Notes Plus Reviews

Nice app, still needs some improvements

Pirajust

Tested several apps and this came first. Nice interface, full of resources, especially handwriting recognition. Needs improvement on (1) search, where it does not highlight the search term, only shows the pages and (2) some deformation of strokes after writing.

Good App But With Unfixed Glitches

Goffstown Dave

I use this app a lot and generally love the way it works. Handwriting is well done, and it has several nice features for selecting and editing my writing. I also use it for taking notes on pdf files. However one very annoying bug seems to be the Back (or Erase) button. After a few lines of writing, it seems to randomly activate, and what I just wrote immediately disappears. Sometimes hitting the Back button causes it to reappear! When taking notes in a meeting, this can be very frustrating. So I would say it is a really good app I want to keep, and I have used it for literally hundreds of pages and dozens of files. I have contacted tech support more than once, but no fix is in sight. If the trend continues I may have to look for another handwriting app, though I have mastered the learning curve and would rather give it five stars!

NOT HAPPY

bufmartin

Yesterday I updated app and lost YEARS of notes. I am not pleased. Then I reached out to support and no one contacted me. So disappointed.

Glitchy and frustrating

QuitCrashing

Using this app with an Apple Pencil is super frustrating. If the side of my palm touches the screen while writing, the edit tools come up and magnify some of the words, and I have to close it to start writing again. The circles on C's and lower case A's and E's also get mistaken for a circle to erase which means I end up writing them a half dozen times before it stops automatically erasing them. That's if I don't have to change the way I write them entirely to keep them from getting deleted. Sometimes it just randomly deletes what I've written. And the handwriting to text function is pretty lousy. I have decent handwriting and it constantly misinterprets or adds random letters, meaning it would probably be easier for me to type up my own written notes than to go through making all of the necessary edits to fix the hogswash this thing comes up with. I don't know which update caused these problems, because it worked better when I first got it about a year ago. Unless the problems are fixed, I wouldn't recommend this. There are plenty of free apps that work as well as this.

Has a lot to praise!

Shanluvtech

I don’t usually take much time on writing reviews, but this one I just found very useful, and has a lot of potentials. You can tell the app maker must have worked really hard for this app! It has a lot of features for just a notetaking app! It’s great for people who are visual and like to write in notes. This is good for anyone who uses a lot of note taking, especially students or even drawing if you are good at it. I like to experience with different apps, and I’ve tried good notes, evernote, penultimate, and a lot of some other notes taking apps. This one stands out the best among all. It pretty much cover most of other note taking apps features: 4 ink styles, any colors(with color number), tons of fonts, clipboard, 4 ways of deleting, different hand guesters(including left handed), audio, photo, camera close-up writing, vector shape recognition, a lot of page and cover backgrounds, handwriting recognition(OCR) in so many languages and be able to be searched all over too! It just has a ton of features. Definitely recommend it! Way better than the ratings should be.

Update

UPABON

I had migrated away from this app some time ago because of crashes. Came back to it with my new iPad Air 2. I've been using it for about 9 months now. Full of features, excellent penmanship tools, great web integration, instant back-up to cloud services. Would prefer a file structure interface similar to Notability but provided interface works fine. This is my go-to notebook. Nov 10 2017. LAST UPDATE CAUSES APPLE PENCIL TO SKIP WHEN WRITING. Resetting iPad doesn’t solve the problem.

Was great but ... Is STILL Great!

Gr8npowerful

I don’t know if it was removed or there is a bug but my app doesn’t allow stylus + finger mode anymore. App is nearly unusable now that my finger keeps writing instead of manipulating the page. **Update: The feature returned and then went away again. What am I doing wrong? **Update: So apparently the Apple Pencil still works as a stylus even with the Bluetooth off. And the stylus + finger feature only works when APencil is “connected”. I’m not going to say this is a bug. I’m guessing this feature is specifically for the featured styli. So that being said I restarred to 5 and would like to say this app is awesome. I have no other problems with it and for college purposes it’s perfect. Thanks to Notes Plus (and other apps and digital textbooks) my iPad is now the only thing I need for classes.

Love it!!!

Kuinky

I love the app. I would really appreciate it if a progress bar for saving or a percentage would be added to know when it has saved or finished saving. Thank you.

Best writing to text app, but lacks in other areas for college

Idaho1976

Notes plus is a good app, but it defiantly has some issues. No drag and drop is an issue. As a medical student, I use multiple note apps. One to take all the notes in, and another to condense all the notes. For this I like to copy small parts of diagrams, and place these pictures next to a brief description of the drug or disease. Notability is the only app that I have seen do this. I can paste these pictures into some apps. The lag on Notes plus on pasting more than one picture between apps is 5 minutes. Notes Plus also seems to struggle more with larger documents. Yet I like the smoothness of the writing in this app. The Handwriting to text is best in Notes Plus. Selecting which pages to import is also nice. Being able to see more pages than notability is nice. The search feature is one of the main reasons notability is the best college app, and the file organization is great. Good notes has one feature I love. Once you select the defect shape feature it is east to quickly highlight and get very straight lines. That feature makes pre-lecture reading a faster process. I like many features of many apps, but none of them are prefect. One feature no app has, but I would like to see is the ability to add several pictures at the same time from photos to a document. Each of these photos would be their own page. This would be of great use for many university students.

Best note writing

Alex.MO7

There’s a lot of good note taking apps, but this one is really good and has the ability to annotate PDF’s. I would recommend to anyone. One suggestion: I would like the ability to keep the page zoomed out instead of 100% or above. But good job on this app.??

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