Evernote — Note taking and document organization app for capturing ideas, web clips, and PDF scans

About Evernote

Evernote is the pioneer of modern digital note-taking. With optical character recognition (OCR) that reads handwriting and text inside images and PDFs, Web Clipper for saving research articles, and audio notes, Evernote helps millions remember everything.

Key features

• Web Clipper Browser Extension — Save full web articles, stripped text, or screenshots with one click.
• OCR Search in PDFs & Images — Search inside receipts, photos, and scanned handwritten notes.
• Calendar & Task Integration — Link notes directly to Google Calendar events and set reminder tasks.

Pricing

Pricing model: Freemium.

• Free Plan — $0 — 1 notebook, 50 notes, 25MB note size, Sync across 1 device
• Personal —
  4.99 / month — Unlimited devices, 100,000 notes, 200MB max note size, Search in PDFs
• Professional —
  7.99 / month — Team sharing, Export notebooks as PDF, Boolean search syntax

Pros

• The best web clipper in the industry for archiving research
• OCR search reliably finds text inside scanned images and receipts
• Extensive multi-platform history and stability

Cons

• Free plan has become heavily restricted to 50 notes
• Subscription pricing is higher than newer competitors

Platforms

Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android

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