page and pricing page, listed under the table.

Feature	Craft	TaskForge
Price	Free plan up to 1,500 blocks and 1 GB. Paid Plus, Family and Team plans, billed monthly or yearly [1]	Free tier with no time limit. $49.99 once, $19.99 a year, or $1.99 a month
Account	You start by creating an account with email, Apple ID or Google [2]	None. The app has no login screen
Where notes are stored	In the spaces of your Craft account. On Mac, iPhone and iPad, an External Location can keep a space in a folder you pick, without sharing or version history [3]	As .md files in a folder you chose, on every platform
Platforms	Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, visionOS and the web [4]	iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and Windows. No web app
Offline	Mac, iPhone and iPad keep every document on the device. Web, Windows and Android save a document once you open it online, with Offline Mode, which is on by default [5]	The whole folder, on every platform. There is no server to reach
Tasks with dates and reminders	Yes: schedule, deadline, reminder and repeat [6]	Yes: due, scheduled and start dates, priorities, recurrence and reminders, written into the note as text
Calendar	Calendar view with daily notes and scheduled tasks. Device calendar events through Apple Calendar on Mac, iPhone and iPad only [7]	Month, week and day views. Device calendar events on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android
Daily notes	Yes [8]	Yes, with built-in templates, your own, or the one your Obsidian vault names
Works on an Obsidian vault	Imports one, which makes a copy in Craft [9]	Yes. Same folder, nothing copied
Sharing and collaboration	Share links, publishing, team spaces and comments [10]	No. One person, one folder
Export	PDF, Word and Markdown [11]	No export. The note already is a markdown file
AI	Built-in assistant [12]	None built in
Access for AI agents	An MCP connection to the content you choose, through an endpoint Craft generates [13]	A command-line tool and MCP server that run on your computer against the folder

Sources for Craft's column, checked 30 October 2026

Where TaskForge comes out ahead

Your notes are files, not an account

Craft can export to Markdown. TaskForge has nothing to export, because the .md file already is the note. Open it in Obsidian, in a text editor or in a script. Delete the app and every note stays where it was.

The whole folder works offline, everywhere

On Windows and Android, Craft keeps a document offline once you have opened it while online. TaskForge reads files that are already on the device, so every note opens in airplane mode on every platform, including ones you have never opened before.

No account to create

There is no sign-up and no login screen. TaskForge only reads and writes a folder; iCloud Drive, Syncthing, Dropbox, OneDrive or Obsidian Sync moves it between devices, whichever you already use.

Your Obsidian vault, as it is

Point TaskForge at the vault and your notes and task lines appear in place, in the Obsidian Tasks syntax you already write. Rename a note in TaskForge and it rewrites the wikilinks that point at it, so Obsidian keeps finding it.

Where Craft is the better app

If you write documents for other people, most of these will matter more than anything above.

Rich documents

Craft builds pages from blocks, cards and styles, and it has years of design care in it. TaskForge renders markdown well, but a markdown file is the ceiling.

Sharing and collaboration

Share links, published pages, team spaces and comments. TaskForge is for one person and one folder, and has none of these.

A web app

Craft runs in a browser, so you can reach your documents from a computer with nothing installed. TaskForge has no web app.

AI features

Craft has an AI assistant inside the editor. TaskForge has none built in; it gives your own AI tools a command-line tool and an MCP server that work on the files.

Export formats

PDF, Word and Markdown from any document. TaskForge writes markdown and that is the whole list.

Which one to install

Choose Craft if

You write documents that other people read or edit, you want a web app and sharing, or you want an AI assistant inside the editor. An account that holds everything suits you.

Choose TaskForge if

You want notes as plain files in a folder you control, every note offline on every device, no account, or a better phone app for an Obsidian vault you already have.

Running both

Possible, but they don't share files: Craft's documents live in its spaces and TaskForge reads a folder of .md files. You would be exporting from one into the other. Most people pick one.

Craft and TaskForge, common questions

Is Craft Docs the same app as Craft?

Yes. Craft's own site and help center, at craft.do, call the app Craft; many people search for it as Craft Docs. This page compares the app as it was on 30 October 2026.

Does Craft store notes as markdown files?

Craft keeps documents in the spaces of your Craft account and can export a document to Markdown. Its External Locations option keeps a space in a folder you pick on Mac, iPhone and iPad; Craft's help page does not say which file format it uses. TaskForge writes .md files directly, so there is no export step.

Can I move my Craft documents into TaskForge?

Yes. Export them from Craft as Markdown into a folder, then point TaskForge at that folder. Text, headings, lists and checkboxes come across; Craft-only layout such as cards and page styles does not.

Does TaskForge work offline on Windows and Android?

Yes. Your notes are files on the device, so every note opens without a connection on every platform. Nothing is cached from a server because there is no server.

Do I need an account for TaskForge?

No. There is no sign-up. You pick a folder, or your Obsidian vault, and the app reads it.

Notes that are files, with tasks attached.

Free to download and free to use. Notes and the markdown editor cost nothing.

$49.99 one-time, $19.99 a year, or $1.99 a month. No account required.

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