Evernote vs Omnivore

Compare Evernote and Omnivore side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.

Evernote

Your second brain: capture notes, clip web pages, and find anything in seconds.

Free, paid from $8.25/mo

  • Iconic Web Clipper saves full pages, not just links
  • Does a lot in one app: notes, tasks, PDFs, calendar, and more
  • Powerful search across text, images, and handwriting

Omnivore

Shut down

Open-source read-later app with strong newsletter and markdown workflows.

Free

  • Completely free and open source
  • Strong newsletter-to-library workflow with per-user email
  • Synced with Logseq, Obsidian, and Notion for PKM workflows

Feature comparison

Here's how Evernote and Omnivore compare across the features people actually look for. They share 10 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.

FeatureEvernoteOmnivore
Capture and save
Browser extension
Mobile apps
Save from email
Save tweets
Save YouTube videos
Save GitHub stars
Save PDFs
Save files (docs, spreadsheets)
Save audio files
Save via API
Auto-sync sources
RSS auto-sync
YouTube channel sync
X bookmarks sync
GitHub stars sync
Newsletter inbox sync
Library and reading
Reader view
Offline reading
Full-text search
Semantic / AI search
Highlights
Notes
Tags
Collections
Public sharing
Full-text RSS extraction
AI and agents
Markdown export for AI agents
Bulk markdown export
MCP server
CLI tool
Claude Code skill
AI summaries
Public API
Import and export
OPML import / export
Pocket import
Instapaper import
CSV / JSON export
Send to Kindle

Pricing

Omnivore has shut down, so pricing below is for reference only. Evernote is free, paid from $8.25/mo.

Evernote

  • Free

    50 notes, 1 notebook, 5 spaces, 20 tags, 1 device, 1 GB storage.

    Free
  • Starter

    1,000 notes, 20 notebooks, 10 spaces, 100 tags, 3 devices, 5 GB storage.

    $8.25/mo
  • Advanced

    Unlimited notes, notebooks, spaces, tags, devices, and storage. All AI features.

    $14.17/mo
  • Enterprise

    Team collaboration, admin controls. Custom pricing.

    Custom

Omnivore

  • Free

    All features free; open source.

    Free

Strengths and weaknesses

Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.

What Evernote does well

  • Iconic Web Clipper saves full pages, not just links
  • Does a lot in one app: notes, tasks, PDFs, calendar, and more
  • Powerful search across text, images, and handwriting
  • Broad AI suite: Transcribe, Rewrite, Text-to-Speech, Meeting Notes

Where it falls short

  • Expensive paid tiers relative to focused alternatives
  • Free tier (50 notes) is too restrictive for real use
  • Performance and interface feel dated compared to modern tools
  • Not optimised for the read-later or feed reader workflow

What Omnivore did well

  • Completely free and open source
  • Strong newsletter-to-library workflow with per-user email
  • Synced with Logseq, Obsidian, and Notion for PKM workflows
  • GraphQL API returned markdown, friendly to integrations
  • Active community and regular updates prior to shutdown

Where it fell short

  • Shut down in 2024 after acquisition by ElevenLabs
  • No path to import back into a hosted version
  • Self-hosting requires non-trivial infrastructure

Which one should you pick?

Omnivore is no longer an option

Omnivore has shut down and is no longer available. Any of the active alternatives is a safer bet.

About Evernote

Evernote is the grandfather of note-taking apps and the inventor of the modern Web Clipper. After Bending Spoons acquired it in 2022, the product was rebuilt, repriced, and refocused on a more AI-forward direction. The current plans are Free (50 notes total), Starter ($8.25/mo or $99/yr), Advanced ($14.17/mo or $249.99/yr), and Enterprise. Advanced includes the full AI suite: AI Transcribe, AI Rewrite, AI Text-to-Speech, AI Meeting Notes, AI Diagrams, and AI Detector. The Web Clipper still saves full page context (not just links) and is the feature that pulls read-later workflows into Evernote's orbit.

About Omnivore

Omnivore was a free, open-source read-later app that did everything right on paper: RSS feeds, newsletter inbox, PDFs, highlights, labels, filters, rules, full-text search, a GraphQL API that returned markdown, and sync with Logseq, Obsidian, and Notion. It ran on iOS, macOS, Android, web, and extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. It shut down on November 15, 2024 after ElevenLabs acquired the team for their ElevenReader TTS product. The cloud service deleted all user data; the open-source codebase still lives on GitHub for anyone who wants to self-host.

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