ZoomNotes Lite is an iPad/iPhone visual note-taking app. It lets you quickly make handwritten notes and sketches on virtual paper, on PDF files, on MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint docs (via GoogleDrive), and over images. Uniquely, it also lets you zoom in and out without arbitrary limits, an invaluable feature for this type of app. It has a free fully functioning pen (although you will be able to try the pens too), and more available as in-app purchases. It has unlimited paper sizes/styles, unlimited colours and line thicknesses, and a large range of ways to share its documents making ZoomNotes the most versatile handwriting/drawing app.
ZoomNotes Desktop for Mac now also available.
ZoomNotes is much more than a replacement for your trusted paper notebook!
Compatible with any capacitive stylus pen (although fingers work well too).
Here some reviews of the app store of the full version-
The best note taking app available! *****
by MarkNance – Version 7.1.4 – Jul 6, 2016
Don’t be put off by all its features! *****
by Stevearcher – Version 7.1.3 – May 24, 2016
Most complete Note app I’ve tried *****
by ItsDartstx – Version 7.1.3 – Apr 20, 2016
Most effective note taking app *****
by John25642 – Version 7.1.3 – Jul 7, 2016
Full featured and innovative *****
by music-major – Version 7.1.3 – May 15, 2016
Hands(writing)-down, best notepad replacement out there. *****
by Jed123zz – Version 7.1.3 – Mar 23, 2016
Free features include:
-1 Pen type - Felt tip.
-Huge Zoom Range and Whiteboard page style
-Rotatable views
-Split screen mode (edit 2 documents at once)
-Digital planning with links, which can also show events and reminders from the Calendar and Reminder apps
-Write over PDF file
-Write over MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel files (via GoogleDrive)
-Calendar events/reminders :add events linked to your documents, possibly with alarms. The URL in the event links back to the document in ZoomNotes.
-Typed text- limited to a single font, fills and borders
-Regular shapes and arrows
-Symbol library
-Select, scale, rotate and shift
-Cut, copy, paste (including between documents, pages and other apps)
-Write over pdf files (markup)
-Configurable paper types
-Intuitive folder interface for documents
-Sharing as PDF files, images, videos or ZoomNotes documents (via email, iTunes, clipboard, Dropbox, Twitter and Evernote)
-In app printing
-VGA compatible for use with projectors, monitors and AirPlay
-Universal app - iPhone and iPad
-iCloud support
-Geo-located documents; documents can be optionally geo-located and viewed as pins on a map.
-Layers let you control what is visible on a page, also options for 'master layers' which show on all pages.
In app purchases features include:
-7 extra Pen types, including Italic, Gel, Nib, Pencil and Watercolour.
-Sub-pages (pages within pages within...)
-Typed text- fully configurable fonts, colours, fills and borders
-Unlimited colours and line styles
-Bookmarks with animated playback
-Insert images from camera or photo library
-Insert web pages
-Insert videos from camera or photo library
-Edit inserted images, including masking and cropping
-Record and playback sounds, including import and export of caf files
- Handwriting recognition (14 different languages).
Please note that the full version of ZoomNotes is equivalent to the Lite version with all the in-app purchases.
There are lots more details including some videos of the app in action at www.zoom-notes.com
Please remember to leave us a review. If you wish, you can send us feedback directly, we reply to every email sent to support@zoom-notes.com.
If you experience any problems or bugs in the app, please email us your device information, which iOS version you are running to support@zoom-notes.com and we will fix it asap.
Twitter - @zoomnotes
V good writing/drawing app, but better before recent update
MV&ML
I really like this app for writing and drawing. I used it during the pandemic for writing lecture notes. It is pretty easy to use and versatile. I love it for annotating files. However 2 improvements could be made....1. The most recent update has put the writing tool bar on the left side of my iPad. I checked the setting, but it was set correctly for the right side. So this appears to be a glitch caused by the most recent update. I’m right handed, so this is very irritating. 2. I find that if a file is in infinite whiteboard mode, then converting it to finite mode corrupts the file so that all content disappears. If this cannot be fixed, then it would be helpful to have a warning to remind the user to make a backup of the file before attempting the conversion. Or have the app create a backup of the file before the conversion is attempted. If these improvements were done, I would rate the app 5 stars.
Takes time to learn but does it all!
Mary1234567
I tried OneNote, EverNote, Google Keep but none really did the journaling planner activities I wanted to do that reminded me of my paper planner I used in high school & college. Saw all these influencers using GoodNotes and thought wow, pretty digital planners that looked like paper planners. And I tried GoodNotes for a year and it just didn’t do the digital pieces I really wanted to combine work and personal life together digitally. Then I read about ZoomNotes. I downloaded it middle of last year…Played with the ready to build templates included, worked great technically but I missed the pretty look. So I took the time to learn how to do the calendar integrations and work with layers on a purchased pretty template and now…I have the perfect digital planner on my iPad that automatically connects to my Google Calendar and Apple calendar so it shows me my reminders and my appointments in one spot, lets me cross off To Do list items, lets me add my moods and water tracking, ideas, thoughts, meal planning all in one spot digitally that syncs to my iPhone for looking at while on the go. The functionality of this app is amazing, the community is supportive, the possibilities are endless if you want to take a little effort to learn this system. Otherwise, you will just need to accept less features and use another app. Now that my digital planner is up and running, I’m looking at ways to set up a vision board where my husband and I can build our future dream home.
Quite a lot of useful features!
E. Fitzherbert
I love the range of features offered in this app! One of my favorite features is the ability to scribble out things to erase them and the ability to select something just by drawing a circle around it. I also enjoy the two-finger double-tap to undo, though I’d prefer if it was a single two-finger rap. I think if the selection ability (with the pen tool) was a smidge faster in recognizing the selection and the rendering of pages had a bit better optimization that this app would be even better!I would love to see a continuous-scrolling option. There should be know reason that this isn't doable, aside from in documents containing white board-style pages (infinite canvas). Even with pages of different size this should work (Goodnotes has done it). For an app that has SO MANY obscure features, I am a little disappointed that this simple option isn't one of them.
I like it so far.
florav
I like it so far, it has a lot of features, but I still like the good notes 5 better, that's why I gave it a 3 star; I'll update this if they fix the bug and correct mistake. I download this xoom lite at first just to check the apps, but find out you have to buy a lot of stuff to fully use and be able to do what the apps can do. I went ahead and pay $7.99 for all the features thinking it would give a link or update to get the full version of XOOM NOTE, NOPE!!!! So, they get 3 star for shame on you for taking my money and not give me the full version of the apps. The full version of the apps is $7.99 so, I thought I'll get the full version. Anyways, I tried to contact them, click a few links to get to the help, section of their website, and file a complaint or at least let them know what is up. Did I get a reply, NOPE!!! They just don't seem to have a customer service down, I guess. That's all I can say about this apps. I'll be surprise if they even read this review.
Shape tool improvements including support for parallelograms and trapezoids and 4 new 'triangle styles’
Various text drawing improvements including 'Shadow' and ‘Outline’ option to Text double draw mode
Added a 'Transparency' option to Change colour function (in image edit window)
New import option for images - 'Resize images' (In the main app settings, Document editing section.
Changed the image edit window to show transparency more clearly with a checkerboard background
Reduced the flicker effect when you have used the pen tool then scroll or zoom
Improvements to pressure sensitive ink capture and drawing (draft and felt tip)
Various other improvements and optimisations
If you are enjoying using ZoomNotes please leave a review - thanks.
Version 9.1.21
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Information
Seller
Deliverance Software Ltd
Size
156.1 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
