Dynalist
by Dynalist · Outlining app for notes, lists and documents
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Overview
Dynalist is an outlining app for capturing and organising notes in nested documents. The free plan covers unlimited items and documents, Markdown formatting, tags, dates, checklists, internal linking, sharing and collaboration, and export and import. Pro adds Google Calendar integration, attachments, version history and daily Dropbox and Google Drive backups.
- Best for
- Individuals and small teams organising notes, tasks and documents as nested outlines.
- Pricing
- Free plan at $0, then Pro at $9.99 per month or $7.99 per month billed annually.
- Runs on
- WebAndroidmacOSWindowsBrowser extension
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free plan includes unlimited items and documents
- Sharing and collaboration included on the free plan
- Pro adds version history and daily Dropbox/Drive backups
- 14-day Pro trial and a 50% student discount
Trade-offs
- Attachments, version history and backups are Pro-only
- Free plan capped at 5 bookmarks, with community support only
- Site carries a 2021 copyright, so current development pace is unclear
- No team or per-seat plan is shown
How Dynalist markets itself
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Homepage capture
“The best outlining app for your best work”
- Angle: Outcome / benefit-led
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Dynalist’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
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Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Customer sentiment
Third-party ratings, shrunk toward the catalogue mean by review volume and corroborated across independent sources.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
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Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
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