236
Reviews explicitly about exporting, migrating or switching away — the highest migration intent measured anywhere in the study.
What it does
Imports without dropping
Attachments verified byte-for-byte, notebooks kept rather than flattened, internal links rewritten so they still resolve — and it reports honestly if any of that fails.
Gives you the files
Plain Markdown in a folder you can read without us. Leaving is a folder copy, not a support ticket, and export is on the free plan.
Commits to the price
In writing, with notice. Only credible because you can walk out whenever you like.
Why we're building it
The numbers below are about the budgeting apps people use today — not about Feedwatch. We read 6,214 one-to-three-star reviews of note and knowledge apps written by people who were already paying to work out what actually goes wrong before designing anything.
Evernote
Notion
Obsidian
Todoist
Bear
Things 3
50%
Of Evernote's App Store reviews are one to three stars. Notion 42%, Obsidian 33%.
16.3%
Of complaints are reliability — crashes, freezes, and the app simply not working.
6,214
Low-star reviews read across the category to produce these figures.
Repricing
$79, then $119, then an announced increase — applied to people who already had years of notes inside. The product didn't get worse; the terms did.
Locked out
Accounts put behind a paywall that appeared overnight, with the user's own notes on the other side of it.
Broken imports
Attachments, notebook structure and note-to-note links are the three things importers quietly drop, turning a migration into data loss.
How Carryover works
1
Import
Attachments verified byte-for-byte, notebooks kept rather than flattened, and every internal link rewritten so it still resolves. If any of that fails, the import says so instead of claiming success.
2
Own
Plain Markdown files in a folder you can read without us. Leaving is a folder copy, not a support ticket — and export is on the free plan too.
3
Trust
The price is committed to in writing, with notice. That is the entire pitch, and it is only credible because you can leave whenever you like.
What people actually say
Years of notes, a price increase, and no dignified exit. These are paying subscribers describing the moment they decided to go.
“Reached my limit with their scamming BS. Cancelled. Migrated to UpNote.”
Evernote · 1★ · 89 votes
“They're automatically switching everyone on my paid plan to a plan that's $150 more expensive a year. Automatically.”
Evernote · 2★ · 62 votes
“They have locked me out unless I pay. So now I have all my info locked.”
Evernote · 3★ · 27 votes
Carryover is built for:
Evernote refugees
People already in motion, naming where they went. This market is migrating with or without a better product.
Anyone repriced
The complaint isn't the amount, it's the ambush — plans switched automatically on existing subscribers.
Link-heavy note takers
Where the graph matters more than the text, and a broken importer destroys the actual value.
Local-first believers
People who want files on disk, not a database they rent access to.
Pricing
Not chargeable yet — the product is in development. This is what it will cost, published now so nobody is surprised later.
Free
$0
For a single account, or for trying the method before trusting it.
- 2 connected accounts
- Connection health and uptime history
- Manual and CSV import
- No second-provider failover
- No locked rules
Standard
$8 / month
Or $72 a year — two months free. Everything the product does.
- Unlimited connected accounts
- Multi-provider failover on every institution
- Full 30-day connection history per account
- Locked categorisation rules, auto-detect off
- Export everything, any time, no ceremony
Founding
$149 once
Three years of Standard included, then your renewal is locked at today's annual price for as long as you keep it.
- Everything in Standard
- Three years included from launch day
- Renewal locked at $72/year, in writing
- Direct line to us on what gets built next
Why there is no lifetime plan
Every connected bank account costs us money every month, for as long as it stays connected. A true lifetime price would eventually have to be withdrawn, throttled, or quietly degraded — which is precisely the complaint that produced this product in the first place. So the Founding plan locks a renewal price rather than pretending the running cost disappears. That promise is one we can actually keep.
What's actually built
There is a running demo at /app — synthetic accounts, no sign-up, nothing to install. Here is exactly where the line sits between what works and what doesn't.
Working in the demo
- Connection status derived from sync attempts that really ran — not a stored flag
- Automatic failover to a second provider, with the trace of both attempts
- 30-day feed uptime computed from that same history
- Category rules that rewrite past transactions and report how many changed
- Transaction list, filtering, and per-account detail
Not built yet
- Real bank connections — the demo simulates the institution
- Accounts, sign-in, and anything touching real money
- Budgets, goals and forecasting
- Mobile apps — the demo is web only
- Shared household access
Built in the open.
Carryover is in development. No card, nothing to install — the demo is open to anyone right now. Leave an email for build notes and first access, or ask for a walkthrough and we'll take you through it properly.
One email address, stored to tell you when it ships. No newsletter, no sharing.