Serpaix vs Evernote

Evernote put your notes in its cloud. Serpaix keeps them on your machine.

Evernote defined modern note-taking: rich notes, a best-in-class web clipper, OCR search over images and PDFs, tasks and spaces — all synchronised through Evernote's cloud, with a heavily capped free tier and a paid subscription for real use. Serpaix is local-first: everything you capture lives in an encrypted SQLite database on your Windows PC, connects itself into a knowledge graph, and stays readable by AI agents over MCP — with no subscription and no vendor-held copy.

In short: Serpaix and Evernote are both tools for organising what you know, but they optimise for different things. Serpaix is a local-first personal AI operating system — capture, knowledge graph, search and AI chat run on your own Windows PC, with cloud sync, mobile apps and enterprise SSO on the roadmap. Choose Serpaix if: you want your notes on your own device, automatically linked into a knowledge graph, searchable with hybrid search and usable by AI agents — for free. Choose Evernote if: you need polished cross-platform note-taking with a mature web clipper and mobile apps today, and you are comfortable with cloud storage and a subscription.