--- description: Detailed reviews on Speare based on features, pricing, usability, and ratings. Get a quick overview advantages and disadvantages. Compare Speare with similar products. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/getapp/og_logo-94fd2a03a6c7a0e54fc0c9e21a1c0ce9.png title: Speare Reviews, Prices & Ratings | GetApp Canada 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Productivity Software](/directory/330/productivity/software) > [Speare](/software/2048463/speare) # Speare Canonical: https://www.getapp.ca/software/2048463/speare > The big challenge with writing is capturing and organizing all your ideas as you write. Speare helps you find your big idea and helps you develop it out with greater flexibility and freedom. > > Verdict: Rated **3.7/5** by 3 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Key benefits of Speare Whenever you sit down with the goal to write, you're starting with a basic concept in mind and among other things tangential and potentially random ideas. Although these ideas may not turn out to be the big idea you set out to communicate, they are a great place to start. With the following natural process, you'll soon see how you'll be able to filter the best ideas to the top, find your big idea, and merge it seamlessly into a document that clearly communicates your main points. Here are some subprocesses you'll experience in a very natural way: Flow: your ideas guide you as they become encapsulated in building blocks as you write. Split: when you see diverging ideas or a bottleneck, you'll naturally want to split the content off into its own thread and you'll experience more freedom to move the idea forward. Filter: your best ideas will generally come into view in their respective threads as you position boards in the workspace. Focus: zero your writing in on the ideas until they no longer diverge or bottleneck and they become complete parts in and of themselves. Title: carefully consider the captions for the ideas expressed in the boards as they are potential headings for the outline. Outline: arrange the board titles in the outline as they should logically be presented. Manage: toggle board visibility to remove extemporaneous content and nest content as necessary. Merge: toggle to document view to merge the ideas together into a document. Navigate: explore the navigation of your document to see if it logically flows and exposes your main points. Review: add markdown to format your document for easy reading, revise and edit your document where necessary. Again, the bullet points above are not steps in a process, rather subprocesses that in and of themselves are available to the writer in a natural way as the UI exposes them. It's the ability to freely move between these steps that enables you to turn the writing process into a superpower that works with your strengths. For example, if you are generally predisposed to writing a single draft without an outline, the UI will naturally expose the outline to you so that you begin organizing ideas in it without hardly noticing it. If you prefer to just sit down and flow and only slow down as content builds, you'll naturally separate the content into separate threads and zero in on the content that needs to be fleshed out. New patterns will emerge that you be able to explore and turn into powerful processes that allow you to turn writing into a superpower. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **3.7/5** | 3 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 3.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 50% | (5/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Speare ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$60.00 - **Pricing model**: (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk ## Category - [Productivity Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/330/productivity/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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To be able to break a page into paragraphs and paragraphs into sentences in order to rearrange them appropriately is awesome. > > **Cons**: I feel like there should be more shortcuts for the actions, especially keyboard shortcuts because I have to use my mouse way too much. > > Overall, I think it is a well-designed tool for people who think of content in terms of blocks of data and who write regularly. ----- ### "A great concept. In practice, I'm not sure." — 4.0/5 > **Lucas** | *June 29, 2022* | Higher Education Software | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: I love the idea of visually arranging idea cards to structure a longer piece of writing. Speare uses Markdown: this is good. There's also a fairly powerful set of ability to link boards across workspaces, and it's great to be able to flip to doc view. > > **Cons**: The worst issue is actually relatively simple: Given the size constraints of a computer screen, I can't drag a card higher in the board than the top of the screen. (Dragging it to the top and holding it doesn't make the board scroll up. This means that, for a longer piece of writing, it's actually pretty difficult to arrange cards. This is related to the general problem with Speare: Writing in narrow boards is perhaps less intuitive than I had hoped. (Boards can be widened.) > > I hoped Speare would help me with writing my thesis, and I think it has. However, I'm not sure I'm going to continue the experiment. Word and Notion combined may work as well. ----- ### "Was wonderful before the 5.0 upgrade, now it sucks" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *September 29, 2023* | Fine Art | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: For 2+ years Speare was simple and intuitive to use there by making it a very effective tool. Now it is the opposite of that. > > **Cons**: the 5.0 upgrade is a functional departure from the previous version and it's time consuming to manage. I am broken hearted by the change. > > Speare made their product less functional to me, the end user. For that I feel forced to switch to an alternate platform that doesn't waste my time. Prior to the 5.0 update I often times recommended their software, but as a daily user I cannot stomach the changes they made and I am sad to have to move to something else. ## Links - [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2048463/speare) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | ----- ## Structured Data