Comparison

Notion vs Milanote

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Notion

This AI-powered workspace helps you write notes, manage tasks, organize projects, and collaborate with others. It offers features like AI meeting notes and interactive maps to streamline your workflow for personal, student, or professional use.

Highlights
  • AI-powered note-taking and summarization
  • Task and project management
  • Collaborative workspace
  • Customizable templates
  • Interactive maps view for databases
  • AI for content generation and analysis
Features
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Notion is an AI-powered all-in-one workspace that helps individuals and teams write notes, manage tasks, organize projects, and collaborate in one place. Whether you’re tracking personal to-do lists, writing and organizing class notes, or managing projects with a team, Notion helps users plan work, stay organized, and achieve goals. "AI's everything app" — Forbes Notion is a productivity app where you can write, plan, and organize your notes, projects, tasks and more. Ask Notion AI about project updates, upcoming tasks, and suggestions for a more streamlined workflow. Simplify writing notes, project and task management, and collaboration. Whether for personal, student or professional use, Notion scales to meet your individual needs with customization tools for everyone. NEW features: • AI Meeting Notes: Perfect meeting memory. Your notetaker catches every detail and delivers actionable summaries, right where you work. • Maps View: Turn databases into interactive maps. Use the new Place property to pin restaurants, trips, offices, clients, and more. FREE FOR PERSONAL USE Individuals manage day-to-day tasks, notes, and personal organization. • Create as many notes, docs, and content as you want. • Use one of thousands of templates to get started. FREE TO TRY WITH YOUR TEAM Teams run on Notion every day, from next-generation startups to established enterprises. • Import Google Docs, PDFs, and other content types easily to get started • Write and organize meeting notes, or transcribe with AI. • Collaboration and team work at your fingertips, in one connected workspace. • Connect tools like Figma, Slack, and GitHub to Notion. FREE FOR STUDENTS Students organize notes, assignments, and study plans in one place. • Your study planner, class notes, to do lists and more, your way. Loved by millions of students worldwide. • Get organized for your best school year yet with beautiful, customizable templates created by students, for students. NOTES & DOCS Communication is made efficient with Notion's flexible building blocks. • Create docs with beautiful templates, images, to-dos, and 50+ more content types. • Meeting notes, projects, design systems, pitch decks, and more. • Find exactly what you need using Search with powerful filters to find content across your workspace. TASKS & PROJECTS Catch all details big and small in any workflow. • Workflow manager: Create your own priority labels, status tags, and automations to choose the exact info you want to track. • Capture every detail in a table. Break projects into manageable tasks to get the work done. AI One tool that does it all - search, generate, analyze, and chat - right inside Notion. • Create notes. Transcribe meeting notes with AI. • Turn databases into interactive maps. Use the new Place property to pin restaurants, trips, offices, clients, and more. • Write better. Use Notion AI to help write and brainstorm. • Get answers. Ask Notion AI questions about all your content and get answers in seconds. • Autofill tables. Notion AI turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable information — automatically. SYNCS WITH BROWSER, MAC, AND WINDOWS APPS. • Pick up on mobile where you left off on desktop. MORE PRODUCTIVITY. FEWER TOOLS. • Track to-dos, write notes, create docs, and manage projects in one connected workspace. THINK IT. MAKE IT.

About

Milanote

Organize your creative projects with this visual workspace. Combine notes, images, videos, and sketches to capture inspiration and see the big picture. Collaborate with your team or keep ideas private, with content synced instantly across all devices.

Highlights
  • Combine notes, images, videos, and sketches
  • Organize projects visually
  • Collaborate with teams
  • Save content from any app
  • Instant syncing across devices
  • Sketching with Apple Pencil
Features
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Milanote is the tool for organizing your creative projects. Capture ideas & notes on mobile, then organize them visually on Milanote for desktop. SAVE INSPIRATION & IDEAS Easily combine notes, images, videos, sketches, and more. Capture anything that fuels your creativity. ORGANIZE PROJECTS VISUALLY Bring your ideas, tasks, and references together in one place—so you can see the big picture and the details. COLLABORATE WITH YOUR TEAM Milanote boards can be a private place to think, or a shared workspace for collaboration—you control who sees what. SAVE CONTENT FROM ANY APP Clip websites, images, and videos from your browser, photos app, or anywhere else—right into Milanote with a tap. INSTANT SYNCING ACROSS ALL DEVICES Anything you save to Milanote is instantly synced to all your devices. The Milanote iPhone & iPad apps also let you… - Create, view and edit all of your boards - Upload photos, video & files - Sketch with Apple pencil - Get notifications for comments and content updates Privacy policy: https://milanote.com/legal/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://milanote.com/legal/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Notion4 screens
Milanote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Notion at 90K against Milanote's 3.8K. Notion also leads on chart position (#45 vs unranked). Milanote's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Notion sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Milanote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Notion against 4.7 for Milanote. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notion has 90K ratings behind it against 3.8K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Notion's written reviews are positive against 59% of Milanote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notion ships an update every 3 days, Milanote every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Notion versus Milanote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotionMilanote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (90K ratings) — better4.7 (3.8K ratings)
Positive reviews54.9% of reviews59.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings90K — better3.8K
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#45 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size681 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNotion Labs, IncorporatedMilanote

Customer experience

Notion

All ratings90,214 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews3,498 reviews
Positive54.9%
Neutral12.7%
Negative32.3%

Milanote

All ratings3,822 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews748 reviews
Positive59.4%
Neutral17.9%
Negative22.7%

User reviews

Notion

From 90K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great tool for school organisation
  • 👍 Game-Changer for Productivity
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Versatile and customizable
  • 👍 Calendar view is amazing
  • 👍 Amazing & altruistic

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frustrating Search and Useless AI
  • 🐛 Buggy and nagging (iPad M1)… moving to click up if it does get more stable
  • 🔒 No offline mode
  • 🐛 Glitchy iPad experience
  • 🐛 Terrible on iPad

Milanote

From 3.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent for planning and organizing
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 🎨 Great for creatives and visual thinkers
  • 💻 Seamless sync between desktop and mobile
  • 📚 Helpful for students and academics

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited free version with only 100 items
  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 📱 Mobile app lacks functionality of desktop version
  • 🖼️ Issues with uploading and managing images
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs

Bugs and requests

Notion

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Columns glitchy on mobile
  • Inability to edit titles
  • Keyboard issues on iPad with Bluetooth keyboard
  • Notion logging out users periodically
  • Notion deleting user data without warning
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  • Sync issues between desktop and mobile
  • Inability to copy/paste multiple blocks of text on mobile
  • Notion app freezing and crashing
  • Inability to access offline data
  • Inability to move/rearrange to-do list items on mobile

Requested features

16 requests
  • Apple Calendar integration
  • Time blocking for morning & night routines
  • Offline mode
  • Multiple tabs for iPad
  • Ability to edit titles
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  • Ability to change font, size, and better calendars
  • Handwriting support
  • More font options
  • Ability to resize images on mobile
  • Ability to move pictures from side to side on mobile
  • Password protection for pages and databases
  • Widgets
  • Ability to adjust text size on iPad
  • Ability to split screen 2 documents at once
  • Default mode settings (minimal page comments, backlinks off)
  • Offline sync

Milanote

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when trying to open certain boards
  • Issues with deleting or rearranging notes
  • Image uploads not working consistently

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add iPad app with full desktop functionality
  • Improve mobile app experience and parity with desktop
  • Increase free version storage limit
  • Implement offline mode and better file management
  • Add more customization options for boards and notes

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Notion

Subscriptions6
  • Notion AI$9.991 Month
  • Notion – Plus Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Notion Business$23.991 Month
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  • Notion AI$95.991 Year
  • Notion – Plus Yearly$119.991 Year
  • Notion Business$239.991 Year
2 purchases

Milanote

Subscriptions2
  • Professional Monthly$12.491 Month
  • Professional Annual$119.991 Year

Questions

Is Notion free?
Notion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Milanote free?
Milanote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Notion or Milanote?
Notion is rated higher. Notion averages 4.8 out of 5 from 90K ratings, while Milanote averages 4.7 from 3.8K ratings.
Do Notion or Milanote have ads?
Neither Notion nor Milanote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notion or Milanote?
Notion ships an update every 3 days, and Milanote every 5 days. Most recently, Notion was updated on September 24, 2026 and Milanote on September 22, 2026.

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