Compare 16 free productivity & notes tools, free tiers, and developer deals. Verified pricing for Zoho, Zoho Docs, Zoho Notebook, Notion, Todoist and more.
What this name holds: Personal note-taking, documents and to-do apps kept by one person.
5 other names here answer “how do people working together talk and track work”, and each holds a different list: Communication (18), Communication & Messaging (8), Messaging (27), Project Management (49), Team Collaboration (34).
We track 16 productivity & notes services with free tiers. Zoho leads with 5 users. This category has been relatively stable — only 3 pricing changes recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoho | Free | Suite of 45+ business apps with free tiers — Zoho Mail (5 users, 5 GB/user), CRM (3 users), Projects (3 users, 2 projects), Invoice (5 customers), Cliq (unlimited users), Forms (3 forms), and more | 2026-08-14 |
| Zoho Docs | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-08-31, zoho.com/docs reads: FREE - 5GB Secure cloud storage for individual use. We are not publishing our stored Zoho Docs terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-31, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-08-01 |
| Zoho Notebook | Free | A free alternative to Evernote. | 2026-09-05 |
| Notion | Free | Free for individuals — unlimited pages and blocks, 1 member workspace with up to 10 guest collaborators, 5MB file uploads, 7-day page history, basic forms, 1 notion.site, Notion Calendar, Notion Mail (Gmail sync), offline access, basic integrations, API access. Team block limits apply on multi-member workspaces. | 2026-07-09 |
| Todoist | Free | Up to 5 active projects. Up to 5 collaborators per project. 5 MB file upload limit. Basic priority levels. No reminders, no labels, no filters, no calendar view on free tier. One week of activity history. | 2026-07-14 |
| Trello | Free | Unlimited cards. Up to 10 boards per workspace. Unlimited Power-Ups. 10 MB per file attachment. 250 Workspace command runs per month (automation). Unlimited activity log. | 2026-08-27 |
| Google Keep | Free | Fully free with Google account. Unlimited notes, lists, labels, reminders, color coding. Voice memos with auto-transcription. Image notes with OCR. Shared notes. Images use Google account storage. | 2026-08-19 |
| Obsidian | Free | Fully free for personal use. Local-only markdown notes. Unlimited vaults, notes, and community plugins. No cloud sync on free (Obsidian Sync is $8/mo). No publish on free. Commercial use requires paid license ($50/user/year). | 2026-09-02 |
| Apple Notes | Free | Fully free on Apple devices. Unlimited notes with rich text, checklists, tables, sketches, document scanning. Shared notes. iCloud sync counts against 5 GB iCloud free storage. Locked notes with password/biometric. | 2026-08-16 |
| Microsoft To Do | Free | Fully free with Microsoft account. Unlimited lists and tasks. Due dates, reminders, recurring tasks. My Day planning view. File attachments up to 25 MB. Shared lists. Outlook integration. Cross-platform.Microsoft To Do's pricing page has not resolved for us since 2026-04-17. | 2026-04-17 |
| TickTick | Free | Up to 9 lists. Up to 99 tasks per list. 1 calendar subscription. 2 reminders per task. Basic Pomodoro timer. Basic habit tracker (up to 5 habits). No calendar view or task duration on free. | 2026-09-04 |
| Standard Notes | Free | Unlimited notes with end-to-end encryption. Cross-platform sync. Plain text editor only on free. 100 MB total storage. No rich text, spreadsheets, file attachments, or note history on free tier. | 2026-08-17 |
| Simplenote | Free | Fully free. Unlimited plain-text notes with cross-platform sync. Markdown support. Tags. 30-day version history. Collaboration via shared notes. Published notes with public URLs. No file attachments. | 2026-08-18 |
| Evernote | Free | Up to 50 notes total. 1 notebook. 60 MB monthly upload limit. 25 MB max note size. Single device sync plus web. Basic search and Web Clipper included. No offline notebooks, PDF annotation, or email forwarding on free.Evernote's pricing page has not resolved for us since 2026-04-23. | 2026-04-23 |
| Coda | Free | Unlimited docs with size limits. Up to 1,000 rows for native tables, 50 rows for Packs tables. Unlimited editors/viewers. 7-day version history. Cross-doc limited on free tier. | 2026-08-21 |
| Airtable | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, airtable.com/pricing reads: Airtable has a Free plan available to teams for no charge. Paid plans start at $20/user/month when billed annually. We are not publishing our stored Airtable terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-07-11 |
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