Compare Evernote and Readwise Reader 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
A read-later app for articles, PDFs, emails, tweets, and YouTube, with deep highlights and AI features.
Free, paid from $9.99/mo
Here's how Evernote and Readwise Reader compare across the features people actually look for. They share 13 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Evernote | Readwise Reader | Keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | |||
| Browser extension | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | |
| Save from email | Forwarding address | Per-user Reader address | Forward to in.keep.md |
| Save tweets | Threads compiled as articles | ||
| Save YouTube videos | With transcript highlighting | With transcripts | |
| Save GitHub stars | |||
| Save PDFs | Converted to markdown | ||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Attachments | PDFs, EPUBs, HTML | 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 | Via RSS | ||
| X bookmarks sync | Auto-sync on paid plans; manual import from extension export on free | ||
| GitHub stars sync | |||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Partial | ||
| Library and reading | |||
| Reader view | Partial | ||
| Offline reading | Partial | ||
| Full-text search | |||
| Semantic / AI search | Ghostreader Q&A | ||
| Highlights | Partial | Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline | |
| Notes | |||
| Tags | |||
| Collections | Notebooks + Spaces | Folders | |
| 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+ | Ghostreader | AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article |
| Public API | |||
| Import and export | |||
| OPML import / export | Import from and export to any OPML-compatible reader | ||
| Pocket import | ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | ||
| Instapaper import | CSV export with folders, archive, and starred state | ||
| CSV / JSON export | ENEX | Via API | Export to CSV or JSON. Import plain CSV/TSV plus Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Wallabag export files. |
| Send to Kindle | EPUB delivered to your Kindle email | ||
| Import Kindle highlights | Via Readwise Kindle sync (Amazon account login) | From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required |
Evernote is free, paid from $8.25/mo and Readwise Reader is free, paid from $9.99/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
30-day trial of Readwise Full (includes Reader). No card required.
Readwise (Full)
$9.99/mo billed annually or $12.99/mo monthly. Includes Reader, highlights sync, and export to Notion/Obsidian.
Free
Unlimited links, browser extension, API/CLI/MCP, RSS feeds, YouTube subscriptions, and free imports from bookmark export files.
Plus
500 full-content items per cycle, X bookmarks, email inbox, GitHub sync, uploads, and AI features.
Pro
1,000 full-content items per cycle, everything in Plus.
Max
5,000 full-content items 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.
Readwise Reader is the reading companion to Readwise's highlight sync service. It handles articles, PDFs, EPUBs, emails, tweets, and YouTube transcripts in one inbox, with a Ghostreader AI copilot for summaries, definitions, and Q&A. Highlights sync to Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, Roam, Evernote, and Airtable. It ships as web, iOS, Android, and browser extensions, with a public REST API for scripting. Pricing is $9.99/mo billed annually (or $12.99/mo monthly) as part of the Readwise Full plan, which includes the highlight sync service. A 30-day free trial is available.