A Milanote alternative that does not stop at 100 items
Milanote is a good product, it got here first, and a page telling you otherwise would be worth nothing. What follows is every row we could check, in both directions. Their figures were read off their plans page on 3 August 2026 and are quoted rather than characterised.
Row by row
| Feature | Cinderra | Milanote |
|---|---|---|
| Free planMilanote’s cap is on the total across every board, not per board. It is the difference that decides this comparison for most people: one detailed project reaches a hundred items. | Unlimited cards and boards | 100 notes, images or links |
| Free file uploadsNeither of us gives away storage, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. They grant ten files; we grant none and let a free board show any image you paste a URL to, which costs us nothing and does not run out. | None — images by link instead | 10 files |
| Paid plan, monthly | $7.99 | $12.50 |
| Paid plan, annualWe have no annual discount to advertise because there is no annual commitment to buy. Their lower number is the price of paying twelve months up front. | $7.99 — there is no annual rate | $9.99 per month, billed annually |
| Team plan | $29 a month for up to 25 people | From $49 a month, billed annually |
| Card typesCounted from their board toolbar rather than a published figure, so treat it as approximate. Ours is counted in code, so it cannot drift from what the app offers. | 28 | Around 10 |
| Dark mode | Yes | — |
| Freehand drawing | Yes | — |
| Code cards with syntax highlighting | Yes | — |
| Tables, timers, countdowns and progress bars | Yes | — |
| Cards that act on other cardsThe nearest thing either product has to logic. Wire a button to a set of cards and it acts on all of them; give a checkbox a deadline and the board resolves itself. | Buttons, timers and smart checkboxes, wired together | — |
| Command palette | Yes | — |
| Export formatsThe JSON re-imports. That is the row that matters — everything else on both sides exports a picture of your board, and a picture is not a copy you can leave with. | PNG, SVG, Markdown, JSON | PDF, PNG |
| Real-time collaboration | Yes | |
| Per-person roles | Owner, editor, commenter, viewer | Edit and view |
| Nested boards | Yes | |
| Templates | Included free | Included free |
Prices in USD. Ours is month to month; where theirs is an annual rate paid up front, the row says so. Figures change — if one here is out of date, it is a mistake rather than a tactic, and we would rather be told.
Where Milanote is ahead
Three things, and if any of them is the one that matters to you, then they are the right answer and you should use them.
Native mobile apps
Milanote has real iOS and Android apps. We have a web app that is readable and navigable on a tablet and genuinely wants a keyboard and a pointer for anything more. If you capture ideas on a phone all day, that is a decisive difference and you should take it seriously.
A decade of use
They launched in 2016 and have been refined by far more people than have used this. Some of what they have quietly solved we have not hit yet. Longevity is a feature, and it is not one we can claim.
A larger template library
Theirs is broader and written by people who work in the fields the templates are for. Ours covers the common shapes well and is smaller.
Moving over
- How is this different from Milanote?
- The short version is the free plan. Milanote's free tier stops at 100 notes, images or links across every board you own; ours does not stop. Beyond that we are cheaper monthly, we have roughly three times as many card types, and we have dark mode, freehand drawing, a command palette and JSON export, none of which they offer. They have native mobile apps and a decade of refinement, and we have neither.
- Can I import my Milanote boards?
- Not automatically, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. There is no Milanote export format we can read, so moving over means rebuilding the boards you actually still use. In practice most people move two or three and leave the rest, which is a smaller job than it sounds.
- Is this a Milanote clone?
- It started from the same idea — an infinite board you arrange things on rather than a document you write in — and diverged from there. The card types, the logic wiring, the keyboard model and the pricing are all our own, and the comparison page is honest about where they are still ahead.
- What if I want to leave?
- Export the board as JSON and it re-imports cleanly, here or into whatever you build next. PNG, SVG and Markdown are there too, but those are pictures and text of your board rather than the board itself. We would rather the door out was obvious than have you stay because leaving looked expensive.