Let's not bury it: Akiflow does not have a free plan. There is no free tier, no permanently-free mode, and no reduced version you can keep using once you stop paying. What Akiflow offers is a 7-day free trial, after which the app is subscription-only.
If you came here hoping for a free time-blocking tool, that's the answer, and you can stop reading. If you're trying to work out whether the trial is worth starting and what the bill looks like afterwards, the rest of this is for you.
What "free" means at Akiflow
Akiflow's pricing page leads with "Start your 7-day free trial today." Every call-to-action on the page carries the same line: 7 days free. Cancel anytime.
That's the whole free story. There is no:
- free forever tier,
- free read-only or viewer mode,
- free plan with capped task counts,
- or free tier for individuals with a paid team plan alongside it.
Akiflow is priced as a professional tool for people who want to consolidate several apps into one command bar, and the pricing reflects that positioning rather than a freemium funnel.
One thing the page does not state either way is whether the trial requires a credit card up front. If that matters to you, check at signup rather than assuming — some competitors advertise "no credit card required" explicitly, and Akiflow doesn't make that claim on the pricing page.
What Akiflow costs after the trial
Two options, one product. There are no feature-limited tiers — you get the same Akiflow either way, and the only variable is billing cadence.
| Plan | Price | Billed |
|---|---|---|
| Pro Monthly | $34/month | Monthly |
| Pro Yearly | $19/month | Yearly |
Akiflow labels the yearly option as saving 44%, which checks out against the $34 monthly rate. At $19/month billed yearly, the annual commitment works out to $228 per year.
Two things worth knowing about that table:
Akiflow runs time-limited coupons. When we read the pricing page, a countdown banner was offering a coupon discount on the yearly plan, with the $19 figure struck through next to a lower promotional one. These come and go, and whichever one is running when you visit probably won't be the one running now — treat $19/month billed yearly as the standing rate, and anything below it as a bonus you may or may not catch.
There is a student and researcher discount, but no published amount. The pricing page invites university students and researchers to email support for "exclusive discounts" without saying how much. If you qualify, ask — just don't budget around a number nobody has published.
Team pricing isn't listed publicly either; running Akiflow across a team routes through a sales conversation.
What you get for it
Since there's only one paid product, the feature list is the plan. Akiflow's page lists, among others:
- Calendar with time blocking — drag tasks onto your calendar as blocks; two-way sync with Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar.
- Tasks and subtasks, recurring tasks, priorities, labels and tags, lists and categories, due dates.
- Quick capture and a heavily keyboard-driven interface — the command bar is the product's signature.
- A daily planning ritual — a structured plan-your-day flow.
- Aki AI assistant plus an MCP connector.
- Emails into tasks, availability sharing / meeting links, productivity analytics.
- Zapier and IFTTT automations, desktop and mobile apps, team collaboration.
The shape of it: Akiflow is a scheduling tool more than a list tool. Its core claim is that you'll stop keeping tasks in six places and start actually putting them on a calendar. If you already time-block by hand and hate the friction, that's a real problem being solved. If you don't time-block at all, you're paying $228/year for a workflow you may not adopt.
Should you start the trial?
Seven days is short for a tool whose value is a habit. A time-blocking app doesn't prove itself in an afternoon — it proves itself on the third chaotic Wednesday when the plan survives contact with reality. If you start the trial, start it on a Monday of a normal working week, not a quiet one.
Some honest guidance on fit:
- Good fit: your tasks live across Gmail, Slack, Notion, Jira, and a calendar, and the actual failure is that nothing ever gets scheduled.
- Poor fit: you want a simple checklist, or you capture on the go from a phone and rarely sit at a desktop. Akiflow's centre of gravity is the desktop command bar.
- Watch the price against your usage. $228/year is roughly four times what most all-in-one task managers charge. That's defensible for a tool you open forty times a day; it's hard to justify for one you open twice.
The free alternatives worth knowing about
If the answer you actually needed was "what is free in this category," the honest map looks like this: TickTick and Todoist both run permanent free tiers with real task management. Google Tasks is free and minimal. Sunsama, like Akiflow, is trial-only. We covered the field in Akiflow alternatives.
How Vyneron compares
Kept to the end on purpose, so the Akiflow facts stand on their own.
Vyneron answers the "is it free" question differently: yes, permanently.
- Free — $0 forever, with no trial clock on the core product. Unlimited tasks, notes, and routines; Telegram and Slack integration; worldwide holiday coverage; 10 files / 50 MB storage. AI is included for your first 7 days (50 messages/day). After that, add a free Gemini or Groq API key and AI keeps working at $0, with 0% markup — you pay the provider, and for free-tier keys the provider charges nothing.
- Solo — $6/month or $59/year. 150 AI messages/day, unlimited voice transcription, 500 files / 2.5 GB.
- Multi — bracket pricing, not per-seat: $12/mo ($119/yr) for 2–3 users, $20/mo ($199/yr) for 4–6, $35/mo ($349/yr) for 7–12, $60/mo ($599/yr) for 13–25.
- Enterprise — custom pricing for 26+ users.
- 14-day money-back guarantee, and the first 250 Founder members lock 33% off Solo yearly forever — $39 instead of $59.
The difference in kind, not just in price: Akiflow's bet is that you'll sit at a desktop and schedule your day deliberately. Vyneron's bet is that you'll capture on the move — message a Telegram bot with text, a voice note, or a photo and let it become a task — and that routines should skip public holidays automatically instead of needing manual rescheduling.
They're not competing for the same hour of your day. But if the reason you're pricing Akiflow is "I want this to be free," Vyneron's free plan is a genuine answer rather than a countdown.
Still comparing? Read the best Akiflow alternatives for the wider field, or start with Vyneron free — no trial timer on the core app.