Free alternative to Notion

How much does Notion cost in 2026?

Notion’s public plans, checked on 7 October 2026 on notion.com. Prices rounded up to the next euro.

• Free

  €0

  Unlimited pages if you work alone, 1,000 blocks with others. Files up to 5 MB, 7 days of history, AI as a trial only.

• Plus

  €12 a month

  Price per member. Unlimited blocks and uploads, 30 days of history, custom forms and sites. €10 a month billed yearly.

• Business

  €24 a month

  Price per member. Notion Agent and AI meeting notes included, SAML SSO, private teamspaces. €20 a month billed yearly.

• Enterprise

  Custom quote

  Audit log, user provisioning (SCIM), unlimited history.

Prices in euros shown from France, per member per month. See the official pricing page ↗

What replaces Notion

The main alternative

AppFlowy

🟢 Beginner⏱️ ~10 min to installSave €12/mo

AppFlowy brings Notion's idea to a real installed app. You stack text, checkboxes and tables with their grid, kanban and calendar views, and link your databases together. On the first screen you can continue without creating an account: the app opens a local space and stores everything in a folder on your disk, whose location you change in the settings. It runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android and in the browser, under the AGPL v3 licence. AI features can run on your own computer through Ollama, for free, with no key and no subscription. What to know before leaving Notion: syncing between devices and working together are not local. They need a server, theirs or yours.

Loucash’s verdict on AppFlowy

7/10

If you want to leave Notion without changing your habits, this is the closest thing. You find the pages, the blocks, the tables with their views and relations, and it is a native app: it opens fast and it works with no network. Local mode is picked on the first screen, your data sits in a folder you back up however you like, and local AI through Ollama is free for everyone. What gets in the way is everything server-side. The open source server repo, AppFlowy-Cloud, is archived, and its own README says it is no longer used by any of the vendor's products: self-hosting today goes through a closed commercial build, free for a single seat. Their cloud stops at 2 people and 5 GB, then it is around €11 per person per month, the price of Notion. And the app's public code has not moved since 26 June 2026 while two releases shipped in the meantime: the team explains that it develops in private repos and will push the code back later. Who it is for: you, if you work alone on one machine and want Notion's layout with no subscription. You will lose things on the way: publishing a page to the web, live collaboration and the Notion import all need an account, the mobile apps are less polished than Notion's, and databases full of formulas and automations do not carry over as they are. Do not mix it up with Obsidian either: here your pages live in a database, not in Markdown files you open with another tool. Markdown export exists, page by page.

Who it is for: You work alone on your machine and want Notion's pages and tables with no subscription and no account, even if it means giving up public sharing and working together.

See the full page →See the tool ↗

AppFlowy versus Notion: the match

• Price

  AppFlowy

  €0, the app is free

  Notion

  €12 per member per month

• Your pages

  AppFlowy

  In a folder on your disk, one you pick

  Notion

  On their servers

• Account required

  AppFlowy

  No, you can do everything without signing up

  Notion

  Yes, from the very first page

See 3 more advantages

Notion ↗

VS	AppFlowy	Notion ↗
Price	€0, the app is free	€12 per member per month
Your pages	In a folder on your disk, one you pick	On their servers
Account required	No, you can do everything without signing up	Yes, from the very first page
Syncing between devices	Through a server: theirs, free up to 2 people and 5 GB, or yours	Included, nothing to set up
AI inside your pages	Ollama on your machine, free, on desktop	Notion AI, on their servers
Code	AGPL v3 for the app, to read and fork	Closed

The prompt that installs AppFlowy

Paste this prompt into Claude: it checks the repository, asks you its questions and installs the tool step by step.

Installe AppFlowy sur ma machine (l'alternative open source à Notion, dépôt GitHub AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy) : commence par identifier mon système d'exploitation et ma puce, puis va sur la page des releases du dépôt officiel ou sur appflowy.com/download et télécharge la dernière version stable qui correspond (fichier dmg pour macOS Intel ou Apple Silicon, installeur pour Windows, AppImage ou paquet Flathub ou Snap pour Linux). Installe l'application, ouvre-la, et au premier écran choisis de continuer sans compte pour que tout reste chez moi. Va ensuite dans les réglages, rubrique de gestion des données, montre-moi où se trouve le dossier de stockage, et propose-moi de le déplacer dans un dossier que je sauvegarde déjà, en m'avertissant si ce dossier est synchronisé par un service en ligne. Crée avec moi une première page avec du texte, une case à cocher et un tableau affiché en kanban, puis ferme et rouvre l'application pour vérifier que tout est bien enregistré en local. Termine en m'expliquant en deux phrases ce qu'il faudrait faire si je veux plus tard synchroniser mes appareils. Explique chaque étape simplement, je débute.

Review the GitHub repository and check whether it is safe to install given my machine and my infrastructure. Ask me as many questions as possible, using widgets, to clarify my request and be as precise as you can.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Notion cost?

Free: €0; Plus: €12 a month; Business: €24 a month; Enterprise: Custom quote. Prices checked on 7 October 2026 on notion.com.

Is Notion free?

Partly, with limits. Unlimited pages if you work alone, 1,000 blocks with others. Files up to 5 MB, 7 days of history, AI as a trial only. Beyond that, the Plus plan costs €12 a month. AppFlowy does the same thing for free, in open source.

Is AppFlowy really free?

Yes. AppFlowy is open source: the code is public and installing it costs nothing. At most you pay for hosting if you put it on a server, often a few euros a month. Notion, on the other hand, costs €12 a month.

Do I need to code to install AppFlowy?

No. The level is beginner and the install takes about 10 minutes with the prompt from the page: Claude does the work, you answer its questions.

How is it different from Notion?

AppFlowy does most of what Notion does, without a subscription, and your data stays with you. The point by point comparison is on the page.

Do I own my data?

Yes. With an open source tool installed on your side, your files stay on your machine or your server. Nobody can close your account or change the price.