Thus, Evernote gets the very serious competitor, which provides the same level of cross-platform availability, convenience and functionality. Today, Microsoft unveiled OneNote for Mac and announced that the desktop version for Windows and Mac is now free. However, the desktop version was still available only as part of paid MS Office. When the free Office Online appeared, the online version of OneNote also became free, and later the free mobile OneNote apps for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone where released. Online notebook-organizer OneNote always was a part of Microsoft Office and therefore was a paid program.

The desktop version of the app will cost $9.99 to download, which is above the usual $4.99 price for Notability. Using iCloud, users will be able to sync and update documents with little hassle and access them on all their Apple devices. Now that it’s moving to the Mac App Store, Notability will become even more useful. Users can draw on the mobile and tablet apps, add images and text, and even import and embed documents or web pages directly into their documents, all with audio timestamped against the text or media added. Notability is knows for its support of wide range of inputs. Cloud note-taking app Notability launches Mac versionĮvernote competitor, Notability, which was already available for the iPhone and iPad, is now bringing all the same functionality to the Mac desktop, rounding out all the places where its users might want to access their notes. For now the tool is running only on Windows, the version for Mac users is already in the works and will be released in the “coming months.”Ģ014. Microsoft even goes for the hard sell here, reminding OneNote potential customers that the app is free on all devices, while Evernote Premium is a $50 per year product. The “OneNote Importer tool,” as the software is called, aims to address the switching costs that can hold back users from making a move to a competing platform. Microsoft released a new tool that makes it easier for Evernote users to make the transition to rival application OneNote, a part of the Microsoft Office suite.

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