Notesnook plans and limits

Notesnook has four plans — Free, Essential, Pro and Believer — plus an Education plan and a grandfathered Pro (legacy) plan for long-time subscribers.

Everything that makes Notesnook Notesnook is on the free plan: unlimited notes, unlimited devices, end-to-end encryption, sync, backups, the private vault, and publishing with monographs. Paid plans raise the storage limits and unlock conveniences on top.

::: tip Plans are cumulative Each plan includes everything from the plans below it. A feature marked <PlanTag plan="essential" /> works on Essential, Pro and Believer. A feature marked <PlanTag plan="pro" /> works on Pro and Believer.

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What each plan gives you

	Free	Essential	Pro	Believer
Notes	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Devices	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Storage per month	50 MB	1 GB	10 GB	25 GB
Maximum file size	10 MB	100 MB	1 GB	5 GB
Notebooks	50	500	Unlimited	Unlimited
Tags	50	500	Unlimited	Unlimited
Colors	7	20	Unlimited	Unlimited
Active reminders	10	50	Unlimited	Unlimited
Side menu shortcuts	10	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Note versions kept	100	1,000	Unlimited	Unlimited

Storage counts attachments only, meaning images, files, audio and web clips. Your notes themselves never count against it, however many you write.

Features unlocked by Essential

Task lists — checkable, sortable to-do blocks inside a note
Outline lists — collapsible nested bullets
Callouts — colored info, tip, warning and quote blocks
Block-level note links — link to a specific paragraph in another note
Markdown shortcuts — turn **bold**, # heading and - list into formatting as you type
Recurring reminders — daily, weekly, monthly and yearly
Full offline mode — keep every attachment downloaded on your device
Customizable side menu — reorder and hide items
Links and embeds inside published monographs
Notesnook Circle — discounts from privacy-focused partner products

Features unlocked by Pro

App lock — lock the whole app with a PIN, password, biometrics or a security key
Expiring notes — have a note delete itself on a date you choose
Set a default notebook and tag — send every new note somewhere automatically
Custom home screen and default sidebar tab
Full-quality images — upload without compression
Sync controls — turn off automatic, realtime or all syncing
Import and export tables as CSV
Monograph view counts
Two-factor authentication by SMS
Disable automatic trash cleanup
Font ligatures in the editor
Save a custom editor toolbar layout
On Android: pin a note to your notifications, write notes from the notification drawer, and pin notes to your launcher

Believer

Believer includes everything above and exists for people who want to fund private, open source software. Like Pro, it is sold monthly and yearly as well as a one-time 5-year purchase.

Education plan

The Education plan gives students and teachers Pro features and Pro limits. It is not sold from the plan grid. You can apply for the discount here. Education plans do not include a trial.

Pro (legacy)

If you subscribed before the current plans existed, you keep a grandfathered Pro (legacy) plan. It gives you everything in the current Pro plan, with two differences:

Unlimited storage instead of 10 GB a month
A 512 MB maximum file size instead of 1 GB

You keep it for as long as the subscription stays active.

Regional pricing

Paid plans are sold at a regional price, applied automatically from the country of the payment method you check out with. There is no code to enter and nothing to apply for. When a regional price applies to you, the plan shows the original price struck through with the percentage off beside it.

Free trials

You can trial each plan only once, and a valid payment method is required to start one — your card is not charged until the trial ends. The trial length is shown on the plan before you start it, and the app tells you the date it ends.

A trial works like a short subscription: a feature you unlock during it stops working when the trial ends, unless you subscribe. You can cancel a trial at any time. The Education plan has no trial.

Refunds

Refunds are self-service inside the app on subscriptions bought through Notesnook's own checkout, within the window for the billing period you bought:

Billing period	Refund window
Monthly	14 days from purchase
Yearly	14 days from purchase
5-year	14 days from purchase

Requesting a refund downgrades your account to the free plan immediately, and eligible funds are returned within 24 hours. Subscriptions bought through Google Play or the App Store are refunded by that store, not by Notesnook.

Changing or cancelling your plan

Go to {{settings}}.
Open {{subDetails}}.
Choose {{changePlan}} to move up or down a tier — the difference is prorated — or turn off Auto renew to stop the subscription at the end of the period.

Your {{billingHistory}} on the same screen lists every payment with a downloadable receipt.

What happens when a subscription ends

Nothing is deleted, and nothing becomes unreadable. Your notes, notebooks, tags and attachments stay exactly where they are and keep syncing.

You go back to free-plan limits, which means:

you can't create new items above the free caps, but everything you already have stays;
paid-only settings are switched off — app lock is disabled, a custom home screen resets to the default, and a custom toolbar layout returns to the standard one;
attachments you already uploaded stay downloadable, even if you're over the free storage limit.

::: warning Before you let a subscription lapse If you rely on app lock, take a moment to set up your device's own lock screen first — Notesnook will turn app lock off when the plan expires.

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Gift codes can only be redeemed on an account that is currently on the free plan. See gift cards for the full process.

Gift cards — buying and redeeming a Notesnook gift
How is my data encrypted? — what your subscription is protecting
Backup and restore — keeping your own copy, on any plan
Attachments and files — what counts against your storage

Plans & limits