Evernote has confirmed the service’s tightly leashed new free plan, which the corporate tested with some users earlier this week. Beginning December 4, the note-taking app will prohibit new and present accounts to 50 notes and one pocket book. Current free prospects who exceed these limits can nonetheless view, edit, delete and export their notes, however they’ll must improve to a paid plan (or delete sufficient previous ones) to create new notes that exceed the brand new confines.
The corporate says most free accounts are already inside these traces. “When setting the brand new limits, we thought-about that almost all of our Free customers fall beneath the brink of fifty notes and one pocket book,” the corporate wrote in an announcement weblog publish. “Because of this, the on a regular basis expertise for many Free customers will stay unchanged.” Engadget reached out to Evernote to make clear whether or not “nearly all of Free customers” staying inside these bounds contains long-dormant accounts that will have tried the app for a couple of minutes a decade in the past and by no means logged in once more. We’ll replace this text if we hear again.
Evernote’s premium plans, now virtually important for something greater than minimal use, embrace a $15 month-to-month Private plan with 10GB of month-to-month uploads. You’ll be able to double that to 20GB (and get different perks) with an $18 tier. It additionally presents annual variations of these plans for $130 and $170, respectively.
The corporate acknowledged in its announcement publish that “these adjustments could lead you to rethink your relationship with Evernote.” Main options with extra bountiful free plans embrace Notion, Microsoft OneNote, Google Keep, Bear (Apple units solely), Obsidian and SimpleNote.
Earlier this 12 months, Evernote’s parent company, Bending Spoons, moved its operations from the US and Chile to Europe, laying off nearly all of the note-taking app’s employees. When doing so, it mentioned the app had been “unprofitable for years.”
This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/evernote-officially-limits-free-users-to-50-notes-and-one-measly-notebook-174436735.html?src=rss
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