Notebook - Take notes, To do Ratings and Reviews

This puts Apple’s stock Notes app to shame!

I rarely do reviews, but I can honestly say that I have been in love with this app for several years now. It has every feature, well, except one I can think of, that I, personally, could ask for in an app like this! I love the tagging, the customization (personal wallpapers for folder), the easy PDF converter/sharing, the easy app integration with other apps…the list goes on. The only feature I would like, and to be honest, I don’t even think you can do it with any app other than the ones that come in the phone (maybe not), is when you search for something on the main screen of your actual phone it doesn’t seem to search through the app. I was looking for some information I know I had saved the other day, but I could not recall where I had saved it. I had to open the app and search within here to find it. Frustrating because I almost gave up thinking maybe I didn’t save the information in the first place. I thought apps used to be able to do this without having to open them, but I can’t recall anything anymore. Again, maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it’s not the worst thing. All the other features out surpass that one negative thing in my opinion. Totally worth, at the very least, checking out!!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for sharing us a positive review. We're glad to know that you like the app. Regarding the search option, we request you to try using the option 'Show more notes; which will use our server search with better results.

This is amazing! But it just needs a few more!

I’ve downloaded a bunch of journaling apps and I absolutely love this one for notes too. I love the interface and the organization of it. I like to write down all my thoughts because I don’t have the friends to share them with. Despite the amazing appeal of it, there isn’t much you can do when it comes to writing. You’re not able to change the font of certain areas or highlight anything. I love being able to add audios and be able to draw but when it comes to the scribbling part, you’re making a separate photo rather than actually drawing on the notes that you wrote. What I think would make this app be one of the best note taking apps if they were able to add the ability to highlight text, change fonts, change the color of text, and be able to draw ON the text. It really upsets me that I’m other apps I’m required to pay them even though I can just do the same thing for free on an art program and also do the same exact thing easily for free with a real notebook and some pens, or on google docs we’re able to highlight and change the colors and all that. This addition would especially be helpful for me and many others during the pandemic since most of us are online learners.

Very good. 👍👍

Has been a good note taking app, but was always a bit glitchy when navigating a work in progress. This seems to have improved just lately though. Has some nice features, which work very well. This is why I’ve continued using it over some others. Lately though a number of app makers are going the way of some other greedy app developers by changing to subscription’s. Subscriptions are for magazines, who have totally new content every month. "Most apps don’t." I’ve never had a subscription app, and I never will. I will pay a fair one time price, for a good, and well supported app… I’ve now been informed that everything with the current non subscription plan will remain the same as it was, and you can still write notes up to 30MB, Upload files of a size up to 100MB, Get 24x5 support via Email, Community forum and access to the NB knowledge base, Get Complete offline access to your notes, Rollback to any of the past 10 versions of any notecard, Setup recurring reminders to your notecard, Lock your notes, Private Share and much more… So from the response that I and others have received, I’ve gathered that they are assuring us that we will continue to have all the same features and great support we’ve become accustomed to.

Developer Response ,

Hi Krug J, We can understand how you feel about the app. The free version of the app would still remain same and we've not compromised any features we provide you on free for a paid plan. We're not going to change the whole app to a paid one. You get to use all the existing features on the app with the same free version. It's just that you have to go for a paid plan for extended features and services we offer you. You can still write notes, Upload files, Get support, Set up Recurring Reminders, Get Offline access to notes, Lock them and much more. And we can assure you that we odder you best features in free version as well as in paid when compared to other competitors. We can still compete with any free app with the features we provide. We hope you understand our concept and reconsider your rating.

A awesome Notebook app I’m lovin’

So, so far , this app is by far super sweet n I love to be organized and keep things simple! Alot of kool features… !!! I’m inspired to motivate and get things done this way with a format for a list of to dos easily organized as it allows color coordinating with lots of neat fonts too chose from i love that! I definitely will appreciate the colorful templates too! .. and so multiple choices, with a little bit of everything..included. 😊
The last notes app, it’s been a real struggle keeping up-to-date and organized,as I have been trying to utilize for the last year and a half to two years and I lost all my old to recent notes n my entire to do list, n no way back in,, only back up to email, which did not work . And left stuck on the lock screen,😒 Long story short,
I had no choice, but to delete that app, and reinstall ,and I was left with empty notes and lost work. 😞
So, I highly suggest this app instead! There is a lot more settings, for better organization skills, as a option for video journaling too🤪 ..as that’s what I’m aiming for!
I give it a four star! soon to be five, no doubt! But I will re-rate the app again in time ,after I navigate where I can excel and have some success with keeping up with important things to get done throughout a busy life!

Developer Response ,

Hi, We really appreciate your elaborated review about our app. We have lot more features that you can try out. Please visit, https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/notebook to know more about it. You can also have a local copy of BackUp. If you have any suggestions to queries, please update your review here or drop an email to support@zohonotebook.com.

Not for everyone

I’ll start off by saying I have been a long time Evernote user. I saw that Zoho had built a tool to migrate all of your Evernote notes into their notebook and I thought wow that’s awesome. I use other Zoho products and love them. So I went ahead and did it. I then tried to use zoho notebook instead of Evernote. Just couldn’t do it. You can’t intelligibly sort the notes very well. You have to go to the settings dialog to globally sort things which is incredibly frustrating. Filtering is non existent. The biggest problem for me was the emphasis on tile view (when looking at a notebook) and making things these giant cards. In Evernote I have several view options for listing my notes and my personal favorite is the title, a couple lines of the body and an icon for an attachment to the right. This small list item card tells me a ton about the note. It might have been the migration from Evernote to Zoho notebooks that messed things up, but the only way I can find my notes in Zoho is to search. The note cards don’t have any description on them, only a blown up icon picture and the name of the attachment. Not useful. The last thing that I use in Evernote extensively is email to note. This is not in Zoho notebook and you have to use Zapier to make it work. Tried that and it is very clunky and doesn’t include any attachments.

In the end, I think the app is okay for simple notes, but heavy users should think twice. And coming from Evernote you will be limited.

Great free app! I use it all the time

I've only had an iPhone for a little while but this is one of the best apps I've tried. I'm still finding out all the useful ways I can use it. I have everything from a grocery check list to all the crazy number of user names and passwords for the internet. I've started saving my favorite recipes and scanning my receipts as well. Every category getting its own notebook. Changing the covers to my own photos makes finding the right notebook quick and it's easy to use. It's a great little organization app. It's more than a basic check list or reminder list like I have used before but even for a beginner, with a little playing around and reading the tips I've found it to do more without having to spend a great deal of time figuring out how it works. You can import your own images for book covers but it would be great if more covers were already in the app for basic categories such as groceries, to do list or journals, just typical things that people are likely to want to create a notebook for. The more I use it the more I find it useful to have.

In Dire need for a…

I’m giving 3 stars here not because this app only deserves a 3 star - I just downloaded the app a short while ago and haven’t got my hands all warmed up with it but from an quick look I guess the iPhone version of the app per se deserves 5 start or maybe 4 (for hard to find the signup/login after you bought the in-app option) . On the contrary that I wasn’t happy with the app so I gave it a 3, but rather, I see the potential of it and it should have a macOS version while it doesn’t. I wish the 3 star rating alerts the developer of such Need and call for people likeminded to agree. I’ve been using Evernote since forever as it’s the only note-taking app using *keyboard* as the main input (rather than drawing) source and has cloud sync feature and is available for all Apple devices. I, amongst many people, are in dire need for a replacement to Evernote which has some ridiculous flaws. For starters you can only choose a color from a preset of 14 colors for your fonts; second, the contextual menu in Evernote Mac version blocked many native options like “Look UP” and “Services”; the 3rd, they even reinvented existing macOS shortcuts for no reason (eg. “Paste&Match Style” ). So I’m appealing to the developer of the “Notebook” app that they make a MacOS version of the Notebook and I kinda have a gut telling that this Mac version will win you another editor’s choice.

Developer Response ,

Hi, We really appreciate your detailed review and thanks for leaving a positive review altogether. Notebook does have a native Mac app and you can simply download it from the Mac App Store. With getting Signed In to the app, you can sync across notes between your phone and Mac app seamlessly. For syncing across devices, you can enjoy the app for free. There are even more features you can do with our Pro plan of the app and we request you to look at our app articles to keep you updated about the app. But first, please download the app for your Mac and let us know your thoughts here or by dropping a mail to support@zohonotebook.com. Looking forward to your response.

I Love This App! But….

This App Never failed me to store my notes on my laptop and has amazing unique features to help you navigate your notes like the word search up. The search up was very handy and helped me in school for studying. But there were problems in this app that needs to be managed. The Notes I make on my computer would either be duplicated or gone from the Note App on my phone even when my account is connected to the App with my laptop. It also takes a LONG time to load up the new notes, it may not bring up the new or old notes, or I have to close the app to access the new or old notes from my laptop. I also was trying to find the in app purchases but it never loaded up from the app. I think the Notes is amazing but the amount of glitches or errors from the app are bad and is recommended to use the notes on laptop ONLY. I don’t say this out of hate but just an issue that I think needs to be bring up. I love tho app but I wish the in App feature works efficiently. But other than that this notebook app is simple, easy, direct, and efficient for notetaking without your computer turning into an airport. 10/10.

It has some of the best features but could use improvement in a few areas

This app is one of the best note-taking apps because of the many features it has. I only have a few suggestions for improvement in these areas:

(1) I want to import an image from my gallery but I can only do that by picking the “Take photo” option. I don’t want to take a photo because I’m working with diagrams for school. It bothers me that this app keeps asking for permission to access my camera when I just want to go to the gallery. There should be a separate button that takes me directly to the gallery.

(2) I wish tagging was possible to improve organization of notes. I’d like to add tags to notes and be able to search for those tags through the search bar, just as I can for keywords in the notes. This type of categorization would help me a lot to organize my thinking, and find what I’m looking for more easily. Personalized tags are a great tool for making sense of scattered notes, so I really hope this feature will be considered.

So Buggy!

I’ve been using this app for notes for college and it’s pretty great except for all the bugs. Sometimes half of what I’ve written will disappear and I have to rewrite it (this often happens more than once and I write it again and again), it will make the screen freeze, but the biggest problem arose today when suddenly it started crashing, I cannot open the app because a second later it crashes, making it unusable. I’ve tried updating the app, updating my iPad, restarted my iPad like 5 times, I even took the app off and redownloaded it, and nothing has worked. The weird thing is that I can open the app fine on my phone to read notes, but I’m not able to hand write stuff that way. I didn’t want to delete the app in case I lost everything. Please fix this ASAP, I really need to have this work for my classes.

Edit: I have been trying to move all my notes over to another app via my phone and not even that will work. It says that it was exported but the only thing that appears is the text description I put. There are also notes where the contents won't load.... this app is starting to reach the end of my patience

Developer Response ,

We apologize for the inconvenience this caused you. Please go to our web app, https://notebook.zoho.com, and check if you could see all your notes. And please send us a feedback from the app(Settings > feedback) along with the userlog attached.