Heptabase User Reviews

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Absolutely unusable

Its absolutely insane to me to have an app suck THIS bad.

Phenomenal app

I’ve tried most of the other apps like this including Milanote, Affine, Miro etc and they each have their qualities but Heptabase by far exceeds them and is much more refined. You spend more time being productive and less time trying to find workarounds. Keep up the good work!

Whole New Way Of Taking Notes

Life changing for me. Mobile app is in development but has no major bugs or flaws. Desktop is simply incredible. Works flawlessly with constant new updates. Heptabase is the visual notes app to use.

Smooth,Well-integrated and Highly Recommended

I remember trying this app 1–2 years ago and didn’t like it, so I uninstalled it quickly. Now I’m using it again, and it feels very smooth, especially across different systems. PDF support is also great, and I mostly read PDFs on it now. Many other apps have similar features, but none integrate them as well as Heptabase. The developers are patient and answer almost every question. I highly recommend giving it a try!
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Awesome app

I was skeptical at first but once I got familiar with the basic navigation and features I am never going back to all the other tools I have tried over the years! Love it - keep up the great work Heptabase team.

Where are the tables, the kanban boards? Where’s the rest of the app?

MIA: tables and kanban boards. Are they coming to iPad?

Don’t believe the negative review!

Heptabase is next-generation knowledge management: PKM + VUE (visual understanding environment). Nothing does it better than Heptabase. Nothing!

Awesome app

I was skeptical at first but once I got familiar with the basic navigation and features I am never going back to all the other tools I have tried over the years! Love it - keep up the great work Heptabase team.

Best visual note taking app!

Heptabase is a true gem for complex and deep thinking note taking. The amount of USEFUL and well thought out features sets this app apart.

MacBook的操作方式很不直觀

在用Mac 的白板用觸控板放大縮小等無法順暢操作。
在撰寫卡片快捷鍵也要滑鼠去點,打字過程中,還會誤觸成一直新增新的項目,體驗非常糟糕

Wanted to like this app

I was excited to try this app, but unfortunately, I couldn’t even get through the sign-up process without running into issues that made it impossible to sign up — let alone log in!”

Huge improvement. Great app

Below is my earlier, disappointed review of the app. I loved (and still love) Heptabase on a computer (it’s brilliant software) but the mobile app was a letdown.
Well, the developers have put in some fantastic work, and have really made the app a proper mobile version of Heptabase. Top work!
Now this is the app that Heptabase (and its users) always deserved.
Great effort. Five stars.

Heading: Needs a lot more work - and soon

Text: I really like Heptabase (the fully fledged laptop version) but this app is poor on the iPhone.
Look at the info for this app and you will see that it says the app will let you read all your info or access your whiteboards. Yes, that is technically true - but it is ALL that it lets you do. It is not possible on the iPhone to add new cards to a whiteboard, it is not possible to edit a whiteboard and it certainly isn’t possible to move or manipulate any cards on a whiteboard.
Given that those things are what Heptabase is all about, that means the app is of very little use.
Yes, you can read stuff and check it. But you can’t change or expand a whiteboard.
A terrible shame, and it seriously hampers this app - which, to be frank, is no use to you if you want to use Heptabase seriously.
The app designers need to put some hours in and get this sorted as soon as possible. It is holding back the whole Heptabase project. If users cannot work with the software when mobile with their phone, then it is not worth forking out for a subscription to Heptabase.
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Unable to sign up for trial from iPad 12.9

App won't let you sign in without an account. Can't sign up on iOS. Tried web and it's unable to continue when choosing between monthly or yearly billing. Nothing happens, unable to proceed.

still need improvement on mobile version

I really like to use this on laptop, but for mobile, it’s difficult to use, not intuitive enough

I love this App!

I have ADHD among other challenges. I preciously used a number (if not all of them 🤣 and finally found Heptabase!! Between this and Sunsama I am now complete, and, much much much more productive! I look forward to the roadmap and future plans! Keep up the great work.

Does not Support PDF annotation on iPad?

There are tons of PKMs and many have whiteboard options. And many of those have iPad apps. PDF annotation is the main feature that differentiates them from competitors in PKM space but they aren’t prioritizing it for the iPad despite it being stated as what they are working on in their roadmap for a while now. iPads have styluses. That’s a large part of why people use them. Heptabase should have spent more time on the app before shipping it. It should at least have had their defining value proposition in it and then gone on the fix bugs.
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Daily Journal + Notion + Whiteboard

Love this app. Finally a daily journal style that allows me to write my most up to date thoughts, but also connect with previous data. I know I’m not maximizing the potential of this app, but just the journal + notion features does wonders for mental clarity/brain dumping. Cards are also helpful to create updates you can reference. Looking forward to the development over time. Thank you.
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Needs a lot more work - and soon

I really like Heptabase (the fully fledged laptop version) but this app is poor on the iPhone.
Look at the info for this app and you will see that it says the app will let you read all your info or access your whiteboards. Yes, that is technically true - but it is ALL that it lets you do. It is not possible on the iPhone to add new cards to a whiteboard, it is not possible to edit a whiteboard and it certainly isn’t possible to move or manipulate any cards on a whiteboard.
Given that those things are what Heptabase is all about, that means the app is of very little use.
Yes, you can read stuff and check it. But you can’t change or expand a whiteboard.
A terrible shame, and it seriously hampers this app - which, to be frank, is no use to you if you want to use Heptabase seriously.
The app designers need to put some hours in and get this sorted as soon as possible. It is holding back the whole Heptabase project. If users cannot work with the software when mobile with their phone, then it is not worth forking out for a subscription to Heptabase.
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Best brainstorming / note taking / personal knowledge management app I've tried

Thank you for this app. I love being able to see all my notes in front of me and lay them out how I like. I'm actually so relieved to have found heptabase, I feel like I can finally stop searching for a note taking app that feels easy and stable and helps my thought process. I'm excited for every update. It would be cool to be able to draw on the whiteboards with my iPad pen someday 😊
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My Deep Thinking Tool

If you’re a visual thinker like me, this app might be what you have been looking for. The tool is one of the best I have ever used and the development is continuous with new features added all the time very impressed with this app and I have been searching foreign wide for something to help me with visual thinking as someone with ADHD.
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