Evernote vs Notability

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R11] Evernote 4/5 · US Fine but not awesome: Evernote has several good features and is generally good. Folders work well for organizing notes. Two significant frustrations are: 1. It doesn’t give you an opportunity to return to the same place. You leave your note for an hour, you end up at the front door. Frustrating if you’re trying to get work done! 2. Formatting is picky, idiosyncratic, and doesn’t play well with
2. [R39] Evernote 3/5 · US The more they fix it the worse it gets: Featuritis in ALL CAPS. This used to be a prize winner...easy to use, intuitive, no flab. It has become overloaded with "features" to the point of becoming very difficult to use, and hard to teach to others. I wish they would make available a lean version of this once-stellar app.
3. [R83] Notability 5/5 · US Use it if you’re in school!: This is one of the coolest apps if you’re in undergrad or graduate school. I’m able to download professors slides right into the app, mark it up, take notes that AI will use to create a quiz, etc. just a very cool app that bridges the traditional note taking for me-pen to paper, which is how I retain information-but also adds really cool technology features in a mindfu
4. [R68] Notability 5/5 · US Excellent: I’ve been using it for years, and I love it. Much easier to study.
5. [R6] Evernote 3/5 · US Unnecessary blocking with promos: I like the app because it syncs quickly. I don’t like it when I try to open it on the fly and the screen covered with bulletins telling me about new updates. It seems like they roll them out a couple of times a week.
6. [R110] Notability 5/5 · US I depend on Notability: I started using Notability in 2017. Before coming to Notability, I tried many other apps such as OneNote, Apple Notes and Evernote. I stuck with Notability for its intuitive simplicity and reliable note taking features. It isn’t overloaded with un necessary features and I love that about it. I used it to write along with grad school lectures, and also later to write notes f
7. [R75] Notability 3/5 · US Great for writing notes; but terrible for typing: I love and hate this app at the same time. I love using this app when taking notes with my apple pencil. However, to use it like Microsoft Word, it is absolutely buggy and frustrating. There are just way too many bugs to type with this app. (on the MacBook Pro and on the iPad both have many bugs for typing. If you want the best handwriting app, the
8. [R12] Evernote 3/5 · US Horrible AI: I used to love Evernote and used it for everything, but in the past year or so, it’s gotten slow, laggy, and can no longer reliably find documents when you look for them. They’ve done all in one AI and guess what, it doesn’t work. Every AI feature they’ve added has made it worse. Whoever decided this simple little app needed AI should lose their job.
9. [R55] Evernote 1/5 · US Buggy EVERNOTE: I hate the fact that EVERNOTE no longer lists automatically in Reverse chronological order. If you set it to do that, you have to do it all over again over and over and over and over again. Just wastes my time a lot. Also, the search engine is buggy. Sometimes it fails to find words that are present in Evernote, which I’m able to find through other more laborious methods. When usi
10. [R63] Notability 3/5 · US This app crashes all the time: This app makes annotating very easy and has a great interface but I’ve been using it regularly for over a year and it crashes A LOT, especially when inserting a text box. It happens several times in an hour sometimes and is very frustrating because it is a paid subscription service…
11. [R100] Notability 1/5 · US They will loose your notes/data!: While I loved the convenience and ease of using this platform to take and store notes, the platform is unreliable and they lose your data! Don’t rely on your important notes to be there from day to day! They involuntarily switched me from iCloud sync to their cloud services. When I contacted them it took me multiple times to get through to a live agent. Most of
12. [R3] Evernote 3/5 · US Pricey: The app is good, but the cost is high. The monthly cost for this app is way too high for something that just holds your notes. They act like it’s the only app you’re paying for.
13. [R22] Evernote 1/5 · US Price gouging: This used to be a great app. As user for 15 years it has been my digital brain, just as it promised. But now they have more than doubled the fee two years in a row. It is now $260 per year and that is just mind boggling for my use. It’s unfortunate that they raised the price this much. I have now moved all my notes to another product.
14. [R107] Notability 5/5 · US Great all around!: Truly excellent note taking app. The annual subscription is honestly so worth it, especially if you’re a student. Not sponsored, just a happy customer!
15. [R84] Notability 3/5 · US It’s alright: It’s nice but only with the paid features. My school uses it with subscriptions but at home I use it without subscription and it’s pretty bad without paying for subscription. With subscriptions it’s pretty good tho. Unless you’re planning to pay for an app, I would just use the basic Apple notes app.
16. [R25] Evernote 1/5 · US Absolutely the worst support: I thought I would come back to the app after almost a decade, not using it hoping that perhaps it would be a useful addition to my life. Unfortunately, in the past 10 years, I have replaced my phone. That means I no longer have access to the app that the code for my multifactor authentication is in. I open a ticket with support thinking that this should be a fairly ea
17. [R30] Evernote 3/5 · US Still can not export PDF: Despite following instructions precisely, evernote no longer allows me to export a note as a pdf Zero responses from my multiple requests for support
18. [R81] Notability 3/5 · US It needs fixes: The app is good, but it has many issues. It becomes very laggy at Times. Any gesture regarding images, writing with the apple pencil, dragging stickers, typing in text boxes etc. has a delay of 4-5 seconds at times despite having enough device storage available. It the past, it has deleted my notes without consent and there is nothing the tech support can do to recover them. There
19. [R61] Notability 1/5 · US AWFUL: I used to use this often during school and I decided to get it on my iPad just because I wanted to use it, but I can’t even use the text box. I have to do random stuff you can only make like six or five notes before you have to pay like $15 which I wasted so much time trying to curate notes when I literally didn’t even realize I had to pay so that sucks you guys are literally just money dea
20. [R112] Notability 1/5 · US Ugh: I’m so upset. It’s not free. I was looking for an app that was free but apparently this isn’t it.