Logseq vs Smart Connections
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Logseq
Open-source, local-first outliner in Markdown (OG) and database editio...
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Smart Connections
Local-first related-note discovery for Obsidian
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 6.9 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Both apps are free for local use, personal or commercial (AGPL-3.0). Sync can also be self-hosted, per the DB docs | Core plugin free: related-notes pane, footer connections, Lookup semantic search, local embeddings with no API key or account |
| Paid from | $15/month Open Collective sponsorship (invite-only DB Sync beta) | $25/mo billed yearly ($299/yr) or $30/mo (Pro All-access) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2020 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Jobsi, Inc. |
| Verdict | Logseq is a free, AGPL-licensed outliner built on blocks, backlinks and a daily journal, and it is now two apps. Logseq OG keeps notes as plain Markdown and gets maintenance only; Logseq 2.0 stores graphs in a local data... |
Smart Connections does one job well: it surfaces related notes and passages beside the note you are writing, using a local embedding model with no API key or account. Chat and every API model integration have moved out i... |
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