Evernote
Launched 2008
187 features found available
In their words
Tame your work, organize your life. Remember everything and tackle any project with your notes, tasks, and schedule all in one place. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Evernote:
$0 - Free Plan
$10.83/month when paid yearly - Personal Plan
$14.17/month when paid yearly - Professional Plan
$20.83/month when paid yearly - Teams Plan
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
The light/dark setting of the OS can control whether light or dark layout
A note can preview content embedded from another note in the same pane as the note itself
Editor can show content exactly as it will be exported/printed
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
The app (or a first-party plugin) allow notes to be located via AI prompt
An AI-driven note search can cite specific text from notes
A list can be triggered that shows a collection of possible questions/tasks to ask the AI
Longform text can be analyzed with specific improvement suggestions, which can be individually approved/rejected
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
A calendar on which tasks can be viewed is provided in the app
App will import existing events from an external calendar (e.g., Google Calendar) and show them within the app
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Content of the PDF can be marked up inside the note, rather than using an external editor
Content of the PDF can be viewed inside the note, rather than clicking on PDF and having it open in an external PDF viewer
The title and body of the PDF are automatically indexed in search
Playing and interacting with YouTube videos is possible from within a note
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
The company has a specified URL at which users can discuss the product and ask questions in a format where answers can be upvoted to pinpoint the best one
There exists a publicly accessible site upon which users can upvote features they want to see implemented
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
Can enable two-factor authentication from within the app (not only via third parties) to protect account access
Note data can be encrypted before leaving the user's device such that the decryption key is not shared with the note app provider (sometimes referred to as "end-to-end encryption")
Documented claim that all note data is encrypted at rest, on the server
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
A note or block can have a password applied to hide it
The entire account's worth of notes, not just individual notes, can be encrypted before leaving the user's device such that the decryption key is not shared with the note app provider
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Audio can be placed in a note with embedded controls to start and stop the audio
dotted points are used at the beginning of a paragraph to assemble unordered lists
There is a hot key or icon to remove all text formatting currently applied
Excluding text that gets colored as a side effect of some other formatting feature listed (e.g., highlight)
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
A permanent text selection formatting menu is available at the top or bottom of the editor
Note body text can be "collapsed," "contracted," "folded" or otherwise hidden under its (non-bullet list) header
Can font size be explicitly set? I.e., not just through setting it as a header
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
A sub-list contained within an ordered list
text characters are smaller than regular text, and are set below the baseline (subscript), or above the baseline (superscript), commonly used for mathematical expression
User can choose an explicit font (not just a theme) to restyle text
Videos can be placed in the body of a note, with controls to start and stop the video
What functionality specific to images is possible?
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be cropped (e.g., to remove the left half of it)
The note app allows the edges of the picture to get dragged so it becomes larger or smaller
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
Words in the image are added to full text search, so the note will show up in search results that contain a word from within the image
Without leaving the app, text can be drawn on top of an image
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be rotated (e.g., 90 degrees, counterclockwise)
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
An entire account can be deleted (including all notes and personal data) without emailing the company
Hierarchy is exported in a way that other apps can import
App includes a built in importer for Evernote notes (ENEX)
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
A list of different versions of the note from past various points with the ability to revert to any of them
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
A syntax exists to make numeric or date calculations within the app
Date and time can be evaluated and inserted into a note
Emails can be forwarded to an email address that will create a new note w/ the email content, or append the email content to an existing note
It's possible to setup callbacks to external services when a note changes
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
A browsable collection of pre-existing sample notes (e.g., "weekly budget") that can be copied into one's own notebook
Features specific to the mobile experience
Note content can be viewed from outside the app via native Android widget
Note content can be viewed from outside the app via native iOS widget
Task content can be viewed from outside the app via native Android widget
Task content can be viewed from outside the app via native iOS widget
A quick access icon on the Android home screen includes a search bar
A quick access icon on the iOS home screen includes a search bar
When picking the "Share with..." option from an Android app, the app exposes a means for sending content to the app
When picking the "Share with..." option from an iOS app, the app exposes a means for sending content to the app
How well can the app function without internet access?
Attachments can be inserted into a note and viewed within the note when offline, after starting the app whilst disconnected from the Internet
Searching for text inside notes works when offline, after starting the app whilst disconnected from the Internet
Any note can be read when offline, after starting the app whilst disconnected from the Internet
Note content can be created or updated when offline, after starting the app whilst disconnected from the Internet
Quick-searching for notes works when offline, after starting the app whilst disconnected from the Internet
How fast is it?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
When entering text into the search field, matching hierarchical tags/directories are offered to help the user filter note content
For any given note, the app provides a way to browse all other notes that contain links pointing to it
The three keyword operators (AND, NOT, OR) limit or expand search results
It's possible to create a link from one note to another note
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
Enclosing the search query with quote brackets, the results only show words from within those quotes
Search results contain notes only within a selected range
Using whatever mechanism the app provides to organize notes (e.g., tags, folders), can that mechanism be used as a full text search filter?
Search results can be sorted by the note's date of creation
A menu to view available keyboard shortcuts is located within the app
A dialog is provided to look up other notes as link targets while creating a new link in a note
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
Organization of folders or hierarchical tags can have at least three levels of sub categories
A note can be in multiple navigation hierarchies concurrently (i.e., because it has multiple tags)
A note can be pinned to the top of the note list for easy access, and will stay there until unpinned
A hotkey is available that can be used to access an input box that searches notes, and a note can be selected from that list without using the mouse
Save or favorite the parameters of a search to become accessible with one click
Notes that include PDFs, Word documents, and images show the portion within these that matches search query
Groups of notes can be bookmarked and accessed from a dedicated "Shortcuts," "Starred" or "Favorites" area
The forward slash key can be used to call forth a dialogue with a list of editing & formatting options
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Multiple parties can edit a note concurrently with a real-time editing system that prevents merge errors if the same paragraph is concurrently edited
Enable a specific user or multiple users to view and/or edit one's otherwise private note content
The note owner has options for different levels of permissions when sharing a note with other users who have an account (ex: full access, read only, editable by others)
It's possible to define a group of notes to be shared through a single action
When multiple users are concurrently editing a shared note, their cursors are visibly demarcated
It is possible to deduce which users are currently viewing, and editing, a note
All documents shared by collaborators can be accessed on a consolidated page
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
Highlight the background of any table cell with a variety of color options
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
An option exists to designate who is expected to complete a task
A specific date and time at which a task is scheduled to be addressed
There exists a means to view all tasks that have been created across a group of notes
A hotkey allows entering a new note or task while in the midst of using any desktop app
There exists a means by which one can designate a task as being "high priority"
When the mobile app is opened, no more than two taps are ever necessary to add a new task
An alert time can be associated with a task, or note, before it is due. (e.g., remind me 1 hour before task is due)
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
The web clipper has an option to add additional text or markup to the clipped image
The URL of the web page from whence the capture occurred can be included among the content inserted into note
Web clipper allows choosing a note to insert image into
An official Chrome web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
The clipper can capture an entire web page, even when it is taller than their viewport
An official Firefox web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
An official Safari web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
An option to apply new or established tags to the clipped selection
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