Compare Evernote and Matter 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 curated read-later app with beautiful typography, highlights, and text-to-speech.
Free, paid from $8/mo
Here's how Evernote and Matter compare across the features people actually look for. They share 9 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Evernote | Matter |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS; Android parity unclear |
| Save from email | Forwarding address | Premium |
| Save tweets | Quoteshots + X integration | |
| Save YouTube videos | Premium; with transcription | |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | ||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | Attachments | |
| Save audio files | Voice memos | Podcast episodes |
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | Premium | |
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | ||
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Partial | Premium |
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | Partial | |
| Offline reading | ||
| Full-text search | Premium | |
| Semantic / AI search | ||
| Highlights | Partial | Unlimited on Premium |
| Notes | Unlimited on Premium | |
| Tags | ||
| Collections | Notebooks + Spaces | Partial |
| Public sharing | Quoteshots for individual quotes | |
| Full-text RSS extraction | ||
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | ||
| Bulk markdown export | Partial | |
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | ||
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | Premium (AI Co-Reader) |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ||
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | ENEX | Partial |
| Send to Kindle | Premium |
Evernote is free, paid from $8.25/mo and Matter is free, paid from $8/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
Unlimited library, web + mobile extensions, parsing, unlimited tags.
Premium
HD text-to-speech, AI Co-Reader, RSS feeds, newsletter inbox, unlimited highlights, Kindle send, integrations.
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.
Matter is a read-later app that leans hard on typography, audio, and AI as a co-reader. The free tier covers unlimited saves, the parser, mobile and web extensions, and unlimited tags. Premium at $8/mo or $60/yr adds HD text-to-speech, an AI Co-Reader that summarises and explains, full-text search, RSS feeds, newsletter syncing, unlimited highlights, integrations, and Kindle send. The reading UI is one of the nicest in the category. The team is small, which shows in a smaller feature set than Readwise Reader but also in a more coherent product.