Evernote Announces Price Hikes and Two-Device Limit for Free Users

[Shirasaki]

Yeah, I'm really tired of all of these subscriptions. I thought about this recently, even before the Evernote announcement. Compare what the average person paid per month or per year in subscription fees 25 years ago to what people pay monthly or annually for subscriptions now. Then: cable TV, newspaper, a magazine or two, maybe a gym membership. Now: digital cable TV with a thousand channels you don't watch, DVR service, HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, cell phone with more GBs than you even need because god forbid you go over and get raped on overage fees, Sirius Radio, Sirius Traffic, OnStar or its other-brand siblings, more iCloud storage and/or more Dropbox storage, Apple Music and/or iTunes Match, Office 365, Crashplan or some other backup, maybe the same gym membership, this, that, and 500 other things, but admittedly probably not the printed newspaper or magazines anymore.

There's so much subscription bloat that you really need to look at these monthly charges and decide if each one is truly worth it. Evernote may be worth it to some people, but it's not to me. I'm trying to reduce subscriptions, not add another one.

Yep. I cannot agree more in fact.
I currently keep two magazines subscription, office 365 enterprise e3, Visio professional, project professional, and iCloud storage, and adobe CC. Those total costs are already too high, but I believe I cannot live without them in foreseeable future.

Some think subscription is a win win. But this heavily depends on the value of product. Someone think when software is released as a subscription, then it is in an endless beta stage. No final version until software is discontinued.

All I can hope is developers don't go all out to the subscription model, especially those big names. Not everyone like subscription. Just like there are still tones of people sticking at CS6 or older version of Adobe software suite.

 

[deany]

I'm struggling to migrate Evernote with approx 175 notes to iOS notes, can anyone help?
Have Evernote made it more difficult to migrate, or I'm I missing the link?
I've got access to Office 365 if it helps in the steps.
Thanks in advance.

 

[BigMcGuire]

I'm struggling to migrate Evernote with approx 175 notes to iOS notes, can anyone help?
Have Evernote made it more difficult to migrate, or I'm I missing the link?
I've got access to Office 365 if it helps in the steps.
Thanks in advance.

In the Google Keep thread they had information on this so I'm just copying it from there. Hopefully it works for you:
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/30/google-keep-intelligent-organization-feature/

 

[NY Guitarist]

When exploring remote collaboration sometime ago I downloaded Evernote and a few other apps. I wound up using Quip briefly, and also Celtx, but eventually settled on an old school approach to workflow.

I like the idea of Apple Notes as a built-in OS X tool.

What are the alternatives to Evernote?

More importantly, any non-subscription alternatives?

 

[Endymion42]

They lost me back when they screwed up Penultimate. Now I use one note very happily OneNote and Goodnotes instead.

 

[deany]

In the Google Keep thread they had information on this so I'm just copying it from there. Hopefully it works for you:
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/30/google-keep-intelligent-organization-feature/

appreciate it, thank you

 

[26139]

I have no concern over this "He" you mention above.
You quoted multiple people.
The answer was in response to this:

You can tap dance around the subscription method with semantics all you want.
You're renting software in the end.

Sure, while also paying for maintenance and further development.

Unless you're a developer, we're all "renting" software, either with time and money or just the first.

 

[kyykesko]

It's okay if you prefer another service or don't want to pay, but I sense the negative comments are from people who have no idea how powerful the platform is and have never used it beyond basic note taking.

You need to understand many of us are just using it to clip stuff and store it. It's nothing I would actually pay money to do, there are so many different ways to do it. I've used Evernote since start and paid for a while for it but didn't really find anything worth paying for so dropped back to free tier. I do use it on multiple devices and the 2-device limitation is a no go for me. I have OneNote, Apple Notes, Google Keep and some other similar systems. I once almost rolled out some self hosted version but never got around to it because I use it so little. I have over two thousand notes in it, most of them obsolete. I still like to be able to search information from them once or twice a year, but that's about it.

I know Evernote couldn't care less about me or my needs because I'm not a paying customer, but I can't justify myself paying $4/mo for just storing my notes. I've considered moving on and now I'm at a point where it's not a question of 'if' but rather 'when'. I'm ok with their 60M/mo or whatever upload limit in the free version. If I used it more I'd probably be ok paying for it. The thing is, I've got a Chromebook, Macbook Retina, Surface Pro 4, two iPhones, iPad, one noname Android tablet and two work desktops (win7, win10). If I can't access the system on all of those it'll just make my life harder. I'll probably still keep Evernote and just find some system to replicate the stuff from it so I can access that version on all systems and use Evernote for the single reason I still do: It's the only place I can publish to from Pocket.

Drop the 2-device limitation and I'll happily keep using the free version forever. I've tried to find ways to make more use out of it but failed so far, so the price IS an issue for me. I'll probably go for OneNote even though I dislike the UI. Then again, I'm not very fond of Evernote's version either so it's not such a big change.

 

[steve123]

There were two features I was "ok" to pay 5 bucks a month for. Card scanning and PDF scanning. With the increase in price, I have moved on.

 

[BorderingOn]

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?

Saying Evernote is just to type words on a screen is like saying the same thing about Word, or saying Excel is like writing numbers in a ledger. Evernote is just a wee bit more powerful than storing some plain text.

And no one who doesn't use the advanced features needs to belly ache about the price for premium. Their decision is between the two device limit and the basic subscription.

OneNote covers my needs so that's where I'm headed. For those who don't know, OneNote has a web clipper and OCR, two things I hear repeated about Evernote being superior.

 

[steve123]

OneNote covers my needs so that's where I'm headed. For those who don't know, OneNote has a web clipper and OCR, two things I hear repeated about Evernote being superior.

Yeah, I wish the Notes app in iOS and macOS had OCR built in ... and the ability to scan a business card !!!

 

[Osamede]

$35 a year for the Plus account is fine.

What is not fine though, is Dropbox refusing to put user needs first. "Upgrade" is plastered on your screen, even if you are paying for a Plus account. That's just tacky, and poor use of real estate.

Plus, they need to get that "work chat" nonsense out of there, and stop suggesting "chats". My notes are private, and should not be shared by mistake. If I want to share them, I'll initiate that myself, thanks!

 

[rhett7660]

There were two features I was "ok" to pay 5 bucks a month for. Card scanning and PDF scanning. With the increase in price, I have moved on.

What are you using for card scanning now?

The PDF Scanning and ability to search within a PDF file is nice, however I am about ready move away from them to. This is coming from someone who has close to 1800 notes stored in my account. I haven't been able to find anything to fill my need, however having said that. I will be looking again as the price hike to me is not worth it, and only having the ability to access my notes from two devices and websites is not really an option. I like the ability to use the native apps to access.

 

[steve123]

What are you using for card scanning now?

Unfortunately, I do not have a replacement for the card scanning yet.

 

[jennyp]

Evernote account deleted and surprised to find I'm using Apple Notes app with no trouble.