Anytype

What is Anytype?

Anytype is a local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace for notes, documents, tasks and collaboration, aimed at people who want to own their data. Content is stored on your device first, works offline and syncs across your devices. Collaboration happens in shared spaces built on the open-source AnySync protocol.

Key features of Anytype

• Local-first storage: content lives on your device and works offline.
• End-to-end encryption: only you and the people you share with can read the data, according to the vendor.
• Spaces: personal spaces for notes and to-dos and collaborative spaces for teams or communities.
• Objects, types and relations: structured objects instead of flat pages.
• Graph view and linking: link objects and see relationships in a graph.
• Chats in spaces: conversations inside each space.
• Self-hosting: sync across your devices or self-host your data.

How Anytype works

Users create a vault on their device and build objects such as notes, tasks and documents. Data syncs between the user's devices and invited collaborators through the AnySync protocol, with encryption so that the Anytype team cannot read the content. Users can also self-host their sync data.

Who uses Anytype?

Anytype is used by privacy-conscious individuals, researchers, writers and small teams who want a Notion-like workspace without handing data to a vendor. The vendor says there is no lock-in, so a lapsed subscription does not cut off access to your data or the software.

Anytype pricing

Anytype can be used free of charge, and the vendor sells paid memberships for extra sync storage and collaboration capacity. Current tiers and prices change, so check the vendor pricing page. A business offering with admin features is sold through the vendor.

Anytype integrations

Anytype does not list named integrations on its site. It is built around the AnySync protocol for syncing and collaboration.

Anytype alternatives

Notion is a hosted workspace with a large template library and easy sharing, but your data lives on its servers. Obsidian is a local-first Markdown note app with plugins, and it does not use structured objects the way Anytype does. Logseq is an open-source outliner that also stores data locally.