Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF

Name: Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF
Rating: 4.7 (457091 reviews)
Author: Goodnotes Limited

Note taking, Planner & Journal

Free · In‑App Purchases

457K Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

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Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

#119
Productivity
Developer

Goodnotes Limited
Language

EN
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Size

833.8
MB

Goodnotes 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: 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 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 turns them into clear meeting minutes. After the meeting, merge transcripts with your own handwritten or typed 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, 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 handwritten and typed notes to email, print, or share them anywhere as PDFs. ■ Send a link to your notebooks to work on the same notes. ■ 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 your iPhone or iPad exact moment you write: perfect for lectures, seminars, and presentations. ■ Take handwritten notes that stay fully searchable: instantly find any word across every class notebook, even mid-lecture. ■ 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 turn messy handwritten or typed student notes into polished, structured study material. For planners and journalers: Let your creativity flow ■ Plan your week, month, or year on your iPhone/ iPad with built-in and importable planner templates, fully customizable to match how you plan. ■ Keep a daily journal alongside your planner. Combine handwriting, typed reflections, photos, and stickers on the same page. ■ Use Goodnotes AI to summarize a week's worth of journal entries on your iPhone or iPad into key themes and takeaways. ■ Customize the size and color of your paper templates to create the planner or journal you want. ■ Add, create, or import stickers, stamps, washi tapes, images, and more on your iPad. 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, planners, and journals 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 handwritten and typed 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 handwriting 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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Ratings & Reviews

4.7

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457K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Goodnotes is a digital notepad and PDF markup tool. And it’s very good at both. As a notepad, Goodnotes covers all the bases. Create notes with your keyboard or handwrite them with Apple Pencil. The app transforms your hand-drawn shapes into geometrically perfect ones. It’s also capable of recognizing your handwriting (even when you can’t) and converting it to text.

Editors’ Choice

Goodnotes is a digital notepad and PDF markup tool. And it’s very good at both. As a notepad, Goodnotes covers all the bases. Create notes with your keyboard or handwrite them with Apple Pencil. The app transforms your hand-drawn shapes into geometrically perfect ones. It’s also capable of recognizing your handwriting (even when you can’t) and converting it to text.
A bit of kinks here and there but overall a good study app!
12/05/2024
Darrell John Cayaban
I love this app, it helps me to study! But, there are some things i'd like to see improved on it. I found that while working on some notes i'd get to the bottom of the page and when it would tell me to make a new page I would add one. However, there would be times when I'd add a new page in between already made notes (if by accident or just because i'd think i'd need the extra page), that when i'd delete the page (even if im currently selected on it), it would instead delete the ones with the already completed page of notes and I can't recover the page anymore, so i'd have to retype everything. There would also be times when the computer would add in already typed out words when it's trying to actively predict your word (e.g. I would type the word "paragraph" and while i'm typing out "paragr-" it would type out "paragrparagraph" or double the word "paragraph paragraph." I also noticed on the flashcards that you can only choose between text,picture, or written/drawing. sometimes my professor would have the pictures that are too big to capture with both the picture and questions in them. When trying to put pictures into the study cards I was disappointed knowing I can't really add in a text with the pictures that doesn't have questions such as putting "Find the amygdala in the picture". Aside from these hiccups that needs to be improved on, I think this app is a very good app.
A bit of kinks here and there but overall a good study app!
12/05/2024
Darrell John Cayaban

I love this app, it helps me to study! But, there are some things i'd like to see improved on it. I found that while working on some notes i'd get to the bottom of the page and when it would tell me to make a new page I would add one. However, there would be times when I'd add a new page in between already made notes (if by accident or just because i'd think i'd need the extra page), that when i'd delete the page (even if im currently selected on it), it would instead delete the ones with the already completed page of notes and I can't recover the page anymore, so i'd have to retype everything. There would also be times when the computer would add in already typed out words when it's trying to actively predict your word (e.g. I would type the word "paragraph" and while i'm typing out "paragr-" it would type out "paragrparagraph" or double the word "paragraph paragraph." I also noticed on the flashcards that you can only choose between text,picture, or written/drawing. sometimes my professor would have the pictures that are too big to capture with both the picture and questions in them. When trying to put pictures into the study cards I was disappointed knowing I can't really add in a text with the pictures that doesn't have questions such as putting "Find the amygdala in the picture". Aside from these hiccups that needs to be improved on, I think this app is a very good app.
Life-changing for students
02/08/2024
HannahBanana1616
I first discovered GoodNotes (4...?) while starting my undergraduate degree (since we received iPads)-- I can honestly say it has changed my life. Being able to take handwritten digital notes saved me so much time and frustration. I know many fellow students preferred typing annotations to pdf's on their computer, but I wanted to be able to maintain the handwritten mental connection to information that has been proven to be more effective-- while not having to carry around 800 colored pens/ highlighters/ notebooks in order to create notes or having to take the time to redo them all later with these supplies. I am now in medical/ graduate school and it is still the only notetaking app I will use. Our school again provided iPads for students with Notability-- it seems that students frequently have issues with their apps crashing, functionality suddenly changing for the worse, etc. I never have these problems! While I personally enjoy the infinite benefits and organization of GoodNotes (combination of ADHD and the massive amount of information I need to organize in a short time for school), I have also personally gotten many compliments on both new features and how my notes look in real/ a short amount of time with multiple people asking what app I use because they are considering switching. SO worth the cost. Cannot praise this enough. While there are always some bugs and updates that could be made, support has a great forum for tracking requests that you can vote on! <3
Life-changing for students
02/08/2024
HannahBanana1616

I first discovered GoodNotes (4...?) while starting my undergraduate degree (since we received iPads)-- I can honestly say it has changed my life. Being able to take handwritten digital notes saved me so much time and frustration. I know many fellow students preferred typing annotations to pdf's on their computer, but I wanted to be able to maintain the handwritten mental connection to information that has been proven to be more effective-- while not having to carry around 800 colored pens/ highlighters/ notebooks in order to create notes or having to take the time to redo them all later with these supplies. I am now in medical/ graduate school and it is still the only notetaking app I will use. Our school again provided iPads for students with Notability-- it seems that students frequently have issues with their apps crashing, functionality suddenly changing for the worse, etc. I never have these problems! While I personally enjoy the infinite benefits and organization of GoodNotes (combination of ADHD and the massive amount of information I need to organize in a short time for school), I have also personally gotten many compliments on both new features and how my notes look in real/ a short amount of time with multiple people asking what app I use because they are considering switching. SO worth the cost. Cannot praise this enough. While there are always some bugs and updates that could be made, support has a great forum for tracking requests that you can vote on! <3
This is an excellent app! I only have one pet peeve…
04/22/2022
Jewelsummoner
Honestly, I really love using this app! It is very well thought out and I can use it for many different kinds of workflows. Great app if you are considering starting/ transitioning to digital note-taking/ journaling. I enjoy taking handwritten notes in it with my apple pencil and being able to easily import pdfs that I can mark up is great. I enjoy the elements feature, which allows me to add custom sticker that I use all the time as post-its or stickers for journaling. Plus there are som many other excellent features, such as being able to search in your hand written notes and the ability to back-up your notebooks, to name a few.I only have one pet peeve when it comes to this app. It does have a typing feature, but it’s a bit clunky and not very intuitive. When I am doing journaling, it is very nice to put text exactly where I want it, so I don’t want the feature to go away. But having to use the text boxes for more type-intensive tasks can be a bit annoying at times. I would be nice if there was a feature you could enable within the notebook where if you could type in a notebook like a normal word document. My work around is typing something ahead of time in a word document and then importing it into the app, but honestly, it would be nice if I didn’t have to do that (maybe I am being too picky)… Otherwise, this a really excellent, solid app that I recommend highly to folks for note-taking.
This is an excellent app! I only have one pet peeve…
04/22/2022
Jewelsummoner

Honestly, I really love using this app! It is very well thought out and I can use it for many different kinds of workflows. Great app if you are considering starting/ transitioning to digital note-taking/ journaling. I enjoy taking handwritten notes in it with my apple pencil and being able to easily import pdfs that I can mark up is great. I enjoy the elements feature, which allows me to add custom sticker that I use all the time as post-its or stickers for journaling. Plus there are som many other excellent features, such as being able to search in your hand written notes and the ability to back-up your notebooks, to name a few.I only have one pet peeve when it comes to this app. It does have a typing feature, but it’s a bit clunky and not very intuitive. When I am doing journaling, it is very nice to put text exactly where I want it, so I don’t want the feature to go away. But having to use the text boxes for more type-intensive tasks can be a bit annoying at times. I would be nice if there was a feature you could enable within the notebook where if you could type in a notebook like a normal word document. My work around is typing something ahead of time in a word document and then importing it into the app, but honestly, it would be nice if I didn’t have to do that (maybe I am being too picky)… Otherwise, this a really excellent, solid app that I recommend highly to folks for note-taking.

* Fixed an issue where Study Set flashcards could go blank or lose handwriting after being moved between sets. * Fixed several sync issues, including edits not showing up on your other devices while a document stays open, and sync stopping after you change your device's date or time. * Fixed an issue where Sync Now did not sync all of your iCloud content. * Several improvements on locked documents: you will be asked to unlock before converting to a whiteboard, and shortcuts such as rename, export and print are blocked until unlocked. * Fixed an issue where text highlight, font and font size options in the object menu sometimes did not respond. * Fixed a crash when using the text selection or spellcheck menu on iPad. * Fixed an issue where shape opacity reset after reopening the color settings. * Fixed an issue where adding a custom color to a notebook template did not work. * Fixed an issue where Mirror Presenter mode cut off the bottom of the page on an external display. * Fixed an issue where text boxes scrolled unexpectedly while typing. * Fixed an issue where sharing a document while offline showed two overlapping error messages. * Fixed an issue where starting an audio recording close to the recording limit created an empty clip. * Fixed several display issues in the library, read-only mode and settings. * General bug fixes and stability improvements. * Education: Teachers can jump straight from an answer zone to View by Question * Education: Experience improvements on Sample Lesson

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Seller: Goodnotes Limited
Size: 833.8 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.6 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.

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Requires macOS 15.6 or later.

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Languages: English and 14 more

English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
Age Rating: 4+

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