Evernote for iPhone

Seems greatly improved in the last 2-3 years. No clue what was happening 2017-2023 but it’s much, much better than before.

Paying user for over a decade. The price hike, the unpredictable changes no one asked for, how they manipulated the app screen, so that you can’t log in without removing some devices, but purposefully code the UI to hide the button so you can’t sign in unless reactivating the subscription. Just cheap tricks for a lost company. People use this app to take notes, not to manage calendars or todo lists. There are other apps for it. Every time you add a function to it, it dilutes the note function and made your note app just bit worse. They hiked price for a money grab, and then I remember offered some discount or something. But they miscalculated that with these note apps, there is a high cost to migrate everything out. Once someone moved thousands of notes out of Evernote, they will never risk moving it back in again no matter how you lower the price. 10 years a trust down the drain and people that left won’t come back. Use Upnote. It’s better in every single way that matters.

Please fix the iPad version. It’s been years, and this issue still hasn’t been resolved. When I shrink the keyboard (by pinching two fingers on the space bar), the toolbar doesn’t display correctly and sometimes disappears entirely. This makes the app frustrating to use on iPad. I’m giving this one star because I’ve been reporting these issues for years, and they are still not fixed. I’ve been a loyal paid Evernote user for over a decade …

Evernote has been around for years, and while it’s had its fair share of critics, it remains one of the most powerful and versatile note-taking apps available today. Some users point out that the app can feel bloated or overly complex compared to simpler tools, but that criticism only tells part of the story. At its core, Evernote is designed for people who want more than just a place to jot down quick thoughts. It’s a full-featured digital workspace that lets you capture text, images, web clippings, audio recordings, and even scanned documents—all organized in a way that’s easy to search and retrieve later. Its tagging system and notebook structure make it far more flexible than many alternatives, and features like document scanning, PDF annotation, and powerful search (including inside images and PDFs) put it in a league of its own. Another strength is its cross-platform syncing. Whether you’re on your phone, tablet, or desktop, your notes are always updated and ready to go. This makes Evernote especially valuable for professionals, students, and creatives who need their information available everywhere. Yes, there are newer competitors, and yes, the pricing structure has raised some eyebrows over the years. But if you’re looking for a proven, robust tool to organize not just your notes but your entire digital life, Evernote continues to deliver. It may not be perfect, but it remains an amazing note-taking app that has stood the test of time.

Haven't been able to log in via the app in over three months (Mac). Super limited functionality in web version. App is nearly unusable.

the company has made so many changes to the UI and overall app experience at this point that it no longer serves me well or meets my needs. They also are charging for everything including the very basic feature of being able to sync notes between phone and desktop. it's a shame and I've begun the process of porting my notes over to a new platform.

Ultra-fast history: I use note-taking apps personally + professionally. 17+ apps used over 17 years. Apps I’ve used for more than 3 years: OneNote, Apple Notes, Evernote, Obsidian, Google Keep, Craft Docs. What Makes Evernote my “Go To” Notes app? - Exceptional development, constant bug fixes, committed team - Available across Web, Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows - Stable on all platforms - zero problems in over 2 years - Customizable UI - Build your dream productivity dashboard - I think it’s reasonably priced considering the massive set of features - After many iterations, the new UI is now my favorite of any mobile smartphone notes app - Fast, simple note capture, deep organization skills, phenomenal search capabilities Ignore reviews before 2023. The app is completely different. Yes it went through some growing pains with the new company, but it’s so well built and reliable that It shouldn’t be ignored. Yes, I don’t prefer subscriptions, but I’m more than happy to pay every year for Evernote. Wish List - More text styles (happy that they recently added a few) - App themes (I love the look + feel of Bear notes, but it lacks organization features I require). I’d be happier than a fat cat if I could pick between 7-8 stylish Evernote themes. - When I’m “in” a stack and tap the “New Note” button, add the dang note to a default folder within that stack, please. Not my general default notes app. Minor annoyance, but it’s a thing. - I also use MyMemo, an AI notes app similar to MyMind, Fabric, and SaveDay. Essentially you dump everything into it (website links, videos, notes, articles, PDFs). The app then automatically tags, categorizes, and organizes everything using AI. At any time, I can use AI to chat with my notes, similar to ChatGPT, but it’s full of my brain-dumped information. In the future, this type of functionality will be 100% essential for apps like Evernote. Every note app I’ve used becomes increasingly complicated the longer it’s used and the more notes are added. Being able to ask AI about your notes, previous thoughts, to pull up ideas, to find PDFs, and chat with it like a human… life changing.

Evernote has good functionality, but isn't super customizable. You should be able to have a checklist without it striking through. It's a bit basic. The thing that might drive me away from it is the fact that they "update" it every other day it seems and I constantly have to quit and restart it to update the app. With no apparent improvements, it seems like the same-old. PLEASE STOP WITH THE CONSTANT UPDATES!!!!

Have been using Evernote for almost a decade now and it’s a key software I need to operate my entire life. Clean and easy UI. Intuitive UX flows. Versatile and friendly on multiple devices. I’ll be an Evernote customer for a long time.

I have used Evernote for over 10 years. It is still my primary tool for many uses, business and personal. It allows one to create rich notes - formatting, color, embedded documents and images. It even lets link them together (although they broke the link system recently - hopefully they’ll fix it). Unfortunately, the fundamental notes structure seems to be based on HTML (or similar markup language), which leads to surprising weirdness when you are editing things. Evernote allows one to search for notes using by embedded text. You can use tags to organize notes, or you can put them in notebooks (but see below). In the last few years, they have rushed to get into the corporate market, but in the process have removed, or broken capabilities that it had before. The notebook hierarchy has always been weak because it was only two levels - notebooks and notes. Not great for large numbers of categories. But, you could exports up all your notes to local files - something IT folks like myself know is important - otherwise you are trusting Evernote to be in business forever, and not to lose your data. Those files are in XML, meaning they can be readily imported into other note apps if Evernote gets too bad or goes out of business. But then they limited backups to only one notebook at a time. So if you use the limited hierarchy, you have to back up each notebook separately. Not good! Next, they broke the tag system. Gone is the page that shows all the tags. Gone is searching for tags! Then, those reappeared (eventually). They also rewrote the desktop to use Electron. This made it more clunky - Electron allows the use of the same code on multiple platforms, but that means only the lowest common denominator features are available. Sadly, now the spirit of the company is focused on the corporate user, ignoring the individual user. So new features keep popping up that are for sharing, etc. Features unrelated to notes are a big focus - trying to turn it into your task manager, etc. This is all about trying to grow the user base so the new owners can sell the business. This means that almost every update announces a new feature that only corporate users care about. And too often, existing features get broken. So while I still use Evernote, I do not like the direction they appear to be moving. Use at your own risk.