Evernote
Note-taking and personal organization app for capturing ideas across devices
About Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking and personal organization app that allows users to capture, organize, and retrieve information across devices. It supports rich-text notes, document scanning, web clipping, and task management in a single workspace, with AI-powered search and meeting notes features on paid plans.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Mature product with 15+ years of development and a large user community
- Powerful organization system with notebooks, tags, and nested structure
- Best-in-class Web Clipper for saving online content
- Strong document scanning and OCR capability
Cons
- Expensive relative to competitors like Notion and Obsidian
- Free plan is very restrictive with only 50 notes and 1 device
- Bending Spoons acquisition and mass layoffs have eroded user trust
- Storage limits introduced for the first time have frustrated legacy users
Key Features
Rich-text notes with images, attachments, audio, and handwriting
Notebooks, tags, and Spaces for hierarchical organization
Web Clipper browser extension to save web pages
Document scanning for whiteboards, receipts, and business cards
Built-in task management with due dates and reminders
AI Assistant, semantic search, and meeting notes
Templates library for quick note-taking
Cross-device sync across desktop, mobile, and web
Pricing
- 50 notes
- 1 notebook
- 1 device + web
- 250 MB/month upload
- 1,000 notes
- 20 notebooks
- 100 tags
- 3 devices
- 1 GB storage
- Unlimited notes & notebooks
- Unlimited devices
- Unlimited storage
- AI features included
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