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VERDICT

Should I use Milanote?

Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Add notes, images, links and files, organize them visually and share them with your team. - milanote.com

Depends. Buy it if you're a designer, writer, or small creative team that plans visually with images, notes, and mood boards. Skip it if you need task management, deadlines, or heavyweight real-time whiteboarding — a PM tool or Miro fits better.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~20 public sources; many snippets were truncated, limiting verbatim quotes.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo evidence found
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

Free

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
Pro$9.99/mo
Business/Team~$16/mo

Best for

  • Designers and creative studios
  • Mood boards and visual briefs
  • Writers and researchers organizing ideas
  • Solo creators planning projects

Not for

  • Teams needing task management, deadlines, or Gantt views
  • Big orgs wanting real-time workshop whiteboarding — Miro fits better
  • Self-hosters and data-control purists
  • Anyone wanting a structured notes base with backlinks and markdown

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Free tier is limited; growing boards means paying

medium

Sharing gets complicated when only some team members have paid plans

low

Phishing campaigns hosted on Milanote may get shared links flagged by corporate email filters

low

Team plan terms have changed over time — recheck current pricing before committing

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Consistently praised for elegant, easy visual organization
  • Free plan to start
  • Purpose-built for creative project planning
  • iOS and Android apps available
  • Publishes security practices, vulnerability disclosure program, and DPA

Cons

  • Pricing structure draws repeated user complaints
  • Lighter real-time collaboration than full whiteboard rivals
  • Free plan limits push users toward paid tiers quickly
  • Phishers abuse boards to host scams, muddying link trust

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/25/2026 - 11 sources - No known breaches; Milanote publishes security practices, a vulnerability disclosure policy, and a DPA, but scammers abuse its links to host phishing pages.

official x2review x6security x2news x1
  • Phishers abuse Milanote to host phishing content, KnowBe4 reports scammers hosting phishing pages on Milanote to evade secure email gateways — platform abuse, not a product vulnerability.

Key stats

  • Value for money: 3/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 11

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 3/5. Well-liked, but users gripe about pricing
  • Ease of use: 5/5. Repeatedly praised as elegant and easy
  • Feature depth: 3/5. Lean visual boards; lighter than Miro
  • Support quality. No evidence found
  • Security posture: 4/5. Published practices and disclosure; phishing-abuse reports
  • 42 G2 reviews small but consistently positive
  • $9.99/mo Starting price Pro plan (Capterra)
  • Yes Free tier with limits
  • $2.8M ARR Est. revenue 2024 GetLatka estimate

Pricing

Free

$0

  • Limited boards and notes
  • Good for testing the fit

Pro

$9.99/mo

  • Individual paid plan
  • Removes free-tier limits

Business/Team

~$16/mo

  • Team collaboration features

Security

No known breaches; Milanote publishes security practices, a vulnerability disclosure policy, and a DPA, but scammers abuse its links to host phishing pages.

  • Phishers abuse Milanote to host phishing contentKnowBe4 reports scammers hosting phishing pages on Milanote to evade secure email gateways — platform abuse, not a product vulnerability.⁹

What users say

Users love the visual, easy feel; the recurring gripe is the pricing structure.

“Love the app, but the pricing/plans kinda suck.”
Reddit, r/Milanote
Full analysis

Based on ~20 public sources; many snippets were truncated, limiting verbatim quotes.

Beloved visual board for creative planning. Great for designers; overkill if you need tasks, timelines, or deep collaboration.

Methodology

Based on ~20 public sources; many snippets were truncated, limiting verbatim quotes.

Sources

  1. Plans & pricing — Milanotemilanote.com
    official
  2. Milanote Reviews — G2g2.com
    review
  3. Milanote — Capterracapterra.com
    review
  4. Love the app, but the pricing/plans kinda suck — Redditreddit.com
    review
  5. Milanote Review — The Digital Project Managerthedigitalprojectmanager.com
    review
  6. Miro vs Milanotemiro.com
    official
  7. Milanote Pricing: Free Plan Limits and Paid Costsrefern.app
    review
  8. Security practices at Milanotehelp.milanote.com
    security
  9. Scammers Use Milanote App to Host Phishing Content — KnowBe4blog.knowbe4.com
    security
  10. Milanote Revenue 2024 — GetLatkagetlatka.com
    news
  11. Milanote Customer Reviews — Trustpilottrustpilot.com
    review

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