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REVIEW
Notion's Android app finally caught up. The complaint shifted accordingly.
After years of being the worse twin of the iOS rebuild, the Android client is now broadly at parity. Which means it now has all the same feature anxieties — just without the AirPods integration.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 7, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI
NOTION LABS, INC.
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8.0
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Notion’s Android app spent most of the 2020s being a worse version of Notion’s iOS app, which spent most of the 2020s being a worse version of Notion’s desktop app. The 2024 iOS rebuild closed the desktop gap. The 2025 Android rebuild closed the iOS gap. As of mid-2026, all three Notion clients are recognisably the same product.
Which is, finally, where the conversation can be about the product itself, instead of about which client is the broken one.
The Android app is good. The product the Android app gives you access to has spent two years acquiring features — AI, Calendar, Mail, Forms, Workflow agents, Sites — at a pace that has begun to look less like development and more like searching. None of it is poorly built. All of it points at a company that has stopped being sure what it is.
The Android app got a great year of engineering attention. The product wrapped around it has had a confused two.
FEATURES
The Notion Android client is now built in Jetpack Compose and shares the same offline-first storage model that the iOS rebuild adopted in 2024. Pages open instantly, blocks render incrementally as you scroll, and the bottom-sheet block menu finally feels like it belongs on Android instead of being ported from iPad.
Free, Plus ($10/month), Business ($15/month/user), Enterprise (negotiated). Notion AI is a $10/month add-on for free users or bundled into Business and above. The mobile clients now ship Notion AI parity — Q&A, AI writer, and the new Workflow agents that run in the background to summarise, tag, or move pages based on rules you describe in plain English.
Web clipper integrations work via the Android share sheet. Calendar (the rebranded Cron) is a separate app. Mail is a separate app. The feature-product list is now four apps, in a way Notion never quite admits in its onboarding.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The Android app has stopped being the embarrassing sibling. Performance is good, sync is reliable, AI features run identically to iOS and macOS. The Material 3 theming makes the app feel native instead of imported, which it didn't pre-2025.
The core editor experience — the slash-menu, the block dragging, the database view-switching — is the same product that won Notion the desktop market. On a tablet specifically, the Android build now genuinely competes with the iPad version, which used to be a one-sided fight.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Notion the company has spent two years adding products: AI, Calendar, Mail, Workflow agents, Sites, Forms. None of these are bad. Together they're a coherent strategy, but inside any one app the surface keeps growing. Power users have started complaining about exactly the kind of bloat Notion was supposed to be the alternative to.
Pricing has also drifted. The Plus tier is now $10/user — for an Android user wanting AI features, the realistic monthly cost is $10 + $10 = $20. That's higher than Apple One Premier, which includes Apple Music and iCloud and Apple TV+. The value comparison is no longer flattering.
CONCLUSION
If you're an Android user who'd given up on Notion mobile, this is the year to reinstall. The client is no longer the weak link. Whether the product wrapped around it is still what you wanted is a separate question — and "yes" is no longer the obvious answer.