EverFree
The truly $0 AI-assisted note taker
Fully featured, completely free note app including AI assistance. Syncs across web, mobile and desktop (mac). Notes stored in own github repo. Simple Evernote migration.
Backup evernote cleanlyImport your Evernote notebooks as Markdown.
Write anywhereOne workspace across Mac, web, and mobile.
Bring your own AIUse your free Gemini key. Pay no one nothing.
What EverFree gives you
Use the full Mac editor, write in any desktop browser, or capture and edit from your phone. It is one synced workspace.
Select a paragraph and ask EverFree to continue it, tighten it etc. Search for facts. Generate contextual images. Use your own keys.
The Mac app imports your notebooks and turns them into ordinary Markdown. Your old writing comes with you.
Your notes are plain files in a private repo you control
The Mac app ships an MCP server. Claude Code and anything else that speaks MCP can search your notes and write back to them.
Fully featured
Product sync — Thursday
Ravi wants the import flow simplified before
launch. We agreed to cut the second confirm
Responsive Voice to text enables you to dictate your notes or instruct the AI assistant. Fully on device
Mac Synced · just now
Web Synced · just now
iPhone Syncing…
a4f1c9 Update Drafts/launch-plan.md
One workspace across Mac, web, and mobile. Every save is a commit in your own repo - add a collaborator and you both write to it.
Launch checklist
deploy() {
vercel --prod
}
Bold, italic, lists, tables — plain Markdown.
Screenshots, code blocks, links, tables, Markdown from anywhere. It all lands as a plain file.
quarterly
Drafts
Quarterly review…the quarterly plan we agreed on…
Research
Pricing notes…billed quarterly instead of…
Search titles and full text across every notebook at once
The assistant
Select a line and ask for a rewrite, search the web without leaving the page, or generate an image for the paragraph you just wrote. Bring your own key.
I am a compulsive note-taker and had a thousand+ notes in Evernote. Bending Spoons decided to hike up renewal fees by 5x and it cost me $100 just for access to my own notes
That was the wake-up call. My notes are not your product. They are memory. And they should be mine. For free.
Why it will always be free
Sign in once and EverFree creates one private repository named
everfree-notes. The web app saves directly to it. The Mac app also
keeps your notes in ~/Documents/EverFree and syncs the same workspace.
There is no EverFree account, no EverFree notes database, and no storage plan to upsell. You do not need to know git. And web/mobile will be through a free vercel app.
everfree-notes/ ← your private repo
├── Drafts/
│ ├── cursor-for-writing.md
│ └── renewal-note.md
├── Research/
│ └── evernote-pricing.md
└── assets/
└── header-sketch.png
Memory for coding agents
The Mac app ships an MCP server. Point Claude Code at it and your agent can search everything you have written, read a note, and write back what it worked out. One command, no account, no extra install.
EverFree keeps the Markdown and gets out of the way. Nothing is summarised and nothing is scored for importance. What the agent writes is a normal note, so it shows up on your phone like anything else.
$ claude mcp add everfree -- \
/Applications/EverFree.app/Contents/MacOS/everfree-mcp
> search_notes("pricing decision")
Research/renewal-note.md — Renewal note
…settled on leaving before the $100 renewal…
> append_note("Drafts/worklog.md", "Shipped the importer.")
Appended to Drafts/worklog.md — delivered
From Evernote to EverFree
Open the signed and notarized DMG. No terminal, package manager, or Gatekeeper workaround.
Connect Evernote during setup and import your old notebooks as Markdown — or skip this if you are starting fresh.
Connect GitHub once. EverFree creates your private everfree-notes repo, and the same notes appear on web and mobile.
The practical bits
There isn't a paid tier hiding behind the useful features. EverFree is MIT-licensed open source, with no plan, trial, or EverFree account.
No. You sign in with a device code and EverFree handles the fixed private everfree-notes repo. You never need to run a git command.
Yes. The Mac setup walks you through connecting Evernote and converts your notebooks to Markdown. Import is optional.
It can work with the current note or selected text to continue, rewrite, explain, question, or brainstorm. Add your own Google Gemini key; EverFree does not charge you for AI.
As Markdown in your private everfree-notes GitHub repo. On Mac they also live in ~/Documents/EverFree.
GitHub does not offer single-repository access for this OAuth flow. EverFree asks for the required repo scope, but its code only creates, reads, and writes your fixed everfree-notes repository.
Yes. Open EverFree on your phone for capture, reading, and edits in the same workspace.
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