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Wretify vs Notion
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
What is the difference between Wretify and Notion?
Notion is an all-in-one online workspace for notes, documents, databases and projects, on the web, desktop and phone.
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
Notion is a workspace for everything; Wretify is one room for writing a nonfiction book. Wretify keeps each chapter as a plain Markdown file in your own Google Drive, puts citations inside the sentences they support and builds the reference list, and its AI has read everything you have written but refuses to write for you.
What is Notion best at?
Notion puts notes, documents, task lists and databases in one flexible workspace that you can shape to how you work, share with a team, and reach from any device. Many writers use it to plan projects, track research and keep everything around a book in one place.
Writers who want their writing, research, plans and tasks in one customisable workspace, often shared with others.
Wretify and Notion, side by side
| Wretify | Notion | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Nonfiction books and articles. | Notes, documents, databases and team projects. |
| Devices | In the web browser, on a computer or a phone. Nothing to install. | Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. |
| Price | One plan with every feature: $7 a month or $45 a year. The first 1,000 writers get 3 months free. Opens October 27, 2026. | A free plan for individuals, and paid Plus and Business plans. |
| Where your writing lives | Plain Markdown files in a Wretify folder in your own Google Drive. Wretify keeps no other copy. | Notion’s cloud (Amazon Web Services, in the United States by default). Export to Markdown, HTML or PDF. |
| AI | Bring your own key (Claude, Gemini or DeepSeek). The AI reads everything you have written, thinks with you and brings you real research and your own earlier passages. It does not draft your chapters; nothing reaches the page unless you press Replace or Insert, or drag it there. | Notion AI drafts and edits pages; the full AI agent is on the Business plan. |
| Footnotes and citations | Footnotes inside the sentence they support. Each chapter builds its own References list (APA 7) from them. Sources come from 250 million real papers (OpenAlex), never invented. | No built-in footnotes or citation tools. |
| Export | A chapter as Markdown, Word or PDF; a whole book as Markdown, Word or EPUB, with a bibliography. | PDF, HTML, and Markdown with CSV. |
| Offline | Once opened on a device, you can keep writing offline; it syncs to your Drive when you reconnect. The AI needs a connection. | Pages you choose, in the desktop and phone apps. |
Should I choose Wretify or Notion?
Choose Notion if you want one workspace for notes, tasks, databases and documents, shared with a team.
Choose Wretify if you want to write a book in a quiet room, with footnotes and references built in, and your chapters as files you own.
Can I use Wretify and Notion together?
Wretify can bring your existing writing in from Notion, so moving a book over does not mean copying it page by page.
How does Wretify compare to other writing apps?
Every major writing app is good at something different. The full guide answers what the best software for writing books is, app by app.
Sources
- Notion — www.notion.com/product
- Notion pricing — www.notion.com/pricing
- Notion desktop apps — www.notion.com/desktop
- Notion mobile apps — www.notion.com/mobile
- Notion data residency — www.notion.com/help/data-residency
- Notion AI agent — www.notion.com/help/notion-agent
- Export your Notion content — www.notion.com/help/export-your-content
- Use Notion pages offline — www.notion.com/help/use-pages-offline
Updated . Prices and features of other apps are taken from their own websites on that date and can change. Wretify is our product, so we have tried hard to be fair to the others. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.