Everyone knows Evernote is a great note taking program available on every platform. It has very interesting features like voice notes, text notes and web clipper feature which saves your favorite article in the Evernote. Evernote comes with free and paid versions.
The free version comes with limited space and features. Apart from features, the free use of limited Evernote is further limited to two devices. It’s an open threat to those using Evernote that they are going money greedy. The free users are too much irritated with the restrictions.
Now it’s the time to look for some of the alternates for the Evernote. Here we picked some of the free alternate Note apps.
Best Evernote Alternative Apps
Best Evernote Alternative Apps are – Simple Note, Microsoft OneNote, Nimbus Note, Apple Note, and Google Drive
The Microsoft OneNote is available for both Windows and Mac users but, the Apple Note is restricted for Apple users. The remaining Nimbus Note and Google Drive can be used many popular OS including Microsoft Windows and Apple OS.
1. Simple Note
Simple Note is our first and the best alternative to Evernote. It has almost all features supported by Evernote. It has some fantastic features like synchronization, sharing Note on almost all platforms. It works with third-party apps like Notational Velocity for Mac and nVault. It has dedicated clients available for Mac, Android, iOS, and Kindle platforms.
2. Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is the second best competitor for Evernote. It mostly has everything that Evernote has and also can be used in many ways. You can see a lot of features in OneNote, which needs some time to try them all.
To export the existing Notes to OneNote, Evernote Windows App has options to download the Notes. We can import the downloaded Notes into the OneNote easily with the importer tool.
Mac users have to run Windows OS on their device and have to do the above process to make the successful export-import of Notes.
3. Nimbus Note App
Nimbus Note App is less known Note app, but it is pretty well featured. Nimbus Note apps available for – The Web, PC, Chrome, Windows Phone, Android, iPad, and iPhone. The versatile availability of platforms with all can be synchronized is something awesome about Nimbus.
Nimbus also offers Nimbus Clipper and Screen Capture apps; they are additional uses of Nimbus. The free plan allows upload of 100MB per month. For only the Notes, this is enough for many.
The Evernote Notes can easily be imported to Nimbus Note app.
4. Google Drive
Google Drive is not for everyone. This is a web-based service and can be accessed by any device using the web. Google Drive actually offers us online storage of documents. It also includes Text document which can be used as Notes. Also, people get a variety of document formats such as Word, spreadsheet, etc.
We can also search the documents to find a specific note easily. Also, long size notes can be easily stored in Drive.
5. Apple Note
Apple Note is coming with the OS X itself. The latest version is available from OS X El Capitan 10.11.4. Apple note has rich features comparable to the Evernote. It can be imported into Apple Notes.
Apple Note’s advantage is there is no limit to use, and it is coming as a feature in the OS itself. So, no need to download, update separately.
Conclusion
Out of the four, Simple Note is the one look equal or even better than Evernote. Apple Note is good for the Mac users without any doubt, as it is coming with the MacOS. Nimbus Note looks promising and worth trying it out. Google Drive is completely different for maintaining Notes like in other Note taking platforms and gives us a lot of control over our Notes.