What is Heptabase?
Visual note-taking for networked thinking.
Who is Heptabase best for?
Heptabase is best for students and researchers who want to lay out what they read on visual whiteboards.
Researchers working from PDFs
PDF highlights turn into cards, and Zotero and Readwise sync bring your reading library into the same space.
Students learning a hard subject
AI Tutor, on Premium and Premium+, plans a course toward a goal you set and runs it as structured lessons.
Visual thinkers
Notes live as cards on whiteboards with two-way links, so you arrange ideas side by side instead of filing them in folders.
Study groups and research partners
You can invite collaborators at no charge to edit shared whiteboards with you in real time.
How much does Heptabase cost?
Heptabase costs $11.99 a month for Pro, $23.99 for Premium or $71.99 for Premium+, or from $8.99 a month billed yearly, after a 7-day free trial.
- Unlimited notes, whiteboards, tags and image uploads
- AI agent with Gemini models only
- 100 AI credits a month
- Unlimited PDF uploads and OCR parsing
- AI agent with GPT, Claude and Gemini, plus AI Tutor
- 1,800 AI credits a month
- Everything in Premium
- 8,100 AI credits a month
- AI credits at a 33% discount
Billed yearly, Pro is $8.99, Premium $17.99 and Premium+ $53.99 a month ($107.88, $215.88 and $647.88 a year). Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial that includes unlimited PDF uploads and Premium's AI credit allowance. Prices are in US dollars and VAT may apply. Heptabase has no student, non-profit or NGO discounts. Full pricing on heptabase.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best Heptabase alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do Heptabase's job. Logseq is open source, so you can run it on your own server.
Questions about Heptabase
What is Heptabase?
Visual note-taking for networked thinking.
Who is Heptabase for?
Heptabase is best for students and researchers who want to lay out what they read on visual whiteboards.
Is Heptabase free?
No, Heptabase has no free plan you can sign up for. New users get a 7-day free trial, then pay from $11.99 a month. The only free access is as a collaborator invited by a paying user, which lets you edit shared whiteboards but leaves out the journal, your own card library and AI.
How much does Heptabase cost?
Heptabase's paid plans are Pro at $11.99 per month, Premium at $23.99 per month and Premium+ at $71.99 per month.
Is there an open source alternative to Heptabase?
Yes. Logseq is an open source tool that does the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best Heptabase alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Obsidian, Logseq and Capacities.
Where can I try Heptabase?
On its official website, heptabase.com.
What happens to my Heptabase notes if I stop paying?
You keep access to everything you saved in Heptabase and can export it at any time after a subscription or trial ends. To create new notes or edit existing ones, you need an active subscription again.
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