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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Goodnotes is a digital notepad and PDF markup tool. And it’s very good at both. As a notepad, Goodnotes covers all the bases. Create notes with your keyboard or handwrite them with Apple Pencil. The app transforms your hand-drawn shapes into geometrically perfect ones. It’s also capable of recognizing your handwriting (even when you can’t) and converting it to text.
Wack version differences
iLiqhts
Goodnotes 6 is nice, however I miss one small thing that was in Goodnotes 5 was when you selected a photo from your album that was cropped, it uploaded it just how it was. However version 6 does not have that capability. So you basically shouldn't crop it before hand as you would have to crop the photo once you upload it. Also there is no zoom option either to make sure you have the perfect cropping if you are needing the perfection of it.. however there is a free hand crop too...
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your feedback and support. We're glad to hear you're enjoying Goodnotes 6! Your insights about the cropping features and photo selection are incredibly valuable to us. We're always looking to improve and would love to hear your suggestions on how we can make it a 5-star experience for you. Please feel free to share more at our feedback forum: http://feedback.goodnotes.com. For further assistance, don’t hesitate to contact us at https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Thank you again!
Great app,but password recovery needs improvement
Armitaq
i’ve been using Goodnotes as my primary note taking app, but I’ve hit a major block. I forgot the password to my locked notes and didn’t enable biometric unlocking as a result I’m currently locked out of my important Notes and for some reason, the app also prevents me from creating any new locked notes. it would be incredibly helpful if you could implement a new password recovery option or a way to access great app overall, but this limitation is quite frustrating.
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your review and feedback. We're glad to hear that you enjoy using the app for your note-taking needs. We understand that password recovery can be a challenge, and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention as it helps us identify areas for improvement. For further assistance, please contact us at https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Additionally, we invite you to share your feedback at our Suggestions Portal at http://feedback.goodnotes.com. Thank you!
Great app, I do have one problem
thegreenpines
For the most part, I love this app. I take notes for all of my classes with it and have found it to be incredibly convenient and easy to use. I only have one issue. I find that while writing the app adds on a little tail to some of my letters which has become more and more frustrating. I’ve tried adjusting settings in several different ways. Nothing helps. I don’t typically write reviews, but I’ve been considering moving to another platform because I’ve found it very frustrating.
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your fantastic feedback and support. We're thrilled to hear that you find the app convenient and easy to use for your note-taking! Your concern about the tail added to some letters is important, and we understand how that can be frustrating. We’re always looking to improve and would love to hear your suggestions on how we can make it a 5-star experience for you. Please feel free to share your thoughts on our feedback forum: http://feedback.goodnotes.com. For further assistance, you can also contact us at https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Thank you again for your valuable input, and we hope to enhance your experience further!
* Improved reliability by preventing crashes or hangs during handwriting recognition, page thumbnails, the study navigator, Library Search indexing, and large text-selection changes.
* Better protection for your work: fixed sync cases where unshared documents stayed visible, local unsynced work could be removed after certain sync errors, and web audio recordings only appeared after reopening a document.
* Fixed several image rendering issues where cached images, imported images, embedded thumbnail images, or updated child images could disappear or appear invisible.
* Improved exported and previewed content: highlighter colors on dark paper now look correct, cropped screenshots stay cropped, and highlighter or tape content moves with handwriting during whiteboard reflow.
* Fixed several toolbar and picker issues, including hidden bottom toolbars, inconsistent button colors, clipped eraser/font/line-height settings, missing Font back buttons, and popovers shifting when the keyboard is visible.
* Improved navigation and window-layout polish, including tab bar gaps after leaving Split View, inconsistent back buttons, compact account-menu animation, Settings menu widths, and clipped dropdown values.
* Improved text editing reliability: Enter works after IME composition on iPad, text document menus stay accessible in tight spaces, and text inside shapes no longer jumps when selected.
* Fixed link, search, and sharing controls: clearing search no longer returns you to the Library, Remove Link stays visible above the keyboard, and unavailable sharing toggles no longer snap back abruptly.
* Fixed visual issues in panels and popovers, including empty bookmarks overlapping headers, template metadata corners, iPhone document-action borders, outline modal backgrounds, transparent audio-list popovers, and the Mac inspiration gallery layout.
* Education: Improved audio, study, and class flows: transcription highlighting continues until playback ends, duplicate Class Folders are prevented, and Practice study sets stay visible after a back-swipe gesture.
* Fixed drawing and connector behavior: connector endpoints snap correctly, deleted elbow waypoints stay deleted, erasing unaffected content no longer changes Undo or Redo, and handwriting selection/reflow borders behave correctly.
* Fixed an issue where calendar integration could appear signed out after restarting the app.
* Image and media captions in text documents now work correctly with undo and redo.
* Copying a video block from a text document into a Notebook now copies only the video URL.
* General bug fixes and stability improvements.
Version 7.1.6
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