Evernote
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
10warn against
Dec 8, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I'm quite happy with how they've managed a mature platform.”
paying multi-seat customeron “What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vim…”
Caveats and dissent
“Then I went to finally cancel the beautiful app they destroyed with greed”
“But the bloat kept bloating endlessly.”
long-time Evernote useron “My last six months at Evernote”
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“Evernote was...fine, but the UX was very stilted.”
“They’d been paying $240/yr for freaking Evernote.”
Often compared with
3 moved from Evernote to Obsidian
3 moved from Evernote to Joplin
1 moved from Evernote to NotionOneNote2 comments mention both
1 moved from Evernote to OneNoteApple Notes2 comments mention both
1 moved from Evernote to Apple Notes
1 moved from Evernote to Org mode
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- My last six months at Evernote 2 mentions
- What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public 2 mentions
- "Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team " 1 mention
- Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons 1 mention
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- New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices 1 mention
Data: evernote.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“Then I went to finally cancel the beautiful app they destroyed with greed”
“But the bloat kept bloating endlessly.”
“Evernote was...fine, but the UX was very stilted.”
“They’d been paying $240/yr for freaking Evernote.”
“switched over to putting things in Evernote several years ago”
“I was so annoyed with how slimy Evernote had become and how the product regressed”
“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”
“I really liked Evernote but they raised the price too much for me.”
“I have not adopted notion or obsidian since trashing Evernote.”
“Tried Evernote and tagging and so on and it turns out cataloging stuff is hard”
“after deciding I needed to dump Evernote”
“after they enshittified”
“other products are becoming increasingly cumbersome and slow to launch”