on MacOS/iOS, Bear was the best note taking app I found. If you need cross platform capability and/or want free and open source I like Joplin a lot as well.
I have also tried to find an alternative to evernote and i settled to Joplin for now.
Bear was amazing but I dropped it because there's a lot of good enough alternatives (I use Craft right now) with more features and wider support.
Bear should have been ported to Android and Windows/Linux(browser version?) years ago.
I used Evernote for a decade before switching to Apple Notes a couple years back. It took some getting used to but now it feels seamless. I'd highly recommend it if you don't need anything too fancy.
I switched to Joplin a couple of years back and don't regret the move. Was able to import all my Evernote stuff as well, which was one deciding factor.