Compare Evernote and Keep side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
Your second brain: capture notes, clip web pages, and find anything in seconds.
Free, paid from $8.25/mo
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
Here's how Evernote and Keep compare across the features people actually look for. They share 10 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Evernote | Keep |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | |
| Save from email | Forwarding address | Forward to in.keep.md |
| Save tweets | ||
| Save YouTube videos | With transcripts | |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | Converted to markdown | |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Attachments | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument |
| Save audio files | Voice memos | With Whisper transcription |
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | ||
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | ||
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Partial | |
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | Partial | |
| Offline reading | Partial | |
| Full-text search | ||
| Semantic / AI search | ||
| Highlights | Partial | |
| Notes | ||
| Tags | ||
| Collections | Notebooks + Spaces | |
| Public sharing | Partial | |
| Full-text RSS extraction | Partial | |
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Per-item .md URL | |
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | |
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | AI tagging on capture |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | |
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | ENEX | |
| Send to Kindle |
Evernote is free, paid from $8.25/mo and Keep is free, paid from $10/mo. The tier that fits best usually comes down to how many items you save each month.
Free
50 notes, 1 notebook, 5 spaces, 20 tags, 1 device, 1 GB storage.
Starter
1,000 notes, 20 notebooks, 10 spaces, 100 tags, 3 devices, 5 GB storage.
Advanced
Unlimited notes, notebooks, spaces, tags, devices, and storage. All AI features.
Enterprise
Team collaboration, admin controls. Custom pricing.
Free
50 saved items lifetime, browser extension, MCP server, markdown export.
Pro
1,000 saves per cycle, all sources, bulk exports, higher API quota.
Max
5,000 saves per cycle, everything in Pro.
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.
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.
Keep is a save-anywhere tool built around one idea: everything you capture should be available as clean markdown that an AI agent can read. Articles, tweets, YouTube videos with transcripts, GitHub stars, newsletters, RSS, and plain URLs all land in the same searchable library. People read their library in a clean in-app feed. Agents read it through the API, CLI, MCP server, and Claude Code skill, so Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other tools can work against the library directly. Auto-sync pulls from RSS, YouTube, X bookmarks, GitHub stars, and newsletter inboxes on a schedule, so the library stays current without manual work. Semantic search runs across everything you've saved.