xleon

If you were a subscriber you got somewhere between 30 and 335 days notice that if you didn't think the increased price was worth it, you could move on. Stuff happens with commercial products. Sorry if it was a shock. Yes, 30 days for me - so no time at all to evaluate alternatives and migrate so doubly bad suprise.

45%÷ Evernote price increase was a bad suprise

A good example of what I commented some days back that the price had increased with the banding around of AI buzzwords to help justify the large increase..... The AI button is prominent where the style button was so you can accidentally hit it - no options to move/remove. No toolbar customisation. Secondly, I had notes that refused to load this week. They eventually loaded after killing and restarting Evernote but it's basic things like these two issues that get me annoyed when prices rises as large as this arrive and the latest buzz words are used over making the app absolutely solid. Bending Spoons needs to communicate more clearly and more often how they are going to use the additional income and how they will bring in new users to prevent current users being price gouged again in a few months. More tier options would be a start.

That's what I said - the improvements since then have been small on something that should be a core feature. Yeah - I also said it doesn't work all the time. I had the box pop up, I clicked "no, do it later, not now" and guess what - it did it anyway! They may list that they are doing a lot of improvements, but for all the constant new versions, nothing much seems to actually change. If they are going to more than double everyone's cost, let's start to see the improvements appear.

I'd like the special version of Evernote you have - for me on an i9 and and i7, it's pretty sluggish. Maybe I just have more notes/data in that you have. It's not £85 impressive for speed. With regards security, I'd never ask a company to list network structure and I was not implying that. What I was getting at is that they could and should do more to reassure users in this day and age. Look at 1Password - regular 3rd party audits by specialist security teams, open-source encryption methods that can be checked and verified etc. etc. Once you start charging the costs of entry that Evernote are now, this is the big leagues of pricing, there comes additional levels of expectation of what should be provided, not necessarily constant buzz-word features such as AI. It would be nice if they polled users on what features they want - they have recently removed the feedback option (in the app which seems a step backwards). I really liked Evernote when I started using it and had to ensure the new unifed app re-write which became the slowest thing to use on the planet. They have pulled it back in recent months in terms of speed but it's still some way off and the annoying "upgrade" pop ups are aggressively in-your-face and disruptive and seem to appear every few weeks.

It definitely is a hell of a lot slower than is used to be. I'm also a long-time subscriber (if I wasn't my comment on how out of touch the 45% price increase was would not have made sense). What if everything went up by 45% - you may be lucky enough to be able afford if that was the case, in which I'm happy for you. Who has been screaming for AI? If they want to offer it as a paid-for add-on then that's fine - it's not something I'm after. Everyone is jumping on the AI train and Bending Spoons will use this as an excuse to hike prices even further, I'm absolutely sure of it. I'd rather they: Improved syncing so it was more responsive (Android app is locked while syncing occurs) Stopped upgrading the app in the middle of me using it, despite me having just pressed the "don't upgrade right now" button Stopped removing app features that were there before Put meaningful updates in the release notes Included a status bar so you know when syncing is completed Did further improvements to prevent note version clash - I know it happens, but it still happens more than it should Stop keep bombarding me with "upgrade" buttons and pop-ups - the price of the current plan has gone up 45%, now they want me to double-again for nothing I actually want/need. Focussed more on security, encryption of notes and gave more information on how they intend on keeping everyone's data safe. Look at LastPass having leaked passwords at least 3 times and the amount of data that was not encrypted there. Security should come before adding AI. I want a solid note-app without the bloat. I never mentioned jumping to "Startups and one-developer apps" as the only option - there are many well-established ones out there as well. Bending Spoons are pricing new users away from Evernote as the entry bar of £85 is now far too high. There should be a lower-tier package available. Without new subscribers, all you have left is to milk the loyal users with regular price increases. It's already hit a price point where a full Office 365 app suite is cheaper AND includes OneNote and a huge amount of storage.

There does seem to be a common theme with recent reviews to various Bending Spoons apps that prices have got high and I totally agree with Evernote. In recent months, it has got slower, with more bloat and more things behind another upgrade pay wall. I've lost count of the number of times a pop up has appeared saying I should upgrade plans or something that used to work, now has an upgrade box on it permanently. I don't want AI in my notes, I just want a good note app, which Evernote used to be. The price increase for me is nearly 50% which is completely out of touch with users in a cost of living crisis when everyone is having to look and justify how much they spend and on what. If I pay the near double increase, I'm still going to get bombarded by upgrade boxes and I'm certain more will be done to attempt to push me up to the next plan. I'm also certain another huge price jump will hit this time next year. The yearly cost for the oldest legacy Plus plan is almost an entire Office 365 subscription with a full suite of office apps (including One Note) and a large amount of storage, it makes price increases of this size with no improvement in features (I see in the latest update, the ability to send feedback has been removed - proof they are not interested in the end users anymore). There are plenty of new note apps hitting the market - Evernote may end up pricing itself out of existence.