Evernote
by Evernote · Note-taking with tasks, calendar and web clipping
BenchRank score
Screenshots of Evernote
Homepage
Overview
Evernote is a note-taking app that keeps notes, attachments and to-dos in notebooks and spaces, alongside tasks, a calendar and a Web Clipper browser extension. Notes sync across iOS, Android, Web, Windows and Mac and can be searched with Boolean, geographic and filtered queries. AI features cover transcription, semantic search, note editing and a chat assistant.
- Best for
- Individuals and teams wanting notes, tasks and calendar in one app synced across devices.
- Pricing
- Free plan, then Starter at £5.40/month and Advanced at £12.90/month when billed annually (£64.90 and £154.90 a year), with Enterprise quoted on request.
- Runs on
- iOSAndroidmacOSWindowsBrowser extension
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Notes, tasks, calendar and web clipping in a single app
- Apps for iOS, Android, Web, Windows and Mac with syncing
- AI transcription, semantic search and note editing included
- Free plan available; Starter from £5.40/month billed annually
Trade-offs
- Free plan capped at 50 notes, 1 notebook and 1 device
- Starter limits you to 1,000 notes, 20 notebooks and 3 devices
- Advanced 'unlimited' is subject to unstated safeguard limits
- Paid trials run 7 days only; Enterprise pricing is not published
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Evernote’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Customer sentiment
Third-party ratings, shrunk toward the catalogue mean by review volume and corroborated across independent sources.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
This doesn’t look right — report a problem with Evernote’s score
Where this comes from
The Evernote pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
Alternatives in Notes & Knowledge Management
Ranked 1
72.9 — BenchRank score out of 100SurfSense
SurfSense · Open-source NotebookLM alternative for live open-web research
Best for: Teams and developers who need live platform data from Reddit, YouTube and search for agent research.
Ranked 2
70.1 — BenchRank score out of 100Prismical
Prismical · Open-source AI note taker that records meetings without a bot
Best for: People wanting meeting and voice-note transcription on-device, with no bot joining the call
Ranked 3
69.7 — BenchRank score out of 100Memos
Memos · Self-hosted Markdown timeline for quick notes and snippets
Best for: Self-hosters and developers who want fast Markdown note capture on infrastructure they control.
Is this your product?
Claim Evernote to manage its profile. Claiming lets you suggest edits to the descriptive fields — it never changes scores or rankings.