AppFlowy vs Logseq

AppFlowy

• Teams that want a docs and projects workspace on their own servers
• Organizations with data residency or air-gapped requirements
• Individuals who want a free workspace that works offline

Logseq

• People who think in outlines and want their notes as plain-text files
• Students and researchers who annotate PDFs and manage sources in Zotero
• Users who prefer open-source software licensed under AGPL-3.0

AppFlowy

• The cloud Personal plan is for 1 workspace owner with 100 MB of storage, and has no guest editors, page publishing or dashboards.
• Self-hosted plans are billed annually only, and the free self-hosted tier covers 1 user seat and the web app, not the desktop or mobile apps.
• The self-hosted server is a closed-source distribution under a commercial license; AppFlowy describes the product as open core.
• Cloud Pro is charged per member in each workspace, so two Pro workspaces are billed separately.

Logseq

• Sync is not part of the free app: Logseq Sync is in beta and limited to active Open Collective contributors paying $5 or $15 per month.
• Logseq 2.0, the database version, is still in beta, and its release notes advise backing up data before testing it.
• The mobile app for the database version is in alpha on iOS only, with Android listed as coming soon.

AppFlowy

Documents and wikis

A rich-text editor with more than 40 content types for docs and team knowledge bases, with real-time co-editing and comments.

Database views

A database can be shown as a grid, kanban board, calendar, gallery, list, feed or chart, with filters and relations between databases.

Self-hosting

Deploy on your own hardware, in your own cloud or in an air-gapped environment, and manage users and instance settings from an admin panel.

AI search and writing

Answers questions from workspace content with traceable sources, drafts text and auto-fills database columns. It can run on local or self-hosted models.

AI meeting notes

Captures meetings and writes up notes inside the workspace. The cloud Personal plan gets a limited trial and Pro includes it.

Sign-on and directory support

SAML and OIDC single sign-on, SCIM, LDAP, MCP and public APIs. On self-hosted plans SCIM and LDAP start at the Team tier.

Logseq

Outliner on local files

Notes are nested bullet blocks saved as plain-text Markdown or Org-mode files on your device.

References, backlinks and knowledge graph

Pages and blocks can be referenced or embedded anywhere else, with backlinks and a graph showing how pages connect.

Journals, tasks and queries

A journals page collects dated entries, tasks and to-dos sit inside the outline, and queries pull matching blocks into one place.

Whiteboards

A spatial canvas where blocks from your notes sit next to shapes, drawings, website embeds and connectors.

PDF highlights and flashcards

Highlight PDFs inside the app, bring in references through the Zotero integration and review notes as spaced-repetition cards.

Logseq Sync and the DB version

Logseq Sync (beta) encrypts and syncs up to 10 graphs for backers. Logseq 2.0, a database-based version with real-time collaboration sync, is in beta.

AppFlowy

• Personal$0

  AppFlowy Cloud for one workspace owner: 100 MB of storage, 7 MB uploads, 7 days of version history and a limited trial of AI.

• Free (self-hosted)$0

  1 user seat per instance with the web app, up to 3 guest editors, version history and page publishing.

• One (self-hosted)$6

  per month, billed annually

  1 user seat with desktop and mobile apps, local and cloud AI, vault workspaces and up to 10 guest editors.

• Team (self-hosted)$10

  per seat / month, billed annually

  Up to 1,000 seats with workspace members, SCIM, LDAP, a security audit log and priority support.

• Pro$16

  per member / month, billed annually; $20 billed monthly

  AppFlowy Cloud for teams: unlimited members, guest editors and storage, dashboards, timelines, page publishing and 90 days of version history.

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  Unlimited seats and guest editors, plus managed deployment, whitelabeling and a support contract.

Logseq

• Free$0

  The full app with local graphs. No commercial license is required for personal or company use.

• Backers$5

  per month, as an Open Collective contribution

  Monthly donation that gives access to Logseq Sync (beta) for up to 10 graphs, plus early access to insider builds.

• Sponsors$15

  per month, as an Open Collective contribution

  A larger monthly donation with the same Logseq Sync access and early access to insider builds.

AppFlowy

• Annual discount

  Save 20% on cloud Pro with yearly billing

  Pro on AppFlowy Cloud is $16 per member a month billed annually ($192 a year) or $20 billed monthly.

Logseq

No public discounts listed.