Pricing
Two plans. No tiers to decode.
Free is a real plan, not a trial: ten times Evernote’s 50 notes, on three devices instead of one. Paid is one price for everything — unlimited notes and devices, which at Evernote costs $249.99 a year, about 5× what Mydeas charges. The limits below are the limits the server enforces — nothing rounded up for the brochure.
Free
$0no card, no trial clock
Ten times Evernote’s 50 notes, on three devices instead of one.
- Up to 500 notes (notes in the Trash don’t count)
- Up to 3 devices — signing in on a 4th signs out the oldest
- 100 MB of storage
- 1 AI action a day, and 20 images scanned for text a day — if you turn those on
- Every feature: collaboration, sharing, history, OCR search, import, API — with the two daily caps above
Everything unlocked
Paid
$6per month, or $50 a year
One plan. Everything unlocked. Half of Evernote’s cheapest.
- Unlimited notes
- Unlimited devices
- 10 GB of storage
- 50 AI actions a day, and 200 images scanned for text a day
- Cancel any time from your account settings
Fine print
The details, up front.
- Storage counts both what you write (note content) and what you attach (images, audio, video, PDFs).
- The free plan allows 3 signed-in devices at a time. Signing in on a 4th signs out the oldest one; nothing is deleted.
- Sharing a note with someone asks for their email address, and only reaches an address that has been confirmed by whoever owns it — so a note can’t be shared to an address its owner doesn’t control.
- Per-file attachment limits on both plans: 10 MB for images and PDFs, 25 MB for audio, 100 MB for video.
- Each note’s content is capped at 1 MB — tens of thousands of words of formatted text. Attachments are the path for large files, not pasting them inline.
- AI actions reset daily at midnight UTC. The paid cap is there to keep AI costs sustainable, not to sell you more.
- Reading the text inside images you attach is its own opt-in switch, off by default, and is capped at 20 images a day on Free and 200 a day on Paid — also resetting at midnight UTC. Past the cap the image still uploads and still displays; only the text-in-image step is skipped, and nothing is sent to AWS Textract while the switch is off.
- Paid is billed through Stripe. Manage or cancel from your account settings; the checkout lives inside the app once you’re signed in.
Commitments
Written down before there was a customer to lose.
These are the reasons Mydeas exists. They’re meant to be a reason to say no to a growth tactic later, not copy.
Export is never paywalled
Any note as Markdown or HTML, or your whole account as one .zip with every note, your attachments, and a manifest — on either plan, any time, no request form.
No silent plan or limit changes
Any change to free-plan caps, pricing, or what’s included is announced in advance. Nothing is applied retroactively.
Nothing leaves your notes without a visible switch
Exactly two features send note content to a third party, and each has its own toggle, off by default: AI actions (Anthropic) and reading the text inside images you attach (AWS Textract). Each switch names its vendor and says exactly what’s sent.
One plan, not a ladder
There’s no Starter / Advanced / Enterprise to climb. Paid raises limits; it doesn’t unlock features the free plan is missing.
You can see — and end — every signed-in session
Your account settings list every session signed in to Mydeas and let you end any of them, from any device, taking effect immediately. The list shows when each session was last used and nothing else — no device names, no browser fingerprints, no locations, because we’d have to collect all of that to show it to you.
Sync conflicts are never hidden
Collaborative editing merges changes live rather than quietly filing a “conflicting copy” somewhere you’ll find later.
Questions
Straight answers.
Is 500 notes free actually usable?
It’s ten times Evernote’s 50, on three devices instead of one, and with unlimited tags where Evernote’s free plan stops at 20. Every feature is included — collaboration, sharing, history, OCR search, import, and the API. The two that cost us money per use have a daily cap on Free rather than a paywall: 1 AI action a day, and 20 images scanned for their text a day. Notes you’ve moved to the Trash don’t count toward the 500.
What happens when I hit a free-plan limit?
You can’t create new notes (or upload new attachments) until you delete some or upgrade. Nothing you already have is locked, hidden, or deleted. The device limit works differently: signing in on a fourth device signs out the oldest one, so you’re never locked out.
Will the price or limits change like Evernote’s did?
One plan, and any change to limits or price is announced in advance and never applied retroactively. That’s written down as a standing commitment, not a launch promise.
Can I import from Evernote?
Yes — export from Evernote as .enex and import it from Import in the account menu (your avatar, top of the sidebar). Notebooks and tags come along. Notion’s “Markdown & CSV” .zip export imports the same way, and so does a .zip of any folder of Markdown files — which covers Apple Notes (it exports Markdown), an Obsidian vault, a Joplin export, or notes you keep in plain .md yourself. Folders become notebooks.
Do AI features read my notes?
Not unless you turn them on. AI actions are off for every new account. When you enable them and run an action, the text of that one note is sent to Anthropic’s API for that action and the result comes back. Nothing is sent otherwise. Reading the text inside images you attach is a separate switch, also off by default, and sends the image to AWS Textract instead — two switches, two vendors, both in Settings → AI and scanned text. Accounts created before 24 September 2026 were left with image text on, because their scans were already searchable; it can be switched off there.
Is it end-to-end encrypted?
No. Your notes are encrypted in transit and stored on our servers so search, OCR, sharing, and optional AI can work. If you need end-to-end encryption, Notesnook and Anytype do that well.
Does it work offline?
On the phone, yes: the iPhone and Android apps cache your notes on the device, let you read, search and edit them with no connection, and merge the edits when you’re back online. On the web it’s narrower, and we’d rather say so — a note you already have open keeps accepting edits if the connection drops and merges them on reconnect, but the web app itself needs a connection to load, so opening it offline gets you a browser error page. Whichever client you were on, the merge happens the same way whether you were offline for a second or a day.
Can I get my notes back out?
Yes, on either plan and without asking. Any note exports as Markdown or HTML, and your whole account exports as one .zip with every note in both formats, your attachments, and a manifest of notebooks and tags. Export is never paywalled.
Is there a mobile app?
Yes — Mydeas is on the App Store and Google Play. mydeasapp.com/get sends your phone to the right one. The web app also works on a phone and installs to the home screen if you would rather not install anything.
Is there a desktop app or a browser clipper?
Not yet. Mydeas runs in any browser and installs like an app. A Chrome clipper and native Mac and Windows apps are on the way.
Is there an API?
Yes, for every account. Create an API key from the account menu, then use the REST API for notes, notebooks, and tags, or register a webhook to be notified when something is shared with you or commented on. There is an MCP server for Claude, Claude Code and Cursor, but we won’t pretend it’s finished: it runs on your own machine over stdio against that same API key, and it isn’t published to npm yet, so today you build it from the repo.
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