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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/dynalist-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/dynalist-profile/alternatives/) # Dynalist User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 35 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.7/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 24 reviews (69%) - 4 stars: 11 reviews (31%) - 3 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned 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. - 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 interface is minimal and UX is well-thought and designed. ### Most mentioned cons - Also they don't allow image integration well which is a problem when I want to put images of tables in my notes. ## Dynalist customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 35 (page 1). ### A better alternative to Workflowy - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Courtlin H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Dynalist is an improved workflowy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Dynalist can help you to manage your business (and your life) - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Marcos Dias A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### It's an unbeleivable tool and it is free - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Luc S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Truly Unlimited Possibilities - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jason R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Best outliner on the internet - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Craige Hardel -. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very good app and customer support is on point Their roadmap seems pretty impressive too #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Best Note Taking Application - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rishi G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A beautiful and powerful piece of software packed with features for a perfect note-taking application. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Dynalist is like my second brain. I store all my notes here. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Neeraj H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### So great for scheduling days and goals - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sean A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Dynalist reads my mind! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Heydar S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### As a person who loves lists, Dynalist was the perfect option for me! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ling Ling L. - Industry: Publishing - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The ability to organize tasks in list-form, and archive past to-do lists. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Tags - Bookmarks - Checklists - Organize lists in different folders - Able to expand or hide all the lists in a folder - Drag and drop - Free alternative to similar software - Downloadable app - Sync across multiple devices - Strikeout feature available - Able to add notes - Certain styling options available (e.g., highlighting a bullet point, headers, etc.) - Able to export lists - Able to share and collaborate - Hyperlinking #### Cons I honestly don't have many cons for Dynalist aside from wishing there were some more styling options. However, the free version does limit the number of bookmarks you can have. The Pro version, of course, offers more features but I was content with what the free version offered. --- ### Workflow(y) - but the friendly way - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Paulo C. - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2016 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Well, if you, like me, wonders about another todo list - the free way (a text file), or a tiddlywiky or some sort of all that, you MUST try Dynalist.io. I tried workflowy, Moo.do, Cotton notes - but the zen of a simple notepad to write a diary, a project, an outline, is Dynalist. In fact it makes remenmber me a ios tool calledd Trunk Notes, that I miss very much (the desktop counterpart is a mess, and the lua support is horrible). Missing: an editor for ios. Dates and reminders (sort of). The crew say they are handling it. You must try this. At the second day, after an workflowy file import, I was paying the 3,9 bucks for the month license. Amazing! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The freedom of an outline editor in a browser. #### Cons It misses dates. I need a ios version too. #### Vendor response Hi Paulo, Dynalist has date support now. We would really appreciate it if you could try it out! Replied August 2016 --- ### Great for researchers to want ever-lasting and well organised notes - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shireen A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Dynalist is like a second mind to me. It takes webs of thoughts from my mind to the screen - in a way that its both accessible as a singular thoughts and as a web. It is very useful for me as a researcher who reads a lot, and needs to organise notes and comments from the texts I have read. Notes which I not only need in the near future, but that could be perhaps be useful for me 5-10 years later. Two features have changed my life: 1) the option to organise points in a collapsible format - only seeing what is important - and thus making it very easy to scan a long text months later with the headings you created alone. 2) The option to connect points and even sub-points from different files to each other. So when I am reading something today, I can be like - oh this is related to Point X I read in that document 3 weeks ago, and Dynalist lets me connect those thoughts - and add more and more. Finally I have a web of connected thoughts from different books - an article waiting to be written. #### Cons The collaboration tools and sharing options could be much better. Also they don't allow image integration well which is a problem when I want to put images of tables in my notes. #### Reasons for switching to Dynalist Dynalist had a much cleaner interface than Workflowy --- ### My favorite list tracking tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Productivity. Knowledge base. Personal planning and goal setting repository. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Dynalist is my go-to planning tool. The tool is one of the most elegant applications I have ever come across. It is so intuitive. And so useful! It allows me to organize ideas into chunks via bullet points and also allows these nested lists to go as deep as I want. I can reorder points on my list by copy-pasting it where I want with or without the nested lists. In addition, these bullets can be expanded and collapsed, which makes it possible for me to at times create huge documents around a specific idea without making the document look too overwhelming. The items in these lists are searchable and it is this feature that makes it most powerful. I can also highlight specific points via highlights, bold, italics, strikethroughs, etc. Everything is in the cloud and if you're a pro user like me, you can get daily backups of your work on dropbox and google drive. I use Dynalist for my personal as well as professional needs. I really love this tool! #### Cons I don't think the tool has any cons as such. One minor issue I have faced (and I may be sounding hyper-critical here) is that if I want to upload a file, I know I have to drop the file into the workspace. The file gets uploaded and a link to the file is generated and is shown in a pop up. If I close that pop-up, I still don't know how to access that file. My workaround to that issue is to re-upload the file and use the new link from the pop up. Maybe there is a way to circumvent my approach, but since I didn't know how, I am listing it as a con (although it is not really a con). --- ### In these times of information overload, want to get organized? Use Dynalist! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Productivity #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Dynalist functions like a zoomable document that provides flexibility in organizing ideas. Its biggest strength is in letting me type and organize information around a subject that is complex. It has allowed me time and again to get my thoughts organized. I use this for all my important note taking including marking of important dates and planning activities around those. The tool has excellent search capabilities and retrieves items or files blazingly fast. The tool also has an iOs app which I use to retrieve my notes on the go. #### Cons Not a lot to dislike about this tool, really! One minor gripe I have is that the team recently released a chrome extension that is supposed to clip snippets you come across online. This feature is still in its infancy stages as it does not allow you to append it to specific documents of your choice. --- ### Simple and delivers what is expected - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very good! I have tried some similar ones before, but this is by far the best one. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is easy, we have only text ( for some kind of use this is enough -like to do notes). I like a lot the organization inside notes, subnores, folders. For the free version it delivers more than similar ones in Pro version #### Cons Didnt find how to move several notes from one folder to the other. Not so easy to modify characters to bold or italic ( must put a sign to identify). It would have some APIs to open communication so the info could be stored there via other apps, emails etc. Besides that , it is a honest App and very useful daily #### Reasons for switching to Dynalist Limitations for monthly storage, Pro version too expensive --- ### Best bullet style to-do app - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with Dynalist has been nothing but joy. I am not exaggerating when I say since I have started using Dynalist I am always happy when I write new to-do list or notes because I know that they will never get organized or messy. Dynalist's excellent system helps me to keep my notes organized all the time. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I have been using the bullet-style to-do apps as long as I can remember. I can surely say, without a doubt, Dynalist is the best one I have used so far. They have managed to merge both style and efficiency in one app. I have always kept my notes organized, however, ever since I have started to use Dynalist my productivity is on another level. I use it for all, I can take notes in university, I can keep a list and progress of my goals, I can even plan my next vacation. #### Cons To be quite honest, it is very hard to find something wrong with Dynalist. However, I would like to have more colors or even custom color selection for highlighting special bullet points in a list. Though, I am almost certain developer team in Dynalist will implement this feature in no time. --- ### Probably the best list management platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Medical Devices - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Can be used for notes/lists/To-Dos, all at once - Sharing with other users - Export/Import #### Cons Though sharing works, the way the sharing requests work, it's less evident that something was being shared until you check your email, instead of a share request right within the app itself. --- ### Simple or Advanced and for everything - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Britt M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Easy to use. Very handy for planning and keeping information organized. I love the synchronization with Google Calendar, and I love all the features it has, and yet you can use it in a very simple version if you prefer. It's a product I use every day. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love that I can easily write my daily schedule and it automatically synchronizes with Google calendar. It's super easy to use (can you write a list?) but it can also be advanced if you want it to. I use it for my weekly/daily schedule, for important ULRs (to courses I'm following), for lists of ideas, todo lists, and more. It looks pretty, too. I love the simple user-interface. #### Cons I don't like that if you add a checkbox to a list point, then you'll see both the point (dot) and the checkbox. I would love if it could be only the checkbox. #### Reasons for switching to Dynalist Dynalist has more features. --- ### Dynalist - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Emily S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I LOVE this software. I use it for nearly everything. Journaling, notes, startups I'm following, ideas, Todo lists, etc. It's a fantastic service and the developers are so kind and care about their users. Workflowy was the first, but dynalist is by far the best. I'll be subscribing to pro as soon as I'm in a bit of a more stable financial situation, and I don't subscribe to anything! I'd like to mention too, that I'm not subscribing for more features. The free version offers anything you could possibly want from this software, I'm mostly subbing to support the devs. Great team, great software! Also it's accessable everywhere!! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very easy to use, great pro service, very responsive Dev team, and many new features that aren't overwhelming. #### Cons I could benefit from a few more customization options here and there, but it isn't necessary. --- ### Good for lists and quick notes - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Diane C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I couldn't use it as my full note taking software or for legal notes because it doesn't have the right features but I did keep check lists and used it as a sort of task management system. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Dynalist is very well structured! The finder is my favorite feature. Search results load as you type and are relevant. Dynalist is always fast and it's good for notes and lists. Lists can be changed to numbered or check lists instantly and each line can be dragged and dropped. The internal links actually keep their title, I hate when links take up an entire paragraph so that's great. Sync with Google calendar and manage to do lists. #### Cons Dynalist is a little closer to the simple side than I wanted it to be. I wish there were built in spell and grammar check tools and I don't think the pro version is worth the paid subscription. --- ### amazing software! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kay R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Just perfect. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I absolutely love everything about this! I love getting my head straight by journaling out my thoughts in this nested format—auto-pasting in screenshots, etc. I love the app, too. #### Cons I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if this had all the features of Roam Research too. They are both such complementary software. --- ### Great list manager - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Henry E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Really like Dynalist - easy to use and fast and free version is awesome! #### Cons Wish they had a side bar that stayed up in the iPad version. --- ### Love Dynalist for notetaking, but images & iPad app are tough - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really like that Dynalist has created a full suite of apps for Apple (Mac, iPad, iPhone) as well as the web app. It's easy to use, fairly intuitive, and now I can't live without being able to hide and expand bullet points. #### Cons Copying and pasting images into it is difficult - you can't embed images directly unless you pay, so the images are hosted from the source. This means that if a website deletes an image, you won't be able to access it anymore. (One workaround for this is just to use Cloudapp for hosting) iPad app is also a bit glitchy at times, but Dynalist has supposedly fixed this with the last update. --- ### Best Task Management App - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shivam N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Dynalist is the best app for every content creator. Content Management becomes so easy with this app. In-built themes you can use as per your need. #### Cons No lag, no issue, and nothing worst in Dynalist. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/dynalist-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Dynalist Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice