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Free, Plus, and what you keep

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Writing things down is free forever. NewTwos Plus unlocks the organizing and customization layers on top.

Why you'd care

The split is deliberate and worth understanding, because it tells you what the product thinks it is. Capture, days, carry-over, reminders, search, sharing and collaboration are all free, with no cap on how much you write. If NewTwos ever stops being worth paying for, you do not lose the ability to write things down.

Free, with no limits

Unlimited things and lists. Daily lists and carry-over. Every capture integration. Voice. Photos. Reminders, including repeating and location-based ones. Calendar sync. Search. Bookmarks and stars. Memories. Trash. Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and links. Sharing, public lists, collaboration and mentions. Passcodes and blur. Map view.

What Plus adds

Broadly, the things that help once you have a lot of material:

  • Organizing: tags, sublists, headings, templates, layouts, clones, backlinks, archive, auto-sort
  • Views: week view, weekly digest, review, universe
  • Formatting: cancel, highlight, text colour, code and quote blocks
  • Customization: the nav bar, Home, the edit bar, swipe actions, fonts, app icons, colour themes, wallpapers, confetti and completion sounds
  • AI: unlimited chat, Ramble, choosing the model

What you keep

This is the part most products are vague about, so to be plain:

  • Anything you bought with coins is yours permanently, subscription or not. Buying a feature outright is a real purchase, not a rental.
  • Some features are grandfathered. Accounts created before a feature was gated keep it free. The docs mark these where they apply, and the marker is generated from the app's own entitlement table rather than typed by hand, so it cannot go stale.
  • Cancelling does not delete anything. You keep every thing you wrote. Plus-only features become read-only rather than destructive: a tagged thing keeps its tags, you just cannot add more.

Tips

  • Start free and stay there until something specific annoys you. The feature you end up wanting is rarely the one you would have guessed on day one.
  • If you only want one Plus feature, look at buying it with coins rather than subscribing.