EssayKraft is a native Swift Mac and iPad writing app built for students who are tired of wrestling with reference managers. Write essays, papers and dissertations with a built-in reference manager, automatic citations, rich text formatting and PDF or DOCX export, all in one place. No subscriptions, no accounts, no juggling citation tools. Just a fast, distraction-free writing experience designed specifically for academic work. Buy once, own it forever.
I'm a student studying creative writing at Uni and as much as I love writing, managing references and citations in essays has always been a task that I dread having to approach. I previously used Word with a plugin, which was difficult to set up, and clunky to use; I spent more time managing references than actually writing the essay itself. Over two years, I have taught myself Swift and this is my first app. I made EssayKraft with one goal in mind: to let writers write, and leave reference management to the app.
I'd love to hear your feedback, whether it's about the app itself, the design, or features you'd like to see next. Thanks for checking it out!
Building the citation manager yourself instead of fighting a Word plugin is exactly the kind of problem you understand well enough to actually fix. Good call on skipping accounts too, one less thing for a student to worry about losing access to over a summer. Teaching yourself Swift and shipping this while still in school is a genuinely good first release.
Finally a writing app that doesn't force me to sign up for yet another subscription just to format a bibliography. The built-in citation manager alone sold me.
No accounts and no subscription is the real feature for a student tool, not the pricing footnote it usually gets treated as.
This is awesome! Wish you all the best on this impressive launch. Keep pushing mate
This feels very practical for students. Academic writing gets messy fast when the writing app, citation manager, PDFs, and export tool all live in different places.
I like the buy-once angle too. For students, no account and no subscription is a real feature, not just a pricing detail.
About EssayKraft on Product Hunt
“Native essay writing app for Mac and iPad ”
EssayKraft launched on Product Hunt on August 1st, 2026 and earned 97 upvotes and 8 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. EssayKraft is a native Swift Mac and iPad writing app built for students who are tired of wrestling with reference managers. Write essays, papers and dissertations with a built-in reference manager, automatic citations, rich text formatting and PDF or DOCX export, all in one place. No subscriptions, no accounts, no juggling citation tools. Just a fast, distraction-free writing experience designed specifically for academic work. Buy once, own it forever.
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