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.
Great App!
karts over karats
I really love all the features this app has to offer. I hope that they could add a “fast-scroll” or “slide” feature inside the notes though where you can hold and slide through pages (please make it white in dark mode). Some of the imports I made are text books, and because there’s a lot of pages, it’s difficult to go to the page I want quickly without scrolling. One more thing I’d like to add is to also improve the straightening feature of the highlight. I don’t know if I’m the only one with this problem, but because it is difficult to get used to the smooth surface of an iPad, more often than not my highlights become crooked from my hand slipping. If possible, please add an email recovery option for back-up as well besides icloud. I’ll change my rating to five stars once these have been considered. Thank you!Update: Wow google drive has been used as a back-up option this is amazing thank you so much! I’d really appreciate it if you can also add an “import from google drive” feature in the import options since most of my friends and I share our materials through that and it would reduce the hassle of going back and forth between apps to download those. Thank you and keep up the great work! You all are amazing!!
I love this app!
Meimei078
This app has been very helpful for me as I’m studying for a career exam and just recently bought an iPad to be able to bring my notes and annotations everywhere. I love the paper selections and pretty much everything about this app and how convenient it is that it automatically backs up everything in a drive of my choice. I have two suggestions, though:1) I’d really appreciate if you could fix the highlighter tool for when highlighting white text on black pages so it goes behind the text like it does on light pages (I’ve read that some people on Reddit switch apps for this reason). Also,2) the lasso tool is by far the most convenient way to take screenshots of portions of notes. However, I hope it would be possible to take screenshots with much better resolution (would HD be possible?) because it’d be awesome to export important hand-drawn diagrams to my gallery and use them for digital flashcards. The current screenshot resolution with the lasso tool doesn’t make it very useful for detailed diagrams with small labels for example. These diagrams or portions of my notes would be much more useful to me if they were clear and are of good image quality. :)I’d appreciate if you consider these two points. Thank you very much and keep up the awesome work! You’re helping out a lot of students like me! ♥️
To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade?
renjialfy
I have been an avid user of Goodnotes 5 since the start of the pandemic and it has been my go-to note taking and annotating app since then. I had nothing but good things to say about the app. However, the recent choice to create Goodnotes 6 at a much steeper price point and employing a subscription method and higher one time payment price despite the current lack of features is worrying. I was willing to upgrade to Goodnotes 6 the first time I saw the notice however I think that the currently available set of features is not enough to justify the price hike. Not to mention that despite still being able to use Goodnotes 5 regardless of when they got it - users who purchased recently still get a bigger discount. I suggest that they add more features in the future (and I know they will) but hopefully not everything has to do with AI. Implementing machine learning for specific uses as well as recognizing handwriting may not be that simple but othe features such as tape that could cover or uncover something or maybe the ability to add flash cards to notes as images could be just as useful as AI suggestions.
* 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
The developer, Goodnotes Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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