PokeBowl

I love how all the paid users are griping about folks "taking advantage of this poor app" when it's Evernote themselves who shoehorned their casual users into staying on the free tier in the first place. Is everyone's line of thinking really that binary? No one should expect this service to be free, but the lack of flexibility in plan options means Evernote has been missing out on our money for over a decade - and cutting the free plan instead of just turning it into a basic plan means that the opportunity will be lost all together, as these users will simply move to another service. I've been hoping and praying they would offer a basic plan since I would pay up to $70/yr for what I'm already using it for (I solely use the notes feature and accumulated maybe 1400 notes in 11 years, the vast majority of which are plain text so this is literally a blip in data costs for them), with the exception of adding a third synced device, but paying almost twice that amount is simply not economical for this level of usage. It's their company lol, they can do whatever they want with it, but I still have the right to wish they would allow me to give them my money. This app was first recommended when I was a young parent and brand new smartphone user reckoning with keeping organized while having to go on disability, so more than anything it's what I grew accustomed to using during a hectic period of my life. I'm sad to see it go, but I can't justify spending 130 bucks per year just to keep the familiar feel. A reasonably-priced basic plan would surely be a nice middle ground that benefits everyone, and the infrastructure is even already in place! All they have to do is add a price tag to it.

I'm not ignorant of their trends, just pointing out the flaws in that business model lol. This is literally a suggestion forum, so no, there is no real question but I do appreciate you taking the time to respond! Just saying there's a whole subset of customers to make a subscription plan off of here, who otherwise wouldn't be giving this business a dime solely because the introductory price is too high. I WANT to pay for this service that I've been using since 2012 - of course, that only seems fair! But not at $7.99 per month, and surely not if I won't be using any of the features that comes with. Ultimately Evernote is missing out on an income stream for something that wouldn't even cost them extra resources to provide.

I WANT to give you my money, Evernote, but paying $7.99 per month just to add a single additional PC to my synced devices is not it. I don't need all those extra features, and I can't be the only user in this situation (the synced devices in question would be laptop, desktop, phone). Perhaps offering a separate tier, where users pay $2.99 per month per additional synced device would be much more reasonable. If users need to add more than 2 additional devices, then they might as well pay the $7.99 to have unlimited devices as well as the extra features. Wouldn't this make the most sense in terms of customer acquisition? Because right now I would rather move to a new service than spend the $7.99 a month (I don't even pay that much for Office 365 and 1TB of OneDrive space, jeez), but I would really like to have the option of syncing a third device, and I would be more than happy to pay a reasonable fee for that. You just gotta let me give you my money.