Great Open Source Evernote Alternative
I needed to find a replacement for Evernote, and Notesnook is even better than what I hoped for.
I’ve been using Evernote for 7 years (since 2019) as a paid professional service, and I have seen severe performance degradation over the last 2-3 years. I got a notice that they increased my yearly subscription price from $140 to $240 - on the same day I couldn’t get a note to open on my phone because of an aforementioned new performance issue. I didn’t mind the price increase alone, but Evernote’s service is now full of AI slop and unacceptable software development practices.
For a replacement, I considered Joplin, Notesnook, and Obsidian.
Notesnook is user friendly, boasts the same core features as Evernote without the slop, adds additional nice-to-have features like nesting notebooks, and the syncing is flawless between my devices.
I am now paying $70 a year for more features than I would have with Evernote at $240.
I’ve been using Evernote for 7 years (since 2019) as a paid professional service, and I have seen severe performance degradation over the last 2-3 years. I got a notice that they increased my yearly subscription price from $140 to $240 - on the same day I couldn’t get a note to open on my phone because of an aforementioned new performance issue. I didn’t mind the price increase alone, but Evernote’s service is now full of AI slop and unacceptable software development practices.
For a replacement, I considered Joplin, Notesnook, and Obsidian.
Notesnook is user friendly, boasts the same core features as Evernote without the slop, adds additional nice-to-have features like nesting notebooks, and the syncing is flawless between my devices.
I am now paying $70 a year for more features than I would have with Evernote at $240.
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Good Note App
I’ve searched for an app such as this and am happy using it. I’ve used Notesnook for approx a year or more. It has a features I did find in the previous notes app I used.
Thank you for Notesnook.
Thank you for Notesnook.
Privacy friendly
Font are too tiny, need to have a toggle to increase text size
Still Testing
For starters, Mac and Linux compatible… Fantastic! I am very picky about application developments, especially those requiring subscriptions, so I will have more to say as time goes on. Great start though.
Great Note App and a replacement for EverNote
I was an 11 year user of Evernote. Stayed with them from when it was free for personal uses all the way up to this year. I had renewed last year at $129 but was notified by Evernote they were raising the annual rate to $259 for the premium tier I was in. Started searching for a replacement and found Notesnook. I’ve been using it for almost 3 months now and I’m very impressed with it. All of my many years worth of Evernote data was imported into Notesnook. The layout is very familiar to me and I had no issues adapting. I highly recommend Notesnook! Oh, and my annual rate for the top tier as of this review is $89. Much cheaper than Evernote.
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Solid
Tried several others. Easy to use, smooth flow, stable, reasonably priced. Solid.
Overall, great
Doesn’t what you’d expect. A nice multi platform option to share notes. Highly recommend.
Super grateful to have found this
Found this randomly after tryin out so many other apps and deleting them all. My main objective was sinple notetaking with todos and cross device sync. This beats every other alternative with its simplicity. Super light and super simple. Very customizable as well. Love it!
Great App!
Love this app for the privacy and cross platform ability!
Secure and and well-designed.
Beats every secure note app I ever tried. Easy to use for one’s private thoughts and ideas, out of reach of a steadily more intrusive Government. Europe takes privacy seriously - unlike the “Land of the Free”.
Security behind a pay wall
Such a shame. Devs have put security features behind a pay wall. And a very expensive tier as well (app lock). Just too expensive for basic notes.
Brilliant program
A must if you want a good solid notes app that is privacy focussed.
Great app
Great app
But it doesn’t support RTL (Right-to-Left) text direction for arabic language when you write notes.
But it doesn’t support RTL (Right-to-Left) text direction for arabic language when you write notes.
Nice UI, easy to use
A great alternative to Evernote without the learning curve. Has most essential features and focuses on user privacy which is nice.
Best notes app
I’ve used a lot of notes apps trying to find the perfect one. This is it! Sync, encryption, export, markdown, attachments, this one has it all ands then some!
Web clip option
Been looking for a simple(ish) notes app to get nahstee Google Keep out of my IPhone and Android phone life, syncing between each phone and which will save web pages. This fills that need better than anything else I’ve found so far and as a very small use retiree on limited funds the reasonable free tier is great for this use case. Hopefully my recommendations to others will give more of a lucrative return!
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Truly the very best notes app!!!
I love this app, it’s fast, has many options, the very best, you won’t find a better app!!!
Moved from Standard Notes
Always been looking for the perfect note application. I wasn’t Evernote user for multiple years and switched to other applications but they all are too heavy. Started using Standard Notes. Was lightweight, but there are a lot of issues with the application. So now I’m happy with Notesnook because it has all the features I need and appears to be reliable. Only issue is I could not import my Standard Notes into it so I have been slowly moving them over manly.
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Very good
Very good
Great value for free
Free sync, modern layout, e2ee, great value compared to other note apps IMO
