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.
My favourite app for notes taking
Kl4uberg
I have started with good notes half and a year ago, mainly because I got a new Ipad and I wanted my backpack to be lighter. During this period of time, i was absolutely satisfied. I got used to it quite quickly and became addicted. :Ddd Now I cannot even imagine myself switching back to notebooks. The only disadvantage I can think of, is that writing on keyboard and making notes with it often bugs while creating a new page. However if you are using Apple Pencil, this should be a big problem. 5 stars absolutely deserved. (I admire the option of one time payment instead of subscription, rarely seen nowadays)
Good enough
LePa2417
App is nice enough, however there is few frustrating things I would love to see fixed in the next update like: option of locking position of text boxes as I keep accidentally moving them around, having options of a simple hand where i do not use tool just move around the document and need to get further on the page without drawing a line or typing, more formating options even in freehand like creation of formating presets like headings and text, bulletpoints options in the freehand. Exploring gradient pens would be interesting too.For fixed writing I would love to see more flexibility as in this condition it is useless for most of my notes taking that I prefer to customize sometimes more, sometimes less. I would welcome typing anywhere I want within the text window and get a tiny bit more of creative freedom within such page.
Great app
adamrajcani
Everything works fine for me. The only problems I came across are these:I would love to have a ruler there, if you think it would be too cluttered to have so many tools on the toolbar you can replace it for the laser pointer which I find totally useless.When you add a picture, lets say its a screenshot of a text and you highlight some sentences there and then you move it or rescale it with your lasso tool, the highlighted lines stay still and this is annoying. However these are just minor issues and the apps works smoothly and I am able to manage completely paperless note-taking in uni.
- Rotate images, shapes, and elements directly with the new on-canvas rotation handle.
- Snap objects into alignment when moving or selecting with lasso.
- Resize with more precision using Shift and Option modifier keys to constrain proportions or scale from center.
- Tables in Text Documents now support drag-to-reorder, improved selection, context menus, and easier resizing.
- Select individual words in handwritten text using selection mode.
- Scribble to Erase now supports undo and redo.
- Handwritten content now includes proper spacing and preserves line breaks when converted or searched.
- You can now scroll and pinch to zoom while actively using a pen tool.
- Fixed an issue where the object menu moved unexpectedly when the keyboard appeared or dismissed.
- Fixed an issue where shapes would disappear or shift position after being created or edited.
- Fixed an issue where you couldn't open a comment on a rotated page.
- Fixed an issue where applying borders and colors in Text Documents was unresponsive.
- Fixed a gray strip at the top of the Search page on macOS.
- Fixed a crash when using the Teach Me quick action after several consecutive questions.
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
Version 7.0.56
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