The Best Productivity Apps for Apple Vision Pro in 2026

I’ve been using Apple Vision Pro as my primary work machine since mid-2025, and the productivity app landscape has changed dramatically since launch. Most of the early hype apps are gone from my Home View. What remains is a smaller, more practical set of tools that I actually open every day.

Here’s what survived the cull.

Immersed — The Virtual Monitor App That Finally Works

I tried every virtual display app available on Vision Pro, and Immersed is the one that stuck. The latest version supports up to five virtual screens with genuinely sharp text rendering, which matters when you’re staring at code or spreadsheets for hours.

The killer feature is persistent layouts. I have a three-monitor setup saved for writing, a different one for development work, and a minimal single-screen layout for email triage. Switching between them takes about two seconds. At $9.99/month for the Pro tier, it’s the best money I spend on software each month.

What I don’t love: the Mac connection still drops occasionally when my WiFi hiccups, and there’s noticeable latency if your router isn’t in the same room. But compared to where this app was a year ago, it’s night and day.

Fantastical — Calendar Done Right in Spatial

Apple’s built-in Calendar app on visionOS is fine. Fantastical is better in every way that matters. The spatial view lets you see your entire week as a physical timeline floating in front of you, and dragging events between days with hand gestures feels more intuitive than any mouse-based calendar I’ve used.

The natural language input works beautifully with Vision Pro’s dictation. I just say “lunch with Sarah Thursday at noon at Oleander” and it creates the event with the right time, contact, and location. It costs $6.99/month, which stings, but I’ve accepted it.

Things 3 — Task Management Without the Bloat

This might be controversial since so many people swear by Todoist or OmniFocus, but Things 3 on visionOS is the cleanest task manager I’ve ever used. The spatial interface doesn’t try to be clever — it just gives you your task list in a beautifully readable window that you can pin anywhere in your workspace.

There’s no subscription. You pay $49.99 once for the visionOS version. After years of subscription fatigue, that pricing model alone earned my loyalty. The only real downside is that it lacks some of the collaboration features that teams need. This is very much a personal productivity tool.

Safari + Profiles — Don’t Sleep on the Built-In Browser

I know this sounds basic, but Safari with multiple profiles is genuinely one of the most productive setups on Vision Pro. I run three profiles — Work, Personal, and Research — each with their own set of pinned tabs and extensions. You can open each profile as a separate window and position them around your space.

With visionOS 2.3, Apple added the ability to have up to fifteen Safari windows open simultaneously. For research-heavy work, spreading ten browser windows across a 180-degree arc in front of you is something no traditional monitor setup can replicate. And it’s free.

Microsoft 365 — The Enterprise Workhorse

If your company uses Microsoft 365, the visionOS versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have gotten genuinely good. Excel in particular benefits from the extra screen real estate — you can have a massive spreadsheet open with room to spare for reference documents beside it.

Teams on Vision Pro is also solid for calls now. The Persona feature still looks a bit uncanny, but it’s crossed the threshold from “weird” to “acceptable” for most work meetings. The main issue is that Microsoft’s apps still feel slightly heavier than native visionOS apps. There’s a half-second delay on interactions that you won’t find in Apple’s own software.

Full Microsoft 365 runs $12.99/month for the personal plan.

Craft — For Long-Form Writing and Notes

I switched from Notion to Craft about six months ago, and I haven’t looked back. Craft’s visionOS app is genuinely native — it’s fast, the typography is beautiful, and the document structure translates perfectly to spatial windows.

The key advantage over Notion is speed. On Vision Pro, Notion’s web-based architecture means noticeable lag when navigating between pages. Craft is instant. For meeting notes, project documentation, and long-form writing, it’s become my default. Free tier is generous, Pro is $4.99/month.

Notable Mentions

A few more apps that earn regular use in my rotation:

• Freeform — Apple’s whiteboarding app is massively underrated for brainstorming. Free and built-in.
• 1Password — Password management in spatial computing is awkward without it. The visionOS version works perfectly with eye-tracking autofill.
• Slack — It works. The visionOS interface is adequate. I wouldn’t call it great, but it does the job.
• Zoom — Video calls are solid. The spatial audio makes group calls feel more natural than flat screens.

What’s Still Missing

The biggest gap in Vision Pro productivity is file management. Files on visionOS is still limited compared to Finder on Mac. I constantly find myself needing to AirDrop files to my Mac to reorganize them.

I’d also love to see a proper spatial spreadsheet app that isn’t Excel. Something built from the ground up for spatial interaction, where you could manipulate data in three dimensions. Maybe that’s a 2027 thing.

The Bottom Line

Vision Pro isn’t a laptop replacement for everyone. But for focused knowledge work — writing, research, planning, design review — it’s become the environment I prefer. The app ecosystem has matured enough that the tools are no longer the bottleneck. If you’re on the fence about using Vision Pro for real work, the apps listed above are where I’d start.