Tanavs
Todoist
Todoist: The world's #1 task manager and to-do list app
Tana
The everything app for your personal workspace
As of 30 August 2026, Tana has a free plan and paid plans start at $20/month. Tana is a powerful outliner and knowledge management tool that combines the flexibility of an outliner with the structure of a database. Softwr lists it under Productivity. Tana is made by Tana Inc, launched in 2020, available on Web, Windows, macOS.
Overview
What Tana does
Tana is a powerful outliner and knowledge management tool that combines the flexibility of an outliner with the structure of a database. It uses a unique supertag system for organizing information and supports complex queries.
What people use it for
- Structured note taking with a graph based supertag data model
- Automatic meeting capture with AI transcripts and summaries
- Turning notes into queryable structured databases
Related searches
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Tana.
- The free plan hosts only 5 meetings a month with AI transcripts and summaries
- The free plan connects only 1 calendar and allows 50 AI queries
- Pro is $30 per user per month at standard price, with $20 shown as an early bird rate
- Max is $120 per user per month at standard price, with $80 shown as an early bird rate
- Integrations and full MCP require the Pro plan
- Dedicated support and onboarding, and unlimited agents, skills and types, require the Max plan
- The Business plan is custom priced, billed yearly and has no published rate
- The free trial runs 30 days
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Tana
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- TanavsOmniFocus 3
OmniFocus 3: Professional task management for complex workflows
- TanavsThings 3
Things 3: The award-winning personal task manager
- TanavsBrain.fm
Brain.fm: Scientifically-designed music to enhance focus and productivity
Pricing
What Tana costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 5 hosted meetings monthly with AI transcripts
- 1 calendar connection
- 50 AI queries
- View and edit all content
Pro
$20 /mo
- Early bird pricing (regular $30/month)
- Unlimited hosted meetings
- Botless meeting agent for Zoom, Teams, Google Meet
- 20x more AI than free plan
- Integrations and full MCP
Max
$80 /mo
- Early bird pricing (regular $120/month)
- 5x more AI than Pro plan
- Dedicated support and onboarding
- Unlimited agents, skills, and types
- Integration support
Business
On request
- Custom pricing (billed yearly)
- SAML SSO and advanced security controls
- Designated customer success manager
- Audit logs
- Custom DPA and data residency/retention policies
- GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA compliant
Capabilities
Features
Outliner interface
Supertags
Live queries
AI integration
Graph views
Email capture
Integration with Email capture
API
Integration with API
Zapier
Integration with Zapier
SSO
SSO security feature
2FA
2FA security feature
Cloud deployment
Supports cloud deployment
Web support
Available on web
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
What is Tana's cheapest paid plan?
Tana Pro starts at $20/month with early bird pricing (regular $30/month) per user, offering unlimited hosted meetings and AI transcripts.
SourceDoes Tana offer a free trial?
Yes, Tana provides a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, plus a 60-day refund window for yearly plan subscribers.
SourceWhat is the difference between Tana Pro and Max plans?
Max provides 5x more AI than Pro ($80/month early bird or $120 regular), dedicated support, onboarding, and unlimited agents and skills.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Tana
- Company
- Tana Inc
- Based in
- Oslo, Norway
Keep looking
Where to go from Tana
- Tana alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
- Tana pricingPlans, floors and what the tiers exclude
- Tana badgesWhich rules it meets, and the figure behind each
- All Productivity softwareThe full category
- Best Productivity softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
Best Productivity software for
Compare Tana with
- Reflect
- Todoist
- Things 3
- OmniFocus 3
- Brain.fm
- Capacities
- Google Workspace
- Hubstaff
- FigJam
- Coggle
- Milanote
- iLovePDF
- Pitch
- Spark Mail
- AnyList
- Bluemail
- Bring!
- Google Workspace
Other Productivity software
Everything you need to get work done, all in one place
From €6.8/mo13 researched notesBoard-based visual workspace for creative planning, free up to 100 items for the whole account
Free, then $9.99/mo13 researched notesBrowser toolbox for merging, splitting, compressing and converting PDFs, processed on the vendor's servers
Free, then $7/mo13 researched notesAI-assisted email client from Readdle with a Smart Inbox and team collaboration features
Free plan11 researched notesGrocery list and recipe app with fast list sorting and cross-household sharing, sold as a paid subscription
10 researched notesFree multi-account email client from Blix with unified inbox, smart filters and calendar
Free plan11 researched notesFree shared grocery list app with a simple icon-based interface, no subscription required for core use
Free plan10 researched notesEverything you need to get work done, all in one place
From €6.8/mo13 researched notes
Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Tana, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.
More on Tana
Tana alternatives
What people switch to, and what they give up
Tana pricing
Every tier, and where the cost actually lands
Compare Tana
Put it head to head with anything we hold
Tana badge
Its rating, and an embed for your own site
Best Productivity software alternatives
Security-focused AI email client with end-to-end encryption and a lifetime purchase option
Per user per year, or one-time purchase
Mac launcher and automation tool sold as a one-time Powerpack licence rather than a subscription
One-time purchase
Journalling app for iOS, Android and Mac now sold as a subscription after years as a one-time purchase
Free tier plus subscription
Flat annual subscription email service from 37signals, with its own hey.com domain and a distinctive Screener
Per user per monthGrocery list and recipe app with fast list sorting and cross-household sharing, sold as a paid subscription
Per user per year
Paid email hosting with custom domains, calendar and contacts, run without ad-based revenue
Per user per monthFree shared grocery list app with a simple icon-based interface, no subscription required for core use
Free, with an optional paid Premium tier for extrasFree multi-account email client from Blix with unified inbox, smart filters and calendar
quote