Leo_R

@George3456 is a spambot. All his 6 posts are pure spam with links to product sales. Any Evernote-related part is just copy-pasted (or AI generated). Mods may want to remove this user (as well as its posts).

All I know is that up until January 11 I didn't have any issues. And I've been using Evernote for many years. I never exceeded the device limit. I only had the app running on a single Samsung phone. On my two Macs I didn't even have the app installed - only used browsers. When I suddenly got locked out of my notes on Thursday, I did start trying to remedy this and yeah quickly run out of the two-unsyncs limit. Who the hell even knew it existed? Evernote never warned me about this limit when unsyncing. Plus what exceeding limit does even mean? Shouldn't it just observe the last unsync status instead of denying the user access EVERYWHERE? At one point I installed the app on my Mac in hope that I'll be able to salvage (export) the notes from there - which I, fortunately, could. After this, the app was blocked and unblocked intermittently for no conceivable reason, and now it's blocked again from yesterday. There's no denial that something is going on at Evernote and it started sometime recently. It's either the service is messed up - or maybe it's Bending Spoons is trying to get rid of undesired Free users. If it's the latter then they did succeed.

Ok I see. I guess I didn't have to deal with it up until now as Evernote actually did honor its advertised device allowance. Evernote now stopped honoring the device allowance (which is part of the problem I described in my post from Friday). Evernote now falsely claims that I exceeded my limit on synced devices. Which, once again, I did not. The try/upgrade screen now blocks me from accessing my notes everywhere.

Thanks for the confirmation. This limitation is also new: previously, browser usage was unlimited, the only limitation was that the app could be used on 2 devices only.

So do I understand correctly that the current allowance for Free users is the following (by way of example): -One app on a mobile device + browsers on unlimited desktops OR -App on 2 devices only (and NO browser access anywhere).

Oh yeah. That was yet another level of confusion. My usage pattern was always this: Evernote app on Samsung phone, browsers on 2 Macs. Browser usage was always unlimited. During my attempts to unblock my access to notes I obviously quickly reached that 2 unsyncs/month limit (which I wasn't aware of). I also noticed that in the device list was a new entity: Evernote Web (at least I don't remember seeing it before). I assume it's just Evernote in a browser? And does it mean then that browser access is now allowed on one device only?

Well I was using Evernote in a legitimate way offered by the company. All my notes are text-only and I don't need Evernote for anything else. All I need is plain text to keep some info here and there. Out of my 300 notes I'm only actively using about 15. Even the earlier payment plans were too high for my modest needs (in my view, of course) - plus I didn't need any paid features anyway. Now my access to the existing notes got basically BLOCKED without any prior warnings or notifications (it's blocked by the payment/trial screen). That is I can't even view them. Now, I just received a reply from Evernote support. It mentions that "any Free user who currently has more than fifty notes and one notebook will still be able to view, edit, export, share, and delete existing notes and notebooks." Following their troubleshooting steps, it appears that I at least can now access my notes via the app on my Mac. However, any attempt to log in to Evernote via a browser on another Mac blocks access to notes everywhere, including the app (and logging in via browser is never possible - it's always blocked). Clear as mud? It took me about an hour of various attempts to reach this conclusion. Hopefully, I'll get a solution from Evernote support to at least view my existing notes reliably on supported devices.

I was happily using Evernote for years. Free plan which allowed to use the app on two devices, and unlimited in browsers. Now I found that that free plan now only allows 1 notebook/50 notes in the app AND it's not supported on mobile browsers. That is, I can't use it on my two mobile devices (only in browser on my desktops). The paid plan is $160/year. I'm sorry but is it some kind of a joke? It's more expensive than the entire Microsoft Office! I'm myself a software developer and don't mind paying for software. But the price Evernote wants is simply unreasonable. As painful as it is will have to probably move everything to OneNote (for which I'm already paying as part of Office anyway). Too bad because Evernote is a great product.