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: 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.
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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
blackfishtrap
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.
Works fine but is buggy
_Seb*
I have been using Goodnotes for several months now to take notes for my course and most of the time it works perfectly fine but I do come across bugs every single day when using the app. Many times when I open the app to resume where I left off I come across a blank screen which doesn’t change so I close the app and open it again where it will either work again and I can see my notes or I have to close the app again one, two, or even up to three times where it closes everything that I had open so I find myself having to open all the notebooks again and finding my way to where I was. Also, whenever I underline anything it suggests a spellcheck which if you press it messes up all your writing and replaces what you wrote with some random unreadable gibberish. Also a few times perfectly written words are considered incorrect and are given a spellcheck suggestion and if you correct it using spellcheck it also changes the word to unreadable gibberish. All in all the app is functional, most of the time it works but these bugs are very irritating when they happen and that is every day.Edit: I also use a Pencil Pro and a few times the double tap on the pencil to change from pen to eraser stops working completely as well as the actual pen, but when I try it on apple notes it works completely fine.Edit #2: The bug where the screen goes blank or freezes and closes all the open documents when you reopen it has been fixed and I’ve not had any further issues regarding that matter.
Fantastic app
K.j._a
This app is extremely functional and easy to use and understand. I love the automatic switch back feature from the eraser tool as it saves me so much time when taking notes on a time limit. There’s only one tool that stopped me from giving it five stars and it’s more of a feature request than anything: THE HIGHLIGHTER. When using dark paper, the highlight option basically becomes useless. As soon as I highlight, it fades into black and into the background so I’m unable to tell what colour it even is. I understand that this makes it seem more realistic in a sense, however I would really appreciate being able to see the highlighter just like it slows on white paper. The highlighter options on black paper are very grim and don’t show up as bright as pen colors do. True highlighter colors showing up on black paper would be an awesome addition I feel, and hopefully not too difficult a feature to implement! If so then an adjustable opacityfor the highlighter tool on dark paper will do just as great. Also Highlighting which does not change color of text written with pen would be good. When you highlight over writing it changes the original colour which can be very annoying at times. It would make this app the undisputed king of note taking in my honest opinion. Please let me know if this can be done.
- You can now rotate Sticky Notes and Shapes, even when rotating a group selection
- You’ll get a confirmation before leaving a document if the AI is still generating a response
- Fixed an issue where the cursor color could change unexpectedly when adding comments or replies in Text Documents on iPad and iPhone
- Fixed an issue where Chinese Pinyin input could show up as Latin letters when searching in a document
Version 7.0.50
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