Evernote
App designed for cross-platform note-taking and organizing. Create notes with text, images, and audio, tag and search them. Features offline access, business card scanning, and presentation modes. Integrate with LinkedIn and secure with a passcode lock.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Kindle Fire
Features
Integrations
- Calendar
IFTTT
Google Drive
Owncloud
Features
- Cloud Sync
- Text formatting
- Works Offline
- Hyperlinks
- Folders
- Tagging
- Screenshot OCR
- Note organization
- Handwritten Notes
- Sits in the System Tray
- Export to PDF
- OCR
- Dark Mode
- Export to HTML
- Notifications
- Tag based
- Support for MarkDown
- Protected by Password
- Nested Notebooks
- Export to iCalendar
- Recurring Tasks
- PDF annotation
- Sync with Owncloud
- Web Clipper
- Mobile Scanner
- Hierarchical tagging
- Shared Folders
- WYSIWYG Support
- Nested tags
- Share notes
Tags
- online-notes
- portability
- subscription
- notepad
- text-recognition
Evernote News & Activities
Recent News
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Evernote v11 debuts AI Assistant, Semantic Search, and smarter meeting notesEvernote version 11 introduces major updates centered on AI featuring three new tools: the AI Assis...
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Evernote improves search with a centered modal and smarter suggestionsEvernote has redesigned its search modal with a centered layout and scrollable suggestions, aiming ...
- Maoholguin published news article about Evernote
Evernote launches new sync engine 'RENT' to boost sync speed, app startup, & note sharingEvernote has introduced a major update to its sync engine called RENT, designed to enhance syncing ...
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What is Evernote?
Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.
The app allows users to create a "note" which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note.
Notes can also have file attachments. Notebooks can be added to a stack while notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook.
Evernote Premium features:
Offline notes Your notes are available anywhere, anytime, even without an internet connection. Perfect for flights, international travel and working on the go.
Passcode lock Make sure only you can access your notes. Add a layer of security on mobile devices to protect your valuable information such as business plans, receipts, health information, and photographs.
Business card scanning Leave behind your stack of cards by scanning them using Evernote's camera. Capture and store all contact information, a photo of the card and choose to automatically pull additional profile details from LinkedIn.
Presentation mode Present directly from your notes in a full-screen layout for more collaborative, efficient meetings.
PDF annotation When a picture’s worth a thousand words, you can avoid lengthy email dialogue. There’s no quicker way to call attention to contract edits or design changes.
Context and Knowledge Discovery Context reveals notes with related content and documents, and Knowledge Discovery identifies co-workers who are experts on the topic or project you're working on.
Faster image recognition Find what you’re looking for, faster. We scan your images faster, so text within them is searchable sooner. Find text in handwritten notes, Post-it® Notes, whiteboard drawings and more.
Search in PDFs and Office docs Your files are easily searchable within Evernote. Quickly locate your Office and work documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs.
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Evernote information
Developed by
Bending Spoons S.p.A. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription that costs up to $15 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
My #1 Workspaceplace on Computer, Cloud, Online, Offline and Syncing with other Applications / Program(s) like Windows (11) and the Android Version. Note: I use the PayVersion !
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/06/28/changes-to-evernotes-pricing-plans/
Importantly for free/basic users: "Beginning today, the prices for our Plus and Premium tiers will change for new subscriptions, and access from Evernote Basic accounts will be limited to two devices."
Evernote have also announced higher prices for paid plans.
Evernote Basic Free
The easiest way to get started with Evernote, Basic has been and will remain free of charge. Evernote Basic supports web clipping and note sharing, so you can capture memories, ideas, and inspiration and save them forever.
On Basic, you can access notes on up to two devices, such as a computer and phone, two computers, or a phone and a tablet, as well as on the web, so you can continue to take your notes with you throughout your day. Passcode lock on the mobile app, formerly a paid feature, is now available on Basic as well.
Evernote Plus $3.99/month or $34.99/year (save 27%)
To stay in sync across all your devices, consider Evernote Plus. You’ll also enjoy the ability to take notebooks offline on a mobile device, so your notes will be with you wherever you go, even when there’s no Internet connection. You can forward emails into Evernote and keep them alongside related notes, complete with attachments, and 1 GB of upload space each month means you can keep all your projects together.
Evernote Premium $7.99/month or $69.99/year (save 27%)
Get the full power of Evernote with Evernote Premium, a set of tools designed to help you go paperless and take ideas into action across all your devices. Find text buried inside Office docs. Annotate PDFs. Discover connections between notes, turn business cards into phone contacts, or present your work with one click. Premium includes 10 GB of monthly upload space, and you have all the benefits of Plus and Basic, too.
Not willing to add a much-needed tier in between Basic and Plus for which it seems like a large portion who have been quite vocal on the forums, is disappointing to say the least. I would maybe, come back, but like others, have found great alternatives as Evernote has become perhaps a bit too greedy while also not improving much along the way.
Implementing the new polarizing structure has already damaged their reputation beyond repair perhaps; given the fact that services have rarely improved, some arguing they have been getting worse (take a look at how wonderful the Evernote Web Clipper was at its height, and now it is slow, finicky issues with browsers that weren't occurring before, plus now annoying ALL customers often with reminders about how "this would be a good item to clip" that don't seem to go away. Not a very nice way to treat paying customers, let alone pickup some new customers... bye Evernote - too little, too late!
Once an excellent free note taking app, ruined by greedy dev. The free plan is hardly usable right now in 2024, apps getting heavier and cluttered.
Here's genuinely good free alternatives: Upnote, Microsoft Loop, OneNote.
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Used to be a user of the plus plan at 25$ a year. 25$ per year matched my usage of Evernote's service. Unfortunately Evernote removed that plan and tried to force me to pay 99$ a year. I downgraded to the free plan instead. Now they are taking away feature by feature to force users to upgrade to a premium plan. The free plan used to be limited only by upload data, now you only get one notebook and 50 notes. I have 149 notebooks and 5026 notes which means I cannot use Evernote anymore without upgrading. This is unacceptable, Evernote. Not only have you lost my payments, now you a lost a customer completely. Bye Evernote.
Inexpensive, simple, great for to-do tasks, grocery list, track appointments
Free users beware: they didn't say upfront about unsync limit. Yes, it's a thing since Evernote v10 was introduced. If you got 2 devices signed in (maxed out the device limit) and you want to sign in to your Evernote on another device, you actually have 2 unsync attempts which reset every beginning of the month. It doesn't matter whether you revoke a device on your account page first or you just sign in with your new device. Careful, you might get locked yourself out from your notes! By the way, there's a nasty, recurring bug that could sign you out by force and you got to unsync your device in order to continue using. Until then, you must either upgrade to premium or stop accessing your notes till next month. Nobody wants to pay $130/year for a dying elephant. Maybe to use Evernote free is never been a good idea.
I've been subscribed to Evernote for a decade and I've used it basically daily. I have been using version 7 on my Mac forever. One of the things I loved about it was that it auto-corrected my typing as I went, which made doing things like typing up dreams at 7am (while I was still groggy and half-awake) actually workable.
Something happened recently that prompted me to try the new version 10 and it's a major step down. For one thing, it's Electron-based, like about 90% of desktop software these days. But unfortunately this means that I've lost my auto-correct (which I found out was just a thing Mac offers natively to programs using native components; in other words, Electron doesn't support it). In addition, the UI got bigger and more crowded, and they're inserting AI buttons where the formatting options used to be, and now everything takes place in the cloud, so it has to call home for every action and... it's just a mess.
Fortunately, I saved the previous version off and I switched back to it and found another way to resolve my problem. But Evernote is increasing prices by like 60-80% this month and apparently "legacy versions" (ie, the good version of the software) won't be supported for much longer, but they're not saying for how much longer... So I need to start finding an alternative...