Evernote vs Notion
Evernote and Notion are both note-taking software. Evernote is a commercial product from Bending Spoons. Notion is a commercial product from Notion Labs.
Which to pick
- Pick Evernote when
- You already keep years of notes in Evernote, or want strong web clipping and scanned-document search.
- Pick Notion when
- A small or mid-size team wants one flexible tool for docs, wiki and light project tracking.
Side by side
A note-taking app with notebooks, tags, web clipping, document scanning and search inside images and PDFs.
A workspace of pages and databases for notes, wikis, project tracking and docs, with AI search and agents built in.
Since Bending Spoons bought it, prices rose and the free plan was cut to one notebook and 50 notes.
Cloud only, slow on large workspaces, offline support is limited, and its flexibility leads to messy structures.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Bending Spoons
Closed source, sold by Notion Labs
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
2k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
4.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
More note-taking apps
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.