Franz
Under review· 1Multi-messenger desktop app combining WhatsApp, Slack, email, Signal, and 75+ services with AI features including email sender intelligence and privacy tools.
Active plans
4
Total changes
5
Last change
Sep 18, 2026
Price trend
Pro Cloud plan
What we know about Franz’s pricing
Moderately activeChanges in 12 months
5
Cadence
Every 13 days
Direction
Plan recently removed
Category position
Cheaper than 82% of Communication tools (653 compared)
Current pricing
Pro
monthly$5/mo
$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
monthlyFree
- 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)
- 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)
- 1Password autofill (macOS & Windows)
- Smart snippets
- Email Sender Intelligence
- Web research
- Monthly AI tokens(5M)
Price history
Last 5 changes
$10.00→$8.00(-20.0%)
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pro Cloud | removed plan | $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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