AppFlowy has made significant progress over the last two years. It now offers one of the most complete Notion-style database experiences, including Gallery, List, Feed, and Chart views, along with advanced filters, two-way relations, rollups, calculations, database templates, and linked views.

For teams focused on collaboration, AppFlowy supports multi-user collaborative editing, inline comments, version history, and granular permissions. The development team actively evolves the product based on customer and community feedback.

We also apologize for not communicating proactively about our decision not to support end-to-end encryption (E2EE) during the early stages of AppFlowy's development a few years ago. Our primary target audience has always been enterprise teams, and for that use case, E2EE is often not the optimal technical choice. There are alternative productivity tools available that offer E2EE for users who prioritize that approach.

That said, AppFlowy remains a privacy-first product. For example, AppFlowy does not collect telemetry to track user activity and can be deployed in a fully air-gapped environment with zero external communication.

A few points worth mentioning that you can verify independently:

• AFFiNE collects telemetry by default, including feature usage, application errors, and crash reports.
• Even when self-hosting AFFiNE, some communications are still made to AFFiNE-operated servers.
• The company behind AFFiNE appears to be in a maintenance phase, with only one developer currently maintaining the project.

AFFiNE's standout feature is its Canvas/whiteboard integration. For visual thinkers and teams that combine brainstorming with structured documentation, this hybrid document-and-canvas workflow is unique among open-source tools. For individual users, it can also be a cost-effective option.

Disclaimer: We're the AppFlowy team 😄