Why pay for Evernote Personal when Joplin
What you get free
Open source notes with Markdown, end-to-end encryption and sync to your own storage.
What you miss
Evernote's polished web clipper, image OCR and an official hosted sync service.
All free options for Evernote Personal, best first
- Obsidian Local Markdown notes with backlinks, graph view and community plugins, stored as plain files.
- Joplin Open source notes with Markdown, end-to-end encryption and sync to your own storage.
- Simplenote Fast, simple plain-text notes synced across devices with version history.