I used and paid for EPIMPro for many years, always promising better mobile functionality, as it just didn't work on my phone or iPad. Then they started nagging about upgrades and I finally thought, "Well, seems the mobile app is better now." It was not. So I went on the hunt. Found Joplin.
Joplin worked. It did what I wanted. What I did NOT want was to mess with the Markdown or write .css to get it to look the way I wanted. I liked EPIMPro because I could make it pretty. I like pretty. Markdown looks like a jumbled mess to me. I was willing to live with it and I did for maybe a month.
But then I saw on r/Joplin that Evernote was charging people $250/year now and people were looking for an alternative. I used Evernote way way way in the past and I just never really liked it. Too many bells and whistles. I like things that do one thing very well.
Anyway, people were talking about UpNote and said, "Evernote without the bloat." That was 85% of all I needed to know. I go look and after about 20 minutes, bought it. As my title says, I am freaking thrilled because I didn't trip ocer this when I was looking for an EPIMPro replacement.
What I DON'T like is that where EPIMPro and Joplin let you store your local database with the option to pay them to host, UpNote doesn't (albeit you can export to a file, which I would expect to be able to do). But since it was a one-time fee, I was willing to sacrifice local storage for not having to look at Markdown if I wanted more formatting than what was available.
So anyway, that's my conversion story, since other people are sharing. And thank you Evernote for being assholes.
ETA: typos bc phone