Is Evernote worth it in 2026?

Free costs $0 and holds 50 notes, one notebook and one device. It also caps storage at 1 GB of monthly uploads, with a 1 GB limit on any single note. For a student or consultant who keeps about 2,000 notes with PDFs, the note count alone rules Free out, so treat it as a way to test the app.

Free still gets the day-to-day features: tasks, calendar, advanced search, offline notes, easy sharing and the Web Clipper. The comparison table also ticks AI Assistant, semantic search, transcription, AI edit and AI cleanup on Free and on both paid plans, although Evernote says AI cleanup works only on mobile. Evernote’s help article on the plan changes lists AI Assistant and semantic search as “coming soon” on Starter and Advanced, so the two pages disagree. Check those features on your own account before you count them as part of the price.

Starter is the cheapest paid individual plan and the right size for a library under 1,000 notes. It adds 20 notebooks, 100 tags, 1,000 attachments, three synced devices, 10 spaces and 5 GB of storage, plus MCP access so Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible tools can use your notes.

Annual billing is the better buy. On monthly billing the plan costs $14.99 a month, which is $179.88 over 12 months. The yearly plan is $99, or $8.25 a month, so the saving is $80.88 a year by our arithmetic, about 45 percent. The pricing page’s “Save up to 40%” label does not match the Starter arithmetic, which works out to about 45 percent. The Advanced gap is about 17 percent.

Starter has no Slack integration and stops at 1,000 notes. When a library grows past that, the next step is Advanced, because the individual plans jump straight from Starter to Advanced.

For a student or consultant with about 2,000 notes and PDFs, Advanced is the only individual plan that fits. The table shows notes, attachments and storage as unlimited, and it adds Slack and MCP access. Two caveats change the picture. Notebooks and devices carry an asterisk for safeguard limits against performance problems and abuse. Evernote’s help article also puts Advanced at up to 12,000 spaces and up to 100,000 tags, where the table says unlimited.

On that 2,000-note scenario, the yearly cost is $249.99 on annual billing. Paying monthly costs $24.99 a month, which is $299.88 over 12 months, so annual billing saves $49.89 by our arithmetic, about 17 percent. Eligible college students get 40% off a one-year Advanced subscription, which takes the list price to about $149.99 by our arithmetic.

At that annual price, Advanced earns its place only if you need the cap gone or the Slack integration. Otherwise Starter covers any library under 1,000 notes for less than half the money.

Paid plans come with a 7-day free trial unless an offer says otherwise, and Evernote says you are not charged if you cancel before the trial ends. The Enterprise trial runs 14 days.

Refunds depend on the billing cycle. Evernote refunds a monthly Starter or Advanced charge if you ask within 20 days of payment, and an annual charge within 60 days. After those windows it gives no pro-rata credit for the unused part of a period. Evernote also says it may be unable to refund charges made through app stores such as Apple, so subscribe on Evernote’s own site if you want its refund window to apply.

Starter and Advanced replaced the Personal and Professional plans, which Evernote has retired. You cannot switch back. Price changes take effect no sooner than your next billing date, and you can cancel before a new price applies.

The pricing page lists Flexible from $10 a month per seat, described as pay for what you use, with seats that scale up or down. Enterprise is quoted by sales. The page says “Talk to our sales team” and describes a plan for organizations of 10 or more seats, with single sign-on, SCIM provisioning and admin controls.

Our verdict covers the individual plans only. A team that needs single sign-on will be quoted by sales, so the $10 seat price is a starting point, not a final number.