What is Heptabase?
Heptabase is listed under AI Note-Taking & Docs, in the Productivity & Workflow category on Flocci AI Tools. Infinite-canvas whiteboard as the primary note surface. It is free to trial, then paid, and it lives at heptabase.com.
What Heptabase does
- Infinite-canvas whiteboard as the primary note surface
- AI tutor mode plus PDF/YouTube-transcript ingestion on Premium
- Credit-based access to OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic models
Heptabase — straight answers
Is Heptabase free?
Heptabase offers a free trial rather than a permanent free tier, so access ends when the trial does. If you need something with no clock on it, the alternatives page lists the free and freemium options in the same category.
What can Heptabase do?
Heptabase does 3 things the catalog singles out: Infinite-canvas whiteboard as the primary note surface; ai tutor mode plus pdf/youtube-transcript ingestion on premium; credit-based access to openai, google, and anthropic models.
What is the best free alternative to Heptabase?
AudioPen is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Note-Taking & Docs sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Capacities, Coda AI and Craft also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
See the full list →Heptabase alternatives
Compare all alternatives →Notion AI
AI Note-Taking & Docs
- AI across docs, wikis, databases and projects
- Cross-document Q&A and writing
- Connectors to Slack, Drive and more
- Free personal plan
Mem
AI Note-Taking & Docs
- Self-organizing, AI-first notes
- Auto-tagging and smart search
- Chat with your knowledge base
- Free tier
Coda AI
AI Note-Taking & Docs
- Docs that combine text, tables and apps
- AI to summarize, draft and automate
- Coda Brain across your workspace
- Free plan available
Obsidian
AI Note-Taking & Docs
- Local-first markdown knowledge base
- Rich AI plugin ecosystem
- Graph view and backlinks
- Free for personal use
Craft
AI Note-Taking & Docs
- Beautiful native-feel docs with whiteboards, tasks, calendar in one app
- AI assistant with Core/Fast/Max model tiers
- Deep integrations with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor
Capacities
AI Note-Taking & Docs
- Object-based (not page-based) note model with typed content
- Core product free forever per vendor policy
- AI assistant, smart queries, calendar integration on Pro