Our take
Pick Joplin if writers who will stay on the OSS app at $0 while they open a first notebook, then Joplin Cloud Basic at 2.99€/month (2.40€ yearly / 28.69€/year) when they need hosted sync — not Pro 5.99€ unless they need share-a-notebook / Email to Note. Pick Reflect if writers who will stay on the Mac app at Free $0 while they open a first Daily note, then pay the iPhone / iPad subscription when they need mobile —
Best for
Joplin A notebook page you start at a public $
Reflect A dated note you start at a public $
Free plan
Joplin $0 · desktop / mobile. Sync to your own WebDAV / Dropbox / filesystem, or buy Cloud
Reflect No free plan
Lowest paid
Joplin Not published by the vendor
Reflect Not published by the vendor
Watch out
Joplin Cloud tiles are euro
Reflect iOS has no public $ on the homepage
Last checked
Joplin 2026-10-23 · joplinapp.org
Reflect 2026-10-23 · reflect.app
writers who will stay on the OSS app at $0 while they open a first notebook, then Joplin Cloud Basic at 2.99€/month (2.40€ yearly / 28.69€/year) when they need hosted sync — not Pro 5.99€ unless they need share-a-notebook / Email to Note.
Read the Joplin pagewriters who will stay on the Mac app at Free $0 while they open a first Daily note, then pay the iPhone / iPad subscription when they need mobile — do not invent that iOS $; it is not printed on the pages we fetched.
Read the Reflect page