Pricing
The app is free. Sharing is what costs.
Everything Tessera does on your own machine — every block type, every shape, databases, history, all five export formats — is yours for nothing, for ever, with no account. A plan pays for the servers that let other people into a document. Run your own server and you pay us nothing at all.
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
Everything on your own machine.
Free
The whole application, offline, with no account. Pages are files in a folder you own, and nothing is withheld from them.
Included with the app- Documents and infinite boards, all block and shape types
- Databases, mentions, backlinks, version history
- Import from Markdown, CSV and text
- Export to Markdown, HTML, PDF, PNG and SVG
- Sharing against a server you run yourself
- Sharing on our servers
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 rules.
Talk to us
Run the collaboration server yourself. The application cannot tell the difference and no feature is withheld — this is a supported path, not a downgrade.
Read the setup guide- Everything in Team, on a machine you control
- Accounts and documents never reach us
- One docker compose up, with a published protocol
Grants: doc.publish, invites.create, members.manage, members.grantEdit
Questions worth answering before you pay
Does the app stop working if I cancel?
No. Everything local keeps working for ever, on the version you have, with no account and no check. What ends is 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 — the app keeps a full copy of everything you have opened.
What am I actually paying for?
Servers, storage, backups, and someone keeping them patched. That is the honest answer. If you would rather do those things yourself, the Self-hosted column is the same software with nothing withheld, and it costs you nothing.
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.
Compare
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.
| Capability | Personal | Pro | Team | Self-hosted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local editing and export | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Publish a document for sharing doc.publish |
Own server only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Share links invites.create |
Own server only | 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.