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Changes to Evernote’s Pricing Plans

by goeric on 6/28/16, 11:26 PM with 10 comments

• by danso on 6/28/16, 11:47 PM

  Here's a blog post that summarizes some of the changes:

  http://lifehacker.com/evernote-limits-device-sharing-for-fre...

  > Today, Evernote announced a change to its pricing plan alongside a new limitation for its free service. Both the Plus and Premium paid tiers get a price bump while the Basic plan now restricts you to just two devices.

  > The biggest sting is the fact the free Basic plan now limits you to two devices per account, like a computer and a phone, two computers, or a phone and a tablet. You’re also still limited to just 60MB of uploads a month. The Plus plan is now priced at $3.99/month, up from $2.99/month (or $34.99/year), while the Premium plan bumps up to $7.99/month from $5.99/month (or $69.99/year). The price increase comes from what Evernote says is a “significant investment of energy, time, and money.” If you’re affected by the price change, look out for an email from Evernote letting you know what to do. The price change won’t go into effect until after August 15, 2016.

• by mark_l_watson on 6/29/16, 2:00 AM

  I don't use Evernote much, but I do like it and for $25/year it is worthwhile. When it is time to pay for another year, it looks like my price increases to $35/year, which I will probably pay for again, but maybe not. I am used to pricing on web services to slowly decrease, not increase.

• by Axsuul on 6/29/16, 8:19 AM

  Good thing I just paid for it yearly! But I would still happily pay for this even with the price increases, as long as Evernote continues to get better. I've noticed the strings of improvements recently, and now with Markdown support coming, it's going to be very promising, definitely up from a year ago when it was going through turmoil. Right now I'm just a happy Evernote user that literally has his whole life on the platform. I would be lost without it.

• by VelNZ on 6/28/16, 11:48 PM

  This is a shame, I love using Evernote but not enough to pay $50USD/year for it. I use it as a reference point for various software/commands and it's quite convenient that it sync's across all my devices. The encrypted text feature is handy for sensitive information too.

  Dropbox with encrypted sparsebundles is a convenient enough replacement though.

• by JohnnyConatus on 6/30/16, 6:20 PM

  I wish they would announce that they've made Evernote less buggy on MacOS and that they've removed all of the unnecessary me-too add-ons like "work chat". I'm a premium user but have been contemplating a switch to OneNote since Evernote crashes about once a day.

• by jcrben on 6/29/16, 10:47 AM

  If you're spending hundreds of hours using a piece of software, paying about the price of a beer or fancy coffee once a month doesn't seem unreasonable.

• by j_lev on 6/28/16, 11:45 PM

  Not something we haven't seen before, culling unprofitable users.

  Agree with the commenter that said the app is worth about $10-15, and should never have been made subscription-based.