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 paid, with no free tier, and it lives at heptabase.com.
Paid — no free plan
Paid plans only; there is no free plan. Need it free right now? Try AppFlowy →
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?
No. Paid plans only; there is no free plan. If you need it free right now, AppFlowy does the same job for free. Flocci keeps paid tools out of its free catalog: they appear only in search results when you choose to see them, labelled and paired with a free alternative.
Can I use Heptabase in a browser, or is there an app?
Heptabase works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. You can sign in with a Google account.
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?
AppFlowy is the best free alternative: it does the same job and you can start without paying. AFFiNE, Blinko and Karakeep also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
See the full list →Heptabase alternatives
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