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Evernote
Our note taking app helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. Start your free trial today!
Where it stands
4.0 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.8 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.5 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Evernote yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
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Should you use Evernote?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
Nothing is clearly stated yet.
Check first
- It sends your content to its servers. Its pages say: “Evernote processes and stores user content on its servers. The page says: “You can input, upload, or store in the Evernote Service…”
- Its pages do not state: pricing, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Note taking
Measured signals
4.8 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Evernote's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 286 ms.
- Security4.3 / 53 of 5 protective headers set (content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.5 / 5 · 49 commenters67% of the 49 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Evernote; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“Yes, I love markdown, and Evernote just provides a slightly more powerful, WYSIWYG version of it. I neither want “everything and the kitchen sink” vision of Notion, and desktop centric view of Obsidian. Ulysses and Bear…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“Granted I dropped Evernote quite a while ago, but for years they kept adding a kitchen sink of features that I didn't care about, while regressing at the basics like syncing and merging text notes across multiple…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Alternote is what the official Evernote client should been. It's the only thing that keeps me on Evernote, since the official client is horrible and slow. Let's hope Evernote stops messing around with useless features…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Evernote feels like the Microsoft Office of the Notetaking world: it's huge, it's bloated, and it seems to be continuing to focus on stuff that the vast majority of its userbase will never use. At some point I installed…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices (2015, 448 comments) · Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons (2022, 344 comments) · Evernote hacked (2013, 210 comments) · Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine (2012, 143 comments)
- Free tier
- Not stated.
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- An account is required to use Evernote. The page says: “To open your account and process payments, we collect personal data like your email address and, depending on how you purchase a subscription to a Paid Service, your billing address and other payment information.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Evernote processes and stores user content on its servers. The page says: “You can input, upload, or store in the Evernote Service any text, images, and other data that you choose—we refer to that information as “Content”.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
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