Say hello to the newest member of the Evernote family: Evernote for Android. After months and months of development, we’re incredibly excited to unveil this shiny new version of Evernote. As you would expect, Evernote for Android is free and available in the Android Market.
Capture everything
Evernote for Android allows you to create text notes, snap photos, and record audio. In addition, you can easily attached files to your notes. Free subscribers can add PDFs, text, audio, or image files. Premium subscribers can attach any file they like, as long as the total note size is under 25MB.
When creating your notes, Evernote for Android lets you specify titles, tags, and destination notebooks.
Find all your notes, any time
Evernote for Android comes equipped with native note browsing, which means that you can easily browse and search through all of your notes. Thanks to Evernote’s synchronization features, all the notes you make in the desktop or web versions of Evernote are instantly accessible from your Android phone—and vice versa.
There’s also Evernote’s image recognition, which automatically recognizes text contained within snapshots—this is great for everything from business cards to wine labels to whiteboards.
Different views
When viewing your notes, Evernote for Android lets you choose between a fancy thumbnail view or a simpler list view. If you’re on a speedy network, then opt for the thumbnail view. If you’re on a slower network, or one that charges based on data use, you can go with the slimmed-down list view. Your choice.
Check the menu
To maximize the amount of visible space, we placed a bunch of functionality into the Android menu. Click your phone’s Menu button, and you’ll be able to browse notes, set location awareness, view Saved Searches, and more.
Where you at?
Evernote for Android captures your location whenever you create a note. It then lets you find that note by proximity to your current location. To activate this feature, go to the Settings menu and make sure that the location settings are enabled. Once a connection is made, the “Notes Near Location” option will appear in the main Evernote menu.
And much more…
This is only the beginning. We have big plans for Android in 2010, so stay tuned.
We also want to give a special thanks to all of the people that helped us iron out the kinks during the beta period. You rock!
Speaking of which, if you were a Beta tester, then you need to uninstall Evernote and reinstall it from the Market.
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224 Comments
Kevin
@cajl For the Archos 5 IT, download the .apk at http://s.evernote.com/getandroid. Works great.
Norman Liang
I have an exception error every time I’m using camera as well. Using Android 2.1 device. Is there a fix or update coming?
Doug
Woohoo!! Finally. Well chuffed. Thanks to everyone at Evernote.
Vadim
Please add support for encrypted text.
Christian Ashby
This article needs the QR code!
Laura
Thanks you for this great Christmas present!!!
David Ellard
Is the android app compatible with HTC Tattoo unable to locate through the marketplace
KazuyaD
Yay! Great Christmas present guys! I just couldn’t get into using the mobile site. Offline storage will definitely be a plus when you roll it out(I’ve got 16gigs to burn here) but I’m glad that you went ahead and put it out now rather than later, thanks for showing Android the love.
Tommy
Evernote rocks! I keep it running all the time when I’m tied to the desktop (Windows 7)… how about an option to NOT show the app in the taskbar when minimized. When I want to bring it up, I’ll click right-click the icon in the notification/systray area. Less clutter.
Steve
I read through some of the comments on the market place. I see that there is an offline version available for the iPhone. When will an offline version be made available for Android?
John
I think this app is great but I need offline notes. I used this when released and was disappointed to find out i needed a connection to see my notes. Using 3banana for now until evennote provides offline notes. Thanks
Jim
When you edit and save a note, the app takes you back to the preview for that note but does not show your edits. You have to close that window and re-open it from the list to see your edits. VERY LAME!!!
Matej
I second the offline caching. The app is pretty much useless if you dont have a network connection. Otherwise looks like an amazing app.
Sandra
Why can’t I find it anywhere?
Caleb
Wish I had a Droid!
mb
Love the app but have requests:
1. Like others have said, please add offline capability. As implemented currently is semi functional.
2. Need to be able to use tags to search and display notes.
3. Higher res icon for droids and others to come
4. Better mapping functionality. I don’t see where a geotagged note is when I try to display on my droid. Just the map with my location (even though the geotagging is recognized when I use the notes close to me function). Lots of cool things could be done in this area – hope you do.
Big evernote fan on pc and web. Hope the android version continues to improve. Could be great but think there’s lots of work to be done.
Jun
I tried to install Evernote from Android Market, but get the error of Package unsigned, then quit the installation. Why would that happened? I am using HTC Hero with Android 1.5, and have Evernote 1.1B8 installed in my cell….ummm
Paul
Nice app, it’s great to see Evernote supporting more mobile platforms!
But I have to say, other than location awareness and camera integration, this doesn’t offer much more than a mobile web site would! Perhaps more features are to come in the future, offline notes would be a great one to add.
Also, I noticed that the application wants to run in the background after exiting, which is undesirable, Evernote has no need for it and it simply reduces device battery life and performance.
Keep up the good work!
Jsama
Thanks, but i cannot find this apps in android market from htc tattoo
George T
Great app!
But I still think that the most major drawback is the lack of speed.
Scott
Works great on my Droid. Hope one of the first improvements is to add the text encrypt/decrypt function.
Dusan Stojanovic
Nice app but how to use Evernote with android
Ami
I just installed it and I like it; but I hope that, in future versions, we’ll be able to select a larger font size when viewing notes. Thanks!
Janis Kelly
Is it possible to copy and paste into the Android version? How? I did that a lot on the Windows Mobile version but not clear how to paste in, say, a copy of a news story into Android.
Rachel
According to androinica.com, Evernote is not currently available from the Android Market for the HTC Tattoo because the developers haven’t explicitly approved it as being suitable for use on a QVGA screen (320×240). I’m not sure whether they’re in the process of rectifying this, but in the meantime you can download it from http://s.evernote.com/getandroid and it seems to work fine.
Louis
Hello
I ve download evernote and take premium version but, surprise, on my htc hero, i can’t see my note offline
it s not serious ! ! !
MC
I’d love to see an integration with the Dolphin Browser so that we could send a website straight to evernote in their “Share” option.
Hektor
Yay! Now all that’s left is a client for Symbian…
Bascy
Great idea, but why can’t i edit the tags on the Android?
Mike
Great app – but I would love to be able to search by tags easily.
Chazz
Would be nice to be able to edit existing notes and have a rich text experience (WYSIWYG) just like the editor on the website version. This would make it the perfect note application.
Yves
Hello,
I start getting used to Evernote on my Samsung Galaxy.
There is one detail however that is a bit unpleasant:
The thumbnails which Evernote creates seem to be stored in /sdcard/Evernote/notethumbs, and they appear in the gallery app of my phone.
This could easily be solved by putting an empty file named .nomedia in that folder /sdcard/Evernote/notethumbs. This will tell the gallery app not to descend into the folder.
Otherwise great app!
Dmitry
I’d also take premium ver. but only for android client with offline capability
weeti
I just got an Acer liquid and I have evernote for it, it rocks. Must be my phone, but it doesn’t really like big files (I’m mainly typing my classes on evernote).. But it’s good for the others and I really like to be able to have my classes available at any moment.
Once again, evernote rocks
kevin
So far so good on HTC Eris droid
David
Great app.
One problem identified running on Sprint’s HTC Hero – the synchronizing notification never clears after I save a new note.
darin
I used this, but until there is an offline note feature I can’t rely on it. Accessing my notes is critical, and if I’m in a tunnel or subway I still need access to them, despite not having a cell phone signal.
pat
Please integrate with Android’s built-in “share” concept. I’d love the option to “share” things with Evernote!
scott
Crashing on launch.
Motorola Milestone.
Android v2.0
Help!
cb
Thanks for the app. When you add offline access, can you give us option to only download certain tags or notes created or updated from a certain period? Think that will make things easier for those of us with our whole lives in evernote!
Hartl
Great tool, but without offline support it’s rather useless.
Once you have a linux client and android offline support I’ll switch to the premium account!
Jay
Yeah, this app is pretty useless until there’s an offline mode. I wonder why they felt the need to reinvent the wheel here instead of just trying to port the iPhone app that already does everything we’re asking for this one to…
Jaymush
Why can i not edit existing notes anymore? Use to be able to press the menu key and there would be a “Edit” option. Am I the only one having this problem?
Moto Droid 2.0.1
Chris Pearsall
I really wanted this to work but unfortunately it would not run. It came up with an error screen that disappeared to quickly to read.
motodroid 2.0.1
Jonathan
Without offline support for Android, this is of very limited use. Most of us city residents spend a considerable amount of time in the subway, or in buildings (e.g. libraries) where cell phone service is blocked. I would use Evernote 10 times more heavily if you added that one feature!
gary
like everybody else has been saying, offline notes is a critical feature.. without it, i cannot reference my past notes or edit it, which is mostly what i need the notes for.. hope it will be implemented for the next version for android
Scot
Offline use is a must. Without this feature, there’s nothing particularly compelling about the offering. With it, it’s genius, but…
Please put the offline use at the top of your list.
Lonnie
Definitely need to be able to search and view tags. Offline would be nice but tags are a must!
Ömer YÜCE
android application development makes sense for me
Ryan Shillington
+1 for offline notes
I’d definitely become a premium subscriber for offline notes.