Alfie Jackson
@Alfie_Jackson
“I'm beyond disappointed with what Evernote is doing. Just took my 80 euros for my subscription and now the app won't let me access notes unless I upgrade to £155 a year.”
In their own words
These are real, public posts from people who trusted Evernote for years. We did not write them, and we did not ask for them. We just think they explain why we built Harbor better than we can.
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Alfie Jackson
@Alfie_Jackson
“I'm beyond disappointed with what Evernote is doing. Just took my 80 euros for my subscription and now the app won't let me access notes unless I upgrade to £155 a year.”
Shamir Islam
@ShamirIslam
“I got too used to Evernote after using it for 13 years straight. Never thought I would have to cancel my subscription and stop using it. But yet, here we are. They priced their most loyal core users out.”
mbaotao
@mbaotao
“These guys acquired Evernote and didn't even wait long before raising subscription prices from $129/yr to $249. After 11 years of using Evernote I had to find an alternative.”
Where Harbor differs
No increase for three years. After that, never more than 10% a year. Not a blog-post promise that evaporates after an acquisition — a commitment we publish and you can hold us to.
See the pricingC. Frazier Jr.
@cfrazierjr
“Tonight Evernote and I had to part ways. 16 years, but the new price hike I just can't pay.”
hiro
@hiro
“Goodbye, Evernote. Thank you for all these years. But $249/year is just too expensive for me.”
Anna
@Annatngm
“After they acquired Evernote, I eventually lost access to my own notes behind a paywall.”
irreligiousity
@irreligiousity
“I genuinely hate that Evernote is so expensive. I've been using it actively since 2019. Once subscriptions came in I started paying so I don't lose access to my stuff. But now, I can't keep up.”
Where Harbor differs
Stop paying and nothing disappears. Your notes stay, read-only and free, for as long as you want them. Export everything anytime through open formats, a real API, or the command line.
Read our commitmentsR.C. Fernando
@rcfernando_
“It's frustrating how you have raised the price over the last year while delivering a terrible experience. A web clipper that don't capture LinkedIn pages, and a scanning feature in the app that doesn't add the image to the note.”
Barrett J.
@BarrettJ
“I used to be a huge fan of Evernote, used it for close to a decade. The last several years of constant price hikes led me to shift to Obsidian as well. Case study for running a business into the ground.”
saywhat95
@saywhat95
“Used to love it. You've jacked up the price a ridiculous amount every yr. It's a shame how you've destroyed this product.”
Sohan
@founder_sohan
“$70 to $250 is a hell of a retention funnel. They just waited long enough for the switching cost to feel higher than the price hike.”
Where Harbor differs
Real OCR across scans, photos, PDFs and handwriting, so a receipt from four years ago turns up by the word printed on it. The web clipper saves the page you were actually looking at.
How search worksAdam Long
@adamdavidlong
“I used evernote and getharvest each for over a decade before bending spoons bought each of them and 10xd the subscription price. No thanks.”
Pete
@PeteTweets12
“About double last year's price. When you try to cancel will you give in to their special discounted price still higher than last year?”
gtmom
@gtmom
“Hanging on to my sub just because I didn't feel like dealing with it, but they 5x or more the price recently??”
Yuri Molodtsov
@y_molodtsov
“They hiked the price for Evernote to the point I don't get why would anyone use it.”
Where Harbor differs
Native Mac and Windows apps, iPhone and iPad, Android, the web, a browser clipper and a CLI. The same app everywhere, not a web page wearing a costume.
Get the appsAqueduct
@AqueductCRE
“I downloaded obsidian so i could export an evernote archive and cancel it when they jacked up the prices.”
Lorenzo
@lorenzo_madeit
“Evernote lost 85% of its staff within two weeks of the Bending Spoons acquisition.”
PointWake
@PointWake25
“If your job tracker, client list and quotes live in Airtable, export a copy today and find out what actually breaks if the price does that again.”
These posts are quoted from public accounts on X and link to the originals. Their authors are not Harbor customers and have not endorsed Harbor. If you posted one of these and would rather it not appear here, tell us and we will take it down.
Read enough of these and the pattern is hard to miss. People will pay for something they rely on. What they cannot forgive is being locked in first and then repriced — knowing that leaving means abandoning fifteen years of their own life.
That is the part we designed against. Not by promising to be nice about it, but by making leaving genuinely easy and putting the price ceiling in writing.
“That's not a second brain. That's a hostage situation.”
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Own it for life
Bring fifteen years of notes across in one step, and keep the right to walk away with all of it whenever you like.
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