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Wunderlist is sadly no longer around as a list-making and management tool as Microsoft discontinued the product earlier in 2020.
However, in its heyday, Wunderlist was an extremely popular note-taking app that competed quite well against others like Evernote.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably looking for a replacement for Wunderlist and wondering if Evernote can fit the bill.
In this review, we’ll walk through Wunderlist’s claims to fame and break down whether Evernote outshines or underperforms in comparison
Why was Wunderlist popular?
Wunderlist was a task management app that was best known for its powerful list-making capabilities. Originally launched in 2011, it was purchased by Microsoft in 2015, and was discontinued on May 6, 2020.
At its peak, Wunderlist had over 13 million users worldwide that used the app to manage a host of personal and business tasks.
With a simple and easy-to-use interface, Wunderlist was in a strong position as an Evernote alternative for those looking for task management capabilities.
Wunderlist offered simple but effective task collaboration. And with support for desktop and mobile, it was a task list app that could be used anywhere.
The simple to use checklist app had many features that helped it stand out from other to-do list apps in the industry.
Wunderlist was focused on a few primary features:
- Simple task management and assignment
- Colorful drag and drop interface
- Recurring tasks with notifications
What is Evernote?
Evernote is primarily a note-taking app. It does offer task management features as well as collaboration capabilities, but Evernote is probably most powerful as a personal productivity app.
Originally launched in 2000 as a desktop based application for Windows PCs, it moved to the web in 2008.
By 2011, Evernote had close to 11 million users, but as time progressed, the user base grew exponentially and in 2019, Evernote claimed 225 million users around the world.
As a note-taking app, Evernote definitely surpassed Wunderlist with some very unique features:
- Organizing notes into notebooks
- Digitally storing images and audio
- Saving web clippings with desktop browser extensions
What are the differences between Wunderlist and Evernote?
TL;DR — Wunderlist was more suited for task management and business environments, while Evernote is a better note-taking app with more powerful organizational capabilities for personal to-do lists.
Let’s look at some key criteria that you should consider if you’re looking at Evernote as a Wunderlist replacement.
- Overall features and Improvements: Evernote continues to be developed and worked on with new improvements being released regularly. It has some impressive note-taking features that Wunderlist lacked, but lacks team task management functionality.
- Task Management: with regards to task management, Wunderlist was quite a bit easier to use than Evernote. While Evernote does have checklists, the capabilities that were available to Wunderlist users were far and away superior.
- Note Taking: when it comes to a note taking app, the crown goes to Evernote. Letting users create unique notebooks along with the tight integration offered between desktop and smartphone, put Evernote in the lead.
- Collaboration: collaboration is a bit of a toss up depending on what you’re planning on collaborating on. With respect to notes, Evernote offers some simple sharing capabilities and with its integrated synchronization can help ensure everyone stays on the same page. Wunderlist was however much more powerful from the point of view of sharing entire lists between users.
- Look and feel: Another toss up depending on whether you prefer a minimalist look and feel or something that is more colorful and dynamic. Evernote offers a fairly simple and dare I say it – boring – user interface. Wunderlist on the other hand was the exact opposite. It offered a vibrant and colorful experience that made task management fun.
Can Evernote completely replace Wunderlist?
As you’ve seen from our list of criteria above, there are some areas where Evernote can definitely beat out Wunderlist in terms of usability. There are however, many other areas where Evernote is simply not up to snuff in the same way.
If you’re looking for more than a simple note-taking app, you’ll need to keep looking.
If only there was an intuitive, easy-to-use, fully customizable, beautiful task management platform that could not only meet but exceed the expectations set by Wunderlist.
Oh wait, there is.
We’d like to introduce ourselves: monday.com — the project management platform that manages anything.
Why monday.com?
With monday.com you can have your cake and eat it too!
monday.com offers a colorful user interface that is the perfect place for all of your processes. Unlike Wunderlist, monday.com lets you expand beyond simple task management into proper project management so you can make those to-do lists a lot more useful.
You don’t have to give up the note-taking functionality of Evernote either.
The meeting notes template built into monday.com is just 1 of the many ways in which notes can be created, compiled and organized.
As a true Work OS, monday.com can tackle all of your Workflow management, note taking, and collaboration needs. It’s powerful enough to grow with you beyond these areas as well.
Whether you’re looking for resource management, time tracking, customer relationship management, or something else, we can help.
And you get all of that power without sacrificing the colorful experience you probably loved about Wunderlist. Not to sound conceited, but we think you might even find monday.com more attractive. No boring outdated interfaces here.
If you’re looking for a single platform that can help you run your business in a way that works for you, then neither the defunct Wunderlist or Evernote may be the right choice. Instead, consider monday.com.Final thoughts
When considering the right platform for you, it is important to understand what your objectives are and how your business works.
The app you select needs to help you manage your issues on the go with support for iOS and android apps. It should also be able to grow with your business so you’re not back here searching for yet another alternative anytime soon.
With a host of Integrations and exceptional collaboration capabilities, monday.com is by far the best option for your business. You can customize monday.com so that it works in a way that makes sense for you and your company.
Check out the team task management template for monday.com to see how it can help you do what you need to get done.
