Evernote

Evernote is a note taking app. Evernote Corporation, founded by Stepan Pachikov, launched it in 2008, and it became one of the best known apps of the early smartphone era. The Italian software company Bending Spoons bought Evernote in 2023 and moved most work to its Milan base.

Notes can hold text, checklists, images, audio, PDFs and scanned documents. They are organised into notebooks and tagged, and search can find words inside images and PDFs. The Web Clipper browser extension saves web pages and articles into Evernote. Tasks, reminders and a calendar link help people plan their day. Notes sync between devices, so people can start a note on a phone and finish it on a computer.

Evernote has a free plan with tight limits on the number of notes and notebooks. Paid plans, called Personal and Professional, remove those limits and add offline access and more upload space. Evernote raised prices and cut back the free plan after the Bending Spoons purchase. It runs on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and the web. Many long time users keep years of notes, receipts and documents in it.