Compare Evernote and Pocket 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 articles, videos, and stories from any publication.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
Here's how Evernote and Pocket compare across the features people actually look for. They share 6 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Evernote | |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android |
| Save from email | Forwarding address | Send-to-Pocket address |
| Save tweets | ||
| Save YouTube videos | URL only | |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | ||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Attachments | |
| Save audio files | Voice memos | |
| 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 | ||
| Full-text search | Premium | |
| Semantic / AI search | ||
| Highlights | Partial | Premium |
| Notes | Partial | |
| Tags | ||
| Collections | Notebooks + Spaces | |
| Public sharing | Partial | |
| Full-text RSS extraction | ||
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | ||
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | ||
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ||
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | ENEX | |
| Send to Kindle |
Pocket has shut down, so pricing below is for reference only. Evernote is free, paid from $8.25/mo.
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
Save unlimited items, basic offline reading.
Premium
Permanent library, full-text search, unlimited highlights, suggested tags, premium fonts, ad-free.
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.
Pocket has shut down and is no longer available. Any of the active alternatives is a safer bet.
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.
Pocket launched in 2007 as Read It Later, pioneered the modern read-later category, and was acquired by Mozilla in 2017. For nearly two decades it was the default way to save web articles and read them later on any device, with a clean reader view and optional offline access. Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025. All user data was permanently deleted on November 12, 2025. The apps and extensions no longer work, and any integrations built against the Pocket API have stopped. If you still have an export file from before that date, most modern alternatives (Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Raindrop, Matter, Keep) can import it.