Evernote Review 2026: Features, Pricing & Alternatives

The dominant theme is decline: users describe the product as stale, regressed and overpriced, and recount migrating to Apple Notes or Obsidian. A minority push back and say Evernote is genuinely being developed again post-acquisition, but they are outnumbered.

• “I was so annoyed with how slimy Evernote had become and how the product regressed and they were clearly not spending money on it, I switched to Apple Notes and have been very happy.”

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• “That is a product that has become entirely stale and barely usable, unable to compete with something like Obsidian, a tool made by a company with fewer than 50 employees.”

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• “I like Evernote but it just isn’t worth $130 / year for me.”

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• “Evernote isn't being "maintained". It's being actively developed with new, useful features and being transformed to a much bigger and powerful tool month by month.”

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Sourced from public discussions about Evernote. Excerpts are verbatim and link to the original thread. Community sentiment never affects whether a product is listed — how we work.