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GoodNotes - Note Taking Software

GoodNotes Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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GoodNotes Reviews & Ratings

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Excellent

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Very Good

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Expert's Review

GoodNotes has garnered high praise from users over the past year, consistently standing out as a top note-taking app. One of its key strengths is its user-friendly interface, making it easy for individuals of all ages to navigate and utilize its full range of features. Users appreciate the intuitive organization of files and folders, allowing for seamless access ...Read more

GoodNotes pros and cons

  • User-friendly interface, suitable for individuals of various ages and levels of experience.

  • Versatile and continuous updates with new features, enhancing user experience.

  • Excellent handwriting recognition and search functionality.

  • Smooth writing experience and a wide range of customization options.

  • Limited selection in the Marketplace for additional apps and connectors, restricting advanced functionalities.

  • Some users may find the richness of features and options overwhelming without sufficient guidance and support.

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Jerry C

01/18/23

4.5 out of 5

"Digitized planner"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? A safe way of keeping information in my files What do you dislike about GoodNotes?

JP

jay p

12/29/22

4.5 out of 5

"Very Creative Notes App"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? There are a lot of options to customize notes, including a large set of tools. Ability to have presentation worthy notes without reworking them.

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Ivan U

11/14/22

4.5 out of 5

"easy to set, intuitive controls, handwriting"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? handwriting, a lot of personal settings, searching by hecnwritten text, an easy sharing ability, suitable for study as well as work. May be used with the Apple pen alternatives (like BaseUs Cube Pen)

MG

Madhavi G

06/30/22

5 out of 5

"The Best iPad Writing App, that has Tremendous Potential to be More Amazing!"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? Goodnotes gives me the ability to write on my iPad using my stylus. So I can write in 'notebooks' and fill them up with pages of my handwritten stuff. I can even draw basic shapes. I can also do that with PDFs -- these could be any sort of PDF documents, and I can highlight text, annotate text. It is brilliant! I can add 'stickers' which are basically png images of stuff, and write on those stickers, to make my annotations look even special.

JB

Jan-Paul B

06/29/22

4.5 out of 5

"GoodNotes for GOOD NOTES!!"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? GoodNotes is great! I like working with GoodNotes. It is easy to use and has many great features. I love that you can combine all your notes into their own notebooks.

AU

Anonymous User

02/20/22

5 out of 5

"Newbie Love for GoodNotes"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? I think how easy GoodNotes is to learn to use. It's extremely user-friendly and works great with my iPad/Apple Pencil combination. I'm actually ditching my paper planner this year to incorporate more files in GoodNotes.

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Ahmed D

12/28/21

5 out of 5

"Good notes gives your ipad pro a life"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? The ease of use and the real paper simulation I use it for note-taking, writing books, my kids drawing, wireframing...almost anything that requires a paper and a pen

AU

Anonymous User

12/19/21

4.5 out of 5

"Good for Notes"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? Simple organization and light customization. What do you dislike about GoodNotes?

IE

Isaac E

12/16/21

5 out of 5

"The best note-taking app"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? After using different applications of this style, I think that GoodNotes (specifically version 5) has the best classification system and is the closest thing to taking notes by hand. I love it! I use it every day.

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Ricky F

12/08/21

5 out of 5

"GoodNotes, good for Notes and more!"

What do you like best about GoodNotes? GoodNotes is a great note taking app on my iPad. I also appreciate the fact that I can open up PDFs and keep all my digital "thoughts" in one place. I have tried other apps, but this one surpasses them all.