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Craft for Education

The best free note-taking app for college students. Take lecture notes, organize materials, and collaborate — all in one app.

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Why students love Craft

01 — In class

Take notes that actually help you study

Craft launches instantly and works offline-first — so nothing interrupts your flow during a lecture. Organize everything by course and semester, type or paste images, and link related notes. It all syncs automatically when you reconnect.

Take notes that actually help you study

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Craft makes taking notes so much fun for me because I have the excitement of feeling like I’m “creating” whenever I write something down, rather than just… writing something down.

– Elijah, Chemistry PhD Student, Northwestern University

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I use it for basically everything! My life is in Craft and my studies are too! I can’t really tell you how much I love Craft.

— Eric, Computer Science student

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Common Questions

If you’re a currently enrolled student, faculty or staff member of an academic institution, you’re eligible for the Education plan.

When you register for Craft, we check if the email address you provided in your Craft account belongs to an official academic institution. Then we’ll send you an email, just click the button in it to activate the plan.
If you’ve already created your Craft account with a personal email address, please follow the instructions in this help article to change your registered email address to the one issued by your academic institution. Then you’ll also receive an email with a button to activate the plan.
If your academic institution does not provide email addresses, let our support team know.
In case you don’t receive an email within an hour after creating your account or changing your registered email address, we aren’t able to verify your status automatically. Then you’ll need to reach out to our support team.

As long as you are an enrolled student, educator or staff member at an academic institution, you can stay on the Education plan. Your verification will be valid for 12 months, after which you’ll need to re-verify your status. We’ll send you an email to remind you once it’s time.

Yes you can! Drop an email to our support team and we’ll help you sort it out.

Craft is great for students and educators to take notes, write papers, and plan their day. We believe education should be accessible to everyone, and that’s why we offer Craft for free to students and educators.

You can always share any of your documents with others and start working together on that document. If you are working closely with others, you can also create a Team in Craft. Team plans are paid, though please reach out to our support team and we can consider your situation and use case for a discount.

Craft is available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, Windows, and in your web browser as well!

Yes! You can use Craft on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, Windows, and in the Web app with a single subscription.

Yes. Craft is consistently rated one of the best note-taking apps for college students. It offers unlimited documents free with a student email, works offline during lectures, syncs across all your devices, and includes an AI assistant to help summarize notes and draft papers. Unlike Notion or Google Docs, Craft is a native app that launches instantly and works without internet.

Absolutely. Create a folder for each course, organize lecture notes by date, link related concepts across subjects, and use daily notes to track assignments and deadlines. Craft makes it easy to keep everything for school in one searchable place — notes, PDFs, images, and to-do lists.

Yes. Craft is excellent for academic research. Collect sources and references in nested documents, organize your research by topic, and write your paper with rich formatting — headings, citations, code blocks, and more. The built-in AI assistant can help summarize long articles, rephrase sentences, and check your writing. Export to PDF or Markdown when you are ready to submit.

Yes. Craft works fully offline — not just read-only, but full editing. Take notes during a lecture with no Wi-Fi, on a plane, or anywhere without internet. Everything syncs automatically when you reconnect. This is a major advantage over web-based apps like Notion or Google Docs.

Yes. Share any document with a link — your classmates can view or edit without creating an account. Add comments, assign tasks, and work together in real time. For student organizations or study groups, you can create a shared Team space to keep all project documents organized.