Notion alternative

A Notion alternative
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zvena Docs is for notes, documents and knowledge: familiar blocks and databases, on the free plan for the whole team, in one workspace with Projects, Design, Calendar and Mail.

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Your notes, next to the work they are about. A line of a page becomes a task, a design sits in the page it explains, and your Notion pages come over from Settings → Import.

Databases with
eleven views

Table, board, list, gallery, calendar, timeline, chart, form, map, feed and dashboard, with filters, sorts and grouping. Properties hold status, dates, files, formulas, relations and rollups.

More about Docs

A database in DocsSwitch to Board or Calendar: the same decisions, seen another way. Open one to read why it was made.

Features

Tasks, calendar and mail
in the same place

Choose Create task on any line, and the page shows its status as it changes in Projects. Calendar has booking pages and CalDAV sync, Mail reads your IMAP mailboxes, and both tie into your pages and tasks.

Notes and tasks, step by step

HomeYour tasks, today's meetings, what is waiting for you and the pages you edited last, on one screen.

Side by side

zvena Docs and Notion

What each one gives a team, from Notion's own pages and ours.

zvena Docs compared with Notion, feature by feature
Price
	Notion	zvena Docs
Price for a team	Paid per member (Plus, Business); on Free, a team gets a limited block trial	✓Free plan, unlimited members
Writing and organizing
Blocks and nested pages	✓	✓
Databases and views	✓11 view types; dashboards on Business and Enterprise	✓11 view types, including dashboards
Formulas, relations, rollups	✓	✓
Forms	✓	✓
Publish a page to the web	✓	✓
Templates	✓Large marketplace	29 built-in templates
Import from Notion	–	✓With a token or an export file; what comes over
Real-time co-editing of one page	✓	✓Live cursors and presence
Page-level permissions	✓	✓Page grants, guests, teamspaces and groups
Works offline	✓Offline pages in the desktop and mobile apps	✓Pages kept in the browser and the apps
Around the page
Built-in design tool	Embeds from other tools	✓zvena Design, with live frames in pages
Task tracker in the same workspace	Task databases	✓zvena Projects; a line of a page becomes a task
AI	✓Notion AI: writing, Q&A, meeting notes and agents; in full on Business and Enterprise, a trial on Free and Plus	zvena AI writes, edits and summarizes pages and works with your tasks; the free plan includes an AI trial: 125 AI credits a month per account, renewed on the 1st. No meeting notes
Calendar and mail apps	✓Notion Calendar, Notion Mail	✓Built in: booking pages and CalDAV sync; your IMAP mailboxes
API and webhooks	✓	✓Notion-compatible requests and responses
SAML SSO and SCIM	SAML on Business and Enterprise; SCIM on Enterprise	✓Free

Notion is a trademark of Notion Labs, Inc. Compared with Notion's own pages, checked on October 24, 2026; features and plans change over time. Sources: pricing, AI, SSO and SCIM, database views, offline pages, API webhooks.

What's missing

What zvena doesn't have yet

zvena is young, and we would rather tell you up front.

Apps in the storesThe Android app comes from our site or our F-Droid repository, the desktop apps are not yet signed, and on iPhone and iPad zvena is a web app on the Home Screen. Get the apps.
A marketplace the size of Notion'sThe Docs API and webhooks are there, and the Ecosystem connects ready-made services and reviewed apps, free on every plan. A marketplace as big as Notion's is not.
Google and Microsoft sign-in for Mail and CalendarMailboxes connect with an app password, and calendars with CalDAV or an iCal link.
Some things stay in NotionThe import brings no database views, meeting notes or resolved comments: databases arrive as tables, and you add views in a click.

Moving over

How to move from Notion

Pages, databases, comments, people and files come over from Settings → Import. Every import ends with a report of what came over.

Resources

Before you switch

Your notes,
next to the work