What Anytype does

Anytype is a Berlin-headquartered software company, legally structured as a Swiss association (Any Association) domiciled in Zug, Switzerland, that develops a local-first, end-to-end encrypted productivity application. Founded in 2018, the platform enables individual users and teams to create, interlink, and organize notes, tasks, databases, documents, and projects using a block-based editor with multiple visualization views (Table, Kanban, Gallery). The underlying architecture is peer-to-peer with no centralized servers: data is encrypted on the user's device with a 12-word mnemonic recovery phrase serving as the master key, then synchronized across the user's devices via decentralized backup nodes on the Anytype Network, with optional self-hosting or local-only operation. Protocols are released under the MIT license, while applications are distributed under a source-available license. The company employs 51-100 people across a Berlin team hub and the Swiss association structure, with an EU representative entity (Anylab GmbH) handling GDPR compliance.

Anytype monetizes through a four-tier subscription model (Free at 100MB, Plus at $4/month for 1GB, Pro at $8/month for 10GB, Ultra at $16/month for 100GB), with a 20% annual discount and a separate 50% educator/student discount. An enterprise offering, Anytype for Business, adds SSO, admin panel, shared workspace, CRM, and chat functionality with self-hosting capability. Distribution is direct-to-consumer through self-serve downloads and major app stores (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux), complemented by community-led growth via the community forum, official blog, documentation, YouTube, and the ANY Experience Gallery template marketplace. The customer base, per disclosed testimonials, consists predominantly of privacy-conscious individual users and micro-business users, with enterprise customers in early-stage development.

The company raised $13.4 million in seed funding in August 2023, led by Balderton Capital with participation from Protocol Labs, Script Capital, Square One, Inflection, Connect Ventures, Techstars, and numerous other institutional and angel investors, bringing total disclosed funding to approximately $14.7 million. The platform launched its open beta concurrent with the funding round and maintains a monthly cross-platform release cadence. Co-founder and CEO Zhanna Sharipova leads the company, which is supported by a network of 42+ individual advisors and backers including notable figures from the decentralized web ecosystem.

Name

Anytype

Legal name

Any Association

Website

https://anytype.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Anytype is a Berlin-based software company that builds a local-first, end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer productivity application for privacy-conscious individuals, teams, and organizations seeking secure note-taking, task management, and collaboration without centralized cloud servers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Productivity Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Secure/Encrypted Messaging (BPAMACAG)

Keywords

• Local-first software
• End-to-end encryption
• Peer-to-peer productivity
• Note-taking application
• Knowledge management

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Subscription Memberships: Four-tier subscription model (Free, Plus, Pro, Ultra) providing increasing storage quotas and ANY ID features. Free tier includes 100MB remote storage and limited shared channels. Paid tiers offer 1GB to 100GB storage, unlimited channels, and shorter ANY ID names. Annual billing with 20% discount. Additional 50% discount for educators and students.
2. Anytype for Business: Enterprise-tier subscription targeting teams with SSO, admin panel, and shared workspace capabilities for knowledge, projects, CRM, and chat. Self-hosting option available.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Anytype provides a local-first, end-to-end encrypted productivity workspace that operates peer-to-peer with no central servers. It combines note-taking, task management, knowledge base creation, and a graph-based data model into a unified personal information manager. The product is available across desktop and mobile platforms with multi-device sync via cryptographic peer-to-peer networking.

Product overview

Anytype is a single, unified privacy-focused productivity application that provides note-taking, task management, and project organization through a local-first, end-to-end encrypted architecture. The core Anytype product offers block-based editing, databases, templates, and widgets with peer-to-peer synchronization across multiple platforms. The ecosystem includes Anytype for Business (enterprise tier with SSO, admin panel, and team collaboration features) and the ANY Experience Gallery (community template marketplace). All products share the same encryption-first, offline-capable foundation with no server dependency.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Anytype for Business: Business workspace offering with SSO, admin panel, and shared workspace for knowledge, projects, CRM, and chat.
• ANY Experience Gallery

Products and services

• Anytype A local-first, end-to-end encrypted productivity workspace for individuals that combines notes, tasks, knowledge graph, calendar, and project planning in a single app. Syncs peer-to-peer across devices without central servers, suitable for personal knowledge management, journaling, and life organization.
• Anytype for Business
• ANY Experience Gallery A community-driven gallery of templates, dashboards, and ready-made workspaces that Anytype users can install and share. Functions as a content/template distribution platform within the Anytype ecosystem.

Quantifiable outcome

• Data encrypted before leaving device - zero-knowledge architecture ensures company cannot decrypt user content
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Obsidian: Local-first Markdown knowledge base with backlinks, graph view, and community plugins. Direct comparable to Anytype in local-first architecture and prosumer/individual user base, but stores files as plain Markdown on disk rather than using P2P encryption.
• Notion: Cloud-based all-in-one productivity workspace combining notes, databases, and collaboration. Anytype explicitly positions itself as the privacy-focused alternative to Notion, targeting users who reject Notion's cloud-centralized model.
• Logseq: Open-source, local-first outliner and knowledge graph with block-based editing. Closely comparable to Anytype in target user (privacy-focused knowledge workers), local-first philosophy, and graph/block data model.
• Standard Notes: End-to-end encrypted notes application with extended paid tiers for files, tasks, and Markdown editing. Direct comparable to Anytype on the E2E-encryption and zero-knowledge dimensions, with overlapping privacy-conscious individual customer base.
• Bear Notes: Apple-ecosystem note-taking app with Markdown, tags, and encrypted sync. Comparable to Anytype in the individual note-taking use case, particularly for Mac/iOS users prioritizing design and privacy.

Emerging players

• Tana: AI-native knowledge management tool with supertags and structured outlining. Targets the same power-user productivity segment as Anytype, with overlapping appeal to users building personalized information systems, though Tana is cloud-based.
• CryptPad: End-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite (docs, sheets, code, whiteboard). Overlaps with Anytype on the zero-knowledge, privacy-first productivity positioning and shared workspace use case.

Broad incumbents

• Evernote: Established cloud-based note-taking and organization platform with enterprise tier. Represents the incumbent alternative that Anytype's privacy/local-first positioning pushes against, especially in the SMB and individual productivity segment.
• ClickUp: All-in-one productivity platform spanning docs, tasks, whiteboards, and chat. Comparable to Anytype's 'work and play' positioning and overlapping team/enterprise target market, though ClickUp is cloud-based and feature-broad.
• Microsoft Loop: Microsoft's collaborative productivity component within Microsoft 365, enabling portable, co-editable content blocks across Office apps. Represents the bundled-enterprise alternative Anytype for Business competes against, leveraging massive distribution and enterprise penetration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/anytypelabs
• GitHubgithub.com/anyproto
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@Anytype
• Facebookfacebook.com/Anytypelabs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/anytype

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors14 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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