Evernote review

Evernote combines notes, tasks, schedules, and project information in one digital workspace. You can capture material in notes, organize it in notebooks and spaces, add to-dos to notes, and link calendar events to them. The homepage also lists search and a browser extension, the Web Clipper, for saving online content.

For teams, Evernote lists real-time editing, comments, and task assignment. That makes it broader than a basic note app, though the value depends on whether you want those extra tools in the same place as your notes.

The pricing page lists a 7-day free trial. After that, the Free plan costs $0, but its limits are tight: 50 notes, one notebook, one device, 1 GB of monthly uploads, and a 1 GB maximum note size. Paid individual plans are priced annually: Starter is $8.25 per month, billed as $99 per year, and Advanced is $20.83 per month, billed as $249.99 per year.

Evernote’s main strength is having several kinds of work connected to notes. Tasks can live in notes, calendar events can link back to them, and the Web Clipper can save online content. Search is part of the product, and the homepage presents it as a way to find notes and other content. For people who want a searchable home for reference material, project notes, and to-dos, that combination may be more convenient than splitting the work across separate apps.

There is also a clear step up in capacity between the free and paid plans. Starter allows 1,000 notes, 20 notebooks, 1,000 attachments, three devices, and 5 GB of storage. Advanced lists unlimited notes, notebooks, attachments, synced devices, and storage. Teams can consider Flexible, listed at $10 per seat per month, with limits starting at 500 notes, 50 notebooks, 500 spaces, four synced devices per seat, and 250 MB of storage; those limits can go up to unlimited. Enterprise adds company ownership of business data, a dedicated Customer Success Manager, SSO and SCIM provisioning, and customizable plan limits, but its price is custom.

The free tier is difficult to treat as a long-term option if you collect notes across devices: it allows just 50 notes, one notebook, and one device. Starter raises those caps, but its $99 annual price may still feel steep if you mainly need basic note-taking. Advanced costs $249.99 per year. The monthly rates for Starter and Advanced are not published, so there is no listed month-to-month price to compare.

That mismatch shows up in user discussions. In one Reddit thread, people objected to paying for features they did not need, including calendar and task tools, and asked for a cheaper basic tier. Another thread includes users reporting a confusing interface and inconsistent or slow behavior; those are user reports, not independently verified findings. People in these discussions mention moving to options such as Apple Notes, Joplin, and SimpleNote. One commenter described using a third-party tool to export an Evernote database to .enex, but we would not treat that comment as a guarantee of an easy migration. If you only need a simple digital filing cabinet, Evernote’s extra features and paid-plan limits may be more than you want.

Evernote has a free plan, but the cap is 50 notes, one notebook, one synced device and 1 GB of monthly uploads. Starter is $99 per year, shown as $8.25 per month, with 1,000 notes and three devices. Advanced is $249.99 per year, shown as $20.83 per month, and removes the listed limits on notes, notebooks, attachments, synced devices and storage. That is a jump of $12.58 per month between the annualized paid prices.

The billing catch: Starter and Advanced monthly rates are not published, so those monthly figures are not pay-monthly prices. Flexible starts at $10 per seat per month for teams, with limits that can vary by plan. Enterprise pricing is custom, and the listed Unlimited plan has no published price. The pricing details list no add-ons. Evernote offers a seven-day free trial; check the renewal terms before starting it.

The published materials don’t specify an import process, export formats or how much content can be transferred, so we can’t give a reliable migration estimate or promise a clean move in either direction. Before switching, check whether your notes, attachments, tasks and notebook structure can be exported and imported in the form you need. Evernote’s listed features include notes, notebooks, tasks, spaces and web clipping; preserving that organization may matter as much as moving the text.

The brief flags price complaints and concerns about feature changes, but it includes no Reddit posts or comments to verify why users leave. We can’t present those as Reddit findings. Price is a concrete reason to reassess: the free plan is capped at 50 notes and one device, while Starter costs $99 per year when billed annually. If you’re considering leaving, confirm export options first and compare the limits and total cost of your destination plan before moving your archive.