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
teddy
Are you working on an Android version maybe?
and a linux one?
Brian
yeah. iPhone 3.0 out for ahh hmm 1 day and there is an app update. What about Android! You guys suck.
Zack
How about a physical keyboard to go with you Evernote App. That would be a true killer feature, my iPhone with this mystical device would replace my HP Mini 1000 with Evernote on it. Please!
M
All of my notes are blank since the update. Great.
Andrew Sinkov
@M Try quitting the application and relaunching it.
estabrook
A great update.
A couple of commenters are thinking along the same lines as I am–how about a quick/easy way to get web content from Safari to Evernote.
An iPhone evernote bookmarklet would be great. Or something based on iPhone 3.0′s cut/paste functions?
Thanks again for a great update.
Immotion
I second NTT, please integrate the iPhone 3.0 global spotlight search with EverNote, that would absolutely spectacular!!
David
Nice work! There are rough spots I was hoping would be addressed (not to be a bitch, but…):
First and foremost, I LOVE Evernote for multi-platform sync of simple notes and To-Dos. That’s the key value prop for me and it’s the only thing out there that does it.
But, what does Evernote want to be? Is it a note-taking app? Is it a life organizer like Things? I fear you are on the road to adding everything including the kitchen sink yet not creating a tight app really focused on solving a specific set of problems. I say this because basic support for styled text isn’t included, there are some convoluted UIs that could really be simplified, and performance seems to be slipping. These seem to be fundamental attributes to get right for this innovative app.
So, specifically:
1) Please add support for formatted text. It’s frustrating not to be able to edit styled text on the iPhone
2) I still find the whole search interface clumsy and more complicated than it needs to be.
3) Editing notes is weird. Touching the Edit icon to edit a note should bring up the keyboard like every other iPhone app does — rather than this strange two-step process of reloading the note in edit mode, then bringing up the keyboard with another touch.
4) Optimize for performance. This version loads slower than the previous one.
Kang
Have us Windows users been forgotten?
Andrew Sinkov
@Kang Far from it. There are some big things coming to Windows soon.
ken
Oscar Luaces says
>> 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)
I have the same problem, too.(iPod touch 3.0)
I also tried to remove Evernote and re-install it,
but nothing became good.
I’ve been really upset. I can’t do anything without Evernote!! Please help me.
Swaroop
I third NTT, integrating EN with spotlight search would be useful indeed.
Peer Timo Andersen-Ulven
Hi
Fantastic new version!!! But, there is still the same old fault, as I see it, with writing a new note. It defaults to start the title with small letters. Most other apps can get the keyboard and capital letters right according to what they are expecting of input. Evernote has always defaultet to small letters. It is a very small bug, but something that always frustrates me on entering new notes.
Thank you for your great work!
Jonathan Bloom
This update is huge and I’m loving this update. I wanted to edit some notes before they were synced up and now I’m glad we can do this.
Jonathan Bloom
Count me in for the offline syncing as well, I’ll be getting a 32GB iPhone and this would be a great option. Most of the time I’m fine with online access, but I was on a cruise ship a week back with no internet access-and Evernote would’ve been even more useful if I could use it all offline.
Being able to access my unsynced notes is definitely a major step in the right direction.
Is there also, perhaps, a chance we could see video notes?
belle
this is a great update! More Power!
Greg Wyatt
Since upgrading my 3g to 3.0 software, evernote locks up when I attempt to open a new note. It also will not update and show any of my notes. The program is very slow and easily locks up. I have rest and removed and re-installed Evernote 3.0 several times with the same results?
curtis
Same problem here – upgrade to 3.0os on my 3G and updated evernote – I either have no notes at all or the app just locks up – can’t create new notes without freezing, and reinstalling app makes no difference ….
Help? I can’t find any support for this – this is a serious problem for some of us!
Tenkely
This update looks amazing! Too bad you don’t have a version for Android yet…
George S
iTouch version quits right after it starts to synch. Can’t get any value from the upgrade when it won’t run.
Any news on a fix?
Gary
3rd request for response….PDF preview in the iPhone app coming??? Helloooo??
mward
3.0 just fails for me. Won’t sync notes and trying to create text notes causes a freeze. Restoring 3G to clean factory state and installing only Evernote yields same results. There is something wrong with this version of the application.
kytyn
Dear Devs, I know Apple makes testing and getting apps cleared a total pain but this version needed more QA before release. I’ll try to open a note, even one that was created on the iPhone, and it gives me a “Tap to append body text. (You can’t edit this text on the iPHone because it contains images, audio or styled text. Use the PC, Mac or Web version of Evernote to edit.)” message. If it’s a picture (again, one taken by the iPhone) it won’t open the large version (which resulted it me purchasing the wrong light bulbs today!). If I uninstall then reinstall Evernote it will give me full functionality for an undetermined length of time, then deny me again. Since I’m not always in an area where I have WiFi this is really not a good workaround.
OK, just did some testing – if I have a WiFi connection I can edit notes but if I’m on anything less (3g) I can’t edit notes. If I start out on WiFi then go to 3g it still seems to let me edit. But if my phone has been turned off and only has seen 3g then I’m stuck with that message. I thought I editing notes entirely in 3g before switching to 3.0 (on my 3g phone, before moving to the 3gs). Maybe I just ~never~ turned off my phone before getting my new one! But requiring WiFi just to access notes is insane – I can see it for installing the app but just for data???
Please get this working soon. I’m preparing for a vacation and ~need~ my second brain!
Thanks so much!
kytyn
Gregg
If you do the latest upgrade, would it be safer to then reinstall the app after and remove it before you actually install? I just don’t know if its going to cause any bugs by upgrading, I assume it must be backwards compatible?
hall316
Just trying this program out for the first time and for me it’s epic fail on my 3gs. I can’t get it to sync the notebook at all. I’ve tried with wifi and the regular 3g service and nothing happens. It seems like a great product and would love to actually try it out.
thatch
It’s broken, you really need to temper the line in the hype that reads.
“Works on all iPhones and iPod Touches”
I upgraded and I now have nothing, did the uninstall and reinstall – still nothing.
Checked support and forums and read the message to other people in the same boat saying that you will look at it after “you have fixed the serious bugs”.
How much more serious does it need to be?
Germaine
evernote on my iphone doesn’t seem to be syncing well. any ideas?
MGoulart
Not working for me either. Removed app and reinstalled etc.
Please release fix soon
etecé
The iphone app (3.0) closes in the middle of the sync, so I can acces only to favourites notes. Please fix the bugs.
will
The update has been very buggy for me. I’ve had several crashes, such as when trying to take a snapshot note, and editing existing notes.
Good feature set, but not stable enough. I am sure a fix is in the works.
Thanks for the continual feature upgrades.
avrum
not working for me either. all of my recent notes have titles, but no content in the body of the note. I’m assuming a fix is on the way.
Johnny
I didn’t upgrade to 3.0 yet, please allow evernote to be available for 2.2 again! I can’t download it from the App Store!
Thanks!
Randy Fisher
Great post, Your information is excellent on the topic. Thanks
tony
works great thanks
Greg Wyatt
Thank you guys for a wonderful product. Your customer service is also fantastic. I do have one small suggestion. It would be great if you would respond to the many of us that cant use evernote for iphone on the 3.0 OS. Just a short note on this blog would be great. I have deleted and reinstalled Evernote 3.0 several times as well as having accomplished a complete restore (not from back up) of the OS 3.0 firmware and then reinstalled a new copy of Evernote 3.0 with the same results. Will not sync and completely locks up the device when you attempt to create a new note. Again, thanks for all you do and I look forward to the fix so I can again use Evernote from my iphone 3g.
bndo
“Germaine says:
evernote on my iphone doesn’t seem to be syncing well. any ideas?”
Same. I’ve only been able to see 2 of my 25 notes in the iPhone 3.0 install on my iPhone3G (I assume these are the one’s I favorited). Is there a way to revert my evernote for iphone install?
Stew
@Marc
> The area where Evernote is really lacking is the text editor
I think the rich text editor in the Evernote client is pretty good. Have you tried clicking the little button in the upper-right corner of a note? Or press Alt-Enter (on a PC). Yeah, they could use a few more RTF features and a couple features don’t have toolbar buttons (press Ctrl-K to make the selected text into a link). But it’s not something!
I was wondering if the new map feature (stores the location where the note was created) works with the iTouch via wifi, or just on the iPhone? I don’t have either, but I was trying out my buddy’s iTouch at home and it couldn’t find my location. I guess my router doesn’t send it out (which I usually think is a GOOD thing).
Anyway, Evernote will be the first app I install when I get an iTouch!
Ramon
Hello,
I also have problems with Evernote 3.0 on an iPhone 3G with OS 3. (ultrasn0w) :
- notes won’t load
- new notes won’t sync
Reinstall doesn’t solve this. Please look at this!
Just a question to you all, who’s using ultrasn0w? As that might also be a complexing factor.
Ramon
English
Poor T-Mobile G1 and G3 phones.
No love. I LOVE Evernote and use it daily. Looking at mobile phones now and want an iPhone but want to stay with T-Mobile. Will you offer an Android version?
pepoluan
You know, Symbian userbase is still waaaay bigger than BB+iPhone+Android+Pre…
Thus, it makes perfect business sense to make an Evernote for them.
So, when can I see “Evernote for Symbian”?
BGK
Great update! Would like to see individual notebooks included on the iPhone app, though.
Martin Cleaver
+1 for video notes. I’m looking for an application that can do this: it’s my #1 criteria item.
Wedding
From the bottom of my heart I’d like to extend my big congratulations to EVERNOTE! You have come a long long way to reach your millions of users and finding way to make Evernote reachable as ever. Now this is a coming true project. Hopefully soon, you will be in blackberry. Keep us updated!
Andrew Sinkov
@Wedding Evernote for BlackBerry is available: BlackBerry page
Freddie Daniells
thanks for a fab update…this app just gets more and more useful and critical to my daily routine. The voice upgrades will make me use that for the first time. also like you later post on sharing – can see that as making me use the app more too.
Like a couple of others here, a request for integrating Evernote with Spotlight search – would be killer. General offline would be nice but maybe resource hungry – however, how about making the favourites downloaded to the device. The reason they are favourites is that yopu may wanty to refer to them a lot and so having natively on the phone would be great.
Anyhow, keep up the amazing work. Really looking forward to the next PC desktop upgrade. Cheers
Sam
3.0 is a major step forward and I love using it. Evernote for the iPhone is the reason I switched from OneNote to Evernote.
I would very much like to have the ability to upload multiple pictures at once into the same note. This is very helpfull while shopping or documenting a meeting.
Thanks!
tivoboy
I get a LOT of crashes, especially when syncing over cell network.
Bully Xtreme
Incredible product! I just got! Thanks for this great app. Keep up the great work and website
michael smith
Wow! This is great! I have recently purchased my iphone. Glad to know evernote can be accessed on my phone. Kudos to the team!
Chris
“…sharing, local search, calendar integration, to-do management, audio search, compass use and memory training.”
Any approximation on when these features will be integrated? Please please please integrate reminders that use iPhone push notification (even when the app is not open). I have too many Evernote notes that get lost in the shuffle because I can’t set reminders about them. Better yet, build in some features like reQall has for memory management and voice-to-text transcription for easy data entry.
Ron
I just got the iPhone 3GS 16GB yesterday, and I can log in and browse the tips. When I tap to create a new Text note, however, the app freezes and I am eventually taken back to the iPhone home screen. Please fix the app, or at least acknowledge there is a problem. So far I’m quite unimpressed.
Dannie
Great update for us iPhone users on a great program. I tout the wonders of Evernote to anybody and everybody that I come in contact with. Friends, family, and even enemies.
BTW, what’s a Blackberry?
Roger
Boo. New iphone version is WAY too slow. I think the snapshot note option has become too resource heavy because it takes my 3G phone about 45 seconds to process a new note. Please lighten the program up again!!!!!