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.
Need an Option to Hide the Tab Bar for a Cleaner Workspace
Whateverthinsgushshshaha
GoodNotes is a powerful app for note-taking, but there’s one major drawback that disrupts an otherwise smooth experience: the fixed tab bar at the top of the screen. The blue tab area, which shows open documents and navigation options, takes up valuable screen space, especially on smaller devices. When I’m working, all I really need are the essential tools—the pen, highlighter, and eraser. However, there’s currently no way to hide or minimize the tab bar without sacrificing my ability to edit.A simple option to collapse or hide the tab bar would make a big difference in usability. For those of us focused on creating notes without distraction, having a clean, minimalistic workspace is essential. Adding a feature to toggle the tab bar’s visibility, while still keeping editing tools accessible, would really enhance the experience and improve workflow efficiency.GoodNotes is fantastic in many ways, but the lack of flexibility with the tab bar significantly impacts the overall user experience. I hope the development team considers this feedback for future updates. It’s a small change that would greatly enhance the functionality of an already powerful app.
One issue and few features I’d love in goodnotes
repors
Goodnotes You better read this review, it took 10min of my life don’t let it go to waste 🙄So let’s start with the first and only issue I face 🌝It’s a great app and I’m loving every second of it I actually stopped notability because of how awesome goodnotes is, however there’s ONE issue I have that made me miss notability which is the undo and redo gestures, i would really love if it was much smoother and responsive like in notability, It really irritates me when I’m taking a quick note and double tap to undo or redo something so quick but isn’t responsive, it isn’t that big of a problem but just this minor issue effects my joy of note taking 🥲 so yeah I hope you’d improve the responsiveness of the gestures That’s for the one issue now the features 😂A feature I’d like to be in goodnotes is the ability to make and save the changes I make for multiple notebooks, like adjusting brush sizes and color pallets for a certain notebook, I have 7 school docs. saved in my goodnotes, and each one has different theme to it, It bothers me that I have to keep adjusting them every time I open them, it would save me a lot of time and a little effort when note taking 😜Another feature I’d like and I think everyone would love if not the majority, is brush stabilization, I know this isn’t procreate 🙄but what is note taking without the doodles and drawing we make to make our notes look cute, 😌 this would improve my hideous handwriting for sure and take note taking to a whole new level I swear if this feature was ever introduced I would ditch every drawing app 🤣
Some changes need to be made
userforav.longtime
The app is great and all but on the long run it becomes tedious. When I want to move a scribble text or a picture from one page to another ,I CANT . I literally have to copy and paste . Also if I’m writing on a picture and I select the image with the scribble text to move the scribble literally doesn’t move with it . When I select something I expect select all not just one type . And the select tool if a choose a part of pdf and want to copy it , it makes me save it as a screen shot ,waste of storage space . It would be just easier to copy and paste it without the screen shot thing .As well as the pen tool some more types would be nice like a dotted pen or a double lined pen .and instead of a whole tool bar taking space it would be better if I can chose the tool I mostly use and maybe have it on side instead of up and down would be great . I’ve been using this app around two months literally daily and I hope these changes are to be made to get a better experience.
General bug fixes and stability improvements
Version 7.0.47
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