Notes Ratings and Reviews

Between the features and the easy access / use I love this app ! Been using it since I first got an iPhone and more then often these past few years ! It’s my diary, calendar, alarm, notebook, goals, aspirations, dreams, etc ! The privacy available, the updates making it better and better with more features and didn’t change the way you use it which is where most apps downfall, but this one fixes bugs and adds features while staying authentic and original to itself 😮‍💨🙏🏽🤞🏽🫶🏽 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ! I share notes that can be opened from any device with it installed and add / remove / edit the note with notations and adjustments as needed and it can be shared unlimited to unlimited sources. Excited about the growth of this app and happy to share and recommend it ! Get it is worth it ! From taking down numbers names info over phone calls rather then looking for a writing utensil and paper ads risking losing it hallelujah thank you Jesus amen 🙏🏽 its my handy dandy notebook accessible at all times in all places with dates and times, my only recommendation for the creators is a time stamp history for editing the app and the option of viewing all edits on notes. Besides that I’m extremely satisfied .

PRO: This app offers widely accessibility across all applications and Apple devices, standing out for its exceptional user-friendliness. It excels in quick information capture—whether sharing a delightful recipe discovered online by saving the link to Notes or preserving a screenshot to prevent it from being lost in the Photos app. A key strength lies in the app’s versatility to store various documents and files for effortless retrieval and access. This stands in contrast to the Files app, where content is often hidden, leaving users reliant on file names for identification. Additionally, organizing notes can be done with easy by creating personalized folders, spanning categories like personal, educational, professional, and financial, enhances the user’s ability to structure and manage content. Notably, the default notes folder is truly a brilliance feature; new notes appear in a designated folder by default, and users can maintain a clutter-free space by promptly relocating them to custom folders, leaving the yet-to-organize notes uncluttered.

CON: For enhanced practicality, the app could introduce an option allowing users to add new content to an existing note from the top. This adjustment would place the most recent contents at the beginning of notes, eliminating the need for users to scroll through older content to access and edit the latest information.

Notes can you please bring a feature to your app? when you pin a note on your iPhone if you have serious notes that you need to keep on top on the Notes app please bring us a serious button all the notes that are very serious that you need to be pinned in will stay in the top of the screen, and it won’t be shuffled. Do you have to look for it in the notes app and it will stay on the top and you can’t. It will be the first note and the second serious be able to access immediately and I iCloud and please bring a regular pen option for regular notes and please bring an option. We can edit your notes and move them around which one on top or bottom if you’re not serious note. you can shuffle them around but if it’s a serious note, I will always stand the top and it won’t move around and go on the bottom and have to find it inside the notes app. this is the best app on iPhone please make it more faster and more easier. and improve Face ID on every iPhone for the Notes app.

The problem with this app is that it is designed in a way that makes it almost inevitable that you will delete information. Recently while editing a note, I realized that I had recorded some data in the wrong note. I highlight the text so that I could cut or delete it but that option was not available. Among others I had the option of copying it but no simple delete was offered. So I had to manually starting from the end of the sentence hold down the backspace until the data was removed totally. But that is because it takes too long to hit it repeatedly and it proceeds much more quickly to hold it down. So it starts with one letter at a time and does this for several letters, then will delete words one at a time, but then very quickly if you continue holding it down it will delete your entire note. This all takes place within a span of a couple or three seconds. There is no time to react to it. Once the note is gone, there is no means to recover. I am told shaking the phone will undo your most recent action. But why not just place an option on the screen to undo? There is no security to protect the notes using save in which case changes could be discarded if you are not satisfied with them, or can continue in a state of edit. In short, not a single thing which could be done to protect your data is done to protect it. This app is among the very worst.

This app is incredibly basic and doesn’t allow for much customization with your notes, however I had overlooked that for a long time rather than just finding a new notes app to test out.
The other day I opened my notes app and all my notes were gone, no deleted folder to even check if they were in there, and despite supposedly being synced to my iCloud, I cannot recover them that way either. I, as well as many others according to reviews, relied on the notes app a lot for keeping critical work, health and personal information sorted and accessible whenever needed and now I don’t think I will ever get them back. My notes ranged from information about prescriptions for myself and my kids and what reactions we’ve had to them or what their efficacy was like, budgets, documentation of an ongoing work harassment issue, etc and now I’m out all that information for seemingly no reason and with no solution.
This seems to be common as of late considering how many reviewers have reported the same issue with no update on the possibility of getting their notes back. Not sure what happened or how Apple plans to fix this. Use another app if you rely on digital notes for any vital information. I’ve seen others recommend Evernote & One Note and I’ll be trying both of those instead.

I love to come home, relax and write things down on my notes that I can’t tell others after a long day. Like my crushes, what I’m feeling like, anything. The app is my on the go diary. I tend to get on notes a lot, more than I think I should. Writing is one of my passions, and I also have been writing stories down on it as well. I don’t think that was the original purpose of the app, but it helps me out. I love the notes app so much, it’s like a fresh start. Sometimes, I do get carried away, and write too much. Right now, my app is struggling to stay open and even open in general. I’ve tried resetting my phone a few times but I’ll just keep trying. I love this app so very much, and I find it very useful. I also like to schedule my daily plans and/or last minute trips. I feel like this app is my getaway to a world of writing, I just wish the app would work for me. I believe it might be my fault, I’ve written so much on just one note, that it has trouble loading. I’d hate to delete the whole thing though. Maybe their should be an update for an option for pages? Other than that, I love the app! I don’t know how I could live without it!

I really like taking notes with this app for my homework assignments. Yet I think there’s room for improvement for one thing it would be nice to be able to combine and entire notes that are similar and I cannot find a function for that. I know there is a copy function, but is limited to the size not the entire document. Would be great if Apple could find a way to allow users to copy entire notes to another note for instance if I have notes on a science project, and I want to insert some definitions from another assignment, and I have a whole page to copy, it would be nice to be able to copy the entire document into my science project. Another improvement would be to provide a direct PDF function in notes so that note could be copied as a nice looking page versus a column. The column setting is also annoying in the email settings. Would be great if the PDF function would copy the note along the span of the iPad device. Those would be great additions to the app and hopefully Apple will consider update to add those features if they don’t take up too much room or data on the device.

I would give 5 stars. But I believe the drawing aspect of this app could be improved.I vigorously use my iPad and my Apple Pencil and this app to draw diagrams and blueprints for my job in construction. The only thing I wish there was more of, is Shape configuration. (The ability to mirror, translate and rotate an already drawn shape or copy of one.) also the ability to save not so common shapes to some sort of memory bank for repetitions, or to allow for the “snap-to-shape” feature to just straighten the lines you’ve already drawn. (Currently you can only “snap-to-shape” basic shapes and angles.) Other than that I love this app and will continue to use it. I’ve figured ways around my above problems, but would love to see some of these problems addressed in a future update.

Line manipulation would be nice too! Hard to make specific curves with the current setup. Always snaps to a different and usually not needed shape or curve.

Also, can we improve the mapping a bit? Shouldn’t see as much lag as I do. Even with as many notes as I have. I get this is a free app that comes with IOS. But we need to update this more than once a year. Updates at least quarterly would be nice.

So I know we have to go through settings, but for some reason the app still doesn’t recognize the changed password. Also when I use the Face ID it tells me that the note is unlocked, yet it stays on the locked screen. I feel like this is just a default in the app and I’m hoping that it gets fixed. Update: it has been a few months and the problem is still not resolved. The Face ID is now gone so I still can’t get into my old notes. The new password only works for new notes which is highly frustrating. I’m still waiting for this mishap to be fixed and it needs to be done immediately. — Update: it’s been about a year and now if you forgot the password you can’t get into the note and you can’t even use the Face ID either. I don’t understand the point of making or resetting the password if you’re only doing so, to get into the locked notes. Also, I can delete the locked note with the new password but I can’t get into the note. (Which doesn’t make sense because at first it would ask me for the old one.) At this point it doesn’t make much sense. Especially when I locked other notes with a different password that I remember but I have to use another one which is the one that I forgot. It doesn’t add up to what you’re saying.

To say I love and depend upon this app would be an understatement. By now I've accrued years' worth of valuable notes, thoughts, writings, journal entries...the ease of use and the simplicity of this app is its greatest appeal.

iPhone's introduction of spoken–word type a few years ago only increased my dependence, too. Voice typing can be faster than normal or swipe typing, but it also saves your hands from pain and fatigue. And so, it is on this amazing feature my complaint hangs.

A huge amount of my time is now wasted in deleting superfluous commas and other punctuation this feature automatically adds to my notes. This so called "smart programming" is probably an attempt to save time, but I cannot stress enough how terrible and frustrating and poorly it works. Leave the punctuation to me, please! As a writer, this is utterly crucial. Apple, please return voice typing back to its original simplicity…the only updates I want are an increased accuracy of my enunciation (which, happily, I've noticed has already improved since the feature was introduced).