What’s the catch? Aggressive ad load — reported by 58 users.
Analyzed automatically from 6 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 11.36.3 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 11.36.3, updated 2026-09-28.
What the analysis found
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Aggressive ad load
been using for years and over the last year or two it's just got worse and worse. ads, pop ups, always asking to upgrade, device limits being restricted. Now I have full screen video adverts which are unskippable. I am now leaving…
This use to be my favorite notes app, but since all of the ads, I'm starting to want to look for an alternative. I'm forced to complete an ad everytime I open Evernote. These forced ads are getting worse.
soooo many ads!
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
been using for years and over the last year or two it's just got worse and worse. ads, pop ups, always asking to upgrade, device limits being restricted. Now I have full screen video adverts which are unskippable. I am now leaving…
This app used to be brilliant but now the ads and popups are so intrusive. Always trying to push premium packages I am no actively looking for an alternative
can't write a note without being interrupted by an ad now. constantly prompting you to upgrade and now limits how many notes you can have. in many ways, this app is now inferior to the default notes app that came with my phone
Price keeps rising
Subscription costs increases every yr ,leaving users with no option but still a good option better than other productivity Apps
What this app sells
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.