Keep writing on every screen
Use the full Mac editor, write in any desktop browser, or capture and edit from your phone. It is one synced workspace.
EverFree
The truly $0 AI-assisted note taker
Stop renting your thoughts. A free home for your notes
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.
Leaving Evernote? Import it once in the Mac app, then keep writing from Mac, web, or mobile.
$0No plan, trial, or EverFree account.
YoursPlain Markdown in your private GitHub repo.
AIBring your free Gemini key and write with an assistant.
What EverFree gives you
The note app that just works. And some more.
Think with AI beside the page
Select a paragraph and ask EverFree to continue it, tighten it etc. Search for facts. Generate contextual images. Use your own keys.
Leave Evernote with your history
The Mac app imports your notebooks and turns them into ordinary Markdown. Your old writing comes with you.
Keep the exit door open forever
Your notes are plain files in a private repo you control
Give your coding agents memory
The Mac app ships an MCP server. Claude Code can search your notes and write back to them. What it records shows up here.
Fully featured
Everything you need for personal knowledge management
Product sync — Thursday
Ravi wants the import flow simplified before
launch. We agreed to cut the second confirm
Listening
Talk instead of typing
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
Sync everywhere, share when you want
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.
Paste in anything
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…
Find any note in seconds
Search titles and full text across every notebook at once
The assistant
An AI that reads the note you are already in.
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.
All I needed was a place to write
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
GitHub is the backend. Your repo is the database.
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
From Evernote to EverFree
Out in three steps.
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Download the Mac app
Open the signed and notarized DMG. No terminal, package manager, or Gatekeeper workaround.
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Bring your archive
Connect Evernote during setup and import your old notebooks as Markdown — or skip this if you are starting fresh.
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Write from anywhere
Connect GitHub once. EverFree creates your private
everfree-notesrepo, and the same notes appear on web and mobile.
The practical bits
FAQ
What is the catch?
There isn't a paid tier hiding behind the useful features. EverFree is MIT-licensed open source, with no plan, trial, or EverFree account.
Do I need to understand GitHub?
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.
Can I import from Evernote?
Yes. The Mac setup walks you through connecting Evernote and converts your notebooks to Markdown. Import is optional.
What can the AI assistant do?
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.
Where are my notes stored?
As Markdown in your private everfree-notes GitHub repo. On Mac they also live in ~/Documents/EverFree.
Why does GitHub ask for repo access?
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.
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