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Evernote

Cross-platform note-taking app with AI Transcribe to record, summarize, and transcribe meetings, plus notes, tasks, search, and calendar.

  • Free plan available
  • No credit card

What is Evernote?

Evernote is a cross-platform note-taking and productivity app for capturing, organizing, and searching notes, tasks, and schedules in one place. Its AI features include AI Transcribe, which records, summarizes, and transcribes meetings, along with AI-powered and semantic search, AI Edit, and text-to-speech. It offers a free tier plus paid Starter, Advanced, and Enterprise plans, with the richer AI tools available on higher tiers. It runs on the web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, with browser Web Clipper extensions.

Key features

AI Transcribe

record, summarize, and transcribe meeting audio

AI-powered and semantic search across notes

AI Edit to write, summarize, tidy, and translate content

Text-to-speech playback of notes

Web Clipper and document scanning

Tasks, calendar, templates, and notebooks

Pros & cons

Advantages

  • Combines meeting transcription with note organization, tasks, and search in one app
  • Mature, cross-platform product with sync across web, desktop, and mobile
  • Free tier available to try before paying

Limitations

  • AI Transcribe and most AI tools are gated to paid tiers, not the free plan
  • Transcription is one feature within a broad note app, not a dedicated transcription product
  • Free plan is heavily limited (50 notes, 1 notebook, limited device sync)
  • Advanced tier is relatively expensive (~$20.83/mo annual, $24/mo monthly)

Use cases

Recording, summarizing, and transcribing meetings

Capturing and organizing research and project notes

Managing tasks and schedules alongside notes

Clipping and saving web content for later

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  • Free plan available
  • No credit card