Sad state of Evernote

Posted by satis
Dec 4, 2022 at 04:24 PM

The “guys” at Keep Product is just Francesco D’Alessio. His site has posts supplemented by content by for-hire writer Charlotte who creates SEO-friendly posts for several clients. I don’t know what he’s said lately but when the announcement was made three weeks ago D’Alessio wrote on Medium, “Evernote as we know it could be dead…. Evernote haven’t had a hideously thriving community since 2016, due to the lack of innovation”

I think Evernote is a goner. It got shunted off to a small Milan-based company without experience in productivity software; it makes apps like video editor Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz and photo editor Remini. The purchase price is unknown but I bet it was quite low because the purchaser doesn’t have a lot of funding. (At one point Evernote had 250 million users and was valued at $8 billion. Not any more.) Bending Spoons offers no promises that Evernote will be forthcoming with a much-needed overhaul. And this is at a time when membership continues to shrink in the face of free and cheap competition (OneNote, Joplin, Notion, Apple Notes, UpNote, etc etc). On iOS it doesn’t even rank in the Top 100 Productivity apps by download.

And Evernote has been increasing subscription pricing by approximately 50% for grandfathered Plus/Pemium plans (to $50-$65/year), annoying a lot of users in the app’s subreddit. The current Personal plan is $90/year (though you can sometimes get 50%-off that for one year). Compared to robust competition available at a fraction of the price, or free, I don’t think Evernote offers enough advantages to most users or potential users.