Evernote for iPhone gets its first major update in a few months, and it was well worth the wait. The latest release (version 2.0) introduces landscape support, thumbnail view, Favorites sorting, speed improvements, and lots of other enhancements. Update/install the latest from the App Store.
Landscaping
Evernote now supports landscape orientation for many of its application screens. This is particularly useful when creating or editing a note, as it brings up the spacious landscape keyboard.
Thumbnail view
Turn your iPhone on its side when in Notes View to launch thumbnails. This side-scrolling view is great for quickly scanning through your notes. Tap on a note to access it, or hold your finger on a note to get a quick zoom.
Sort your favorites
Evernote for iPhone now lets you change the order of your favorites. Go to Favorites, tap Edit, then press on the three horizontal lines on the right side of the note. When you do this, the note pops out, letting you move it to any position you like.
Embedded browser
There’s now an embedded browser within the app. Whenever you click on a link in a note, the browser will launch right inside of Evernote. This makes viewing web pages, and returning to your notes when you’re done, a whole lot faster and easier.
Lots of other improvements
In addition to the big things, we’ve also made a number of smaller (but no less important) enhancements
- The application loads quicker
- A nip here, a tuck there and the UI just became much more polished
- Attaching a photo to a note is way speedier
- Note geo-tagging is much more accurate
- Improved support for favorites, including access to attached files
As always, we recommend giving you’re iPhone a cleansing reboot after upgrading to the new version of Evernote. Call us superstitious, but that just seems to make it work much smoother.
iPhone 3.0
Like many of you iPhone fans out there, we’re very excited about the recent iPhone 3.0 news. We have lots of ideas for ways to take full advantage of all the new capabilities. Stay tuned.
91 Comments
Alex Wilson
Thank you!
activo
evernote for blackberry 1.0???
Vrokolos
The application loads quicker
^^
This is the greatest feature ever! I can finally remove iphone’s ‘notes’ application from the bottom row
Norm
Evernote is the best web app to come out since Al Gore invented the Internet!
Michelle
It looks like a great update! It does appear, however not to work with iPhone OS 3 beta 2. As a developer I have the new OS. I just get a spinning wheel when opening up a note. Oh well.
Can’t wait to see what Evernote has planned for 3.0.
. Keep up the good work.
Gadgetto
The new features for Evernote (iPhone) are very exciting! Thanks for the big update!
(There is one small cosmetical problem: in embeded browser the bottom tollbar is too big! maybe you could change this an save some space…)
I think it’s time to upgrade my account!
Oopsh!
Oh my!!!
cassetti
Lets see a version for linux next! I still am not entirely happy with evernote on my HTC touch pro. Its just too…… inefficient
Well
Yep… These fanboys sure don’t show any love for the Blackberry…
sfnando
The landscape mode is a great improvement and the camera notes seem faster, BUT it’s now crashing in several places quite frequently. When I’m deleting notes from the favorites page and the notes view page. It goes back to the home screen, and doesn’t delete
Jeff
*Very* excited about this update, Evernote. Thank you!!
pj
Looks great! I agree, let’s have Evernote on Linux! Please?
Gary
I can’t even tell you how much you guys ROCK! I will be gladfully be renewing every year. This is absolutely the best service ever, and this just demonstrates the commitment you guys have to keeping your customers happy. Keep up the awesome work!!!
Dan
Same as Michelle, I’m a dev on OS 3.0 b2 and it just gives me the spinner forever when trying to view a note. Looks like a great update though, can’t wait ’til I get to use it
Leonid
Thanks a lot! Evernote is my favorite app in iPhone and macbook
Chris Kraft
Add me to the list of OS 3.0 b2 testers who have the spinning forever problem when trying to view notes.
Its too bad, I really liked using evernote. Hopefully it will be fixed in one of the upcoming updates.
Alex Leonard
+1 on Evernote for linux – and also, what about a Symbian app! It’s not like Symbian is not highly used
“Nokia maintained its No. 1 position with 42.4 per cent market share in the third quarter of 2008, but for the first time it recorded a decline in sales of 3 per cent year-on-year (see Table 1).”
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=827912
I D
Still no editing notes?
Andrew Sinkov
@I D Evernote for iPhone does let you edit text notes.
Matthijs Langenberg
Too bad it doesn’t work on OS 3.0 beta 2. Will resort to the default Notes app or try the web interface.
Keep up the good work though!
Fred
does this version have ads like the latest desktop version? Just asking before I commit to an update.
Andrew Sinkov
@Fred There are no ads.
hodgesd@gmail.com
A native Android app would add big numbers to the list of paid customers…
Terri Hamilton
And there was great rejoicing!
M
Will you guys be opening up the API to any languages other than Java? It crashes out a lot in my browser.
Aaron
I’m very disappointed you’re continuing to update the iPhone client without even providing a basic client for Blackberry (which has a bigger installed userbase than the iPhone).
Rob
Definitely one of my favorite applications for the iPhone.
Chris
+1 on the BB client. Not having a BB client is the only missing Evernote element keeping me from becoming a paying customer. I’d use Evernote more often, too.
Own an iPhone, love the client. Use a Storm for work, miss the client. Won’t touch WinMo with a 100-foot pole.
Maria Duval
Just installed Evernote on my iphone and is really very happy with it. Nothing problems whatsoever. It’s really easy to use too. Thanks!
Lars
nice, but it’s a lot of crashes, even though the lack of RAM on the iphone makes that..but there were a lot of crashes wheni tried the new version
Yoann
Good job, your app is well designed. I’m fan !
Iyaz
Does anyone know if you can edit Pending Notes on the iPhone/iPod Touch?
fc
nothing on canada apstore
DL
@fc I’m in Canada and using evernote 2.0 on my iPhone
jm
Lanscape is nice – but I can’t view the notes on my Touch since this update. Usually, offline, I can still view the notes that I can’t edit. Their thumbnails are there, but selecting them shows me blank notes…
fc
ahh you are right DL. I had no idea that the name was still Evernote and not Evernote 2. Thinking Evernote was the first version. It works perfectly and the app is awesome. Thanks evernote
Javier Plumey
Fantastic! I love Evernote more every day. Great work and thanks for keeping us informed.
Kevin Vuong
+1 to the iphone 3.0b2 users with the spinning ball when trying to open a note. The note preview shows up fine, but opening note has spinning ball.
jm
Whoops – it appears I was mistaken. I must “favorite” notes to make them offline-viewable on the Touch: http://blog.evernote.com/2008/10/28/offline-notes/
My bad!
RedeTeemiaDig
Great site this blog.evernote.com and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor
Jonathan Gardner
+1 for the developers with iPhone 3.0b2 that get the spinning ball when trying to open a not. I love Evernote and use it all the time. Now I can’t see any of my notes…
Logan
Evernote is a fairly new find for me but I love it already. reagrading the iphone-Evernote functionality, it’s great now as far as I’m concerned and I’m sure will only get better with continued user feedback and love and care by the developers.
-Logan
Rick
Evernote has truly made my IPhone extremely useful. Before, I viewed it as mostly a nice “toy”. Evernote has enabled me to use it in more ways than I thought when I initially bought it.
Great application.
Anthony L
Wonderful update…thanks!
Jason
AWESOME! I was wondering about this the other day. Any plans for this on the Blackberry Storm?
Dylan
Hope some of these features some to the windows mobile app :3
alan
a quick issue. It seems that, in order to read note offline, every note need to first be read when the ipod touch connected to the internet. But snapshot do not have this problem.
Can you just simply make all the notes available offline once they are synchronized?
Ken
+1 on BB app! Since app world came out, it may help provide more coverage on Evernote? I would gladly pay for premium service to have a BB app.
Sean Mally
Thanks! Awesome app for my phone.
domene
Fantastic! I love Evernote more every day. It does appear, however not to work with iPhone OS 3 beta . Keep up the good work.
DaNy
Thank you guys. Great app for my iphone.
Ross
Does anyone know of an app like Evernote that works on 3.0 beta? I hate to switch, but I need something that works on the beta