Franz
AutomatedMulti-messenger desktop app combining WhatsApp, Slack, email, Signal, and 75+ services with AI features including email sender intelligence and privacy tools.
Franz has 4 plans: a free plan and paid plans from $5/month. We last read its pricing page on 3 October 2026. The last price change we recorded was on 18 September 2026.
Franz plans and prices
Pro
monthly$5/mo
- yearly$5/mobilled annually ($60/yr)
- Messaging Services — Unlimited
- Workspaces — Unlimited
- Email Sender — Included
- Intelligence — Included
- Privacy Shield — Included
- App lock — Included
- Private insights — Full AI privacy
- Your provider, your data
Lifetime
one time$199
- One license per person, valid on all your devices — null
- Unlimited services — null
- Unlimited workspaces — null
- Connect any model: OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, local, self-hosted — null
- Every future Franz update included — null
- Optional Franz-hosted AI for 4/month — null
- No AI training with your data — null
- Lifetime works with your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key, so you pay only what your AI provider charges — null
Free
$0
- Messaging Services — 3
- Workspaces — 1
- AI privacy — Local only
- Smart Translate — Not included
- Privacy Shield — Not included
- App lock — Not included
- Plain snippets — Not included
- Voice dictation (macOS) — Not included
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- 1Password autofill (macOS & Windows) — Not included
- Smart snippets — Not included
- Email Sender Intelligence — Not included
- Web research — Not included
- Monthly AI tokens — Not included
Max
monthly$12/mo
- yearly$120/yr($10/mo billed yearly ($120/yr))
- Messaging Services — Unlimited
- Workspaces — Unlimited
- AI privacy — EU cloud, zero retention
- Smart Translate
- Privacy Shield
- App lock
- Plain snippets
- Voice dictation (macOS)
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- 1Password autofill (macOS & Windows)
- Smart snippets
- Email Sender Intelligence
- Web research
- Monthly AI tokens — 5M
Price history
Last 5 recorded changes
$10.00→$8.00(-20.0%)
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pro Cloud | Removed | $8 | — | — |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Lifetime | Increase | $149 | $199 | +33.6% |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Max | New plan | — | $12 | — |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Pro Cloud | Decrease | $10 | $8 | -20.0% |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Free | New plan | — | $0 | — |
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