About
How it works
Pricing & Features
Education
Team
Business model
Roadmap
API / Community Projects
Editorial
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About
Are.na is a place to save content, create collections over time and connect ideas. Privately or with other people.
Students (highly curious and open to new information), hobbyists (deeply into a topic or topics, narrowly focused) or what we call connected knowledge collectors (those more experienced but highly curious information gatherers who can make disparate connections between disciplines) have been the core of our community for 12 years and 251 days
With no ads, likes, or recommendations, Are.na is a more mindful space where you can work through any project over time. It's a place to structure your ideas and build new forms of knowledge together.
How it works
Make connections
Find inspiration and save other members’ channels.
Think better together
Share ideas with team profiles and advanced permissions.
Collect anything
Save images, text, links, files and more from your phone or browser
Make connections
Find inspiration and save other members’ channels.
Think better together
Share ideas with team profiles and advanced permissions.
Collect anything
Save images, text, links, files and more from your phone or browser
Make connections
Find inspiration and save other members’ channels.
Think better together
Share ideas with team profiles and advanced permissions.
Pricing & Features
Premium
$7 / month
or $70 / year
Join w/ Premium- Unlimited public and private blocks
- Advanced search filters
- Full text for links and articles
- Table view
- Hide from search engines
- Priority support
Premium Supporter
$120 / year
- Early access to new features
- Complimentary Are.na Annual
- Bi-annual company reports
- The fuzzy feeling of giving a little extra to support an independent company
- All premium features
Are.na
Free guest
A good option to test Are.na
- Up to 200 total blocks*
*A block is an individual piece of content. Blocks can be images, text, links, attachments, or embeds.
*A block is an individual piece of content. Blocks can be images, text, links, attachments, or embeds.
All plans include:
Pricing FAQs
Education
Learn more about how students and teachers use Are.na in their classes and workshops.
If you're a student, you can get 50% off the price of any Premium plan for two years. If you're a teacher and use Are.na with your class contact us for assistance and custom discounts for your students.
Team
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Engineer
Community
Strategy
Product
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Engineer
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Roadmap
Here you can see what we’ve shipped recently, what we’re building next, and how we’re doing as a company.
By sharing this information we aim to demystify the weird and wonderful process of working on a mostly bootstrapped web company. We’re working our hardest to build a space that’s mindful, respectful, and accountable to our thousands of lovely members. We have lots of ideas for how to do a better job, as well as lots of challenges.
This is meant to be as transparent as reasonably possible. If there’s something you don’t see here that you’d like to know, just email [email protected].
Road to self-sustainability
Are.na’s mission is to build a member-supported community. Since we're accountable to our members instead of advertisers, our incentive is always to build a tool that fosters learning and genuine collaboration. This also means that Are.na’s future relies entirely on community contributions. Here’s how you can help:
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Premium
Premium members get unlimited private content, additional privacy settings, an invitation to our members’ Discord and more features soon. More about Premium:
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Premium Supporter
If you’re already Premium and want to chip in a little extra, you can upgrade to our Supporter tier. You’ll receive regular emails from the team, plus a free Are.na Annual.
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API and Community Projects
Are.na is "Open Source by Default" and we're always excited to see people using the platform in new ways. You can find a list of projects built with Are.na and find more resources in the Arena Community Dev Lounge.
Editiorial, Community and Events
We regularly feature essays, interviews, and other writing from the Are.na community, and we publish a printed Annual once a year.
Testimonials