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AppFlowy

Open source Notion alternative

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By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Oct 2026

AppFlowy is the closest open source thing to Notion: docs, wikis and databases with grid, kanban, calendar, timeline and chart views, plus formulas and AI, in native desktop and mobile apps. The apps are AGPL-3.0, and the desktop app runs completely offline for free.

Self-hosting changed in 2026. The original AGPL server is archived; the maintained server is a closed-source commercial fork shipped as a dozen Docker containers. Its free tier gives one user seat per instance, three guest editors and web access only. Desktop and mobile apps need a paid plan.

The free cloud plan is a one-owner workspace with 100MB of storage. Pro is $12 per member a month billed annually, $16 monthly. Self-hosted One is $6 a month and Team is $10 per seat a month, annual only. Solo: free desktop app. Small teams: Cloud Pro. Larger teams: self-hosted Team, up to 1,000 seats with SCIM and LDAP.

The catch: AppFlowy now calls itself open-core. Every release since 0.13.0 is tagged to the same June 2026 commit, so downloads aren't built from public source. The old open source server has unpatched 2026 CVEs, including one that lets a logged-in user read other workspaces' documents.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

open core

Free: Desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux plus iOS and Android, AGPL-3.0; the desktop app works completely offline with data stored locally. Cloud Personal plan at $0: 1 workspace owner (no members or guest editors), 1 form, 1 chart, 100MB storage, 7MB file uploads, 7 days of version history, single-page PDF export, a limited trial of AI meeting notes, transcripts and responses, with AI search and Local AI included.

Self-hosted: The open source AGPL server (AppFlowy-Cloud) is archived and unmaintained. The maintained server is a closed-source commercial fork distributed under AppFlowy's commercial license, deployed from the AppFlowy-SelfHost-Commercial Docker Compose (nginx, Postgres with pgvector, Redis, MinIO, GoTrue, cloud, worker, search, AI, admin, web and backup containers). Free tier: 1 user seat per instance, web app only (no desktop or mobile), up to 3 guest editors, SSO including SAML 2.0, version history, publish pages, unlimited workspaces. One: $6/month billed annually, 1 seat, adds desktop and mobile apps, Local and Cloud AI, Vault workspaces, up to 10 guest editors. Team: $10/seat/month billed annually, up to 1,000 seats, workspace members, SCIM, LDAP, security audit log, priority support. Enterprise: contact sales, unlimited seats, managed deployment, whitelabel. No monthly subscriptions for self-hosters.

Paid: Cloud Pro is $12/member/month billed annually ($144/year per member) or $16/member/month billed monthly. Adds unlimited members (charged per member), free unlimited guest editors, unlimited storage and uploads, 90-day version history, full AI features, publish pages with a custom namespace, timeline with dependencies, dashboards, custom team spaces and permission groups.

Free for one person, offline or on the cloud Personal plan. Any team pays: Cloud Pro at $12 per member a month billed annually ($16 monthly), or self-hosted Team at $10 per seat a month on annual billing only.

What to do by team size

Solo
free; desktop app fully offline, or the cloud Personal plan
Small team
Cloud Pro at $12/member/month annual ($16 monthly); the free self-hosted tier is one seat, web only
Medium team
self-hosted Team at $10/seat/month (annual only) if data must stay on your servers, otherwise Cloud Pro
Large team
self-hosted Team up to 1,000 seats with SCIM, LDAP and audit logs; Enterprise beyond that
Self-hosting ops:moderate
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