Pricing
The whole editor is free. Sharing is a plan.
Writing, boards, databases, history, 3D scenes, media playback and all five export formats are yours for nothing, for ever, with no account — and none of it expires or nags. Pro and Team are the plans that put other people in a document, which is the only part of this that costs us anything to run.
Indicative, not final. Tessera is in closed alpha and nothing is being charged. These figures show the shape of the plans rather than a settled price list, and they may change before anyone is asked to pay. Alpha participants will be told what the final prices are before any of this becomes real.
Personal
The whole editor, on your own machine.
Free
The entire writing and drawing surface, offline, with no account — 3D scenes and media playback included. Pages are files in a folder you own, and nothing is time-limited.
Included with the app- Documents and infinite boards, all block and shape types
- Databases, mentions, backlinks, version history
- 3D scenes on boards and in pages
- Video and audio that play where you put them
- Import from Markdown, CSV and text
- Export to Markdown, HTML, PDF, PNG and SVG
- Sharing or collaboration of any kind
Pro
Share without running a server.
€70 per year
2 months free
Publish a page to our infrastructure and work on it with other people, with nothing to install, patch or back up.
Join the alpha first- Everything in Personal
- Publish and share documents on our servers
- Live cursors, locks and shared history
- Share links that expire and can be revoked
- Images, video and 3D scenes in shared documents
- Storage for attachments
- Member roles and granting edit access
Grants: doc.publish, invites.create
Team
For a group with roles.
€100 per person, per year
2 months free
Everything in Pro, plus control over who may do what in a document, billed for each person who needs it.
Join the alpha first- Everything in Pro, for every member
- Add and remove members of a document
- Grant and revoke edit access
- More storage for attachments
- Priority on support
Grants: doc.publish, invites.create, members.manage, members.grantEdit
Self-hosted
Your hardware, your licence.
Talk to us
Run the collaboration server on machines you control, under a commercial licence priced for how many people it serves.
Talk to us about a licence- Everything in Team, on machines you control
- Accounts and documents never reach us
- One docker compose up, against a published protocol
- Licensed and priced for the size of your deployment
Grants: doc.publish, invites.create, members.manage, members.grantEdit
Only Pro and Team put a document on a server. Personal is the application on your own machine and nothing else — no live cursors, no shared editing, no invite links, no document of yours anywhere but your disk. The features that run on your own GPU, 3D scenes and media playback among them, are part of the free application: there is no entitlement to collect, no account to sign in to, and nothing to check.
Questions worth answering before you pay
Does the app stop working if I cancel?
Everything in Personal keeps working for ever, on the version you have, with no account and no check — and that is now the whole editor, 3D scenes and media playback included, so there is nothing in it a lapsed plan could take away. Cancelling Pro or Team ends the ability to publish new documents to our servers — documents already published stay readable and exportable, and your local copy was always the authoritative one.
What am I actually paying for?
On Pro and Team: servers, storage, backups, and someone keeping them patched. That is the honest answer, and it is why those are the only recurring costs with infrastructure behind them.
On Self-hosted: a licence to run the collaboration server on your own machines. You provide and pay for the hardware, and we license the software; the price depends on how many people the deployment serves, so it is agreed rather than listed.
Do 3D scenes or media playback need an account?
No. They are part of the free application, on your own machine, with nothing to collect and nothing to check — the app has no reason to reach the network to run them, and does not. An account exists here for one purpose, which is putting another person in a document.
Is VAT included?
State the tax position here. In the EU a consumer must be shown the price they will actually be charged, inclusive of VAT, at the rate of their own country. Both Stripe Tax and PayPal can calculate this; decide which and say so.
How do I pay?
By card or through PayPal. Card details are entered on the payment provider's own page, never on this site — Tessera never sees, handles or stores a card number, and there is no field anywhere here that could take one.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. The terms set out the statutory right of withdrawal for consumers in the EU and EEA, and what happens if you ask for immediate access and then change your mind. Outside that, write to hello@studioheino.com and we will sort it out rather than argue about it.
What about my documents if you disappear?
They are already on your disk, as .tnote files you can read in a text editor.
That is not a promise about our longevity; it is a property of the file format, and it is
the reason the local-first design was chosen before any of this was a business.
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What each plan grants.
Plans map onto the protocol's entitlements, which is the mechanism the collaboration server already uses. The app hides what an account does not hold rather than failing when it is used. The first three rows carry no entitlement code because they are not gated on one: they are the free application, and every plan is that application plus something.
| Capability | Personal | Pro | Team | Self-hosted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local editing and export | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 3D scenes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Embedded video and audio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Publish a document for sharing doc.publish |
— | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Share links invites.create |
— | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Add and remove members members.manage |
— | — | Yes | Yes |
Grant edit access members.grantEdit |
— | — | Yes | Yes |
| Who can read your documents | Only you | Us, technically | Us, technically | Only you |
That last row is on the pricing page rather than buried in a policy because it is the thing most worth knowing. Documents on our servers are not end-to-end encrypted; see what is not built.