Evernote to Restrict Free Accounts to 50 Notes and One Notebook

If you use Evernote with a free account today, the company is about to make your experience way worse. Yesterday, the company confirmed that starting December 4, free accounts will be restricted to a maximum of fifty notes and one notebook.

“When setting the new limits, we considered that the majority of our Free users fall below the threshold of fifty notes and one notebook. As a result, the everyday experience for most Free users will remain unchanged,” the company explained yesterday.

If you currently have more than fifty notes and one notebook with your free account, the Evernote team said that you will still be able to “view, edit, export, share, and delete existing notes and notebooks.” However, the company recommends upgrading to one of its Premium plans to unlock the app’s full potential.

With Evernote’s Personal plan ($14.99/month), you get a 10GB limit for monthly uploads, a 200MB maximum size for your notes, and other features such as the ability to mark up images and PDFs and add due dates, reminders, and notifications for your tasks. The Evernote team also emphasized that subscribing to Evernote also helps the team to create “an essential foundation for even more great changes to come.”

Evernote was acquired by European company Bending Spoons last year, which laid off most of the staff earlier this year. Evernote’s new parent company also admitted that the app had been “unprofitable for years,” but it remains to be seen if free users will stick around after these restrictions go live on December 4.