After Bending Spoons bought Evernote, you can safely mark 2022 as the product's date of death. They literally fired everyone who worked on it, killed the old non‑Electron app, raised prices to insane levels, and still pretend it's the same Evernote “we all knew” and even better.
Now they want $250/year just so I can keep my 5k+ notes accessible (the "Starter" plan doesn’t cut it). They even charge just to view your own notes. It’s absurd.
Recently they’ve also bought great products like Komoot, WeTransfer, and Issuu, and I bet they'll all face the same enshittification: mass layoffs of passionate teams and massive price hikes.
Evernote used to be a must‑have app - stable, powerful, and reliable (yes, not perfect).
Now it's a bloated ghost-app riding the AI hype while ignoring the basics that used to make it great.
Stay away from Evernote. Stay away from anything Bending Spoons touches.
And if you want to feel what we've actually lost, watch Komoot’s farewell video - it's heartbreaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJkK4Wn1HI
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