AppFlowy vs Evernote
AppFlowy and Evernote are both note-taking software. AppFlowy is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 78k GitHub stars. Evernote is a commercial product from Bending Spoons.
Which to pick
- Pick AppFlowy when
- You want a Notion alternative that keeps data local or on your own server.
- Pick Evernote when
- You already keep years of notes in Evernote, or want strong web clipping and scanned-document search.
Side by side
A Notion-style workspace for documents, wikis, databases, kanban boards and AI features, with desktop and mobile apps and optional self-hosted sync.
A note-taking app with notebooks, tags, web clipping, document scanning and search inside images and PDFs.
Still pre-1.0, AGPL licensed, and self-hosted cloud sync is more involved than the app.
Since Bending Spoons bought it, prices rose and the free plan was cut to one notebook and 50 notes.
Usable
Production-ready
Desktop app, mobile app, self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Dart, Flutter and Rust
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Bending Spoons
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
78k GitHub stars
2k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release 0.15.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.