
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.
Great App!
I really love all the features this app has to offer. I hope that they could add a “fast-scroll” or “slide” feature inside the notes though where you can hold and slide through pages (please make it white in dark mode). Some of the imports I made are text books, and because there’s a lot of pages, it’s difficult to go to the page I want quickly without scrolling. One more thing I’d like to add is to also improve the straightening feature of the highlight. I don’t know if I’m the only one with this problem, but because it is difficult to get used to the smooth surface of an iPad, more often than not my highlights become crooked from my hand slipping. If possible, please add an email recovery option for back-up as well besides icloud. I’ll change my rating to five stars once these have been considered. Thank you!
Update: Wow google drive has been used as a back-up option this is amazing thank you so much! I’d really appreciate it if you can also add an “import from google drive” feature in the import options since most of my friends and I share our materials through that and it would reduce the hassle of going back and forth between apps to download those. Thank you and keep up the great work! You all are amazing!!
I love this app!
This app has been very helpful for me as I’m studying for a career exam and just recently bought an iPad to be able to bring my notes and annotations everywhere. I love the paper selections and pretty much everything about this app and how convenient it is that it automatically backs up everything in a drive of my choice.
I have two suggestions, though:
1) I’d really appreciate if you could fix the highlighter tool for when highlighting white text on black pages so it goes behind the text like it does on light pages (I’ve read that some people on Reddit switch apps for this reason). Also,
2) the lasso tool is by far the most convenient way to take screenshots of portions of notes. However, I hope it would be possible to take screenshots with much better resolution (would HD be possible?) because it’d be awesome to export important hand-drawn diagrams to my gallery and use them for digital flashcards. The current screenshot resolution with the lasso tool doesn’t make it very useful for detailed diagrams with small labels for example. These diagrams or portions of my notes would be much more useful to me if they were clear and are of good image quality. :)
I’d appreciate if you consider these two points. Thank you very much and keep up the awesome work! You’re helping out a lot of students like me! ♥️
Events
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) ₱ 599.00
- GoodNotes 5 Unlock ₱ 599.00
- Goodnotes 6 One-Time Payment ₱ 1,790.00
- Goodnotes 6 (1 Year) ₱ 599.00
- Goodnotes 6 Free Trial ₱ 0.00
- Goodnotes 6 One-Time Payment ₱ 1,430.00
- Goodnotes 6 (1 Year) ₱ 599.00
- Dotted Squares: Draft Papers ₱ 49.00
- Goodnotes 6 (1 Year) ₱ 599.00
- Goodmind Journal ₱ 0.00
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.