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Evernote is a personal note-taking app focused on the long tail — web clippings, scanned receipts, voice memos, screenshots — searchable across every device. The self-hostable replacements all cover the notes + sync + clipper triangle; they differ mostly in note model (block-style vs markdown-tree vs graph).
Evernote pricing anchor: Personal $14.99/mo; Professional $17.99/mo with offline access + multi-device.
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- ★ 54.7k · last commit today · 581 open issues
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AGPL-3.0 - Setup time
- 10min — desktop/mobile app + Joplin Server (or any WebDAV) for sync
- Monthly cost
- $5 VPS for Joplin Server (or $0 with Nextcloud / Dropbox / S3 sync); the apps are free desktop/mobile.
Migration sketch. Install Joplin desktop and mobile apps. Use the official Evernote → Joplin importer (File → Import → ENEX) — Evernote's legacy export-to-ENEX still works from the desktop client (File → Export Notes). Joplin preserves notebooks, tags, attachments, and the web-clipper format. Set up sync to a self-hosted Joplin Server, Nextcloud WebDAV, or any S3-compatible bucket.
Good fit forLong-time Evernote users — Joplin's notebook tree + tags + web clipper is the closest one-for-one feature match.
Weak atReal-time multi-user collaboration — Joplin syncs but doesn't merge concurrent edits in the same note cleanly.
- GitHub
- ★ 2.92k · last commit 11mo ago · 1 open issues
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AGPL-3.0 Original `zadam/trilium` is archived; TriliumNext is the active community fork.
- Setup time
- 15min docker run + desktop client install
- Monthly cost
- $5 VPS for the sync server; desktop apps are free.
Migration sketch. Run `docker run -p 8080:8080 -v ~/trilium-data:/home/node/trilium-data triliumnext/notes:latest`. Evernote ENEX import works directly: Settings → Import → Evernote ENEX. Trilium's tree+attribute model is more powerful than Evernote (unlimited nesting, computed attributes, scripts), but you'll spend a couple of hours re-learning the model.
Good fit forPower users who outgrew Evernote's flat notebook model and want a hierarchical knowledge base with scripting.
Weak atMobile experience — there's no first-party mobile app, just a responsive web view; awkward on phones.
- GitHub
- ★ 42.7k · last commit today · 981 open issues
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AGPL-3.0 - Setup time
- 5min installer (desktop) + Logseq Sync or self-hosted CouchDB
- Monthly cost
- $0 with local-only or git-backed sync; ~$5 VPS if you self-host the CouchDB sync backend.
Migration sketch. Install Logseq desktop. Evernote → Logseq isn't a one-click importer — export ENEX, run a community converter (e.g. enex-to-logseq) to produce a folder of Markdown files with Logseq's `[[block-ref]]` syntax, then point a Logseq graph at the folder. Sync via git, Syncthing, or self-hosted CouchDB.
Good fit forUsers who'd prefer a daily-journal + bidirectional-link model (Roam-style) over Evernote's notebook hierarchy.
Weak atWeb clipping — Logseq's clipper is thinner than Evernote's; complex clipped pages may need cleanup.
In a terminal? npx os-alt evernote prints this table —
how the CLI works →