Evernote vs Things
Evernote and Things are both productivity options. Here's how they compare on official platforms, features, and positioning — sourced from each vendor's own site, not from ratings or reviews.
Side-by-side summary
Best for Evernote
Vendor copy targets general users organizing personal information, teams doing real-time collaborative work, students, and enterprise customers.
Best for Things
Positioned for individuals on Apple devices who want a single, elegantly designed app for organizing personal tasks, projects, and life areas without a subscription.
Feature comparison
Every feature listed here comes directly from each vendor's own official site.
Evernote
- Ready-made note templates
- Notebooks and Spaces for organizing notes
- Full-text and fast search across notes
- Task management within notes
- Calendar integration linking events to notes
- Web Clipper for saving web content
Things
- Projects for organizing related tasks and Areas for grouping ongoing responsibilities
- Tags for flexible, cross-project organization
- Today and Upcoming views for daily and future planning
- Reminders and calendar integration for scheduling
- Markdown support in project and task notes
- Native Shortcuts app integration
- Keyboard shortcuts for fast entry and navigation
Pros and cons
Evernote
- Ready-made note templates
- Notebooks and Spaces for organizing notes
- Full-text and fast search across notes
- Task management within notes
- Calendar integration linking events to notes
- Web Clipper for saving web content
We don't publish a "cons" list for either product. No vendor's official site documents its own product's weaknesses, so there's no sourced basis for one — and we'd rather say that plainly than invent one.
Things
- Projects for organizing related tasks and Areas for grouping ongoing responsibilities
- Tags for flexible, cross-project organization
- Today and Upcoming views for daily and future planning
- Reminders and calendar integration for scheduling
- Markdown support in project and task notes
- Native Shortcuts app integration
- Keyboard shortcuts for fast entry and navigation
We don't publish a "cons" list for either product. No vendor's official site documents its own product's weaknesses, so there's no sourced basis for one — and we'd rather say that plainly than invent one.
Key differences
- Evernote lists Ready-made note templates, Notebooks and Spaces for organizing notes, Full-text and fast search across notes, Task management within notes, Calendar integration linking events to notes, Web Clipper for saving web content that Things doesn't list.
- Things lists Projects for organizing related tasks and Areas for grouping ongoing responsibilities, Tags for flexible, cross-project organization, Today and Upcoming views for daily and future planning, Reminders and calendar integration for scheduling, Markdown support in project and task notes, Native Shortcuts app integration, Keyboard shortcuts for fast entry and navigation that Evernote doesn't list.
- Evernote supports Web, Windows, Android, which Things doesn't list.
- Things supports iPadOS, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, which Evernote doesn't list.
Choose Evernote if…
Choose Evernote if this fits: Vendor copy targets general users organizing personal information, teams doing real-time collaborative work, students, and enterprise customers.
Choose Things if…
Choose Things if this fits: Positioned for individuals on Apple devices who want a single, elegantly designed app for organizing personal tasks, projects, and life areas without a subscription.
Facts on this page are sourced from each vendor's official site (linked below), not from ratings or reviews. Products change — verify anything that matters to your decision directly on the vendor's own site before switching. See our Disclaimer and Sources Policy.
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