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 most used app ?! aka MUST HAVE APP 📖📆📓🗂️🎨📊
Brozherfronanktherbs
Goodnote's is the best of all the notes taking app's. If you are interested in taking notes, virtual planners/ diaries, virtual school folders and notebooks, creating all kinds of documents or even drawing: this is the only necessary app for your device. I personally think it is the best way for organizing tools and planning. Thanks to this application I started to plan my days virtually and I am using its contents as my diary and planning tool to stay on track. It was a pleasure to exchange it for my hand-written diary and planners. Thanks to the app I save so much time during planning and scheduling. I don't see any kind of lacking in the app itself and it's tools are just perfect for creating documents and folders. You can surely understand whenever you install and use, that you are no longer be able to live without it. Make your life organized and easier than ever: tap install and learn easily how to make exciting notebooks, folders and documents, that you can surely share with friends NOW! 🩷☺️
What I love & miss
EuConsumer
I’m glad that I purchased this app. It’s more powerfull than an average note-taking app and I just enjoy using it. But a fter transfering from original apple notes I started to miss some functions.Here’s what I love:- Overall speed and smoothness of handwriting!!!- File system and notebook covers!- Bookmarks!- Fast laso tool (you don’t wait for reshaping closer aroung your selection. - Tabs. - Optimalization for two windows. And more windows opening in general.- Cropping scaned documents using same corner zooming as apple’s original note app. I tried many other scaning apps and I was disappointed by how badly they cropped. Guidelines were thick and there was mostly missing corner zooming (and it also did not pop-up near your finger but under it). - Adding both PDFs and pictures.What I miss:- I really miss classic pencil tool!- Duplicate opiton!- It’s hard to draw regular square or rectangle. I would be glad to see shape edditing option. - I would like to keep constant thickness of the stroke when resizing it. Mabe add some on/off button?- Creating a bulleted list in text box.- Remembering last chosen tool and color for each document.- Option to edit opacity.- Drawing a streight line with laso tool and then moving evething underneath upside or downside.- I would appreciate page zoom percentage.
Flashcards functionality - Pros & Cons
Veronika_reviews
I bought an app because of Flash cards functionality that supports Apple Pencil and has a spaced repetition algorithm (I use Notability for everything else). I like Goodnotes 5 so far as I am able to do the most essential things with flash cards (make handwritten notes super quickly, edit them later not without difficulties though, insert images, change colors/size of the pen and etc). BUT there are A LOT OF things to improve:1. Cards just accumulate in the deck and there is no search feature available. 2. There is no option to edit a card while you're in a "Study Flashcards" mode.3. Editing feature is just in general very "raw". To edit the card you should manually scroll through all of your cards in the quest of finding the right one. 3. The progress of learning is not visible to you. You can only reset the progress.4. There is no option to choose the background of the flashcard - just blank paper available, whereas I would prefer Ruled paper.5. There are also no features to add a recording, which is immensely useful for e.g. language learning.Do I regret buying the app?Definitely not. The time of creating a flash card with your pencil is just so small that I will stay just for that. Although I do hope that developers will continue working on flash cards and won't shut it down as spaced repetition is actually listed as an experimental feature, so the only thing left for me is to hope so.
- Paste content without bringing along unwanted formatting like custom colors or fonts.
- Open GoodNotes AI in compact view without an unexpected slide-up animation.
- See a clearer explanation of your current subscription status when trying Pro for free.
- Display the correct sidebar header background for classroom users.
- Prevent importing Text documents into incompatible document types to avoid unexpected behavior.
Version 7.0.52
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