Mimir vs. Workflowy
Mimir vs. Workflowy: pages and a daily journal, or one endless outline. Price, platforms, mobile apps, and which to choose.
Workflowy is one endless outline. Everything you write is a bullet inside another bullet, and you zoom into any bullet to work on it alone. Mimir is an outliner too, but it splits your notes into pages, with a journal entry for each day.
Checked on 2026-10-11.
Which to choose
Choose Mimir if you think in pages and days rather than in one long outline, or you want your notes on your own device and fully offline. Cloud Sync is a one-time purchase, not a monthly fee.
Choose Workflowy if you want one endless outline, bullets you share with other people, Google Calendar sync, or an app in the browser and on Windows, Linux, and Android. Its iPhone app has 4.8 out of 5 stars.
Both are fast, plain outliners. The real question is whether you want pages with a journal, or one outline.
At a glance
| Mimir | Workflowy | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Mac, iPhone, iPad | Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android |
| Where notes live | One database file on your device | Workflowy’s servers |
| Price | Free. Cloud Sync is a one-time purchase. | Free, with a prompt to upgrade after 100 new bullets a month. Pro is $6.99 a month billed yearly, or $8.99 monthly. |
| Status | Active | Active |
Where Workflowy is heading
Workflowy ships an update most months. In 2026 it added quick capture on iPhone and Android, a timeline view of the coming weeks, tables, and side-by-side panes on desktop.
Price
The free plan has every feature and includes 100 new bullets a month. Past that, you can keep writing, but Workflowy asks you to subscribe. Pro removes the limit for $6.99 a month billed yearly, or $8.99 paid monthly. If you stop paying, you keep access to everything you wrote.
Mimir is free on every device. Syncing between devices is the one paid feature, a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.
What they share
- Bullets you indent, outdent, fold, and move.
- Focusing on one part of your notes while the rest gets out of the way.
- A bullet shown in more than one place, edited in one.
[[Links]]that can create what they point to, and a list of what links to each item.- A place for today’s notes. In Workflowy, the Today button creates a bullet for the day under year and month bullets.
Where they differ
- Workflowy keeps everything in one outline, and a link points to a bullet somewhere in it. Mimir has separate pages, and a link points to a page. A page in Mimir comes into existence when you link to it.
- Workflowy keeps your notes on its servers, with an optional backup to Dropbox. Mimir keeps your notes in a file on your device and works fully offline.
- Workflowy lets you share any bullet for others to view or edit, and syncs with Google Calendar. Mimir is for one person. It can share a read-only copy at a link.
- Workflowy runs in any browser and on Windows, Linux, and Android. Mimir runs on Mac, iPhone, and iPad today.
What people say
Long-time users praise Workflowy’s speed and simplicity, and many have used it daily for years. Older reviews asked for more development and a mobile app that matched the web. Updates in 2025 and 2026 fixed many mobile problems.
On iPhone and iPad, Workflowy has 4.8 out of 5 stars from about 8,200 ratings on the US App Store, and was last updated on 2026-10-07.