Notion Update April 2026 Release Notes

Every April 2026 release, date by date

Plan tier requirements at a glance

Not every April feature is available on every plan. The April releases themselves are mostly plan-agnostic, but they build on Notion 3.4 features that are plan-gated.

Custom Agents free trial: what happens May 3

Notion launched Custom Agents as part of the 3.4 release on March 26, with a free trial running through May 3, 2026. After that date, Custom Agents will require a paid Notion plan. Notion has not yet published specific pricing for the post-trial period.

This matters because Custom Agents are one of the most significant additions in 3.4. They let you build AI agents scoped to specific Notion databases and page collections. If your team built workflows around Custom Agents during the trial, you will need to decide before May 3 whether to commit to the paid tier or find an alternative.

One limitation worth noting regardless of plan: Notion's Custom Agents only operate inside Notion. They can read and write Notion pages and databases, but they cannot interact with other apps on your computer. If your workflow involves Notion plus Slack, a terminal, a spreadsheet, or anything else, the agent cannot bridge that gap on its own.

Notion 3.4 Part 2: what we know

The March 26 release was explicitly labeled "Notion 3.4, part 1." As of April 12, 2026, Part 2 has not been announced or dated. The April releases (voice input, muted discussions, shareable AI chats) are incremental improvements, not Part 2.

Based on the pattern from previous major releases, Part 2 typically arrives four to eight weeks after Part 1, which would put it somewhere between late April and mid-May. Likely candidates for Part 2 include expanded dashboard templates, additional presentation mode features (currently in beta), and deeper Custom Agent configuration options. None of this is confirmed by Notion.

Automating Notion alongside the rest of your Mac

Notion's April updates push its AI agent capabilities further, but those agents live entirely within Notion. If your actual workflow touches Notion, a browser, a terminal, Finder, and an email client, Notion's agents cover one piece of it.

Fazm takes a different approach. It runs as a macOS app that controls your desktop through accessibility APIs (the same system that powers VoiceOver and other screen readers). Instead of connecting to Notion's API, it reads the actual Notion desktop app UI: the buttons, menus, text fields, and database rows that appear on screen, identified by accessibility labels rather than pixel coordinates.

Under the hood, Fazm's automation engine (defined in its fazm-tools-stdio.ts) exposes tools like execute_sql, capture_screenshot, scan_files, and query_browser_profile that operate at the OS level. A single Fazm workflow can read a task from a Notion database, open the relevant file in Finder, run a shell command, and paste the output back into Notion, all without touching Notion's API or being limited to what Notion exposes programmatically.

This means features that the Notion API does not cover (dashboards, presentation mode, the new voice input) are still automatable through Fazm, because Fazm reads the UI, not the API. When Notion ships a new feature, Fazm can interact with it as soon as the UI element appears in the desktop app.

Fazm is free and open source. It runs locally on your Mac, and your data stays on your machine during automation. If the Custom Agents trial ending May 3 has you evaluating alternatives, or if your workflows already span multiple apps, it is worth a look.