# AppFlowy — user reviews > 23 indexed App Store user reviews of AppFlowy by AppFlowy, rated 4.20/5 from 32 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/appflowy/id6457261352/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/appflowy/id6457261352.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 19 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (3 of 23) ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-09-17* Great alternative to notion. The app is very simple to use with AI built in. It allows you to work offline where the connection is unstable. I love that I can upload pictures and files as well. ### 5/5 — Great App! *2024-09-16* A great open source option to replace Notion! It has a user-friendly interface and works well on mobile devices. I particularly love its AI chat feature, which I find very helpful for answering questions about my documents and creating the first draft. ### 5/5 — Amazing open source app *2024-09-11* Perfect for tracking my to-dos and jotting down quick notes. Love the design, very mobile-friendly. I also use their desktop app. Syncing has been greatly improved. Highly recommended! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 打开白屏半天 *2025-11-07* 每次打开白屏半天，1 分钟到数分钟之间。原来是调了你们服务器的接口，我没开代理时打开白屏原来是在等接口超时。开了代理之后就瞬间打开了。 妈的这叫什么自部署？开源精神呢？ 什么垃圾设计？非要在打开的时候请求接口？你不能先让用户用起来吗？ 已经是用不了的状态了，建议下架 **Developer response:** Hi there, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. Please note that our app is currently not available in mainland China. If you’re self-hosting AppFlowy, you’ll need a valid license code to connect the certified AppFlowy app (published on the App Store) with your own server. You can obtain this by purchasing the Self-hosted Seed Plan from your self-hosted admin panel, or alternatively, you can use our managed cloud service for a seamless setup. Thank you for your understanding and support. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t have an iPad app *2025-04-04* The app really needs to be updated to work on the iPad. Currently it just emulates an iPhone version of the app. ### 3/5 — You cannot import on local! *2026-08-26* What’s the point of these apps if you have to use servers to do everything??? This app could be great, but you can’t even restore or import a backup without using servers! Servers that have limits and tbh literally defeats the point if you can’t even transfer without needing internet… super disappointing bc I really thought this would be a better alternative to affine which does the same thing!!! It’s still better, but if you can’t import locally it’s honestly all for naught imo. ### 3/5 — Please flush out mobile experience *2026-01-09* The desktop and web app are great alternatives to Notion. The past few weeks have been easier for planning and quick note-taking. Unfortunately, the iPad has not yet been given justice. A similar experience to the Mac app will solidify this platform for me. Block editing and reorganizing is overall quite clunky on the mobile applications as well. I am happy with the direction this project is heading in. ### 3/5 — Lacking native MacOS *2025-06-06* Live at first sight until I couldn’t make this app working on Mac. As a heavy Mac user yet to have a sync with other devices, I would love to have 1) native macOS app with sync. 2) import from notes and other sources. Thank you. **Developer response:** Hi! Thank you for the feedback. We do support macOS. Please download the app from https://appflowy.com/download#macOS ### 4/5 — OMG *2026-05-06* So like I was looking for an aesthetic note taking app like notion, and ChatGPT recommended this app. Mobile version is not compatible on my desktop, so I used the desk top version and oomagaud! Soooo amazing! My note taking apps have never been this unlimited ( unlike a bunch of stupid subscription apps) ### 4/5 — horizontal ipad viewing is uncomfortable *2025-11-12* the aspect ratio is that of a vertically-rotated iphone when on ipad + horizontal view, there are no chart or graph views for databases, and there aren’t formulas either, otherwise great app ### 4/5 — need for ipados *2025-06-29* need for ipados ### 4/5 — Love the app but the bottom scrollbar *2025-04-18* Great on iOS and Mac, but on Mac the bottom scrollbar is very hard to use ### 4/5 — Looking promising *2025-03-12* Such a great app. Loving it so far. I deducted one star because there is no native iPad app. Try it if you are looking for Notion replacement. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best option for self hosting for projects and organization *2026-04-05* Before we started this we didn’t have a good system for collaboration on projects. Now app flowy solved this. We use it for our international business and project management ### 5/5 — Love self hosting *2025-11-18* Love that you can run a docker self hosted version of app flows cloud and also use the mobile app. Wish I could use my ollama instance to help revise my documents inline. ### 5/5 — Very good *2025-07-04* As a freelancer this app really helps me to get the most out of my work and I really appreciate it ### 5/5 — Notion alternative *2025-04-04* Clean UI, multi platform, free, open source. It's even offline compatible. This is amazing. ### 5/5 — appflowy cute *2025-02-03* . ### 5/5 — Best app for organizing ideas! *2025-01-16* I found this while searching for a notion alternative, everything is free, no subscription. Looks very similar to notion, has almost all the same features, along with AI. It is perfect if you don’t wanna spend a ton of money on stupid subscription apps (every app these days). ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2024-12-18, version 0.7.6* Recommended! Nice to see an open source project that seems well-run & making a useful product. It's a level now where I feel comfortable using it in a business setting. ### 5/5 — Handy and easy to use *2024-12-06* AppFlowy is very handy to organize your thoughts, create checklists and quite versatile across a lot of use cases ### 5/5 — A great open source project *2024-10-25, version 0.7.2* The team has done well here. I’d say it’s 90% there; still some glitches but it works easily well enough to use for business. ### 5/5 — IT'S PERFECT *2024-09-26* it's just perfect for most ppl. new features will come so I won't mind much but the fact that it's opensource, crossplatform AND THAT IT WORKS OFFLINE IS SATISFYING. i have it on my linux/android/iphone. u guys deserve 5 star!!┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*