
Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF 4+
Note taking & whiteboard app
Goodnotes Limited
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Goodnotes has always been the place to capture your ideas — from quick notes to big plans. Now, it goes even further.
With powerful AI and flexible tools built for your Mac workflow, Goodnotes helps you connect the dots, unlock insights, and turn ideas into action.
*Goodnotes 5 users can continue using it indefinitely or upgrade to the new Goodnotes. Either way, your notes are safe and fully accessible on Mac.*
For professionals: Supercharge your productivity on Mac
■ Text Documents + AI: Create intelligent documents that think with you. On Mac, enjoy a superior typing experience with inline blocks and flexible layouts that make the most of your screen. AI-powered summarization, automated note generation, and transcription support help turn rough notes and meetings into polished and shareable content.
■ Whiteboard + Goodnotes AI: One of our most requested features is here. Brainstorm, diagram, and mind-map freely on a spacious, infinite canvas that grows with your thinking. Perfect for larger screens and multitasking on Mac. Enhanced diagramming tools and real-time collaboration let teams workshop and problem-solve together, while Goodnotes AI helps capture and organize ideas instantly.
■ AI Audio & Meetings: Stay focused in your meetings while Goodnotes on Mac works behind the scenes. AI-powered transcription and summarization tools record your conversations and structure them into clear meeting notes, ideal for remote work and hybrid teams. Merge transcripts with your own notes to create polished, shareable documents in seconds.
■ Present directly from your Mac via AirPlay or HDMI to an external screen — no need for third-party tools.
■ Use Laser Pointer to guide your audience during virtual or in-person presentations.
■ Export your notes easily via email, print, or as PDFs.
■ Share notebooks via link for collaborative editing — perfect for async work or team brainstorming.
■ Import documents quickly by emailing them to your Goodnotes address — available on all devices, including Mac.
For students: Study smarter, wherever you are
■ Record audio notes that sync with your writing, perfect for lectures.
■ Instantly search across all your notes with Mac’s powerful tools.
■ Study Sets turn your notes into flashcards using active recall and spaced repetition.
■ Use AI to summarize, rewrite, or edit your notes with tone suggestions and corrections.
For planners & creators: Organize with freedom
■ Customize paper size, templates, and colors to match your workflow.
■ Add or design stickers, stamps, washi tapes, images, and more to make your workspace yours.
Digital notebooks on Mac: All-in-one workspace
■ Combine handwriting and typing on a single page, ideal for hybrid note-taking.
■ Choose from customizable templates like Blank Paper, Ruled Paper, Cornell, Checklists, Planners, and more.
■ Navigate long documents easily with outlines or imported PDF tables of contents.
■ Sync seamlessly across Mac, iPad, and iPhone with iCloud.
■ Back up everything to Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive.
■ Edit handwriting with your mouse or trackpad — resize, recolor, or reposition effortlessly.
Privacy Policy: https://www.goodnotes.com/privacy-policy
Terms and Conditions: https://www.goodnotes.com/terms-and-conditions
What’s New
Version 7.0.1
Meet the new generation of Goodnotes.
- New document types: Whiteboard and Text Doc
- Goodnotes AI: a powerful collaborator to brainstorm, create, and polish any content on any canvas.
- AI for Math: solve handwritten and text equations
- AI for Meetings: live summaries and post‑meeting notes with key points, decisions, actions
- Updated Toolbar: faster, more intuitive note‑taking
- Updated Shapes: draw connections, attach content, add text, and start faster with new shape presets.
- Real‑time collaboration: work with others’ contributions live in shared docs and see instant updates
– Integration with Google Calendar
- Updated plans: Essential, Pro, and Special Edition
- AI Pass add‑on: unlock advanced AI features and higher credit limits
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
This digital notepad and PDF markup tool covers all the bases. Create notes with your keyboard or Apple Pencil: the app transforms your hand-drawn shapes into perfect ones, and can even convert your handwriting to text.
Absolutely excellent
This app absolutely blows all other note and productivity apps out of the water. The interface is so self explanatory and user friendly. It works seamlessly with pdf notes typically given by education institutions these days. Using these notes you can annotate the notes in any way you want, insert your own typed or written pages and insert more images and pages seamlessly. It’s just so good I often have a little exclamation when I find a new feature which is just so intuitive and helpful. THIS APP makes the choice between another tablet like a remarkable 2 and an iPad an absolute no brainer, it works fantastically with the Apple Pencil and massively helps your handwriting look better especially when writing zoomed in where the resolution is held (if not improved) unlike many other apps. This app is also perfect with the multitask side car to host notes or Question sheets whilst writing in a notebook on the app. The files are automatically saved to an iCloud folder, my cloud service of choice, but I’m sure it would be equally easy to host on a different service. This way, whenever I want to access or upload content via my laptop I can do so in real-time. Honestly, if you are put off by the price, don’t be, it’s the best value purchase you will ever make, especially given a pack of coloured pens is almost the same price these days. 10/5 for me.
Incredible note taking app
I use this app everyday for school work i am still so impressed how it works so well with the iPad and apple pencil, I especially like it for subjects such as maths and chemistry. The usability of it immediately being on every device is so nice to have and how you can organise all your notes into folders and subfolders with notebooks. Ive been using this app for 4 months almost 5 hours a day and i still find undiscovered features like adding custom page templates through files. However the app could still add some features which would make it flawless. In order of importance to me: A fill tool to fill shapes with colour after you have drawn it; the ability to write full screen with no bar at the top of at least a minimised version; more options for the highlighter tool such as an outline for where it will highlight such as a black 50% opacity ring around the size of highlighter and the option to turn off highlighter layering so it doesn’t make the colour darker; a recent colours section; a protractor, compass and ruler tool for improved maths and shape drawing and the ability to change the colour of selected writing for example from black to red. Thanks for making such an incredible app.
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App Privacy
The developer, Goodnotes Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Goodnotes Limited
- Size
- 762.1 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.5 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.5 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.5 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.2 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- Learn More
- Copyright
- © 2011-2025 Goodnotes Limited
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Goodnotes 6 (1 year) £11.99
- GoodNotes 5 Unlock £9.99
- Goodnotes 6 (1 Year) £11.99
- Goodnotes 6 Free Trial £0.00
- Goodnotes 6 One-Time Payment £35.99
- Goodnotes 6 One-Time Payment £28.99
- Goodnotes 6 (1 Year) £11.99
- Dotted Squares: Draft Papers £0.99
- Marketplace Content £9.49
- Goodnotes Pro (Yearly) £35.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.