LiveALive

It's not about the money. It's that: 1. removing key features for free users without any notice is not a serious behavior 2. long-term users of the free version are still userful for the company, as they are the cornerstone of the word of mouth, and they deserve more respect. 3. The courrent free version is inadeguate even as a trial. If it's intended to be a trial, it's a really bad trial that makes impossibile to form a judgement about essential features. 4. The quality of the app has dropped recently, it's full of bugs. "It's not charity", another user says. Come on! It's 2024! Facebook is free! Genshin Impact is completely free and its developement cost is 200 million per year! There are different business model nowadays! The inability to establish a system that allows to maintain a satisfactory freemium version is a failure for the company. I'm not the only one that feels this way. Did you read the articles? Look: - https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/giving-up-evernote/ - https://tedium.co/2023/11/30/evernote-saas-note-apps-risk/ - https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/personal-data-storage-evernote-google-drive-icloud.html

I've been using Evernote ever since Bill Clinton was still in office. Well, no, but I used it for at least 12 years, I think. I used to use One Note, but due to a bug I lost all my notes. So I asked a friend (he passed away last year) if there was another software that allowed me to write from my PC and my tablet and my smartphone on the same text. And he says: try Evernote. At the time, I could sync unlimited devices, and that's just what I needed. Recently, I could sync only 3 devices, but that was still cool, I just work with my PC and my smartphone. Yesterday: only 1 device. So, why should I use Evernote in the first place? The brute fact is that Evernote is outdated as a concept. You can just creare a text file in a Cloud like Google Drive or One Drive, and you don't need anymore weird softwars to sync different devices. In the past, that was not that easy because for 10 dollars they gave you just a few gigabytes; now, with the same money, you have unlimited gigabytes, so every device is continously connected to a Cloud (we don't even need anymore a local memory storage). Moreover, there are good free alternatives, like Google Keep. I continued to use Evernote out of habit, and because it makes me think about my friend. But now, I can't continue to use it. I think that Bending Spoons have a destructive philosophy (and I'm italian too!), and I think that Evernote has no future. The app now sucks, it's full of bugs, sometimes it doesn't save your work, sometimes it says that you have more than 50 notes even if I have less than 20. The fact that long-term users like me lose FOUNDAMENTAL features (like connecting at least 3 devices) without any notice is a really bad behavior. Moreover, the app is engulfed with misleading advertising, trying to make you subscribe a paid plan structured in such a way that it is not immediately clear if you can decline.