[UPDATE: Evernote for iPhone 3.2 adds expanded support for offline notes and notebooks. Read all about it »]
The latest release of Evernote for iPhone, version 1.4, introduces our most (MOST) requested feature: offline notes. We call them Favorites, and here’s how they work.
When viewing a note on the iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ll see a little gray star in left corner of the note title. Once the note is fully loaded, tap the star and that note instantly becomes a favorite. It’s now quickly accessible any time, even offline. To view your favorites, click on “Favorites” in the tab bar along the bottom of the application.
Great for the iPod Touch
This feature is particularly useful for iPod Touch users. Now you will be able to view selected notes even when outside WiFi range.
Planes, trains, and automobiles
With Favorites, you can access selected notes any time you like, no matter where you find yourself. So, whether you’re heading to the corner deli or to New Delhi, the information you need is always close at hand.
Tips
To help you get the most out of Evernote, we’ve added a little “Tips” tab into the bottom of the New Note screen. New tips will show up all the time, so be sure to check back.
And whole lot faster, too
In addition to the server-side tweaks that we mentioned in the last blog post, we also put significant effort into speeding up the application. So this version of Evernote for iPhone is faster than ever.
Make sure your iPhone is upgraded to the latest firmware from Apple and, as always, it’s a good idea to restart your iPhone after upgrading an app, especially if you have a lot of other apps installed.
Get the latest version of Evernote for iPhone now.
[UPDATE: Evernote for iPhone 3.2 adds expanded support for offline notes and notebooks. Read all about it »]
117 Comments
john
Please let us search our notes when offline as well as an option to have all notes saved for offline use if toggled! pretty pretty please!
I would love to upgrade to premium, but as a touch user (there are a lot of us you know 
i cant justify upgrading until the heart and soul of your great product is actually available to me when offline (searching and reading my notes that is 
thanks for the great work so far, its an excellent product.
John
Simon
Yes, offline syncing is the only missing feature for me. After coming from PalmOS I find this missing feature hard to live with.
Ed
should be able to tag notes as Favorites on the web and via the normal client.
Mike
I just went to Europe for 2 weeks and turned data roaming off on my iPhone so as to avoid the ridiculous $20/mb fees from ATT&T. Several months ago I selected all of my notes in Evernote as favorites (a tedious process) so as to access them offline. However, upon arriving in Europe I discovered that I could not view ANY of my notes. Apparently an upgrade at some point in the last couple months wiped out my favorites list.
Why won’t Evernote fix this problem by making ALL notes automatically accessible–for both viewing and editing–offline? What is the big issue? When one is offline one can view and edit all of ones notes (as many times as one wishes). And then when a data connection becomes available, the notes would sync up. Until this issue is resolved, I’m afraid I can’t use Evernote. I can’t take the risk of not being able to access my notes offline.
henken
Yes, with “Favorites” I can see existing contents of my note even off-line, but it is not able to edit the existing contents in off-line situation. It is weak point of Evernote. I really hope improvement of this point in next ver. up.
hh
Another request here for full offline capabilities, would make things so much better, even when there is a data connection but it is slow.
Thanks!!
Thorsten
And I thought Evernote was a great app…
I can’t believe there are no offline notes. What are those guys thinking? Do they never actually *use* the stuff. I mean, ok, it’s free – but flawed free apps there are aplenty…
Jaime
I have a premium account in Evernote and sadly realize that I can’t search my notes offline on my iPhone. There is no excuse for an app like that. Or Evernote evolves soon to include offline search or I have to move to another platform and lose the money I invest in a premium account.
Axel
It took so long to transfer all my notes from another App to Evernote… and now I can’t work with them offline!?!
Chuck
Even as implemented, there seem to be some bugs. I just tagged a note as favorite, closed evernote, turned on airplane mode, opened evernote, opened the “favorite” note.
The title is there, the blue star is filled in, but the content is not visible. I was just looking at the note, so it must have been cached. (Even the little thumbnail shows the content)
I’m trying to use the notes for an upcoming trip to Japan, so syncing won’t be easy if there is a problem with them.
It’s a bummer as I love Evernote in many other ways, but I’d rather have plain text notes that sync reliably.
Dave
I would be ready to go premium if I could view all of my notes offline on my iPhone. This lack of feature in inexcusable on a device as powerful as the iPhone 3GS. Cannot edit the notes while offline, fine no problem, but let us be able to at least view them all! Please.
Not everyone needs a data plan, wi-fi is just fine.
P.S. – Evernote in Windows is fantastic!
John
Really disappointed that I cannot create, edit, and search notes offline with the iphone app. I need this as I travel and am often not online (airplane mode, data roaming too expensive, or even no service). This is a great app rendered useless by this limitation. All notes need to be favorites all the time!
steve
same deal. evernote: android: FAIL. we all wish we had wireless and EVDO EVERYWHERE, but if that were true, then this would be perfect. but we end up in places where there isn’t internet. and these notes won’t load. Evernote. *sigh. sad. i bet their own employees quit using their app a long time ago or else someone would have said something.
John
The notes designated as “favorites” appear to be readable offline, but I cannot edit them if they were originated from a PC vis the Evernote web page. But if I am online, then editing works. Worse, if your iPhone Evernote gets logged out and then loses internet access, Evernote will not allow you to get past the login page to get to your notes. You need to wait until you can get online again. Not a user friendly tool that I can depend on to be there when I need it.
Roger
There is a way to get round this for all off us the meantime. Awsome notes – an iphone app has a download / upload link to all Evernote notes .
It is actually AWESOME and solves all the problems you are describing with ease. It has a trial app as well to try before buying.
It really IS what Evernote should be on the iphone client!
Me
So, after reading a lot about Evernote, I decided to start using it on my PC and Windows Mobile phone. I installed the clients, then realized that there is no offline mode for Windows Mobile…..HUH?! I refuse to pay $30+ for a data plan, so if I’m not near wi-fi, it’s useless. Too bad – looks like a great program.
Rohit Jain
I tried Evernote more than a year ago. I found its inability to work in offline mode (when not connected to Internet) too restrictive and went back to basic note taking ability in my WinMo phone. Evernote is a very well done application, so I know device-server synch is not a technical challenge for your team. So what is it?