Todoist vs Evernote

Todoist and Evernote are both productivity options. Todoist lists 6 features across 6 platforms; Evernote lists 6 features across 5 platforms — see the full breakdown below, sourced from each vendor's own site rather than ratings or reviews.

Side-by-side summary

ComparingTodoistEvernote
CategoryProductivityProductivity
Alternatives tracked33
PlatformsWeb, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, AndroidWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
Pricing modelFree + paid plansFree + paid plans

Best for Todoist

Positioned for individuals, freelancers, and agile teams who want fast, cross-platform task capture with natural language parsing, clean interface views, and minimal project management friction.

Best for Evernote

Vendor copy targets general users organizing personal information, teams doing real-time collaborative work, students, and enterprise customers.

Feature comparison

Every feature listed here comes directly from each vendor's own official site.

Todoist

  • Natural-language quick task entry with automated date, priority, and label parsing
  • Recurring due dates and custom reminder alerts
  • Multiple layout views: list, board (Kanban), and interactive calendar
  • Projects, sections, sub-tasks, priority flags, and custom filter views
  • Shared team workspaces with role-based member assignments and comments
  • Built-in AI Task Assist for breaking complex projects into actionable steps

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

Pros and cons

Todoist

Pros
  • Natural-language quick task entry with automated date, priority, and label parsing
  • Recurring due dates and custom reminder alerts
  • Multiple layout views: list, board (Kanban), and interactive calendar
  • Projects, sections, sub-tasks, priority flags, and custom filter views
  • Shared team workspaces with role-based member assignments and comments
  • Built-in AI Task Assist for breaking complex projects into actionable steps
Cons
  • Free plan is limited to 5 active projects and excludes calendar view and custom reminders
  • Lacks built-in time tracking or extensive document/wiki capabilities compared to all-in-one workspaces

Evernote

Pros
  • 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
Cons
  • The Free plan is tightly capped at 50 notes, one notebook, and one connected device.
  • Evernote Personal and Professional are discontinued for new plan selection; current individual tiers are Starter and Advanced, so older pricing comparisons can be misleading.

Key differences

  • Todoist lists Natural-language quick task entry with automated date, priority, and label parsing, Recurring due dates and custom reminder alerts, Multiple layout views: list, board (Kanban), and interactive calendar, Projects, sections, sub-tasks, priority flags, and custom filter views, Shared team workspaces with role-based member assignments and comments, Built-in AI Task Assist for breaking complex projects into actionable steps that Evernote doesn't list.
  • 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 Todoist doesn't list.
  • Todoist supports Linux, which Evernote doesn't list.

Choose Todoist if…

Choose Todoist if this fits: Positioned for individuals, freelancers, and agile teams who want fast, cross-platform task capture with natural language parsing, clean interface views, and minimal project management friction. Compared with Evernote specifically, Todoist also offers Natural-language quick task entry with automated date, priority, and label parsing, Recurring due dates and custom reminder alerts, Multiple layout views: list, board (Kanban), and interactive calendar, and 3 more features that Evernote doesn't list, plus Linux support that Evernote doesn't list.

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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. Compared with Todoist specifically, Evernote also offers Ready-made note templates, Notebooks and Spaces for organizing notes, Full-text and fast search across notes, and 3 more features that Todoist doesn't list.

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