Anytype vs Craft
A source-aware comparison of pricing, documented capabilities and workflow fit.
Short answer
- Price: not directly comparable — Anytype is free tier available, Craft is free tier available.
- How to start: both are free tier available.
- Where they differ: only Anytype has open source / self-hostable and only Craft has public api; both offer mobile app.
These lines are generated from the pricing we track, not from a paid placement. How we score tools.
What Anytype is
What Anytype isAnytype is a local-first, encrypted workspace for notes and knowledge run by a Swiss association, and its paid tiers buy two things that are unusual for the category: remote storage on the Anytype network and a shorter ANY ID, the unique handle used for sharing and web publishing. The app itself is not gated behind the subscription — you can self-host your own network and set your own limits without any membership at all, which makes the paid plans closer to hosting-plus-identity than to a feature unlock.
What Craft is
What Craft isCraft is a document and note app with an unusually polished editor, strong exports and clean sharing links. It suits documents meant to be read by someone else: pages export and publish cleanly, and the typography holds up. It is weaker as a knowledge base, since linking and querying across a large collection is not where its design effort went.
Side by side
| Anytype | Craft | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| How to start | Free tiernot a monthly price | Free tiernot a monthly price |
| Public API | No | Yes |
| Mobile app | Yes | Yes |
| Open source / self-hostable | Yes | No |
| SSO (SAML) | No | No |
| Visit | Anytype ↗ | Craft ↗ |
Some links on this page earn us a commission if you sign up. It never changes a price you pay, a verdict we publish, or the order tools appear in.
What Anytype is built to do
- Local-first workspace
- Notes, objects and relations stored on device and synced peer to peer.
- ANY ID
- A unique handle in the Anytype network, also usable for web publishing.
- Shared channels
- Collaborative spaces; 10 on the free tier and unlimited on paid plans.
What Craft is built to do
- Block-based editor
- Builds documents from blocks that can be nested, styled and reordered.
- Shareable web pages
- Publishes a document as a formatted link without a separate site.
- Offline-first sync
- Edits locally and syncs across devices when a connection returns.
Choose Anytype if
- Privacy-first individuals: the free tier gives unlimited private channels and only limits remote storage to 100 MB
- Anyone willing to run their own infrastructure — self-hosting needs no membership and no fee at all
- People who publish from their workspace and want a short handle, since ANY ID length is what the tiers actually shorten
- Students and educators, who get a verified 50% discount on membership
Skip Anytype if
- You need meaningful hosted storage on the free tier — it is 100 MB, and 1 GB costs $4 a month
- You want SSO, an admin panel or team administration; those are the separate Anytype for Business product
- You buy on mobile and want the listed price: App Store and Play Store convert to local currency
- You might lapse: network names are released after a one-month grace period once a membership ends
Choose Craft if
- Individuals who want a polished, native-feeling document app and can live with 1,500 blocks and 1 GB on the Free plan
- Apple-first users who value design over Notion-style databases
- Families or small groups: the Family plan bundles 2–6 Plus accounts with shared Spaces
Skip Craft if
- You write a lot: 1,500 blocks fills fast and unlimited content needs Plus
- You upload media above 25 MB per file or need more than 7 days of version history on Free
- You need a published USD price before deciding — Craft sets prices per market in local currency
Evidence and freshness
Where a claim on this page comes from a vendor page, it is linked here.
Anytype: pros & cons
- Self-hosting requires no membership at all
- Local-first and encrypted by design
- 30-day money-back guarantee and 50% education discount
- Free tier is limited to 100 MB of remote storage
- Shorter ANY ID handles cost more
- Team features live in a separate Business product
Craft: pros & cons
- Documents genuinely look good
- Excellent export and sharing
- Fast native apps on Apple platforms
- Best experience is on Apple devices
- Collaboration is lighter than rivals
- Subscription for most useful features
Our verdict on Anytype
The rare tool where the paid plan is optional in principle: self-host and pay nothing. Subscribe if you want the hosted network, more storage and a short handle.
Our verdict on Craft
Documents that look designed rather than typed, without leaving the editor. Team collaboration is not its strength.
Published plans, side by side
Every figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page and is shown with the sentence it came from. Where a vendor publishes no plan prices, we say so rather than guess.
Anytype
- Free$0/mo
Free: 100 MB of remote storage, 10 shared channels, unlimited private channels
- Pro$8/mo
Pro $8 per month: 10 GB of remote storage, ANY ID of 7 or more characters
- Ultra$16/mo
Ultra $16 per month: 100 GB of remote storage, ANY ID of 5 or more characters
Craft
- Free$0/mo
Free: 1,500 blocks, 1 GB storage, 25 MB upload limit, 7-day version history, 15 AI credits
Anytype vs Craft: common questions
- Does Anytype or Craft have a free plan?
- Both do: Anytype has a free tier with limits, and Craft has a free tier with limits.
- What is the difference between Anytype and Craft?
- On the criteria we check, only Anytype has open source / self-hostable and only Craft has public api; both offer mobile app. The table above lists every criterion side by side.