- Category: Productivity
- First released: January 15, 2019
- Versions: 34 archived
- Installable: 1 of 34
- Availability: Still on the App Store ↗
- Seller: Time Base Technology Limited
- com.goodnotesapp.x
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
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Report an issueGoodnotes has always been the place to capture your ideas — from quick notes to big plans. Now, it goes further. With powerful AI and new ways to capture information, Goodnotes helps you connect the dots, unlock insights, and turn ideas into action.
*Existing Goodnotes 5 users can continue to use Goodnotes 5 indefinitely or upgrade to the new Goodnotes. Either way, your notes are safe!*
For professionals: Increase productivity at work ■ Whiteboard + Goodnotes AI: One of our most requested features — brainstorm, mind-map, and diagram freely on an infinite canvas that grows with your ideas. Enhanced diagramming tools and real-time collaboration make it easy for teams to workshop, ideate, and problem-solve together, while Goodnotes AI helps you capture and organize key takeaways instantly. ■ Goodnotes AI Audio & Meetings: Stay fully present in every conversation while Goodnotes does the work for you. AI-powered transcription and live summarization automatically capture discussions and structure them into clear meeting minutes. After the meeting, merge transcripts with your own notes to create polished, shareable documents in seconds. ■ Text Documents + AI: Create documents that think with you. Enjoy a superior typing experience with rich inline blocks, build on ideas with external insights, and collaborate seamlessly with teammates. With AI-powered summarization, automated note generation, and transcript support, you can turn rough notes and meetings into finished content faster than ever. ■ Present your notes, slides, and content directly from Goodnotes when you connect your device via AirPlay or HDMI to an external screen. ■ Use Laser Pointer to guide your audience’s attention during your presentation. ■ Export your notes to email, print, or share them anywhere as PDFs. ■ Send a link to your notebooks to work on the same notes directly — perfect for asynchronous work or collaborative brainstorming. ■ Import documents by emailing them to your custom Goodnotes email.
For students: Ace your exams with ease ■ Record audio notes that are magically synced to the moment you write — perfect for lectures or presentations. ■ Search and instantly find any of your notes from any class. ■ Study and practice straight from your notes with Study Sets — flashcards built on active recall and spaced repetition. ■ Use AI to summarize, shorten, change the tone of your words, and perfect your typed text.
For planners: Let your creativity flow ■ Customize the size and color of your paper templates to create the template you want. ■ Add, create, or import stickers, stamps, washi tapes, images, and more
Digital notebooks: unlimited notebooks for the price of a single physical one. ■ Combine handwriting and typed text on one page, alongside images, stickers, diagrams, and doodles. ■ Create digital notebooks with customizable paper templates, including Blank Paper, Ruled Paper, Cornell Paper, Checklists, Planners, and more. ■ Navigate long documents with ease. PDF tables of contents are automatically imported; or create custom outlines yourself. ■ Back up all your notes to Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, and use iCloud to sync across iPad, iPhone, and Mac — so your notes are always safe. ■ Edit your writing by resizing it, changing the text color, or moving it to another spot on the page. Privacy Policy: https://www.goodnotes.com/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://www.goodnotes.com/terms-and-conditions
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Archived Reviews
8 of 15My entire life is organized in this app. Journal, medical records, vet records, shopping lists, creative writing, self-learning, flow charts, PDFs I need to edit, anything you can think of. I used to use OneNote for my work life. But I like the user interface here more. It’s simplified. It does all the things I want it to flawlessly. It’s wonderful to have any document, thought , etc in ONE APP instead of opening files individually, quick notes somewhere else…You don’t even realize how aggravating that was to toggle between so many apps until you don’t need to do it anymore…I can’t think of a single negative. Hands down the best app I have.
Changed Rules After Purchase. Because I would not pay again to upgrade they reduced the features and limited imports to pressure me. I switched to another app.
I already paid for this app years ago and it was amazing. But now it locked me out of ALL features stating I need to start paying subscription. It was a great app but now it is the literal worst due to being a completely unusable app when I’ve already paid money to download it to begin with. This app is going straight in my virtual trash.
Definitely recommend this app I love using it for planning school project dates and when they are due also very smooth with Apple Pencil and ipad
Please change the angle of flat edge in tip flatness. It’s exactly the opposite to a fountain pen settings in apples markup. In Apple Markup, the flat-tipped pen mimics a real fountain pen, where the angle leads to horizontal thinness and vertical thickness. In Goodnotes, it seems pen engine uses a different angle orientation, making strokes thicker on horizontal movement, it looks so bad, please change it.
This app used to be great, I loved it for keeping a recipe book and a budget planner as well as other random things. I paid several years ago the $10 or whatever it was to have full access to everything and now I’m locked out of the unlimited notebooks simply because they want to scam me into paying the monthly subscription? No thank you. I feel like those of us who previously purchased should be able to restore our purchase and gain access without needing to pay more. We’ve already given the company money and yet they’re trying to squeeze more out of already existing customers. It’s a shame.
I really like to make notes fun and this is perfect but if you want to draw for any reason it sometimes deletes stuff randomly
The best of all apps like Good Notes. I use it daily!
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.