Talk about a holiday gift! The Apple AppStore elves work in mysterious ways and they just approved the biggest Evernote for iPhone (version 3.2) in months! What’s new? Offline notebooks! Speed improvements! Better note editing! Longer audio recording! And, as if that wasn’t enough, you can now go Premium from within the app. Get Evernote for iPhone now from the App Store ยป
As always, please reboot your phone after installing a new application.
Local note caching
All notes that you create or view on the iPhone will be cached locally, so you can view them again even without a network connection. This feature is available to all users.
Premium feature: Offline notebooks
Premium users can now choose to be fully downloaded any and all of their notebooks to the device, making them instantly accessible even when offline (or on a plane). Tap on the new Sync tab and choose Offline Notebooks to configure this feature.
The larger the notebook the longer it will take to fully sync, but the plus side is you only have to do this once. For fastest results, we recommend doing this over Wi-Fi. Please note that the app will not be able to download all your notes if you select more notebooks than the available space left on your device.
[Important: There's a small bug that inaccurately displays notebook sizes for premium users if you upgrade from the previous version of the app. Deleting the app from your phone and reinstalling fixes this.]
In-app purchase of Evernote Premium
Want to go Premium to take advantage of the new features? Now you can. You’ll be able to buy a month or year of Evernote Premium right from the new Sync tab in the app.
Double the talkity talk
This latest version doubles the length of Audio Note recordings, to a nice 20 minutes.
Local searching
Searching now works offline, so you can search through your Favorites, cached notes and offline notebooks. If you have a network connection, the app will automatically search through both the notes on your phone and on the server.
Editing rich-text notes
If you try to edit a note that contains formatting, pictures or attachments, you’ll be given the option to append the new text (as before) or make an editable plain-text copy of the note. If you chose to strip out the formatting, a copy of the original note will be moved into the trash so you can recover it later.
New “Sync” tab
All of the Sync and Account features are now consolidated into one tab with real-time status of all sync operations.
Ability to search while synchronizing
The dreaded “already communicating with the server” message is gone for good. So long. Good bye.
Easily see all your notes
A new “All Notes” button when searching or filtering makes it easy to get back to all your notes with one click.
Zippy
Every aspect of Evernote for iPhone is much faster: launching the app, searching, syncing, making new notes, browsing, etc. Our goal is to let you use Evernote without ever having to even notice the speed and this version is another big step in that direction.
Additional languages
Evernote for iPhone is now available in English, French, German and Russian with limited (but quickly growing) support for Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese and Chinese.
60 Comments
Rubadubadoobag
I agree with all the others calling for a similar function for Windows Mobile smartphones. Being new to Evernote I did not even realise that it cannot be used at all without an internet connection: I was trying to show my workmate this ‘wonderful new program’ only to be embarrassed when there was nothing to show. It looks like a great program but it is a significant omission and I wonder why it was designed this way, given that it must be technically quite simple to allow offline access.
Peter
Oh wow, how annoying that you guys have disable offline viewing unless I pay $5 a month. Evernote is still usefull on my iphone but completely uselss on my ipad now. Obviously you guys need to make money, but I think I might look around and try other services. Maybe I’ll give springpad a try.
Deb
The Premium Account includes way more than just this – it’s a bargain!
Craig
Great app but the only annoying part for me is that you cant edit rich text files on the phones – I want to be able to create nice tidy lists with bullet points or numbers while I’m out and about. Bring this feature in and I would happily pay for the premium account.
Geoff
I have just set up evernote as a to-do list, and am dismayed to find I can’t create/edit the tick boxes on my phone/ipad. Seems like an astounding omission, but perhaps it is because of the history of the product. Presumably it is a desktop focused product with an add-on iOS client. The product is only useful to me if it can work with my iOS devices so this is a real downer.
graphicsguy1
Very nice feature, thank you! Just one more request,if I may? My default notebook receives a pile of my clippings each day and then I sort them out by moving them to the appropriate folders afterwards using the Windows desktop application.
I notice that in the iPhone app it is not possible to move the notes into other folders. Other Cloud file storage apps do have this flexibility and I wondered if you could add this to the Evernote app feature list?
Many thanks – keep up the good work!
Abhishek
I was just thinking about the same but i realised we do have option to move between different notebooks. When you click to edit any note like to enter text, look on the top and there is an option to edit its notebook location