Evernote has basic text formatting options, voice recording, and the ability to import images and PDFs (can’t do crazy annotating but that’s fine). Evernote has none of the features I described above, but in my everyday use, I don’t need them. This is powerful stuff, but it’s also complicated and not very intuitive to use.Ī note taking app needs to be feature-rich, but it needs to be simple as well. This is mostly limited to the desktop app (some of it is available on the iPad). You can insert tables, files, and even calendars. You can do crazy things like drop in an image or PDF, draw over it, put some text on it, overlap media, bring objects forwards and backwards, make images into background and a lot more. What this means is that each piece of information is its own box standing on top of a grid. When you click anywhere and start typing, you get a text box that’s not confined to the text area. But OneNote’s desktop app has this weird floating input field that takes a lot of time to get used to. On the mobile apps, you just tap and start typing like any other note taking app. If you’re a multi-device user and you switch between mobile and desktop frequently for note taking, OneNote’s experience can be downright alienating. OneNote Has Complex Features, Lots of Them Please, just show me the important stuff. When I’m taking notes, the last thing I want to see is options for everything from checklists to starring to audio recording. My pet peeve for Office apps is significantly exploited here. OneNote’s Mac and Desktop apps look like any other office apps with an added tab bar that doesn’t really make sense. But that might just be my personal pet peeve. OneNote, on the other hand, reminds me of Office apps. Evernote Has a Better UIĮvernote looks better than OneNote on every platform. OneNote, on the other hand, has features like OCR in images and PDFs, attaching PDFs to notes, and more for free. $4.99 a month gives you unlimited storage space and enables business related research features. The $2.99 Evernote Plus plan gives you offline access, a 1 GB monthly upload limit, a passcode lock and the ability to turn emails into Evernote notes. A small part of the user base pays a couple of dollars a month and that (along with the funding) keeps them going. Evernote is set up in a way that most users can get by without paying anything (I’m a proud Evernote freeloader).
This app is their major source of revenue. The note taking app is all they have going on (yes, they sell accessories as well).
So as long as you have a couple GBs of storage there (or a couple of hundred if you jumped on any promotions), you should be fine.Įvernote is the opposite (you only get 60 MB of storage for free every month). Even if it was a paid service, the revenue wouldn’t make a dent in the giant’s multi-billion dollar quarter results. OneNote is a very small part of MS’s business.
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