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Evernote Announces Price Hikes and Two-Device Limit for Free Users
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I just use OneNote as usual, and it is completely free.
With Microsoft Account, Microsoft OneNote is powerful enough for most cases, and (newer) iPad works well with OneNote.
apple notes is much improved since iOS 9 and El Capitan. It will only get better.
Maybe Evernote will lose a lot of users to apple notes with this change.
Maybe Evernote will lose a lot of users to apple notes with this change.
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I stopped using Evernote almost a year now. The updated iOS notes app is more than enough.
The only thing I dislike about notes is that they have removed the powerful search that old versions had. You used to be able to use the search from the iOS home screens to; 1)Find the document (this still works) 2)Take you to the specific section of the note when selecting that note.
That is a huge blow
Sounds like they are feeling a cash flow squeeze and trying to ensure their long term viability. I used it for a year with a premium account but never got enough use to justify resubscribing. The OCR was nice but not good enough to pay for it. YMMV
You're right - I might actually look into Apple Notes more. Although it doesn't offer all the functionality of Evernote, I probably didn't even use it all when I look back.
Tim, I picked up one of those Verizon 3G Hot Spots that plugs into my home-router. You should get one of those.
Nice kick starter for spring-cleaning my apps on iOS.
I've already tidied up my Mac a lot, this will be a nice incentive to carry on on iOS and move data from Evernote to Notes.app.
OneNote is a cool program, but a bit too much for the occasional note. (GUI isn't optimized for many snippets, but more for drafts, big sketches, etc...)
For project planning it's quite good though. Maybe I'll end up using both.
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I've already tidied up my Mac a lot, this will be a nice incentive to carry on on iOS and move data from Evernote to Notes.app.
OneNote is a cool program, but a bit too much for the occasional note. (GUI isn't optimized for many snippets, but more for drafts, big sketches, etc...)
For project planning it's quite good though. Maybe I'll end up using both.
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Evernote does not understand that their business does not have value, its a "syncing NotePad" more or less. People are not going to pay just for that, you can take notes and sync them free with 5GB using iCloud. Some people like it, but just not enough to keep it running.
For the same price you can get Excel, OneNote, Word, PowerPoint and 1TB storage on 5 devices.
I don't know whats your financial situation, but the price increase equals to about $2 per month extra, you can't offer $2 for something you use heavily?
For the same price you can get Excel, OneNote, Word, PowerPoint and 1TB storage on 5 devices.
I don't know whats your financial situation, but the price increase equals to about $2 per month extra, you can't offer $2 for something you use heavily?
The software landscape these days is looking more and more awful. Remember when customers came first?
If you perceive quality as a U.I for pedantics, which is then marketed with shopping lists and and 'cool holiday ideas', then I think I'll stick to Notes.app.
Holy crap!
I've always had to hear from an occasional person (usually on this forum) complain about the Notes app for no reason than to just complain about iOS!
They'd always say how Notes.app is crap and Evernote is superior but I didn't know it was this bad.
I always knew better because lets face it, Notes.app is just a note app - you type words on the screen and it remembers it, simple as that.
Evernote could not and does not provide anything over Notes.app but I figured "ok, these people want to use a 3rd party note service, that's fine. I don't care".
Now I see that Evernote charges for plus/premium, people actually pay for it, and now they're raising the price even more to $70 a year!
These people pay $70 a year (or $50-60 previously) for this? A note taking service?
This is the service you sing praises about every time there is a live post on MacRumors about the WWDC or a keynote and you always have to complain about how boring the event was and that you're disappointed because "iOS and Notes.app still sucks" so you'll just "continue to use Evernote instead".
Paying $70 a year just to type words on a screen? Why? To spite Apple?
I've always had to hear from an occasional person (usually on this forum) complain about the Notes app for no reason than to just complain about iOS!
They'd always say how Notes.app is crap and Evernote is superior but I didn't know it was this bad.
I always knew better because lets face it, Notes.app is just a note app - you type words on the screen and it remembers it, simple as that.
Evernote could not and does not provide anything over Notes.app but I figured "ok, these people want to use a 3rd party note service, that's fine. I don't care".
Now I see that Evernote charges for plus/premium, people actually pay for it, and now they're raising the price even more to $70 a year!
These people pay $70 a year (or $50-60 previously) for this? A note taking service?
This is the service you sing praises about every time there is a live post on MacRumors about the WWDC or a keynote and you always have to complain about how boring the event was and that you're disappointed because "iOS and Notes.app still sucks" so you'll just "continue to use Evernote instead".
Paying $70 a year just to type words on a screen? Why? To spite Apple?
I liked Evernote. Been using it for years. Today will be the last day though. OneNote is free and does everything I want (native apps for desktop and mobile, and a web version if I ever need it) and will import my notes.
It's not that I don't like paying for software. I just don't like paying for software that has been free since forever, has free alternatives that are literally just as good - if not better - and is overpriced (basically the same price as Office 365 which is an entire office suite!).
It's not that I don't like paying for software. I just don't like paying for software that has been free since forever, has free alternatives that are literally just as good - if not better - and is overpriced (basically the same price as Office 365 which is an entire office suite!).
Yep my response was deleting from all devices and deactivating my account.
This looks quite interesting, and the only thing missing is iOS support. I couldn't find any mention of a beta. Whenever it happens, this looks like it could easily be an evernote killer.
It really is one of the best services out there. Especially once you have lots of notes in it and can search and find related notes etc. For people that use it frequently every day, the price just may be worth it...
This article got me first interested in Evernote a few years ago: http://lifehacker.com/5989980/ive-been-using-evernote-all-wrong-heres-why-its-actually-amazing
I migrated all my Evernote notes to OneNote last year when the OneNote Mac App became fairly decent and Evernote announced their first round of feature cuts to the free version. Had to migrate things manually since it was before the availability of Microsoft's import tool - but things went pretty smoothly. Now I'm really glad I did.
When I read the company's blog post, it seemed like this price *only* applies to new users and that current users are grandfathered into the 'old' prices. Meaning that a premium plan is $50(USD) per year.
As for features, I use Evernote's tagging and -- more important to me -- in-text pdf searching on such a regular basis that it'd still be worth the price hike costs. But I don't know that those kinds of edge cases are common enough to attract people at the new annual rates.
As for features, I use Evernote's tagging and -- more important to me -- in-text pdf searching on such a regular basis that it'd still be worth the price hike costs. But I don't know that those kinds of edge cases are common enough to attract people at the new annual rates.
Dude, really? One increase is $12/year, the other is $36/year. That amount of money is enough to get you to change to Office, which we've all complained about for years?
You've used it "heavily" and that's not enough to warrant a few weeks worth of coffee every day?
Seriously?
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So why in the hell would you think to tell us that?
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I've found that paid services are more reliable and get their problems fixed a lot more often than free ones.