Evernote
Shares rank 20 of 33 note-taking apps by recommenders
People recommend Evernote for web clipping and long-term note storage, and many have kept it for years. The most common caveat is that recent price increases have pushed longtime subscribers to cancel.
People recommend Evernote for web clipping and long-term note storage, and many have kept it for years. The most common caveat is that recent price increases have pushed longtime subscribers to cancel.
78 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 68
- approval share
- 13%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 8 years
Median of the 9 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.1 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Web clipping and long-term note storage
“Back in 2012 I switched almost entirely from bookmarking to web clipping into Evernote, which has been great.”
Comment from 22 Sep 2026 in “Attention is all you have” “It's what keeps me using that app, even though I cringe every time I open it.”
Comment from 10 Jan 2026 in “Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text” “And Evernote, to an extent, before that.”
Comment from 8 Feb 2026 in “OpenClaw Is Changing My Life” - Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “My last six months at Evernote”
Mature platform with steady improvements
“I'm quite happy with how they've managed a mature platform.”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public” “steady improvements in Evernote”
Comment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Large price increases after Bending Spoons acquisition
“they raised the price too much for me”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “Italy's Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files for Nasdaq IPO” “tried to cancel and then Bending Spoons (BS for short) tried to charge me several times at a subscription 5 times the cost”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B” “BS charged me when they shouldn't have (5x the former price, annual), won't refund, and turned off the account anyway”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public” - Comment from 20 Aug 2026 in “Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons”
- Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B”
- Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public”
- Comment from 13 Sep 2026 in “My last six months at Evernote”
Charges continuing after cancellation
“tried to cancel and then Bending Spoons (BS for short) tried to charge me several times at a subscription 5 times the cost”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B” “BS charged me when they shouldn't have (5x the former price, annual), won't refund, and turned off the account anyway”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public” “Evernote just charged my credit card after 2 'successful' cancellations of my subscription”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices” Feature bloat confusing existing users
“Adding more features just to chase new user growth often comes at the expense of confusing the existing user base”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Good software knows when to stop” “Like Evernote, they keep adding more and more features and functionality to the core product.”
Comment from 9 Jun 2026 in “Italy's Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files for Nasdaq IPO” “i presume it's literally only feature release announcements and MAU-farming zero-party ads”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “My last six months at Evernote”
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The four most recommended other note-taking apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 33 note-taking apps, rankedWhat people said
40 of the 87 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“my (absurd) $149 annual subscription was going to switch to a $249 one”
“Back in 2012 I switched almost entirely from bookmarking to web clipping into Evernote, which has been great.”
“They just sent out pricing updates and it’s nearly doubling the price I was paying before.”
“"OneNote wiped the floor with Evernote" sure says a lot about how stagnant Evernote got.”
“In May/June 2016 they restricted their free tier to 1 device, which pushed me to migrate”
“i presume it's literally only feature release announcements and MAU-farming zero-party ads”
“I made the same transition”
“I just cancelled my Evernote subscription of 12 years because of the outrageous price increase”
“tried to cancel and then Bending Spoons (BS for short) tried to charge me several times at a subscription 5 times the cost”
“Evernote increased their annual prices like 40% in early 2024 and it's been nothing but up since then.”
“Bending Spoons made the same discovery, but gleefully, and apparently it makes a profit for them.”
“steady improvements in Evernote”
“not too AI-sloppy, a few new features here and there, reliability still aok”
“I was so annoyed with how slimy Evernote had become and how the product regressed”
“Evernote, which renewed automatically for a year on an old email I don't have access to.”
“There’s a reason they were used as a poster child of a bad actor when the FTC rule was made a few years ago”
“Evernote just charged my credit card after 2 'successful' cancellations”
“Evernote just charged my credit card after 2 'successful' cancellations of my subscription”
“massive price increases for reduced service, rejection of previously "lifetime" memberships”
“BS charged me when they shouldn't have (5x the former price, annual), won't refund, and turned off the account anyway”
“I'm quite happy with how they've managed a mature platform.”
“they let Evernote devolve into a buggy pile of crap -- especially on Android”
“Like Evernote, they keep adding more and more features and functionality to the core product.”
“they raised the price too much for me”
“I have used evernote, ms one note and zoho notebook before, and had issues with all of them.”
“Adding more features just to chase new user growth often comes at the expense of confusing the existing user base”
“I moved to Obsidian after Evernote increased their subscription prices beyond the point I could justify”
“Evernote is overkill and obsidian feels slightly off.”
“And Evernote, to an extent, before that.”
“they enshittified (sorry, "harvested called for the PE overlords") two other web properties I used and loved back in the day”
“the goal of the optimizations wasn't to benefit the customer or even make the app faster”
“Laid off US staff. Closed their Redwood City offices and hired a dev team in Italy to take over.”
“after 7/8 years of shitty releases, not fixing old bugs, and new useless features”
“Based on my experience with Evernote, I don't trust Bending Spoons”
“I would still be a happy Evernote customer if they hadn't rewritten all the apps from scratch.”
“Yeah this is what I think Bending Spoons does, mostly based on the Evernote situation.”
“Their idea of value for the customer vs the price is not realistic.”
“It's what keeps me using that app, even though I cringe every time I open it.”
“other products are becoming increasingly cumbersome and slow to launch”
“they intentionally throttle the exports to a limit and you can extract it only in their proprietary format that truncates some data”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.