Omnivore vs Evernote Web Clipper: Which is better? (2026)
The short answer
Evernote wins by forfeit: Omnivore shut down in November 2024 and its servers are gone. Whether Evernote is the right successor is a separate question — it's a heavyweight paid note platform, not a free reading queue.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Omnivore | Evernote Web Clipper | Marqly |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI auto-tagging | — | — | ✓ |
| Semantic search (find by meaning) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI summaries | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube AI (summary, chat, transcript) | — | — | ✓ |
| Chat with your saves | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web highlighter | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Notes on highlights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save page as PDF | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full-text search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save all open tabs | — | — | ✓ |
| Public sharing (boards/collections) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pocket import | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Browser bookmarks import | — | — | ✓ |
| Offline reading | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| iOS app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android app | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Browser extension | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Self-hostable | ✓ | — | — |
| Price | Free | Free · Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr | Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month |
- Omnivore
- Free
- Evernote Web Clipper
- Free · Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr
- Marqly
- Free · $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month
Pricing
- Omnivore: Omnivore has shut down and no longer accepts new users. Omnivore shut down in November 2024 after its team was acqui-hired by ElevenLabs. Users had until November 30, 2024 to export their data before it was deleted. The open-source code remains on GitHub, and community forks offer self-hosted deployments.
- Evernote Web Clipper: Evernote Web Clipper has a free tier; paid plans are Evernote Starter $14.99/mo or $99/yr; Advanced $24.99/mo or $249.99/yr. The clipper extension is free, but it saves into Evernote — and Evernote's free plan is capped at 50 notes, 1 notebook, and 1 device, so sustained use effectively requires a paid plan. Prices have risen repeatedly under owner Bending Spoons.
- Marqly: Marqly has a free tier; paid plans are $48/year (≈$4/mo) or $8/month. 7-day free trial of Pro. Free tier needs no card; Pro unlocks chat with saves and video chat.
About Omnivore
Omnivore was an open-source read-it-later app that launched in 2022 and quickly became a favorite alternative to Pocket and Instapaper. It was completely free: saved articles, newsletters, PDFs, and RSS feeds landed in a clean library with labels, filters, and a notably powerful search syntax, backed by native iOS and Android apps, browser extensions for all major browsers, text-to-speech, and plugins that synced highlights to Obsidian and Logseq. In late October 2024, the team announced they had joined ElevenLabs to work on its Reader app, and the hosted service shut down the following month — users had until November 30, 2024 to export their data before it was permanently deleted. Because Omnivore was AGPL-licensed, the code remains on GitHub with well over a thousand forks, and community projects offer self-hosted deployments, though the stack (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, multiple microservices) is demanding to run. No official successor exists.
About Evernote Web Clipper
Evernote Web Clipper is the browser extension for Evernote, the long-running note app now owned by Bending Spoons. Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera, it clips full pages, simplified articles, selections, or annotated screenshots into your notebooks, with tags and remarks added at save time. The backend is where it earns its keep: Evernote's search reads text inside images and, on paid plans, inside PDFs and documents, and the v11 release in January 2026 added an AI assistant that chats across your notes, semantic search, and AI meeting notes. Apps cover web, Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, with offline notebooks on paid plans and a public API. The catch is pricing: the free plan is capped at 50 notes, one notebook, and a single device, while paid plans run from $14.99 per month (Starter, $99/year) to $24.99 per month (Advanced, $249.99/year) — among the most expensive in the category.
Which should you choose?
Lead with the fact that settles it: Omnivore no longer exists as a service. Its founders announced in late October 2024 that they were joining ElevenLabs, the hosted app closed within weeks, and anything not exported by November 30, 2024 was deleted. Evernote, by contrast, is under active development by Bending Spoons — version 11 shipped in January 2026 with an AI assistant, semantic search, and AI meeting notes. The comparison that remains is philosophical: a free, open-source read-it-later app versus a commercial clipper feeding one of the oldest note platforms around.
Choose an Omnivore fork if:
- Free and open source is non-negotiable and you can operate a heavy self-hosted stack — PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and multiple microservices — on volunteer-maintained code.
- You only ever wanted a clean article queue, which Evernote was never built to be.
Choose Evernote Web Clipper if:
- You want clipped pages, PDFs, and screenshots searchable alongside real notes, with OCR that reads text inside images.
- You’ll use the AI layer — chatting across your notes and semantic search arrived with v11.
- You clip from everywhere: the extension covers Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera with full-page, article, selection, and annotated-screenshot modes.
The money tells the deeper story. Omnivore never charged anyone — and that free-with-no-revenue model is precisely why it could vanish overnight. Evernote sits at the other extreme: the free plan’s 50-note, one-notebook, one-device cap makes it a demo, and real use costs $99 to $249.99 per year, among the priciest in the category. Ex-Omnivore users get a sustainable product this time, but they pay for the sustainability. If all you need is saving and reading articles, Evernote is overkill; if you want a durable everything-archive with serious search, it’s a more honest bargain than free ever was.
The option both sides overlook
If the real problem is finding things again, neither Omnivore nor Evernote Web Clipper fully solves it. Marqly auto-tags and summarizes every save with AI and lets you retrieve any of them by describing what you remember — plus a highlighter, YouTube summaries with transcripts, and save-as-PDF. There's a free tier with no card required.
Omnivore vs Evernote Web Clipper FAQ
Why did Omnivore shut down?
The Omnivore team was acqui-hired by ElevenLabs in October 2024 to work on the ElevenReader text-to-speech app, and the hosted service closed in November 2024. Because Omnivore was completely free with no revenue, there was no business to keep running once the founders moved on. Users had until November 30 to export their data.
Is Evernote Web Clipper free like Omnivore was?
The extension itself is free, but it clips into Evernote, whose free plan allows just 50 notes, one notebook, and one device — enough to test, not to live in. Sustained use realistically requires Starter at $99/year or Advanced at $249.99/year. Omnivore charged nothing at all, which is also why it no longer exists.
Can Evernote import my Omnivore export?
There is no dedicated Omnivore importer — Evernote's import tooling centers on its own ENEX format, and it offers no Pocket or bookmark-HTML importers either. Your Omnivore export ZIP contains saves and highlights that some apps can ingest, but moving them into Evernote would be a manual or scripted job rather than a one-click migration.