Ever since Apple announced plans for the new iPhone 3.0 a couple of months ago, we’ve been hard at work rebuilding Evernote to take advantage of the platform’s new features. Today is the big payoff: iPhone 3.0 officially launches and our new app is ready to go! Get it now from the App Store.
This is a major upgrade for us. There are two main reasons to be excited about Evernote for iPhone 3.0: the great stuff that we put in, and the even greater stuff that we’ll be able to add in the near future. So, what’s new?
Beefy synchronization
We’ve completely rewritten the data synchronization part of the application to take advantage of the new iPhone 3.0 capabilities, so that info about all your notes (but not their entire contents) is now synced locally on the device. This means that you can scroll through thousands of notes without interruption and without ever seeing the dreaded “load 25 more” message. It also means that filtering on tags, attributes, notebooks and locations can now be done without ever hitting the server, so it’s virtually instantaneous. Also, note content is now cached more aggressively, so pulling up a previously-viewed note is very quick. If you have a lot of notes, Evernote may need a couple of minutes to sync your note list the first time you launch the new app.
No pending
This new data handling functionality also means that there’s no longer any need for a “Pending” tab —pending notes are now displayed in the normal note list and you can edit them at any time, even before they’ve been synced!
Where in the world?
We love maps, and Evernote 3.0 for the iPhone’s got em! You can push the “pin” button at any time to see all of your notes displayed on a map. The numbers indicate how many notes you have in a particular area, and zooming in will break up the groups until you can see each individual note as a pin. Now, if you want to quickly remember the name of that great pickled mustard herring you had in Stockholm last summer (mmmm), just thumb the map over to Sweden and there it is.
Instant groups
The note views now lets you group your notes by date, title, notebook, city or country. You can also instantly jump to a different group by taping the index bar on the right of the note list (or on the bottom, if you’re in landscape mode), or scroll your finger over the index bar to fly through your notes at breakneck speed. Once you get good at using groups, maps and index-jumping, you can quickly get to any note without ever having to search.
Advanced Searching
Of course, you can still search through your notes and we’ve made that better as well. Advanced search options are now easier to use and many types of searches can be performed without ever having to touch the server, so they’re really fast. You can also instantly jump back to seeing all your notes at any time.
Way better audio
We’ve given the audio recorder in Evernote a lot of attention and now it’s much better than before. We doubled the recording time, halved the number of required button presses, and dressed it up in a spiffy new skin. If you haven’t tried making voice notes in Evernote before, give the new audio recorder a shot. It’s so slick now that we can’t stop playing with it…
Cinema-quality Landscape View
Try holding the phone sideways in the note list view. Now add a few thousand notes and try it again. It’s a drool-worthy visual timeline of your notable life.
Mercy for your fingers
We’ve eliminated several steps and small buttons when making snapshot and camera roll notes. Now you can snap a picture and send it to Evernote with just a couple of clicks. If you want to add a title, tags or text to your photo (or any other) note, just pull it up from the note list —even if it’s still pending.
Plays nice with others
Evernote for iPhone 3.0 now supports in-app integrations with iPhone apps from other developers. Several exciting Evernote-aware apps should be launching really really soon! Stay tuned and we’ll blog about all of them.
General improvements and bug fixes
This is our third major version of Evernote for the iPhone, so there’s a lot of improvements under the hood.
More on the horizon
Just as important as the new features that made it in to this release, is the fact that Evernote 3.0 for iPhone is the most powerful mobile platform we’ve ever built and it’s going to let us do things in the future which we couldn’t even dream if doing before. So what are we dreaming about now? Well, we don’t want to make specific promises (and some of them may be a long way away), so we’ll just hint at three things for now: sharing, local search, calendar integration, to-do management, audio search, compass use and memory training. Wait, that’s seven things. Dammit! Suffice it to say there will be lots of amazingly cool features coming soon.
Works on all iPhones and iPod Touches
Upgrade your existing iPhone or iPod Touch to the 3.0 firmware, and you’ll be all set to run the new Evernote. Of course, if you’re lucky enough to get the new iPhone 3G S, you’ll notice that, thanks to the fantastic new camera and faster speed, it’s pretty much the perfect Evernote device.
As always, Evernote 3.0 for the iPhone is available for free from the App Store. Remember that your Evernote app is happiest when it gets to sync across all of your computers and mobile devices, so if you haven’t already done so, make sure to download us for Mac and Windows as well!
It may still say version 2.0 in iTunes, while all the Apple servers update.
140 Comments
Michael Schechter
I am loving you guys right now! Cant wait to play around with the new version… PS, I am obsessed with your product!
Kim
What about Evernote and the Blackberry?
Andrew Sinkov
@Kim We recently released Evernote for BlackBerry. You can get it from App World or from our BlackBerry page.
Scot F
Love the product! Crazy question, will I be able to have 3.0 before I place OS 3.0 on the iPhone, or should I update the OS before Evernote?
Andrew Sinkov
@Scot You will need to update your device to 3.0. A number of the new features are made possible by 3.0.
matt
Android client? Pleeeeease?
Krzysztof Maj
Congratulation Evernote! Very nice, very nice!
Karl M
One suggestion if you’re going to work more on audio notes… how about speech to text? I’d pay another $50/yr for that.
Rock on guys… Evernote is just the best data acquisition and retention application out there.
K
Michael Krautwasser
Stunning update!! Like the new features… Great job done.
Doug
nice work guys – can’t wait to take it for a test run!!
Marc
The area where Evernote is really lacking is the text editor. It is just not an up to par Rich Text editing experience.
Focus on speed, always.
Tiago
Hey, thanks for the update guys!
Just one thing, how does the iPod Touch handles the location feature of the notes? It doesn’t at all or it somehow plays around the no GPS built in feature?
Thanks again, you make my life a lot easier !
Jonathan
Wow!
Pishabh Badmaash
Tagging needs to have a tag cloud view, now!!
Ryan
Looks awesome!! Two quick requests/questions:
in iphone 2, viewing PDFs requires an extra click to actually open it as the note just shows the pdf icon and file size (this happens on the website too) – can this be eliminated/streamlined?
on the iphone notes that have check-boxes in them don’t seem to display correctly – is this fixed?
Tiago
I love the way it syncs auto”magically”.
Yet, there’s still one very important thing missing: the option to have all notes as Favourites (like an option in the account menu – you can even let go the Favourites tab, everytime it syncs it just copy all the content into the memory). There’s no point in not having that now with the increased memory space in the 3G S.
Anyway, it’s beautiful, snappy and lovelly !
revs
Holy Cow!! Awesome!!! Unbelieveably awesome!!!
Matt
Wow. Awesome upgrade! I also downloaded the new AP News app version, and by surprise it gave me the option to save an article into Evernote. Excellent!
Gilles
What about the video possibilities on the iPhone 3GS ?
Gary
Sweeeet!!! Michael just about said it all. Mine is in a “waiting” state tryin to get it from the App store now. What about PDF preview? Does it generate a thumbnail or still just the PDF logo?
EP
Yup, Windows Mobile has been forgotten
Such a shame too… The iphone offers “new” features that WM devices have had forever.
patrick walsh
you guys rock. nice update!
JJ
Just downloaded iPhone OS 3.0 & Evernote 3.0 – You guys are the BEST!!! Thanks for all your hard work. I love your product.
NTT
WHOA!! That’s a huge one.. Great work guys.. Now Evernote 3.0 + iPhone 3GS is the killer app..
Btw, any chance that you could integrate evernote search into to iPhone Spotlight search, so that it behaves the sameway as it does on a Mac?
Susan
I’d be lost without you! Two of my coworkers started using Evernote today because, well, they know I know my stuff.
Fab
It’s great to know you are still working on the Iphone version. Evernote still miss important points that other Iphone App already do: (1) local search (offline) (2) download all the notes to the Iphone, so we can browse them offline, without worrying to know if we have check the star to make the note a favorite. I really do not understand why there is no option at the notebook level to inform Evernote that the contents of this notebook have to be transferred to the Iphone entirely, so we can consult it offline. (3) no easy way to use tags. (4) no calendar view (really more useful than a map view, even if it is less sexy). Look at the Momo app, or Shovebox app, simple, but so useful.
Evernote is really wonderful regarding sync across different systems; the mac version is stunning, we can see that you have worked hard in order the app to be great, but the Iphone version is really behind… I’m willing to become a premium user once the Iphone version is finished ! Continue the good work.
shollomon
Some nice to have stuff in that list. It really does seem to speed things up. It works well for me to sort things by notebook. But Evernote is not even close to great until it provides full offline capabilities.
LK5
buuuu! What a great app! with my winmo app i just want to cry. Maybe i soon i have to say hello! iphone 3.0….
Gary
As I mentioned..the app is awesome. Still waiting on a response about PDF preview (premium user)? That one is killing me, as I am scanning in paper docs on a ScanSnap, as well as all of my web pages are from Safari as a full-preserved page clip…and ALL are PDF! Is this feature coming, or is this not technically feasible??
Henry
It’s great to get a new update. However, I am disappointed that Evernote cannot support rich text format note in iPhone. Since the launch of iPhone OS 3.0, it is very easy to copy text & format & graphics from safari or any Apps using WebUIView. It is obsolete to separate the notes to text only, pics with text. Please let us to copy & paste text, images into our notes just like what we do in our desktop. It would be great if we can still use bullet points/checkboxes like the one in our desktop. Thanks!
Daniel Marashlian
Wow! I had no idea you guys were planning this! It looks amazing! I’m downloading it right now. Now you guys got my wheels turning in how these new features could be bridged over to the Pelotonics Integration… hmmmm… There’s something there!
I’ll let you guys know as soon as Troy and myself think of some new use cases.
Daniel
Roger
Thanks for your work.
Oscar Luaces
Hi, very nice work, but, after a few hours of use, suddenly, evernote for iPhone stop working for me (version for the 3.0 firmware). It seems it connects but I see no notes, and when I write a new note it is always pending to be syncronized. Also, from the iPhone I cannot see the number of notes of my (free) account. However the mac version works perfectly. I tried to deinstall and re-install evernote for iphone, but with the same results. Does anyone have the same problem? (iPhone 3G 3.0)
Lukather
WOW! I’m waitin’ for that new features in the upcoming (upcoming right?!) update for blackberry storm
Martin Lorch
Wow, what a great update. This has some amazing functionality and feels extremely slick.
Thanks for your work,
Martin
Paul Tilley
Evernote got me through my dissertation and now with this very sexy update its going to make my new job so much more interesting…sorry I mean productive:)!
Mladen Mihajlovic
It all sounds wonderful. When, oh, when will you give so much love to the Windows Mobile version?
minhtam
I may sound like a broken record, but have you considered making a Symbian / S60 client? It’s the most used mobile OS (outside of the US) and there are lots of smartphones where it would incredibly useful. It would also open your software up to a whole new crowd of users who use clever phones, but who haven’t (yet) gotten a smartphone.
Thanks for considering it.
z0mbix
Where’s the Android love?
Terry
please please please… add an alarm function so that I can specify a date/time for a note alarm to be set off and pushed to notify me.
For example, one plans to be in Paris in September and saw a poster about a great art exhibit that will take place there during that time. He takes a picture of the poster, makes it an Evernote with an alarm to be set off a couple of days before he departs for Paris to remind him. The iphone pushes the notification of this note alarm and allows him to click to go to view the note.
Pretty please?
Mark Nicholson
This is superb, well done. I’m slightly obsessed with Evernote, like a lot of people seem to be round here, and this app has just made something brilliant even better. It really is a great upgrade, makes searching and viewing notes really clear and easy. It’s a joy to use.
Ian Fogg
Please add the ability to sync note contents, at least the text even if you don’t do the file attachments.
Would be really really helpful for locations where network coverage is non-existent (eg London’s tube), patchy (eg rural) or too expensive (international roaming).
thx
David
I love Evernote, use it often, and recommend it to everyone. I downloaded the 3.0 version and have been playing with it, but you should know that it quits unexpectedly about 50% of the time while doing simple functions (or nothing at all). This is when using the new Evernote on an iPhone 3G (not 3GS) with the new iPhone 3.0 software loaded and the new Evernote installed.
Chris
I’d love to use Evernote and will go Premium as soon as there is a native Android App but I’m so envious when I see this great update for the iPhone. Java’s not THAT hard and the G1/Magic has everything the 3GS has (maybe not exactly as fast but good enough).
Merritt
My notes on the web and my mac are not showing up on my iphone. How long does it take to sync things up?
Juan Romero Abelleira
Amazing update, thanks!
Ameya
Are you developing an Android Version? We are waiting!!
Larry
Still no Android native app love?
John
A PALM PRE app and now another iPhone update?
Why are you so blatently ignoring the Androids? You’re about to lose this user.
Swaroop
Very useful improvements!
I especially like that we can add/edit notes without waiting for sync to happen.
And nice touch with the improved looks.
Swaroop
The biggest downside though is that now it takes way more clicks to get to the saved searches!
Swaroop
Another thing… I *still* can’t see the full title of a note if it exceeds the overview page’s length… which is very sad.