Gript vs. Notion

A work tool with notes built in. Not a notes tool you forced into work.

Notion is great at pages. It's just not a project manager. Gript ships eight board views, real automations, native time tracking and invoicing, and notebooks for when a doc is the right tool.

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Eight views. Out of the box.

Every view on every plan. Switch with one click on any board.

Table
Kanban
Calendar
Gantt
Dashboard
Timesheet
Workload
Zen

Notion has database views. They require setup per project, have no dependencies, and don't fire automations on recurring pages.

The May 2025 Notion pricing change

AI went from optional to mandatory. The price doubled.

Before: Notion Business
$10 /user /mo
2024 pricing
Notion Business (workspace)$10
Notion AI (optional add-on)Optional
May 2025: Notion bundles AI into Business and raises the base price.
After: Notion Business
$20 /user /mo
2025 pricing, AI bundled
Notion Business (AI bundled)$20
AI now mandatoryNo opt-out

Notion's May 2025 change bundled AI into all paid plans and raised the Business tier price. If you use Notion for project management and weren't using AI, your bill went up. Gript takes the opposite approach: its AI runs on your own provider key, so you only pay the provider directly, with no bundled AI markup on your seats.

Source: Notion changelog and published pricing, May 2025.

No Zapier. No second tool. No template marketplace.

What Notion teams bolt on. Built in.

The pieces you end up wiring together when you try to run real projects in Notion. Gantt with dependencies, time tracking, invoicing, approvals, dashboards, automations that fire on recurring tasks. All here.

Built from templates on Notion Gantt with 4 dependency types
Not on Notion Native time tracking
Not on Notion Native invoicing
Not on Notion Approval workflows
Not on Notion SLA tracking
Export to another tool on Notion Real dashboards
100/database cap on Notion Automation runs, no cap
Broken with recurring on Notion Automations that fire
The five reasons Notion teams switch

Where the database model falls short.

Ranked by what real Notion users hit the wall on. Each one ships in Gript on the Business plan.

01 / Eight views of your work

Built. Not configured page by page.

Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard, Timesheet, Workload, Zen. Switch with one click on any board. Save layouts per person or per team. Filters and groupings travel with the view.

On Notion: every view is a database setup with toggles. The result is static timelines without dependencies, manual progress tracking, and no built-in reports or dashboards.
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Gript board showing all eight view tabs with one-click switching
02 / Recurring tasks that fire your automations

Daily, weekly, every 3rd Tuesday. With patterns. With automations.

Pick the pattern. Pick after completion or on schedule. Pick how sub-items behave. Recurring items show up on time, with the right status, and they fire every automation you wired to them.

On Notion: recurring database templates exist, but they don't fire automations on the new pages they create. A known limitation reviewers describe as requiring manual database entries every time.
Set up a recurring task in the trial →
Gript recurring task settings panel showing frequency and sub-item reset options
03 / Time tracking. Invoicing. Same tool.

Run the project. Track the hours. Send the invoice.

Start a timer on any item. Mark hours billable. Tag client, category, retainer. Filter billable time by date and client. Draft an invoice, send a PDF. P&L and portfolio financials roll up. No bolt-on, no second login.

On Notion: no native time tracking. Workarounds include manual database entries and formula-based timers. Reviewers report 15 to 40 percent of billable hours lost to forgotten entries. Invoicing does not exist.
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Gript invoicing modal sitting over a timesheet with live invoice preview
04 / Automations without a per-action bill

Every automation, one screen. No monthly action cap.

Cross-board automation hub with retry, dead-letter queue, idempotency, and bulk enable-disable. Filter by trigger, action, status, creator. See per-automation success and failure counts. No 100-per-database ceiling.

On Notion: database automations are capped at 100 per database, lack conditional logic, and do not fire on recurring templates. The most common review recommendation is to bolt on a third-party automation tool.
Build an automation in the trial →
Gript Automation Hub showing all automations with trigger filters and run stats
05 / Dashboards. Built in.

Twenty widget types. Drill-down. Live numbers.

Total tasks, completion rate, status breakdown, priority distribution, team workload, recent activity, goal tracker. Click any widget to drill into the items. Date filters survive the click. No data export to a second tool to see a chart.

On Notion: no built-in reports or dashboards. You export your data to another tool, which reviewers describe as a significant hassle for anything more than basic tracking.
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Gript dashboard showing status overview, priority distribution, and team workload widgets
And the rest

Six more things you stop building from scratch.

The pieces Notion users wire together with custom databases, formulas, and integrations. Built into Gript.

Update Requests

Send a secure link to a client or freelancer. They update the items you choose, no login, no seat. You see the changes live.

Notion: not a feature. Comment threads on pages.

Public Board Share

Share a real-time themed board with a client. They see updates the second you make them. No login. No silent guest-to-member upgrade.

Notion: guests can be reclassified as paid members at renewal.

Approval workflows

Multi-stage, parallel or sequential, with a real audit trail. Define who approves what and what happens on reject.

Notion: comment threads and a custom status column.

SLA tracking

Set a response and resolution clock per item, on business hours. See risk before the customer does. Every breach logged.

Notion: a custom field plus a formula plus an automation that doesn't fire on recurring.

Bulk Date Shift

Project slipped two weeks. Select items, shift by N days, skip weekends, exclude completed. Preview every change before applying.

Notion: open each page, type the new date.

Notification Center, inline reply

Mobile-style cards in a single panel. Reply to a comment, mark a task done, dismiss the rest. Tunable by category.

Notion: inbox tab plus email digest plus everyone-watches-everything.
About the docs

Keep your wiki where it is. Or don't.

Notion is wonderful at pages. We won't pretend otherwise. If your team uses Notion as a wiki and you want to keep it that way, Gript is happy to live next to it.

We also ship a real notebook environment, hierarchical, with diagrams and live task and board embeds. If you want one less tool over time, we're ready when you are.

Switch in an afternoon

Bring your Notion pages over as notebooks.

Export your Notion workspace as Markdown and CSV. Drop the zip into Gript. Pages and sub-pages come across as notebooks with the structure intact. Databases come over as CSV, ready to map to boards.

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Gript notebook board embed picker
Side by side

What you get for $8 vs. $20.

Gript Business at $8 per seat compared to Notion Business at approximately $20 per seat with AI bundled.

FeatureGript BusinessNotion Business
Pricing terms
Price per seat per month, annual$8~$20
AI bundled, mandatoryn/aBundled
Guests stay free at renewalMay be upgraded
Project views
Table, Kanban, Calendar
Gantt with 4 dependency types and lagFinish-to-start only
Built-in Dashboard with 20 widget types
Timesheet view
Workload and resource view
Recurring and automations
Recurring tasks with pattern flexibilityLimited
Automations fire on recurring tasksKnown limitation
Automation runs per monthNo cap100 / database
Workspace automation hub
Time, money, capacity
Native time tracking
Native invoicing, P&L, retainers
SLA tracking with breach alerts
Approval workflows, multi-stage
Collaboration
Update Requests, public update portal
Public board share, live and themedRead-only page
Inbound email to board and to My Work
Notes and docs
Notebook environment, hierarchical
Diagrams inside notesEmbeds only
Live task and board embeds in notesLinked DBs
Migration
Import Notion pages as notebooksn/a

Notion Plus is $12 per seat but strips automations and advanced permissions. Business at ~$20 includes AI as a mandatory bundle. Prices sourced from Notion's pricing page, May 2026.

Pricing

One flat seat price. 14 days to try it.

Annual billing shown. Monthly is $7 and $10. Two-year is $4 and $6.40.

Private
$5
per account, billed annually

For one person who runs a lot of work.

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  • Unlimited boards, items, notes
  • 20 GB storage
  • All views, all column types
  • Time tracking, recurring, reminders

No credit card to start. Keep your data on export if you leave.

Run projects in Gript. Keep Notion if you love it.

Import your Notion pages in the trial. Build a board, fire your first automation, send your first invoice. Decide on day 14.

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