Evernote: what owners actually say

Users report Evernote made it difficult to export all notes and wants to be the sole custodian of your data. One paying user since 2008 says they haven't trusted the company since export was made harder. Multiple commenters frame this as deliberate lock-in.

The Electron-based replacement client never achieved feature parity with the legacy client. Users report broken basic core use cases and a mobile app that is not performant.

A paying user reports Evernote changed tag behavior so that only notes at the bottom of the tag hierarchy are listed, not those in the middle, breaking established organizational workflows.

Users describe Bending Spoons as a company that buys apps, raises prices to insane values, and milks existing customers to fund the next acquisition. Layoffs at the company are also noted.

Users cite Evernote selling branded socks and Moleskine notebooks as the moment the company lost the plot, while bugs, search, and sync reliability went unaddressed.

Long-time users describe the OCR as fantastic and something that never failed to amaze when demoed to others. It was a standout feature for scanning documents.

One user since 2008 praises that it works across Blackberry, iOS, and Android, unlike many alternatives suggested at the time.

Users valued it as a catch-all for scanning documents, archiving website snapshots, notes tied to calendar events, and task management, all in one place.

Users with thousands of notes accumulated over more than a decade valued having everything from their first college laptop onward in one searchable archive.