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Leaving Evernote

Notelet has no limits on notes, folders or devices, and everything it does today is free. This guide covers exporting your notebooks from Evernote, what Notelet brings across and what it leaves behind.

Last checked , from each app’s own help pages, for Notelet 0.10.21.

No note limits, no device limits

Evernote’s Free plan allows 50 notes, one notebook and one device; more takes a paid plan (the plans side by side). Notelet has no limit on notes, folders or devices, on any plan, and everything it does today is free: notes, reminders, locked notes, import and export, on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android, and in a web browser on any computer.

Exporting from Evernote

Evernote exports from its desktop app for Mac or Windows, not from Evernote Web. Its help says Free accounts can export too.

  1. Open the Evernote desktop app and select a notebook.
  2. Right-click and choose Export…
  3. Choose ENEX. Among the attributes, keep tags and the created date ticked.
  4. Choose Export. Evernote saves the .enex file on your desktop.
  5. Do the same for each notebook. Notelet names each folder after its file, so if you rename one, keep its notebook’s name.

Evernote exports a whole notebook at a time, or up to 100 notes you’ve selected. Notelet reads each .enex file whole, and leaves out one too big to read, saying so: export a very big notebook in parts of up to 100 notes.

Bringing them into Notelet

  1. In Notelet on a computer, choose File › Import and Export › Import from Files… (on a phone, Settings › Import and Export › Import from Files…).
  2. Pick the .enex files, as many as you like at once.
  3. Notelet shows what’s there, folder by folder, and you choose what comes in. Nothing changes until you choose Import.
  4. Your notebooks arrive as folders inside a new folder, Imported Notes. A note you already have is skipped, so importing twice brings nothing new.

What comes across

  • Each notebook, as a folder named after its file
  • Titles, and the words with their bold, italic, lists and web links
  • Checkboxes, ticked or not
  • Pictures and attached files, where they were in the note
  • Tags, as #tags
  • The dates each note was created and last updated

What doesn’t

  • Stacks: each notebook comes in as a folder of its own, and you can move them into one
  • Links from one Evernote note to another: they don’t become links between your Notelet notes
  • Tables: their words come in as plain lines, a row to a line
  • Text you encrypted inside a note: it stays encrypted, so decrypt it in Evernote first
  • Reminders and tasks: they don’t become Notelet reminders
  • Each note’s source address, author and location

What’s free, and what Plus adds

Everything Notelet does today is free, on every system, and it stays free. Syncing through storage you already have (an S3 bucket, a WebDAV server, or on a computer a folder Dropbox or OneDrive keeps in step) is free for good. Notelet Cloud has 1 GB free on every account, with files up to 25 MB. Notelet Plus has 50 GB, with files up to 512 MB, for £3.49 a month or £29.99 a year: room for notebooks full of PDFs and scans. Your text always syncs, whatever the plan. See pricing.

What Evernote does that Notelet doesn’t

A web clipper, search that reads text in pictures and PDFs, sharing notebooks with other people, calendar connections and AI. Sharing, and scanning with the scan’s words found by search, are on Notelet’s roadmap.

Common questions

Can I export from Evernote on the Free plan?

Yes. Evernote’s help says Free accounts can export their notes. It takes Evernote’s desktop app for Mac or Windows: Evernote Web can’t export.

Is there a free Evernote alternative with no note limit?

Notelet has no limit on notes, folders or devices, and everything it does today is free. It imports Evernote’s ENEX exports, with their notebooks, tags and attachments.

Do my notebooks stay separate?

Yes. Each .enex file becomes a folder named after the file. Stacks don’t come across: make a folder and move the notebooks into it.

Can Notelet clip web pages?

Not yet. You can paste a link or text into a note.

Is Notelet’s sync free?

Syncing through storage you already have (your own S3 or WebDAV server, or a folder Dropbox, iCloud Drive or OneDrive keeps in step on a computer) is free for good. Every Notelet Cloud account has 1 GB free, and Notelet Plus has 50 GB, for £3.49 a month or £29.99 a year.

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Each read on 27 October 2026. Spot a mistake? Write to hello@noteletapp.com.