Dynalist 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Dynalist

4.7

(35)

Pricing

Starting at CA$10.00 per month

About Dynalist

Dynalist is a productivity and outlining solution that allows businesses to capture, flesh out, and realize ideas. With Dynalist, staff members can easily check off each item on their list and add notes as it's completed. The platform enables employees to highlight specific words or phrases and comes with a built-in search functionality which lets users find required information.

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Dynalist User Interface

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Dynalist Pricing and Plans

Starting price: CA$10.00 per month

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CA$10.00

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Dynalist Features

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Dynalist User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

69%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.5

Courtlin H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

A better alternative to Workflowy

I was delighted to find this tool while looking for an alternative to Workflowy (monthly usage limits are too low on the free plan with Workflowy for anyone who is using that app seriously). The desktop and mobile app for Dynalist is very solid with a nice design and good UX.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Dynalist combines the minimalist features (speed, simplicity, lack of bloat) of other tools like Workflowy with intelligent keyboard shortcuts, formatting options and searching/tagging to create a really fast and easy-to-use task management tool.

Cons:

Accidentally filtering notes by clicking on them instead of collapsing the note hierarchy for a topic happens from time to time, especially on a mobile device, and disrupts my flow of fast notetaking. Using keyboard shortcuts is one way I taught myself to avoid doing this.

Reasons for choosing Dynalist

Unlimited usage for the free tier was the main factor in my decision. Once I learned what additional features Dynalist includes versus its competitors, it was an easy decision to adopt Dynalist fully.

Reasons for switching to Dynalist

The usage limits on Workflowy's free tier motivated me to look for an alternative to that minimalist app. Once I found Dynalist, I copy/pasted my main notes from Workflowy and never went back to that app.

Luc S.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

It's an unbeleivable tool and it is free

I work with it at least 1 hour per day since over 2 years. Each day, beleive it or not, I happy to have found Dynalist to work with. I use iCal as my calendar for weeks later then THIS WEEK. For THIS WEEK I copy once per week my TO DO in Dynalyst.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Can be use locally or internet. On my Mac or my iPhone. In more than 2 years NEVER STOP WORKING A SINGLE DAY !

Cons:

It is not perfect but precisely Cons : NONE

Reasons for switching to Dynalist

I use a few other similar tools in the past, may be more powerfull but they stop working on my Mac at some points in time. I do use at leats 5 products; the first one was MORE long time ago. I do not need more powerfull then Dynalist Free anyway. Dynalyst work fine since more than 2 years; I hope it will never stop working with old and new Macs.

Marcos Dias A.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Dynalist can help you to manage your business (and your life)

Dynalist can be used to manage a small business with perfection. I use it as a CRM, opportunities management, shopping list (for raw material), production management (as in kanban), storage (business documentation, software licences, processes/procedures etc), tracking of facebook campaigns, mood board, competition information and other. I do not load any images, I try to keep it a text-based management system; faster to load and not cluttered. And I also keep outlines for my personal life, that do not mix with business ones.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Dynalist is multiplatform (I use it on my Macbook, iPad and Android Smartphone) and the sync is fast and smooth. It's basically an outline application with no frills, this means it's really fast to load, easy to use and it's fully adaptable to your own unique way of thinking and organization process (or lack of organization at all). Differently from other outlining applications, in Dynalist you can have folders to organize your documents/outlines. Free account may be enough for many users.

Cons:

Although free account layer may be enough for many, upgrading to the Pro level can be too expensive ($7.99/month) to personal users and quite small businesses. It's in english, no other languages are available. And no option to change date formatting.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Dynalist is an improved workflowy

It started well, because I came from worfklowy, but then I saw that the help is very weak, not explaining the syntax properly. To this day I don't know how to use the date search properly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I was able to migrate from workflowy (that i still have) to dynalist without any difficulties, because dynalist is practically an improved copy of workflowy. Important features such as search & replace, organizing bullets in documents and folders, backlinks, search via outline or global are features that are widely used.

Cons:

Not being able to search a folder to only look for content in the documents within it. This is really UNACCEPTABLE in software like this, causing a huge inconvenience to anyone who wants to look for something inside a folder. For example, if I want to search for the word "handle" inside a folder that has 50 documents, it's not possible. I have to do a global search, which causes a huge volume of information that is not what I want.

Reasons for choosing Dynalist

Because it was the closest to workflowy and had more features, as I use it to organize tasks in my projects and systems and also documentation. But I ended up with the 3, that is, workflowy for an old project, the rest was all migrated to dynalist. And Trello I use for admin tasks with cards and checkmark.

Reasons for switching to Dynalist

Workflowy made no improvements to the system.

Jason R.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Truly Unlimited Possibilities

Overall, I've used Dynalist for a lot of things. Even as a CRM for our business. It's truly one of my favorite pieces of software. If they ever go out of business I will truly be disappointed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Before having this software I used TheBrain. I've always loved making creative connections between different ideas in a mindmap style. Linking this thought/node to that thought. Dynalist allows for this in a journal/diary way. It's brilliant. It's a lot like WorkFlowy, but just way better. So many more features

Cons:

The mindmap view needs a lot of work. I want it to be editable. I also want it to work on touchscreens.

Reasons for switching to Dynalist

TheBrain was too expensive and not as good of a journaling tool in some ways. Mainly too expensive

Craige Hardel -.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Best outliner on the internet

Very good app and customer support is on point Their roadmap seems pretty impressive too

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Works very well offline and even on Linux. I'm using Linux temporarily and it fitted like a glove. They are more flexible than workflowy and offer dark mode for free which is life changing.

Cons:

Mobile app still needs a bit of work. It should be easier to delete and move notes when you're done with them It would be nice to embed images like notion

Reasons for choosing Dynalist

seemed more robust and lighter and easier to use

Reasons for switching to Dynalist

Needed dark mode and more flexibility

Rishi G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Best Note Taking Application

A beautiful and powerful piece of software packed with features for a perfect note-taking application.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Dynalist is a perfect note-taking application for me, the reasons being - 1. Blazing fast synchronization. I transfer notes between my phone and computer all the time, with Dynalist, it's even easier. The sync is too smooth and happens without delay. 2. Limited customization. The standardization of features straight-up cuts a lot of distraction. With a handful of customization availability, you get to focus more on work. 3. Dynalist's look is pleasing to the eyes. The interface is minimal and UX is well-thought and designed. It takes out the burden of "searching for features" for different tasks. With a simple shortcut, you get to see most of what it can do. 4. Cross-platform support. I use Dyanlist on my phone, browser, and also its desktop application on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine, and it works flawlessly on every platform. I haven't faced a single issue till now. I've been using Dynalist for a while now, and it's one of the few software which I can recommend without thinking twice. It has everything that a note-taking application should have.

Cons:

There are two things that I wish Dynalist had better designed. First, the missing option to view bookmarked links through Dynalist's web clipper. The "Toggle Bookmark Pane" shows bookmarked files, so it would be better to have another option through which a user can easily view the bookmarked URLs/excerpt. As of now, one has to set up a file that contains the bookmarked links, which get mixed up in the documents. Second, next to "Create New File," the option "Create New Folder" will be a nice feature to have, as it makes organizing files even more straightforward.

Neeraj H.

Verified reviewer

Management Consulting

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Dynalist is like my second brain. I store all my notes here.

This app helps me dig up important notes when I want them. It has lightning fast search. The tool also allows you to structure your thoughts in an organized manner. I really like the clarity this tool has helped me achieve.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Dynalist is an extremely easy to use software that lets you organize ideas in simple lists. I use it extensively to plan to-dos, capture notes on books or blogs I have read, as well as brainstorm ideas. I am on their pro plan and even get daily backups to my gmail & dropbox. They even allow you to import from other tools such as workflowy. The ability to upload files is a feature I discovered recently - I know I will be using it soon!

Cons:

Don't really have any cons to list. The mobile app has been a work in progress and they update it fairly frequently. As of now, I use it primarily from a laptop.

Sean A.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2020

So great for scheduling days and goals

The biggest problem I solve with Dynalist is scheduling out my day every morning, so I make sure I get everything I need to do done.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I love how you can zoom in on different points and dig even deeper into it. So for example, you can write goals, then zoom in on it and write down your goals, then zoom into each of those goals and write down how you'll achieve them.

Cons:

There is nothing I dislike about Dynalist, it does everything I want it to do, very well, and you can use it free.

Heydar S.

Verified reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

Dynalist reads my mind!

Dynalist is one of the most helpful tools to assist me in organizing of my ideas and plans for the whole day. This is type of an app which can be recommended to everyone without any hesitation who wants to stay organized with their notes, reduce the time wasted to search for any kind of data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I fell in love with design of app and the fact that is very easy to use:outlining triggers, taking notes and many more. It combines all of my favorite features from different apps like Workflowy or Cotton notes giving advantage of all in one app. The use of keyboards shortcuts is on point which makes the work even faster. For me ability to have different folders for your notes make me stick to this app for a long time.

Cons:

I wish they increased some of features for the free version like bookmarking.

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