7 Best Evernote Web Clipper Alternatives in 2026

The Evernote Web Clipper was, for a decade, the reason people used Evernote at all. Clip an article, a recipe, a receipt, find it again years later. It still works. But since Bending Spoons bought Evernote in 2023 the free plan has been cut to 50 notes and one device, Personal costs around $130 a year, and your clips are still stored in Evernote’s own ENEX format, which no other app reads natively.

So “Evernote Web Clipper alternative” is really two questions: where do I clip to, and what format do my clips end up in. This guide compares 7 alternatives in 2026 on both, with an honest word on what each one does worse than Evernote.

Quick comparison

Clipper	Saves to	Format of your clips	Free plan	Best for
Notion Web Clipper	Notion	Notion blocks (export to Markdown/HTML)	Yes, generous	Teams already in Notion
Obsidian Web Clipper	A local folder	Markdown	Free, open source	Obsidian users, template fans
Minibase	A local Vault folder	Markdown	20 saves/month	Clean one-click clips that feed Claude/ChatGPT
Raindrop.io	Raindrop	Bookmark + page copy (Pro)	Yes	Bookmarks first, full-text second
Joplin Web Clipper	Joplin (local, syncs anywhere)	Markdown	Free, open source	An Evernote-shaped app, but open
OneNote Web Clipper	OneNote	OneNote pages	Yes, with Microsoft account	Office 365 households
Readwise Reader	Readwise	Reader docs, Markdown export	Trial, then $9.99/mo	Reading, highlights, newsletters

What Evernote still does well

Be fair to it first. The Evernote clipper has four modes (article, simplified article, full page, bookmark, plus screenshot), lets you pick a notebook and tags before saving, and the search over clipped text, PDFs and even handwriting is still better than most of the apps below. If you pay for Personal and don’t care about the format, it is not a bad product.

The problems are the ones you already know: the price, the 50-note free tier, the ENEX lock-in, and an app that has changed hands twice. Everything below trades some of that search polish for freedom.

1. Notion Web Clipper: for people who moved to Notion

Notion’s own extension clips the article into any page or database you choose. The conversion is decent for text and images, poor for tables and code, and it strips most formatting into Notion blocks.

Good: free, the clip lands in the workspace your team already uses, and you can clip straight into a database with properties (status, source, tags).

Less good: no offline, slow on long pages, and Notion’s Markdown export is lossy. Notion is also a cloud you don’t control, same as Evernote.

Best for: people who have already moved their notes to Notion and want the clipper to match.

2. Obsidian Web Clipper: Markdown, templates, local

Obsidian released its official clipper in 2024 and it has become the default for the Markdown crowd. It saves to your vault folder, supports per-site templates with variables, highlights, and a reader mode.

Good: files on your disk, fully customisable output, free and open source, works without Obsidian running.

Less good: the first setup is a project (templates, vault path, folder rules), the extraction is Defuddle-based and struggles on some dynamic pages, and there is no account or sync: that’s your job. We wrote a full comparison in Obsidian Web Clipper vs Readwise, Raindrop and Zotero.

Best for: Obsidian users who like to tune things.

3. Minibase: one click, clean Markdown, AI-ready

Minibase does the Evernote thing with the Obsidian outcome. One click, no mode to pick, no template to write: the page becomes a clean Markdown file (text, headings, tables, code blocks, the transcript for a YouTube video, the thread for an X post) in a local Vault folder. That folder opens in Obsidian or any editor, and connects to Claude and ChatGPT so you can search and question everything you clipped.

Good: the cleanest extraction of the group on messy pages (ads, cookie walls, infinite scroll), zero setup, Markdown you own, and the AI connection Evernote has been promising for years.

Less good: it is Chrome and Firefox only, there is no mobile clipper, and the free plan is 20 saves a month ($5.99/month for unlimited). No handwriting or PDF OCR either.

Best for: people who clipped to Evernote as a research archive and now want that archive in a format Claude or ChatGPT can read.

4. Raindrop.io: bookmarks with a copy of the page

Raindrop is a bookmark manager, but its Pro plan ($28/year) keeps a permanent copy of each saved page and makes it full-text searchable, which covers most of what people used the Evernote clipper for.

Good: beautiful, fast, apps everywhere, collections and nested folders, import from Evernote via HTML.

Less good: it stores links first; the page copy is a backup, not a document you edit. Cloud-only.

Best for: people whose “clips” were mostly links they wanted to find again.

5. Joplin Web Clipper: the open-source Evernote

Joplin is the app built explicitly for people leaving Evernote: it imports ENEX files with notebooks and tags, stores notes as Markdown, and syncs through your own Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud or Joplin Cloud. Its web clipper has the same modes as Evernote’s (simplified page, full page, selection, screenshot).

Good: the closest workflow to Evernote, end-to-end encryption, free, open source, your sync target.

Less good: the interface looks like 2015, the clipper needs the desktop app running, and mobile is functional rather than nice.

Best for: long-time Evernote users who want the same shape of app without the company.

6. OneNote Web Clipper: if you already pay Microsoft

OneNote comes with every Microsoft 365 subscription and its clipper does full page, region, article and bookmark modes. Clips go into notebooks that sync through OneDrive.

Good: free with Office, good handwriting and OCR, familiar to anyone in a corporate environment.

Less good: OneNote’s export story is worse than Evernote’s (no clean Markdown, no bulk export outside Windows), and the clipper has had long stretches without updates.

Best for: people whose life is already in Microsoft 365.

7. Readwise Reader: clip to read, keep the highlights

Reader is a read-it-later app rather than a notebook, but its extension clips articles, newsletters, PDFs and tweets, and its highlights export to Obsidian, Notion and Markdown automatically.

Good: the best reading and highlighting experience here, and automatic Markdown export of everything you mark.

Less good: $9.99 a month on the annual plan, and the full document stays in Readwise’s cloud; only highlights and notes come out.

Best for: people who clip to read and remember, not to archive.

Getting your existing Evernote clips out

Before you switch, export. Evernote still allows it (desktop app, select notebook, Export notes as ENEX), but the free plan’s 50-note limit does not stop you exporting what’s already there.

Into Joplin or Obsidian: Joplin imports ENEX directly, keeping notebooks and tags. For Obsidian, use the official Importer plugin, which converts ENEX to Markdown folders with attachments.
Into Notion: Notion’s import menu takes ENEX and Evernote accounts directly.
Into plain Markdown, any tool: the open-source evernote2md converts an ENEX file to a folder of .md files with images, which then works everywhere, Minibase’s Vault included.

Check the result on a dozen notes before deleting anything. Tables, checklists and embedded PDFs are the usual casualties.

How to choose

“Same workflow, no Evernote.” Joplin.
“I live in Notion / Microsoft 365.” Their own clipper.
“I want Markdown files and I like to configure things.” Obsidian Web Clipper.
“I want Markdown files with one click, and to ask Claude about them later.” Minibase.
“My clips are really bookmarks.” Raindrop.
“I clip to read.” Readwise Reader.

The one rule: whatever you choose, make sure the clips come out as something another app can read. Evernote taught a generation that search without an exit is a trap.

Minibase saves any page as a clean Markdown file on your own disk, in one click. Install the extension, free for 20 saves a month. See also: How to save a webpage as Markdown and Build a second brain in Markdown with Obsidian or Notion.