I am considering switching to another app
I keep getting th issue of saving local changes keep failing on my phone. And it took more than 5 mins to resolve. This is simpler unacceptable and make the app unusable no matter how much I initially like the app.
Sooooo Slow
Be prepared to stare at your phone for 5-10 seconds every time you open the app. But then it’s great. Just don’t try and use main outliner.
Maybe the best personal management app for ADHD folks
Only a few days into this and it has really improved my life. There is a learning curve with the setup and supertags but then becomes very intuitive. but it’s already better and more dynamic than notion. I have bad ADHD and a personal management app finally makes sense. I hope it will grow.
currently useless… PLEASE FIX
love the concept, love the desktop app, but the iOS app so far is useless… doesnt synchronise with my desktop and/or doesn’t properly load my notes. i keep getting stuck on the loading screen when i want to open a supertag and then after 30sec it takes me back to the supertag overview
and no, my tana isnt super loaded, i am literally just implementing it into my daily life & workflow. hard to be convinced, if there are technical issues that keep you from implementing the tool…
and no, my tana isnt super loaded, i am literally just implementing it into my daily life & workflow. hard to be convinced, if there are technical issues that keep you from implementing the tool…
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Tana, oh Tana!
Think about Roam research met Notion and had a baby 🫃🏼
That’s what you get with Tana. I’m not going to lie, the mobile app is an early stages and is not symmetrical with the desktop or Web app.
But what the team have done essentially in this platform, his design designed something like Notion with the flexibility of Roam research. You get the graph based notes and linking things, but there’s also a very smart approach to databases for those notes called “super tags”.
If notion is a relational database, then Tana is object oriented programming. It addresses one of the biggest pitfalls of Notion which is that you can’t inherit database properties for other types of things.
And every note, or ‘node’ as they call them, lives in an entire endless map of your daily journal. You can collect things on that daily journal and pick them up with super tags to view them in a database view. You’d really have to try it to get what I mean. It doesn’t feel intuitive from the start if you want to dive into the complex features right away, but once you get to grips with it, you’re gonna wonder why you used anything else.
Oh, and did I mention it has one of the best voice capture platforms for a note taking app on the market? They use a separate built-in AI framework to record your voice and transcribe it based on instructions that you can tell it for each type of “thing” you want to transcribe.
It’s just… wild how this underrated app is so flexible.
That’s what you get with Tana. I’m not going to lie, the mobile app is an early stages and is not symmetrical with the desktop or Web app.
But what the team have done essentially in this platform, his design designed something like Notion with the flexibility of Roam research. You get the graph based notes and linking things, but there’s also a very smart approach to databases for those notes called “super tags”.
If notion is a relational database, then Tana is object oriented programming. It addresses one of the biggest pitfalls of Notion which is that you can’t inherit database properties for other types of things.
And every note, or ‘node’ as they call them, lives in an entire endless map of your daily journal. You can collect things on that daily journal and pick them up with super tags to view them in a database view. You’d really have to try it to get what I mean. It doesn’t feel intuitive from the start if you want to dive into the complex features right away, but once you get to grips with it, you’re gonna wonder why you used anything else.
Oh, and did I mention it has one of the best voice capture platforms for a note taking app on the market? They use a separate built-in AI framework to record your voice and transcribe it based on instructions that you can tell it for each type of “thing” you want to transcribe.
It’s just… wild how this underrated app is so flexible.
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Awful mobile experience.
Tana might be next gen some day but currently they have a mobile app that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. The mobile app is STILL missing essential functionality and Tana both admits this readily on Slack and says that there is nothing the can do about it for quite some time yet. This is in October 25.
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Can’t create account
App doesn’t allow you to use it without linking to Apple or Google account. Why can’t I just use my email? Weird.
Классное, но есть нюансы
Очень не хватает настройки повторяющихся событий для задач и планов. Жду 🫶
Not User Friendly
It’s not user friendly or very useful.
Good version!
I liked the app, specially the capture features. Like on the web interface, you keep having insights on how to better use it.
Ooooh I like this
So I have been through a lot of productivity/PKM apps. But something about Tana clicks. I really like its approach and starting to use it to manage my life in many different ways. Keep going guys, you have got something cooking here! 👌🔥 PS: If we can get the ability to add new super tags on mobile that would be ace.
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Tana is fantastic!
I use Tana for over 2 years. Amazing! It has enhanced my peace of mind, efficiency, creativity and even personal transformation. The mobile app is in rapid development and improves at every update.
New functionality brings some feature parity!
May 2025 update (not a basic/general review—this is for current Tana users)
I want to make sure folks don’t just see old reviews and think this is a super limited app compared to desktop—yes, there’s a ways to go, but since its rollout they’ve added basic references and in-line editing! It’s a solid MOBILE-first experience imho. Capture is just as quick and seamless as with the Tana Capture app, but now there’s solid ways to add structured data to your captures from mobile (most field types) and then edit/modify those captures. Plus, you can just start editing on the fly from any node in the app (Today, Home, a specific supertag, etc.).
What I’d love to see
Give Tana AI some love on mobile…it’s there in the app’s tagline. There’s a good but limited feature set that uses AI for voice memos, but seeing a more robust, novel, mobile-first implementation of AI would make Tana a cut above the rest.
I want to make sure folks don’t just see old reviews and think this is a super limited app compared to desktop—yes, there’s a ways to go, but since its rollout they’ve added basic references and in-line editing! It’s a solid MOBILE-first experience imho. Capture is just as quick and seamless as with the Tana Capture app, but now there’s solid ways to add structured data to your captures from mobile (most field types) and then edit/modify those captures. Plus, you can just start editing on the fly from any node in the app (Today, Home, a specific supertag, etc.).
What I’d love to see
Give Tana AI some love on mobile…it’s there in the app’s tagline. There’s a good but limited feature set that uses AI for voice memos, but seeing a more robust, novel, mobile-first implementation of AI would make Tana a cut above the rest.
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Improving very fast!
In a previous review I mentioned the lack of features compared to the very good desktop app. Much of this gap is being bridged very quickly as the developers clearly listen to feedback. Great job guys, I look forward to following how Tana keeps improving and evolving. 👍🏾
Great tool
A perfect companion to the Tana Desktop App
VERY limited use-case app.
Unless I’m totally missing something, there’s no simple way just to sit down (eg on an iPad) and add notes and/or organize thoughts you’ve been building up inside a Workspace. Instead, this app is just a glorified ‘capture tool’… a voice recorder when on-the-go. Perhaps the design concepts were to “streamline” the user experience by focusing on that, but honestly, they could’ve simply added one more tab at the top just to let you work with your data - IMHO unnecessarily crippling useful access to your data, and instead forcing you to operate inside a web browser. Not a fan of that limited view.
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More of a companion app
The most dishonest thing is using “ambassadors” to sell content and knowledge about how to use the app when those should be documented and of easy access. BTW, many of them are here giving 5 stars to a half baked app because they sell courses on how to use Tana. How could they criticize their livelihood, right?
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Misleading
This mobile app doesn’t let you do a lot. It is a very basic version of the desktop app. I don’t know why they decided to make it seem like you can do all those things they show on the pictures. If you don’t have everything perfectly set up on the desktop app, you’re out of luck because you won’t be able do do much. Even adding text is limited. You can deleted things and edit stuff properly. That’s a very strange implementation of Tana.
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The most flexible tool
I bounced around tools for my whole life and this is the only one I’ve stuck with for multiple years. The app keeps getting amazing updates.
The Power of Tana on the Go
Amazing to see more and more of Tana unlock on the go. Can’t wait to see where this is going!
