Evernote vs Feedly

Compare Evernote and Feedly side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.

Evernote

Your second brain: capture notes, clip web pages, and find anything in seconds.

Free, paid from $8.25/mo

  • Iconic Web Clipper saves full pages, not just links
  • Does a lot in one app: notes, tasks, PDFs, calendar, and more
  • Powerful search across text, images, and handwriting

Feedly

The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.

Free, paid from $6.99/mo

  • Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
  • Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
  • Team boards for collaborative research

Feature comparison

Here's how Evernote and Feedly compare across the features people actually look for. They share 10 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.

FeatureEvernoteFeedly
Capture and save
Browser extension
Mobile apps
Save from email
Save tweets
Save YouTube videos
Save GitHub stars
Save PDFs
Save files (docs, spreadsheets)
Save audio files
Save via API
Auto-sync sources
RSS auto-sync
YouTube channel sync
X bookmarks sync
GitHub stars sync
Newsletter inbox sync
Library and reading
Reader view
Offline reading
Full-text search
Semantic / AI search
Highlights
Notes
Tags
Collections
Public sharing
Full-text RSS extraction
AI and agents
Markdown export for AI agents
Bulk markdown export
MCP server
CLI tool
Claude Code skill
AI summaries
Public API
Import and export
OPML import / export
Pocket import
Instapaper import
CSV / JSON export
Send to Kindle

Pricing

Evernote is free, paid from $8.25/mo and Feedly is free, paid from $6.99/mo. The tier that fits best usually comes down to how many items you save each month.

Evernote

  • Free

    50 notes, 1 notebook, 5 spaces, 20 tags, 1 device, 1 GB storage.

    Free
  • Starter

    1,000 notes, 20 notebooks, 10 spaces, 100 tags, 3 devices, 5 GB storage.

    $8.25/mo
  • Advanced

    Unlimited notes, notebooks, spaces, tags, devices, and storage. All AI features.

    $14.17/mo
  • Enterprise

    Team collaboration, admin controls. Custom pricing.

    Custom

Feedly

  • Free

    Up to 100 feeds, basic reader.

    Free
  • Pro

    Unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, full-text search. Annual billing.

    $6.99/mo
  • Pro+

    Leo AI, boards with notes and highlights, web alerts, Zapier/IFTTT. Annual billing only.

    $12.99/mo
  • Enterprise

    Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence. Custom pricing.

    Custom

Strengths and weaknesses

Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.

What Evernote does well

  • Iconic Web Clipper saves full pages, not just links
  • Does a lot in one app: notes, tasks, PDFs, calendar, and more
  • Powerful search across text, images, and handwriting
  • Broad AI suite: Transcribe, Rewrite, Text-to-Speech, Meeting Notes

Where it falls short

  • Expensive paid tiers relative to focused alternatives
  • Free tier (50 notes) is too restrictive for real use
  • Performance and interface feel dated compared to modern tools
  • Not optimised for the read-later or feed reader workflow

What Feedly does well

  • Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
  • Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
  • Team boards for collaborative research
  • Strong enterprise threat intelligence offering

Where it falls short

  • Most power-user features require Pro+ or Enterprise
  • Ads on the free tier
  • No structured markdown export aimed at AI agents
  • Not designed for read-later / bookmark workflows

About Evernote

Evernote is the grandfather of note-taking apps and the inventor of the modern Web Clipper. After Bending Spoons acquired it in 2022, the product was rebuilt, repriced, and refocused on a more AI-forward direction. The current plans are Free (50 notes total), Starter ($8.25/mo or $99/yr), Advanced ($14.17/mo or $249.99/yr), and Enterprise. Advanced includes the full AI suite: AI Transcribe, AI Rewrite, AI Text-to-Speech, AI Meeting Notes, AI Diagrams, and AI Detector. The Web Clipper still saves full page context (not just links) and is the feature that pulls read-later workflows into Evernote's orbit.

About Feedly

Feedly is the largest RSS reader on the web, with a free tier capped at 100 feeds and Pro/Pro+ plans that layer on AI summaries (Leo), team boards, web alerts, and enterprise intelligence. Pro is $6.99/mo, Pro+ is $12.99/mo (annual billing only), and Enterprise covers the threat and market intelligence verticals at custom pricing. The product has spent the last several years pivoting from consumer RSS to a serious monitoring and research platform. The free tier is still a legitimate RSS reader; the paid tiers are increasingly aimed at analysts, PR teams, and security researchers who need to track topics across thousands of sources.

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