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.
Urgent Bug Fix Needed!
Conrad.Pitzer
I’ve been holding off writing this review as i thought my bug encounter was so severe that it would be fixed instantly. As of 18 October 2019 it has been around 2 weeks that i am unable to erase in GoodNotes 5. It’s been 3 updates since my issue started, yet no bug fixes. However, GoodNotes 5 (despite my current temporary issue) is an amazing app and crushes whatever competition may arise. Yeah i'm looking at you Notability. I've been using GoodNotes 5 for almost a year now taking university notes and this was just what i needed to go paperless and help save the environment. If you made it this far GN5 Developer, i have a feature suggestion:Collaboration within GoodNotes 5 with other users. Similar to the way multiple people can edit Google Docs, Sheets & Slides and see in real time the changes made by other people. This is in my opinion literally the only thing you need to be perfect. (I love the latest lazer pointer feature by the way). How and why should you consider this? Imagine sitting in a university lecture where the lectures speaks way faster than what you can write, draw or even think. But luckily my best friend next to me is able to fill in the gaps i may have missed, while i am drawing the format for ___ , he/she can start filling in the values so that we save time and jot down as much of what we just learned. Or in another scenario, my classmate is out sick, but fear not they will not miss anything if they have access to the notes i took today without me sharing it, it's just there.Hope it’s something worth your consideration! Thanks for this amazing app...
Was always my favourite app, now…?
willgordge
I use this app every day as a student. Goodnotes 5 was hands-down the best note taking app on the market. It was simple yet sophisticated. Everything ran smoothly, it felt great to write on, and the tools did exactly what they needed to do. Recently, Goodnotes 6 came out, but not as a brand new app. It is replacing Goodnotes 5. I opted for the free trial, and was really not impressed. The AI tools are limited, to say the least. The math conversion is incredibly inaccurate. The erase by pencil scribble means you can’t colour anything in, so I immediately deactivated the feature. The other upgrades, such as multi-coloured folders, are insignificant. None of this warrants the hefty price increase that comes with Goodnotes 6, and as a loyal customer I feel betrayed that Goodnotes 5 support will no longer be available (I can still downgrade and use it, but development will halt). When I paid once off for the app a year ago, I was not prepared to have to pay triple that amount (with discount) for a clunky app that doesn’t do what it promises. I understand a minor price increase to once-off payments down the line, as long as the updated product performs, but this feels distasteful. I hope that the management and developers of Goodnotes will revise their decision, because I know that people are very unhappy with the current state of things.
Used to be amazing
Khaveni
I was looking for a well round notepad app that could be easy to navigate and could export flies in commonly used file types such as pdf. I don’t usually write reviews but this the app I use the most on my device! Really great product!! 100% recommend for anyone who is trying to keep notes for work , school and projects. Also great for writers and artists. *EDIT* So I dunno who’s idea it was to change good notes into a subscription based service for the update. I already bought the app at a reasonable price. I tried good notes 6 and honestly it didn’t add anything for me . When I tried to use the app while it was still on good notes 6 it locked all my documents, trying to get me to pay for the new feature I don’t want. So I downgraded back to good notes 5 so I could access my documents again. Why should I have to pay for having access to my multiple docs twice??? Good notes 6 wanted me to pick only 3 notebooks to have access to but I already paid for that feature in good notes 5 why should I pay again with good notes 6? When I saw that the upgrade was subscription based I was really disappointed. Even more disappointed to find that there is a once off payment but that it’s like triple what I originally paid. Feels like this app sold its soul for more money.
General bug fixes and stability improvements
Version 7.0.47
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