Fresh Jots vs Notion

A small, fast, $24/year notebook — vs an entire workspace platform. They solve different problems. Here's an honest comparison so you can pick the right one.

In one paragraph

Notion is a workspace platform — pages built from blocks, nested databases, custom views, integrations, team collaboration. It rewards setup and configuration, and it scales up to running a whole company. Fresh Jots is a notebook — sign in, open a note, type. No blocks, no databases, no views, no plugins. If the value you want from a notes app is writing things down and finding them later, Fresh Jots is almost always faster. If you want a Notion replacement for a team wiki, Fresh Jots is not it — keep reading to make sure.

Pricing — side by side

Tier	Fresh Jots	Notion
Free	$0 — 10 notes, full editor, no card required	$0 — limited blocks for 2+ members, 7-day page history, 5 MB file uploads
Personal paid	Personal — $24/year flat, 1,000 notes	Plus — $10/seat/month (~$120/year)
For scripts / API	Pro — $149/year, REST API + alerts + webhooks, 10K plain notes	Limited public API on all tiers; AI add-on $10 per 1,000 credits
Multi-seat / team	Team — $179/seat/year (2-seat minimum, cap 25), shared notes + audit log	Business — $20/seat/month (~$240/seat/year)

Notion prices verified from notion.com/pricing as of May 2026. Fresh Jots' single-user tiers (Personal, Pro) are flat per-account; Team is per-seat with a hard cap of 25.

What Fresh Jots does that Notion doesn't

Open in milliseconds, type. No blocks to pick, no template to choose. Click New note, you're typing.
Flat-rate solo pricing — only Team is per-seat, and it caps at 25. Personal is $24/year and Pro is $149/year, regardless of how much you write. Team is $179/seat/year with a hard 25-seat ceiling — bigger orgs get an explicit "email us" path, not a runaway per-seat invoice.
Append-by-filename API for scripts. One curl appends a line to a note by name — no id lookup, no schema. Designed for cron/CI/AI-session digests. Documented at /docs.
A "no blocks" guarantee. The product is small on purpose and stays that way. The roadmap doesn't include adding databases.
Read + export remain free for up to 12 months after your last payment, even if your subscription lapses. Your writing isn't held hostage by billing status. Notion offers similar — but verify on your tier.
No AI training, ever. Written into the Terms.

Pick Fresh Jots if you keep a personal notebook, write daily, want a simple journal, or run scripts that need a place to write into. Or if you've used Notion and felt the configuration weight pulling you away from actually writing.

Switching from Notion to Fresh Jots

Use the in-app importer at /options — it accepts Notion's HTML and Markdown exports directly (single files or .zip archives), and folder structure is mirrored over. For very large libraries, email hello@example.com and we'll help you plan.

Try Fresh Jots free — no card, no Notion-style setup

10 notes free. No card, no trial clock — just sign up and write.