No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is evernote.com legit or a scam?
Official Evernote note-taking site with clean security scan on a 26-year-old domain but multiple user billing complaints.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content, title, and description match the well-known Evernote productivity app exactly. The domain is over 26 years old and belongs to Evernote Corporation, a registered US company founded in 2004. All technical checks including antivirus engines, browser blocklists, and IP reputation returned clean. Our research found 79 complaints, mostly about billing practices, along with two positive professional reviews. No signs of phishing, malware, or impersonation were detected.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for evernote.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain evernote.com registered ~26 years ago (9628 days).
- Evernote Corporation is a real US company (Redwood City, CA) founded 2004, acquired 2022 by Bending Spoons.
- BBB lists 79 complaints in last 3 years, including billing disputes.
- Multiple user forum posts allege unauthorized billing/charges after cancellation.
- Positive professional reviews from PCMag (4/5) and Trustpilot highlight note-taking features and cross-device sync.
- Platform has been abused by phishers for hosting malicious shared notes (Trend Micro 2020 report).
- Official help pages address phishing and email authenticity verification.
- Evernote User Forumopen
"It is abundantly clear, with even a brief google search, that Evernote is under control of shady handlers and that there are questionable billing practices taking place."
- BBBopen
"I was charged $77.99 for a one year plan when I was on a free plan which I had been on for about 6 years. ... This company appears to be a total fraud."
- PCMagopen
"Evernote is a powerful note-taking app with advanced AI features, best-in-class tools for jotting down your thoughts, and an exceptionally clear design."
- Trustpilotopen
"Many customers find the application to be a vital tool for organizing information, with some highlighting its effectiveness for tasks like note-taking, project management, and data storage across multiple devices."
Evernote Corporation, privately owned, headquartered in Redwood City, California; founded 2004/2007 by Stepan Pachikov; acquired by Bending Spoons in 2022.
Our research found two scam-related mentions on user forums and BBB citing billing disputes and unauthorized charges. Two positive reviews on PCMag and independent review aggregator praise the note-taking features and design. Evernote Corporation is confirmed as a real, active US company headquartered in California and acquired in 2022. 79 total complaints were noted, primarily around subscription billing rather than malware or phishing.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://evernote.com/
- 2200https://evernote.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on evernote.com and not a lookalike like e-vernote.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on evernote.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- evernote.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 77/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. evernote.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR3, expiring in 55 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- evernote.com is 26.4 years old, registered on 1/19/2000 through 1API GmbH. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report evernote.com as clean.
- No. evernote.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- evernote.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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