Evernote is significantly cutting back on its free offering with barely one notebook from now on

Starting December 4, free Evernote users will face new limits: one notebook and only fifty notes, or pay extra.

Note-taking app Evernote today offers a very generous free version of 250 notebooks and up to 100,000 notes. Anyone who uses the service a lot will soon be able to start paying or look for another service. The change comes after Evernote was acquired by Bending Spoons in 2022 and people were laid off earlier this year.

Starting December 4, free Evernote users can only create one notebook containing fifty notes. If you exceed that limit, you will have to delete notes or pay.

Anyone who has more than fifty notes or multiple notebooks today will not lose them. You can still view, edit, export, share and delete the notes with a free account

It is only when you create a new note or an additional notebook that a message will appear that you have exceeded your limit. The only option is to have just one notebook and get your current number of notes below the limit of fifty. Only then can you create new ones.

Evernote emphasizes that the new change will impact few users. “In determining the new limits, we took into account that the majority of our free users fall below the fifty notes and one notebook threshold,” the company wrote. “As a result, the daily experience will remain unchanged for most free users.”