Flipnotes vs Evernote
Evernote gives you notebooks, tags and spaces to sort your notes, and an AI assistant to help. Flipnotes skips the sorting. You write, tap Save, and the note is filed for you.
- To us, Evernote feels like admin. Flipnotes is just writing.
- Notebooks, stacks, tags: to us the sorting still feels like yours to do.
- In Flipnotes the note files itself the second you save it.
- Ask in your own words and get an answer from your notes.
Want to write a note, not manage a system?
Evernote is a big app. It has notebooks, tags, spaces, templates and several paid plans, and each one is something to set up and keep tidy. Some people like that. Others only want to write something down and find it later.
To us it feels like paying for a filing cabinet and then doing the filing yourself. Flipnotes is built for the people who just want to write. You type, you save, and the note files itself.
Saving one typed note
What it takes to save a typed note on your phone and have it sorted, so you can find it later.
Evernote
- 1Open the app
- 2Tap New note
- 3Type
- 4Pick a notebook if you want it sorted
- 5Add tags if you want to find it by tag
Flipnotes
- 1Open the app. The writing bar is already there
- 2Type
- 3Tap Save
The same three steps to get it down. The difference is the filing: in Flipnotes you pick no notebook and no tag. The note is filed for you after you save it.
No notebooks, no tags, no setup
Flipnotes reads each note and puts it in the right categories, like Dates & Appointments, Health, Travel and People. There are over thirty.
No system to build first, and none to keep up afterwards. You write, and that is the whole job.
More about automatic filing
Dates go into your agenda
Write "Dentist with Mia on Thursday at 3pm" and it shows up in your agenda on Thursday. No calendar to fill in. You can also see it by week, month or year.
More about the agendaAsk, don't dig
Type or say what you remember, like "When am I seeing the dentist?" Flipnotes answers from your own notes and shows you the note. No hunting through notebooks.
More about asking your notesOpen a note from the past
Tap Roll the dice and Flipnotes opens a random old note. Keep tapping for the next one. Old notes come back to you instead of sitting in a notebook.
Flipnotes runs on iPhone, Android and the web app on your computer, all synced.
You write it, Flipnotes files it
Here are notes typed in as they came to mind, and where Flipnotes put them. Nobody picked a folder.
If a note has a date in it, it goes in your agenda too.
"Dentist with Mia on Thursday at 3pm"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsHealthPeopleIn your agenda on Thursday at 3 PM.
"Flight to Lisbon on Friday at 6:40 AM"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsTravel"Pay the car insurance by the 30th"
Goes intoDates & AppointmentsIn your agenda on the 30th.
Pro, if you use it all day
Everything on this page comes with every plan. Pro just gives you more room.
- Voice notes up to 5 minutes long (2 minutes on Personal)
- 5,000 photos a year (2,000 on Personal)
- 20 GB of storage (4 GB on Personal)
- Up to 2,000 questions a month to your notebook (280 on Personal)
Common questions
Do I have to make notebooks and tags like in Evernote?
No. You write the note and tap Save. Flipnotes puts it in the right categories for you.
Can I find my old notes?
Yes. Search for a word, ask in your own words, or roll the dice to open a random note.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes, and on your computer too: just open flipnotes.life in your browser. Your notes are the same everywhere.
Can I try it first?
Yes, your first month is free. After that you pick a plan.
Write one note and see
Install Flipnotes, write something down and see where it ends up. No notebook needed.
Flipnotes is also for
- Flipnotes for real estate agentsPhotos of every property, pinned on a map, sorted for you.
- Flipnotes for house huntingKeep every house you see apart, with its photos and its place on the map.
- Flipnotes for lawyersDictate after a meeting and ask your notebook about any client.
- Flipnotes for busy peopleType one line and it's in your calendar.
- Flipnotes for journalingSay what's on your mind and flip back through your days.
Compare Flipnotes with other apps
- Flipnotes vs Google KeepSave anything in one or two taps, and get it sorted, dated and on a map.
- Flipnotes vs Apple NotesThe same quick notes, sorted for you, on iPhone, Android and any computer.
- Flipnotes vs TodoistYour tasks with your notes, an agenda, My day and a DONE stamp.
- Flipnotes vs ObsidianOpen it and write. No vault, links or plugins to set up first.
- Flipnotes vs NotionA notebook for quick notes on your phone, not a database to build.
- Flipnotes vs Apple Notes, Evernote and OneNoteHow many steps it takes to save a note in each, side by side.
- Flipnotes vs Google Calendar and OutlookAdding an appointment: one line in Flipnotes, a form in a calendar app.