Aalto vs Milanote
A Milanote alternative built for product curation
Save real products with their price and source, organise them your way, and share them with your clients.
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Milanote is a flexible canvas for notes and early ideas. When your work is about choosing real products for a client, you need each item to carry its price, its source, and the details you specify from. Aalto gives every product that structure and keeps it ready to share.
Which should you choose?
Choose Milanote for open-ended moodboards and early creative direction. Choose Aalto when the board is made of real products you need to price, specify, share with a client and export as a schedule.
Aalto vs Milanote at a glance
| Feature | Aalto | Milanote |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Sourcing and curating real products | Freeform notes, ideas, and boards |
| Saves product details | Price, source URL, and custom fields | Manual notes and links |
| Save from supplier sites | Browser extension captures product data | Web Clipper saves images, links and text |
| Structured views | Table, grid, and canvas over the same data | Board canvas |
| Client sharing | Read-only board of product images and names | Shared boards |
| Export | CSV, XLSX, PDF (Excel and PDF on Pro) | PDF and image export |
Every product is a record
Aalto treats each product as data with a price, a source, and custom fields, so you can sort, filter, and export a real schedule.
Table, grid and canvas over the same products
See the same products as a table, a grid, or an open canvas, and switch whenever the moment calls for it.
Built for client decisions
Share a read-only board of product images and names with a client, with no account needed, and keep the sourcing decision moving.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Aalto and Milanote?
Milanote is a visual board for notes, images and links, built for organising creative projects. Aalto is built for real products: each saved item keeps its name, brand, price, image, supplier link and your custom fields, so you can sort it in a table and export a schedule.
Can I use Aalto as a moodboard?
Yes. Aalto has a freeform canvas view for arranging products and images, and the same products also appear in a grid and a sortable table.
Is Aalto free like Milanote?
Both have free plans. Milanote's free plan is capped at 100 notes, images or links. Aalto's free plan includes 100 products and one collection, and Pro is $19 per member per month.
Can clients review a board without an account?
Yes. In Aalto you share a read-only link to a board of product images and names, and your client opens it with no login and nothing to install.
From loose boards to real decisions
Give your product research the structure it needs and bring your clients along with it.