Evernote Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.5% of reviews
Neutral7.2% of reviews
Negative experience42.3% of reviews

~ Based on 4,376 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Evernote

Is Evernote Safe?

Evernote: AI Notes & Notebook appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Evernote is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 77,910 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 77,910 App Store ratings for Evernote.

Is Evernote Legit?

Evernote: AI Notes & Notebook appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Evernote is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great while it lasted

I miss the days when I could just pull up my notes without navigating a maze of prompts to sign up for something. I will now be taking my notes elsewhere.

Too many ads

I’ve used this notes app for years and now everytime I go use it I get hit with ads. Super annoying do better

Used to be good

Now impossibly slow and with less features. And very intrusive.

Not really worth it

In my opinion, they keep adding things that slow the app down that I don’t even need just so they can significantly increase the price. Evernote was great when I started using it years ago and it is terrible now.

Too many ads

The ads are now loud. EVERY TIME YOU TRY AND MAKE A NOTE. Unusable.

Annoying

Terrible app makes it difficult to download pdf and send to laptop

Bugs in Evernote

Ever know has been going downhill rapidly over the last few weeks or months. It’s almost unusable on my phone at this point and it’s so slow and filled with bugs on the laptop that we’re ready to give up and shift to GROK4.7 and shift to using agents to manage the things we previously managed on Evernote and are now having to give up and just consider it our archive

I understand you’ve bundled some type of integration with hugging face or something like that, but you need to get your code debug before you go live with it. This is very concerning that your company is letting down it users this way after all these years

What is tell me about Evernote having use it for over a decade now this is dedication to being a Bake with respect to communication with his customers which would help in its product development

The second thing that stunning over this decade is how bugs are systemic never fixed

Certain features which are obvious such as nesting, are never integrated ever, despite valiant effort to get you to listen, but you don’t listen apparently, and I may as well be shouting into an empty dark room

Possible, you can admit that these are systemic to your original architecture and you can’t fix them, but it would be nice if you would be more honest and transparent with your loyal users
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Animated ads that you can't stop

They have added animated ads for their AI that you cannot x out of and it is loud with music. By the time I wait until I can x out of it, I have forgotten the important thing I needed to add to my note.
You used to have to click through a couple of ads, including an "I'm sure" one to get to your note, but I cannot abide this assault on my ears and productivity!
I've been wanting to switch to a different app for a while, but didn't want the hassle of copying and pasting all my notes to something new. To quote Arrested Development, today is: "I don't know why, but that's it."
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Don’t get it unless you plan to pay

The free version is flooded with incessant ads. Including several pop ups every single time you open the app, and now the latest “update” delivers ad videos with loud audio starting to play half way as you’re mid-sentence writing a note. Don’t bother getting this app.

Free Free was simple

Free version simple, years ago. Missed the multi device sync. my go to app. I appreciate them keeping my notes for years but ADS slow me down when i need to simply jot something quickly. Would subscribe but way way way way way way too expensive. Will phase out and take my notes somewhere…

It’s finally happened

Looks like they’ve finally caught on that their app is a commodity that provides no value. Evernote has gone from barely used to completely unusable due to the constant begging for money they don’t deserve.

Popups make it useless

I can’t use it because of the endless stream of notifications and feature announcements. Here’s what happens. I have an idea to write down. I open Evernote. I clear 1-5 popups, which destroy the thought in brain -RAM, so then I have no idea what I wanted to write down and I leave. Why use a mind eraser note app? As soon as I can migrate away, I’ll unsubscribe. Ulysses doesn’t do this to me. Ulysses is set up as if it cares to remain useful more than it cares about forcing me to interact with it.
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Unacceptable ads now

Do not blast me with a noisy video ad after I’ve already declined upgrading multiple times. In fact, you never play a noisy ad like that. You don’t know where I’m at or what I’m doing. Just very bad.

Deleting after daily use since 2015

As it says in the title I’m deleting your app. I’ve used it since 2015 but now every time I open the app you force me to watch an ad before I can access my notes in which you want me to pay $25/month or $125/year for a fricking note app. Your app DOES NOT offer that level of service.

Nonfunctional predictive text now line

Recently the predictive text doesn’t work. I tap it but nothing happens - irritating.

And, why doesn’t the update come through in the usual fashion (showing on the App Store icon)? I didn’t realize there was an update until I came here to write this comment.

Also not a fan of the recent pricing structure. I’ve made it work for me at a reasonable cost but that meant downgrading my sub. … I like so much about this app but it makes me crazy sometimes that I have no control over lone spacing. For example, when writing/or copying a poem into the app I want the space between lines to be less than the space between stanzas. And there’s no way to reasonably cluster bits of lists together. And lists take up too much space, I want tighter spacing … this must be harder to do than I realize as it seems like such an obvious thing to include in a writing based app … I can dream!
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Ads are Brutal

There’s no world in which I should need to watch a video to any time I try to open a note. I should have switched to Apple Notes years ago

Extreme downgrade in quality over years

Not only has this app turned into one giant self-advertisement, the free version is borderline useless.

Too many ads, now worse

This used to be a great app. It’s had an increasing amount of annoying pop-ups over the years, but now plays full screen video ads when you try to access your files. Time to migrate to a different platform.

No longer will be using this

At one time, I was a power user of this app, but someone over there has gotten greedy and thanks that my many years of loyalty is gonna keep me on this thing paying what they’re now asking for, which is an arm and a leg now – I’m so disappointed at the insane price increase year over year for you to use it like you once did you have to pay almost 3 times as much and we’re talking about $250 now that you have to pay per year to use this app in any sort of usable capacity the free version is a complete joke and it is constantly hounding you and trying to trick you into pain the $250 premium I might as well use notion or my free Notes app that already synced with my laptop when this was $50 a year it was a great deal, when this was $100 a year this was still worth it now it’s $250 that is laughable
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Love the tool. Hate the price.

I’ve used Evernote for years. At least every other year the price has continued to go up and up. I just use it as a really good note taking app but at $250 a year, I’d rather use pen and paper. I moved over to UpNote. Much less expensive. Does everything I needed Evernote for and there is an easy migration from Evernote to UpNote. I’m sad to go but just can’t justify the price anymore.
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