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Visual boards solution for organizing ideas and projects

Milanote Features

Features Summary

Functionality

4.4

/5

59

Total features

31

4 categories

Milanote features

Approval Workflow
Automatic Backup
Brainstorming
Collaboration Tools
Communication Management
Content Management
Customizable Templates
Data Synchronization

Common features of Collaboration software

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API
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Assignment Management
Brainstorming

Price starts from

12.50

Per month

Flat Rate

Pricing options
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Contenders comparison

Functionality

4.4

/5

59

Price starts from

12.50

Per month

Total Features

31

Unique features

  • Project Management

  • Image Library

  • Whiteboard

  • Idea Ranking

Functionality

4.6

/5

23.3K

Price starts from

8.75

/user

Per month

Total Features

73

Features in Common

11

Unique features

  • Group Management

  • API

  • Screen Recording

  • Employee Directory

Functionality

4.6

/5

13.6K

Price starts from

6.99

Per month

Total Features

68

Features in Common

11

Unique features

  • Email Templates

  • Archiving & Retention

  • Search/Filter

  • Document Storage

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Tristan C.

Computer Games, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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The BEST project management tool 2022

Reviewed 2 years ago

great experience. would definitely use it for future projects

Pros

This can be used in so many ways, from whiteboard to mind maps, to brainstorming ideas. lets you use words or imported pics

Cons

Allowing access can be frustrating sometimes

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Jeremy S.

Entertainment, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Milanote Just Works!

Reviewed 2 years ago

Milanote is a great software that allows for quick and easy iteration of ideas using their built-in flexible tools to mindmap, organize, and sketch out almost any idea you could have!

Pros

Milanote is a very versatile solution to ideation and whiteboarding that does a great job. It is perfect for online moodboards, storyboarding, documentation, and mindmaping.

Cons

I wish rather than having a card limit for all boards there was a board limit and a card limit per board. As is, the software doesn't have enough PAID features to make the paid version worth it, and the free version is lacking enough to use it as anything other than an idea board. I still prefer Jira or Trello for project management, and PureRef for my moodboards (even though that doesn't allow for collaboration and isn't online).

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Kobey C.

Mining & Metals, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Make Organizing Tasks Easier with Milanote

Reviewed 4 months ago

I love Milanote for the user experience. Dragging and dropping images is super easy and intuitive, and relationships between images or other objects are super simple to create. Milanote has helped keep my thoughts organized.

Pros

I like the ease of use of Milanote. Milanote is one of the most intuitive organization apps. I enjoy the simple and user friendly interface and the fact that there is no feature you will struggle to find. One of my all-time favorite features of Milanote is how easy it is to drag and drop images from google images or elsewhere directly into Milanote without copying, pasting, or saving.

Cons

I think the drawing tool could be a bit better.

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Trevor B.

Alternative Medicine, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Milanote's Evolutionary Journey 😇✈️😊

Reviewed 2 years ago

Collaboration, streaming work flow, better project management, this software is a must for any business, 5*****'s.

Pros

It has so many features, post graphic previews, pdf document sharing, brainstorming sessions, video content, website development, project management, team management, and last but not least, a great tool at a great price.

Cons

When this software came along, I was fairly disappointed, I compared it to the likes of cling. Since its evolutionary journey has progressed, the company have listened to feedback of its users. That initially was the big hang up. Not listening. It had so much potential, just didn't tap into what the customer saw and wanted. Now however, things are very different, and its a pleasure to work with.

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Mauricio A.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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One of the best tools for ideation

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Milanote it's pretty easy to understand and to deploy within your team. Also the tools that they have for making mudboards or brainstorms are amazing, with that and the facilities for collaboration you can ideate projects or products on your computer like having your teamates next to you.

Cons

You can't track the progress of activities on a detailed way, also you can't see how many activities each team member have to do. At the end I understand that Milanote it's not focusing on these things but it would be nice to have them.

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Jakub H.

Design, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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Nice tool for millenial teams

Reviewed 2 years ago

I used the app quite a lot at the beginning and tried to pull all my colleagues into using it. After some projects we realized that the free tier is slightly unusable for us and so we moved to something else.

Pros

I like the overall appearance of the tool and the way it allowed me to store ideas and data in one place and share it with others. Visually and simply via drag-and-drop.

Cons

The structuring of content in layers and "buckets" went so far it became nearly impossible to know where what asset is stored.

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Adam S.

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Milanote is a terrific creative canvas for ideation, research, collaboration and everyday notetaking

Reviewed 7 years ago

Milanote is a creative workflow asset. It allows me to rapidly iterate on just about anything that's how versatile I've found it to be.

Pros

Milanote has an elegantly simple interface. It's great for capturing notes on the go, consolidating and mapping your research findings, organising your creative ideas, arranging all of the above into projects and using whatever system/workflow suits you (and your team, in realtime).

Cons

As a product, Milanote sits somewhere between a fully-fledged word processor and an online file storage service, like Dropbox. It's not either of those extremes, so manage your expectations! However, it is absolutely terrific at filling the void in between.

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Jovan M.

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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One of the best tools for organizing creative projects within the team

Reviewed 6 years ago

When you need to create content from stretch you need to have everything organized in one place (copy, visuals, external sources etc.) and everything needs to be visually well arranged. Milanote provides us everything you need in one place, so we can move faster with our tasks and deadlines.

Pros

I like to use Milanote for website content creation, customer journey mapping and even for creating simple diagrams. The learning curve of using this tool is not so long, you can conclude everything that tool can do within the few hours. Great UX and UI visual experience.

Cons

Struggling with shaping and moving arrows.

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Alexa R.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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I can't live without Milanote, I use it for EVERYTHING

Reviewed 5 years ago

Everything I used to do with a corkboard I can now do on Milanote. I have so much of my planning, writing, and proposals in this software now, it is my go-to anytime I need to quickly get something out of my head and onto "paper". It's the one software I can't imagine running my business without.

Pros

I use Milanote daily, for everything from mapping out a new story to creating wireframes for clients, to merely clipping quotes from the web for later use. It is such a versatile tool. I think of it like Evernote, but without all of the constraints. If you are a visual person who likes to storyboard out your ideas without having to fit it in a box, this is perfect. The templates are really great too.

Cons

The mobile app has been a long time coming and I'm getting happier with it by the day. I do wish I could share the live board with clients or friends without them needing to signup, like a view-only option, but that's not a dealbreaker since the export to PDF option fills in the gap.

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Dominique B.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Easiest way to organize strategies and workflows

Reviewed 5 years ago

This is the main tool that my team and I turn to when organizing new marketing campaigns, outlining strategies and gathering inspiration.

Pros

Super easy to organize ideas and share concepts with the team. The ability to add arrows, imagery and comments makes it super easy to decipher complex ideas with the team in one view. The ability to add links right onto the board with previews make for a great visual planning tool. The Milanote team provides amazing ongoing communication with examples of how other users organize their projects and new features

Cons

The comment feature is great for team input, but there is no way to hide comments while previewing the board without completely dismissing it/deleting the comment altogether. When sharing a collaborative board with my team, I would love it if they were able to view other's comments with the ability to turn the comment view on and off

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Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Effortlessly Organize Your Creative Ideas with Milanote

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

As a user, I highly recommend Milanote for organizing and scaling up the clarity of ideas. The flexible drag-and-drop interface allows me to arrange my projects in a way that makes the most sense for each one. The platform is intuitive and easy to navigate, allowing me to quickly find everything I need. The visual appearance is beautiful and feels like bullet journaling, and the ability to adjust the boards to any length or width is a fantastic feature. I have used many project and content management systems in the past, but Milanote stands out as one of the cleanest and most user-friendly. I love using it to create and manage my social media calendars.

Cons

Milanote falls short in some functionalities, such as lacking edit history tracking and restricting content on mobile app for TikTok and Instagram posting. Additionally, it seems to lack flexibility in areas such as naming links. Overall, while it excels in organization, it may not meet all users' expectations in terms of functionality.

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Health, Wellness and Fitness, self-employed

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Perfect mind mapping tool

Reviewed a year ago

I've been working with Milanote for the past 7 months. I'm using it weekly and it feels comfortable for me to integrate it in my projects.

Pros

Milanote has de most efficient yet faster Mind mapping tool on the market. The visual workspace and all its flexibility, make brainstorming gets easier and faster. Mainly when you need to work remotely and need to share files, ideas, copy texts, mood boards, etc. with collaborators or partners in your projects. I really love the use of icons, images, and charts to visualize any project management workflow or idea.

Cons

I'm still giving it a try, but for now, it feels very complete and it brings me all the tools I need for my projects. Maybe I do prefer using it on my PC or Laptop than on mobile... but it is just an opinion...

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saad h.

Design, self-employed

Used daily for 6-12 months

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My honest review of Milanote

Reviewed a year ago

Excellent, fantastic, and incredible, one of my favorite tools not just as a designer but as an Entrepreneur

Pros

Everything, from the design to the ease of use and the overall experience, I also like that I haven't had a single problem to date with this amazing tool

Cons

That is not known more, yes Milanote is that perfect, I wish more people use it so it would be even better in terms of sharing and collaborating.

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Maria G.

51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Made for Designers

Reviewed 7 years ago

I'm able to feel more organized. As a designer, I benefit greatly from having everything in one place vs physical boards. I can take it with me on the go, on my phone and it's been great for collaboration with my team.

Pros

My favorite aspect of Milanote is having the ability to create different boards. I work as a UX designer so the boards have been an amazing way to collect research, images, references and to compile them in a way that is visually easy to look at and organized.

Cons

When I have long pieces of text, it tends to expand in length but not in width. Having more control of the text boxes so they can be adjusted using the cursor in terms of both width and height would be very useful!

MB
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Megan B.

Online Media, self-employed

Used other for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Milanote is a great tool and fun to use

Reviewed 4 years ago

I use Milanote to help plan my website and make mindmaps about future content for my site. It's a great way to save notes and photos to inspire you and your team.

Pros

I love that you can organize thoughts and things in a visual way. The tool can be used to plan designs or anything really using a visual layout. You can also save links to websites and make notes etc. You can make some amazing mindmaps and vision boards using Milanote.

Cons

The price is a bit prohibitive for me personally. The free tier allows a medium level of usage. I think with a few more features it could replace other tools like evernote.

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Pablo S.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Very happy with the ease of use and the possibilities. But there's still much to improve.

Reviewed 7 years ago

Organise projects I'm working on and future ideas and projects. Feel a bit more organize with it, but still needs a lot of improvements to really be used much more. Especially for the price it has.

Pros

Ease of use, very visual and intuitive. Being able to organize everything the way I want is one of my favorite features compared to other tools like Evernote that I found quite restrictive in this sense. The possibility to create any possible combination of notes, boards, images, it's great and allows to create each board different according to your needs.

Cons

Still lots of things to add and improve, especially for the cost it has. In my opinion, the actual price of the pro version doesn't justify the features available. There is no android app, so it's almost impossible to use on your mobile phone, becoming just a desktop app. I miss the option to upload files of any type and modify the notes to be wider if we need so we can add paragraphs of text easily.

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Education Management, 201-500 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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I love Milanote

Reviewed a year ago

I love it so far! Will use it for help with studying and game development projects with friends.

Pros

It's very aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. I love that i can collaborate with friends for free whereas some alternatives make you pay money to even try out the real time collaboration features.

Cons

I would like some more features but not too many so that it doesn't become bloated like Notion.Maybe i just haven't found it yet but it would be nice if we had rows along with the column feature. or maybe just put 2 in 1 and call it a grid? I tried to add cards to the right or left of other ones in a column and sadly it didn't work. It's not a big deal though.

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Michelle S.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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A go-to for pretty much everything

Reviewed a year ago

Great. Amazing tool for presentation, brainstorming, collaboration and the templates are great places to start for any workflow. I love that images and videos and links can be uploaded with ease. It's a great, versatile tool that helps collect everything into one place.

Pros

I absolutely love Milanote and the ease of use for the tool. It's my go-to for client presentations and I love that boards can be downloaded into a PDF or word doc for easy sharing. This has become a staple in my business and my clients also enjoy the ease of use and collaboration Milanote provides.

Cons

Would be cool if you could customize the fonts a bit more, otherwise don't have any complaints thus far.

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Candace E.

11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Working with Milanote has made tasks like mood-boarding and team collaboration so easy.

Reviewed 7 years ago
Pros

The ease of use is definitely one of the pros. The software is fast/easy to learn , and easy to use. It lets you focus on the task at hand and not get frustrated with convoluted user experiences.

Cons

More functionality around team collaborate would be great. A way to see who is leaving feedback or comments and a way to comment back. Maybe in a comment thread.

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Stanislava P.

Telecommunications, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Collaboration at its best.

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

Milanote is by far most efficient and most easy tool to use. Every feature is very well optimized and collaboration between me and my team is just amazing. We can even create a live chat and have a conversation about ongoing topics.

Cons

The only thing i dont like about MilaNote is its default color scheme which is not that pleasent to my eyes. Other then that it is perfect. Im sure they will work more on their UX.

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Evelyn S.

Media Production, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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CREATIVITY ALL IN ONE

Reviewed 4 years ago

I started due to a recommendation of a youtuber, and I really loved it. Now I use the app on my phone and desktop, is great to show and explain ideas to my co workers and clients.

Pros

As a creator Im in love with this software, I tend to do a lot of visual moodboard to pitch ideas to clients of my agency,but also for me to develop new workflows, marketing strategies and more. With Milanote Im able to have all the ideas in one board and access to them with connectors so all of the strategy and workflows stays consistent. Also I have access to those boards from my phone.

Cons

It is limited to a certain amount of cards, but this is only in the free version. The paid one is really unexpensive and gives you a lot of great options.

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Behrouz J.

Real Estate,

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Helps me see the bigger picture

Reviewed 7 years ago

A lot! It's been a great addition to my workflow.

Pros

Helps me manage my projects, especially the creative projects. It's flexible and fun to use. I can export my canvases.

Cons

Limitations in colour-coding. Can't have more than one canvas open. Can't zoom out. Still can't open files (like PDFs, etc) in the app.

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Veronica T.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great board, great templates

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Milanote is a very intuitive software to use. The free version displays all the available features (although there is limited storage, and fairly you have to pay for more).I like that there are many templates to choose, which provide practical examples for using the board properly. The software can be customised as needed.

Cons

I haven’t tried yet to share the board with any colleagues so I can’t tell whether or not this feature works well.

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Sarah K.

Public Relations and Communications, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Collaborating Creatively

Reviewed 5 years ago

I have been using Milanote for a little over a year now and believe it has increased my productivity and allowed our team to contribute in a more well rounded way. The templates are a great starting point, especially if you are stuck somewhere on a project.

Pros

I love the preset templates that Milanote offers and the real-time collaboration it supports. For any step along the creative process, I can integrate Milanote to share progress with my team. I like that when I project is finished, I can export all the boards used and archive them offline, locally on my computer.

Cons

I wish there was more space to work with on the free version, so that I could experience taking a project from start to complete without having to purchase

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Rick P.

Design, 1-10 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Extremely powerful visual brainstorming tool

Reviewed 5 years ago

Surprisingly fun visual tool for brainstorming. I'd love to be able to afford it.

Pros

Milanote is an easy to use and very powerful tool for those who work through problems and projects visually and spatially. Although the purpose of the various tools is obvious, the onboarding was perfect. It's fun to use! You could fool around for hours experimenting. The templates are helpful. I like being able to layer boards on top of boards. This is much more than a moodboard or scrapbook app. Very intelligently implemented.

Cons

The free plan is very limited and I'm not sure you can prove the tool's value to use with only 100 elements allowed. But 10 bucks a month per user for unlimited elements and storage isn't a bad price.