Frustration with Evernote's Pricing and Features
Evernote is perceived as outdated and inadequate, failing to meet user expectations while charging a high subscription fee. Users are frustrated with the limited functionality of the free version and the poor quality of the paid service.
11 different people have complained about this since 31 Aug 2026, most recently on 19 Sept 2026.
“If your looking for a great alternative you the notes app on your phone.”
“Evernote is still stuck in the 2010s, yet its new Italian owners appear to be suffering from a serious case of delusions of grandeur, charging $250 a year for this mess.”
“Cancelled my sub when they doubled the price to $130 PER YEAR to justify the "new features," all on a spectrum of useless, trivial, cluttering, or cheaper elsewhere.”
11 people in 11 posts across 2 sources · demand low, pain low, competition low
The pain
shares of 11 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 11 people using Evernote: AI Notes & Notebook
- What goes wrong
- Too expensive9% of posts
- How bad
- 45% of posts are complaints · pain score low (13/100)
- Since
- 31 Aug 2026 → 19 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Evernote: AI Notes & Notebook
- Looking for something else
- 9% want an alternative · 36% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint545%
- Looking for an alternative19%
- Request436%
- About price19%
Sources
11 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
- App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Notes & documents·13d ago·Looking for an alternativesource ↗
…y basically made it so expensive I have had to look for other tools. If your looking for a great alternative you the notes app on your phone. It does basically all this does and no cost.
Looking for a tool Evernote: AI Notes & Notebook — $$$$$$! Simply too expensive. I would even be willing to pay a one time fee that was $180, but $180 per year… Absolutely not.
Too expensive…nce feels as though basic logic never made it past the drawing board. Evernote is still stuck in the 2010s, yet its new Italian owners appear to be suffering from a serious case of delusions of grandeur, charging $250 a year for this mess. Seriously? That’s what premium plans for leading AI platforms cost—and those…
…ng Evernote and used it for years, but it's been downhill since then. Cancelled my sub when they doubled the price to $130 PER YEAR to justify the "new features," all on a spectrum of useless, trivial, cluttering, or cheaper elsewhere. The interface is a constant fight. It would be just tolerable today if it were…
Evernote: AI Notes & Notebook — Has gone downhill for many years I used Evernote for years and what made it great was how simple and effective it was at letting me keep notes in a organized way. I didn’t even mind paying for this app. But their price increases are so astronomical and yet done so often over the last…
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score 37.0 → 37.2 · 24 Sept 2026, 20:00 → 21:15 UTC
How the score was measured38 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Frustration with Evernote's Pricing and Features a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 11 different people described it independently, in 11 mentions, the earliest from 31 Aug 2026 and the most recent from 19 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: emerging — newly appearing in the evidence. Momentum is 59/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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