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WhileGoogleKeephasbeenupdatedforAndroid5.0withanewlook

andsharingfeatures,itstillcan’tcomparetoEvernote’sfullyfeatured

experience.Evenwithoutapremiumaccount–andwitharbitrary

upload limits – Evernote is still the best free note-taking app out there.

As well as grouping notes in

Notebooks for easy access,

youcangivenoteskeyword

tags to make them easy to

search for. Search can also

read text in images and PDFs.

You can only colour-code

notestogroupthemandthey

are displayed on your

homescreen or archived. You

can search for notes, but Keep

lacksataggingsystem.

From saving handwritten notes

toaudiofilesandphotos,

Evernote lets you store them

how you like. Text notes can

also be formatted as to-do

lists and reminders.

In Keep notes and lists are

separate, so you can’t add

liststoregularnotes.Youcan

store photos, set reminders

or record a voice memo and

Keep will transcribe it.

Keep is 100 per cent free with

noIAPs. While it doesn’t match

Evernote Premium’s offline or

security features, it does offer

unlimited storage as standard

–withno‘uploadlimit’either.

For£4/$5permonth,Evernote

Premium will allow you to store

your Notebooks offline, apply a

PINcodetotheapp,andboost

your upload limit from 30MB to

4GB per month.

Aswellasbeingabletostore

tweets in Evernote, you can

share your notes with friends

viaemailanddiscussthem

with colleagues using the

‘Work Chat’ messenger.

The recent 3.0 update not

only gave Google Keep a new

Android Lollipop face-lift, but

now allows you to share your

notes via email with

individuals or groups.

And the

winner is...

EVERNOTE

MULTI-PLATFORM

PRICING

ORGANISATION

NOTE TYPES

Evernote is the biggest name in

note-taking apps. However, Google

has revamped its own-brand app

with a Material Design look and

new features. Can the fl agship

fi ling system compete

with Google’s

search algorithims?

All fi les are synced between

your devices (including non-

Android ones), Android Wear

smartwatch and browser. The

online Web Clipper is useful,

plus other Chrome extensions.

Between your Android phone,

Chrome browser, and Android

Wear watch, Keep is as

widely available as Evernote.

The browser version is

surprisingly lacking, though.

SHARING

» specification

Designed for: Phone and tablet

Requires Android: 4.0

Price Free

Evernote Google Keep

» specification

Designed for: Phone and tablet

Requires Android: Varies

Price Free + IAPs

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