Pricing

Free on your machine.
Paid when you go multiplayer.

Baalda is open core. Your personal second brain is free and open source forever. You pay when it becomes the team's: the managed backend for sync, real-time collaboration, permissions and hosted AI. Self-hosters can run the backend themselves at no cost.

Local & self-host

Free

$0 / forever
  • Local notes, editor & file tree
  • Full-text local search
  • Backlinks & graph view
  • Works completely offline
  • Your files stay on your disk
  • Self-host the backend (Apache-2.0)
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Managed backend

Team

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  • Everything in Free
  • Multi-device sync
  • Real-time collaboration & presence
  • Folder sharing & per-file permissions
  • Hosted AI editing via MCP
  • Managed, always-on backend
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The app ships pointing at our managed backend by default, with an editable server URL in Settings, so self-hosters can point the same binary at their own server. Same app for everyone. Read the source · Releases