GoodNotes 4 Reviews – Page 8
5/5 rating based on 238 reviews. Read all reviews for GoodNotes 4 for iPhone.
GoodNotes 4 is paid iOS app published by Time Base Technology Limited
Please Add Features
karinnicole
This is a good notes taking app so far but still is lacking just a little bit, a few simple additions would really make it 5 stars though I think. Add some features that OneNote has: 1. Be able to add frequently used "pens" to the top bar to eliminate the need to open the pen options to switch color/thickness every time. 2. Add the ability to be able to add audio! This would be very helpful for lecture notes! Would be nice but not "necessary": 3. Add a few more "artistic" brush options like a brush that is more dynamically pressure sensitive than the fountain pen (or at least the ability to edit the fountain pen settings). I am still learning to use the app, and I will hopefully discover that it is slightly customizable, since I would like to add my own paper templates if possible. But so far it is a good app! As a student though I’m not convinced it’s worth the money over the free OneNote app yet.
Fantastic Product
Aallord
This is by far the best note taking app I’ve used. Great organization features, great ocr, good selection of papers! Only one enhancement request that is more of a personal preference would be the ability to have multi-level categories. I highly recommend this app. In my opinion you will not be disappointed.
REALLY great app, but needs some common sense additions
M1 Medical Student!
This app is awesome. Intuitive and easy to use. Has most of the functions I need and want. It’s easy to edit, create, share, and store documents/notes you may need. However it is missing some very logical options that other apps have. Please, please add more folder organization options WITHIN subcategories in your next update. I have so many classes/units in medical school and it becomes difficult to organize documents, even with subcategories. It is a huge downfall of this app and I am considering switching because I need to have more organization of my documents/notes, however I really like most everything else. Also vertical scrolling, not a deal breaker for me, but it may be for other. It was also promised years ago, but still has not made its debut. Thank you!
Great for countless types of note taking
Scott Woida
This app allows you to customize the notebook ruling (college, wide, standard). There are also countless other styles as well (blank, graphing, etc...). The app even allows you to customize what the front of the notebook looks like, to add your own personal touch. I’m a nurse, parent, and a student, and have used it in all three situations with ease. I find the search feature beneficial (it allows you to find a specific note based on even the most minuscule content located within the document). You can also add images, graphs, drawings, and many different graphics effortlessly into your notation. I haven’t used the lasso tool much but it is a cool feature (turn handwritten notes into typed content). In addition to the features I’ve discussed the app allows you to annotate pdf’s, highlight notes taken on a separate platform, and mark up countless types of document formats, among many other helpful features. The app cost $7.99 USD and in my opinion it is worth it. I highly recommend this application.
Super good except a few things!
jeremykitchen
Seriously this app has been life changing for me. I have used notability in the past and I thought I liked the infinite scrolling paper and to be honest I did, but then I kinda fell out of love with the app. I went back to notes.app and really liked (and tbh still really do) how it interleaved typed and written notes together, though I really wish I could write on the typed parts and such, but this isn’t a review of notes.app. I thought I would miss the infinite paper, but in many ways this is so much better. I can import page templates for meeting notes, varying grids, colors, whatever. Awesome stuff. And my coworkers have loved my meeting notes I’ve been sharing with the team after meetings and even a few others have started sharing their own notes in varying formats. Sweet! One thing that would make this app unbelievable good would be the ability to create links. Bookmarks are there, but not great, and I’d like to be able to have, say groups of bookmarks, so I can link related pages together and the bookmarks would be the top levels of those trees perhaps. I know I can import a pdf with links and such but that’s wayyyyyyyy harder than if I were just to do it in the app on the fly. I would use that feature a LOT! Another thing would be varying brushes. I feel like this is something Apple could solve in a more general fashion since there are many apps out there using a concept of brushes and not every app needs to come up with their own thing, but I miss the brush types and even the behavior of those brushes (tbh, I don’t like the highlighter in goodnotes that much, notes.app does it way better). This would turn the app from a pretty good note taking app to an amazing one. I know I can create something in a different app and import it as a picture, but then it can no longer be modified in goodnotes, so it’s less than ideal. I don’t need the app to be procreate with pages, but it would be pretty rad to have some more brushes and such! One last thing would be some sort of ‘sticker’ functionality. Right now a lot of people are selling sticker packs for planners and such on Etsy and they tend to deliver you a goodnotes notebook with the stickers and you have to manually copy paste and it’s ok but it could be so much better. Some sort of native solution for importing and using images in the app directly, like I could see being able to have support for tiling too for emulation of Washi tape. Right now I have a hodgepodge mix of a folder in iCloud, an app that doesn’t sync across devices, and a handful of imported notebooks with stickers. A native solution would be amazing!
Great app, with one major issue for me. Eraser tool.
RinaPak
Eraser tool can be used by hand even when pen and highlighter only work with Apple pencil. This is a problem for me. Sometimes I erase things then I want to use my finger to pan around, and it just erase my stuff. Please add an option to make the eraser same as pen and highlighter, only usable with the Apple Pencil.
Good job, GoodNotes!
queen_bee0123
Where do I start with GoodNotes? GoodNotes is a magical experience for me. I have a passion for digital planning and bullet journaling and GoodNotes is the platform to do it on. I love the intuitive feeling of having notebooks. It feels like an enhanced version of pen and paper, not something completely alien, which I love! I use GoodNotes for journaling and school note taking. It exceeds every expectation. Everything I think I have a problem with has a solution; however, sometimes I do need to do some searching around to find said solution. For example, I’m still unsure whether or not there is a way to delete the “uncategorized” category, as all my notebooks have a category and now every time I open the app I’m met with an empty gray screen instead my notebooks just waiting to be filled. Other than that, I think GoodNotes is well worth the money, and it’s the best notebook app I’ve tried/come across.
Don’t use this app if you’re a bullet journaler!
mariahjhalvorson
I loved the idea of this app, and I really wanted to convert over to a digital planner from my paper one and people said to give GoodNotes a shot. So I did - but here’s my problem: GoodNotes claims to be a good journal/digital planner, but has no features that allow you to customize it more to go along with the trend of Bullet Journaling. Not only do they have only one pen and one highlighter, it writes too quick (the streamline needs to be turned way way up!) - so if you wanted to do anything like calligraphy or fun writing in this - there’s no way to do it. And my regular handwriting looks worse than normal because of how fast and responsive it is to the Apple Pencil (bad responsive). You can barely even customize it - so it is not worth the price tag for me.
Where is the keyboard?
SweetSassySandy
I like that I can create notebooks for my individual topics. But this app is missing a keyboard. Can’t type notes is I don’t have a keyboard.