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.
A bit of kinks here and there but overall a good study app!
Darrell John Cayaban
I love this app, it helps me to study! But, there are some things i'd like to see improved on it. I found that while working on some notes i'd get to the bottom of the page and when it would tell me to make a new page I would add one. However, there would be times when I'd add a new page in between already made notes (if by accident or just because i'd think i'd need the extra page), that when i'd delete the page (even if im currently selected on it), it would instead delete the ones with the already completed page of notes and I can't recover the page anymore, so i'd have to retype everything. There would also be times when the computer would add in already typed out words when it's trying to actively predict your word (e.g. I would type the word "paragraph" and while i'm typing out "paragr-" it would type out "paragrparagraph" or double the word "paragraph paragraph." I also noticed on the flashcards that you can only choose between text,picture, or written/drawing. sometimes my professor would have the pictures that are too big to capture with both the picture and questions in them. When trying to put pictures into the study cards I was disappointed knowing I can't really add in a text with the pictures that doesn't have questions such as putting "Find the amygdala in the picture". Aside from these hiccups that needs to be improved on, I think this app is a very good app.
Life-changing for students
HannahBanana1616
I first discovered GoodNotes (4...?) while starting my undergraduate degree (since we received iPads)-- I can honestly say it has changed my life. Being able to take handwritten digital notes saved me so much time and frustration. I know many fellow students preferred typing annotations to pdf's on their computer, but I wanted to be able to maintain the handwritten mental connection to information that has been proven to be more effective-- while not having to carry around 800 colored pens/ highlighters/ notebooks in order to create notes or having to take the time to redo them all later with these supplies. I am now in medical/ graduate school and it is still the only notetaking app I will use. Our school again provided iPads for students with Notability-- it seems that students frequently have issues with their apps crashing, functionality suddenly changing for the worse, etc. I never have these problems! While I personally enjoy the infinite benefits and organization of GoodNotes (combination of ADHD and the massive amount of information I need to organize in a short time for school), I have also personally gotten many compliments on both new features and how my notes look in real/ a short amount of time with multiple people asking what app I use because they are considering switching. SO worth the cost. Cannot praise this enough. While there are always some bugs and updates that could be made, support has a great forum for tracking requests that you can vote on! <3
This is an excellent app! I only have one pet peeve…
Jewelsummoner
Honestly, I really love using this app! It is very well thought out and I can use it for many different kinds of workflows. Great app if you are considering starting/ transitioning to digital note-taking/ journaling. I enjoy taking handwritten notes in it with my apple pencil and being able to easily import pdfs that I can mark up is great. I enjoy the elements feature, which allows me to add custom sticker that I use all the time as post-its or stickers for journaling. Plus there are som many other excellent features, such as being able to search in your hand written notes and the ability to back-up your notebooks, to name a few.I only have one pet peeve when it comes to this app. It does have a typing feature, but it’s a bit clunky and not very intuitive. When I am doing journaling, it is very nice to put text exactly where I want it, so I don’t want the feature to go away. But having to use the text boxes for more type-intensive tasks can be a bit annoying at times. I would be nice if there was a feature you could enable within the notebook where if you could type in a notebook like a normal word document. My work around is typing something ahead of time in a word document and then importing it into the app, but honestly, it would be nice if I didn’t have to do that (maybe I am being too picky)… Otherwise, this a really excellent, solid app that I recommend highly to folks for note-taking.
* Export Text Documents as PDFs with links included.
* Use new keyboard shortcuts on iPad and Mac to scroll, nudge, and jump between pages faster.
* Rename tabs more smoothly with the keyboard Done button saving your changes.
* Enjoy smoother page navigation on macOS with a fix for occasional page jitter at the top of documents.
* Get clearer guidance when you sign in with the wrong account and can’t complete a purchase or upgrade.
Version 7.0.46
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