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 Tana if product and consulting teams who will pay Pro so more than 5 hosted meetings a month can file tickets without a bot.
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Joplin A notebook page you start at a public $
Tana Leave the meeting with the work already shipped
Free plan
Joplin $0 · desktop / mobile. Sync to your own WebDAV / Dropbox / filesystem, or buy Cloud
Tana $0 · host 5 meetings a month with AI transcripts and summaries; connect 1 calendar; view/edit all content; 50 AI queries
Lowest paid
Joplin Not published by the vendor
Tana Business $35
Coding agent
Joplin
Tana Native meeting
Runs where
Joplin
Tana Hosted
Watch out
Joplin Cloud tiles are euro
Tana $20 is an early-bird Pro card
Last checked
Joplin 2026-10-23 · joplinapp.org
Tana 2026-10-22 · tana.inc/pricing
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 pageproduct and consulting teams who will pay Pro so more than 5 hosted meetings a month can file tickets without a bot.
Read the Tana page