MyNotes vs Notion

A small, fast, $19/year notebook — vs an entire workspace platform. They solve different problems. Here's an honest comparison so you can pick the right one.

In one paragraph

Notion is a workspace platform — pages built from blocks, nested databases, custom views, integrations, team collaboration. It rewards setup and configuration, and it scales up to running a whole company. MyNotes is a notebook — sign in, open a note, type. No blocks, no databases, no views, no plugins. If the value you want from a notes app is writing things down and finding them later, MyNotes is almost always faster. If you want a Notion replacement for a team wiki, MyNotes is not it — keep reading to make sure.

Pricing — side by side

Tier	MyNotes	Notion
Free	$0 — 10 notes forever, full editor, no card required	$0 — limited blocks for 2+ members, 7-day page history, 5 MB file uploads
Personal paid	Paid — $19/year flat, 1,000 notes	Plus — $10/seat/month (~$120/year)
For scripts / API	Dev — $99/year, REST API + 10K plain notes	Limited public API on all tiers; AI add-on $10 per 1,000 credits
Heavy automation	Dev-pro — $199/year, bulk endpoints, 30K plain notes, 30 GB	Business — $20/seat/month (~$240/year)

Notion prices verified from notion.com/pricing as of April 2026. MyNotes is one annual flat rate per account; Notion's paid tiers are per seat.

What MyNotes does that Notion doesn't

Open in milliseconds, type. No blocks to pick, no template to choose. Click New note, you're typing.
Flat-rate pricing per account, not per seat. $19/year is the price. Adding "more space" doesn't compound by the user.
Append-by-filename API for scripts. One curl appends a line to a note by name — no id lookup, no schema. Designed for cron/CI/AI-session digests. Documented at /docs.
A "no blocks" guarantee. The product is small on purpose and stays that way. The roadmap doesn't include adding databases.
Read + export remain free forever, even after a subscription lapses. Your writing isn't held hostage by billing status. Notion offers similar — but verify on your tier.
No AI training, ever. Written into the Terms.

Pick MyNotes if you keep a personal notebook, write daily, want a simple journal, or run scripts that need a place to write into. Or if you've used Notion and felt the configuration weight pulling you away from actually writing.

Switching from Notion to MyNotes

Use the in-app importer at /options — it accepts Notion's HTML and Markdown exports directly (single files or .zip archives), and folder structure is mirrored over. For very large libraries, email hello@example.com and we'll help you plan.

Try MyNotes free — no card, no Notion-style setup

10 notes free, forever. No card, no trial clock — just sign up and write.