Most beautiful hand writing, least reliable app, no real commitment to fix! – Notes Plus Review

First: DO NOT INSERT A PAGE IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR NOTEBOOK. YOU MAY CORRUPT YOUR NOTEBOOK! You can find out bellow what I wrote before recent update. I regret to inform you all the issues still persist. After the new update, I thought they are seriously trying to fix the issues. I tried it again. I lost several pages of my notes, only because I inserted a few pages in between. The voice I records get disassociated from the text. The issue of using Apple Pencil is still there. These are the major ones in my opinion, especially disappearance of pages. There are plenty other which some are mentioned by others. The worst things is that despite of all of these complains about the issues, instead of getting everybody's help, for instance mentioning it in their website, and sending an email to their customer, and requesting to email send them a corrupted note, so they can find the bugs, they upload a bogus update, and fool everybody to corrupt more of their notes. It is very sad! Once it was the best note taking app. Pros: compared to the other apps it has several futures which none of other apps has: 1. Most beautiful handwriting. Specially the viscosity future of the fountain pen is awesome. 2. Multiple clipboard entries which help you a lot in scientific or lecture writing experience. Imagine writing a highly mathematical notes. You can copy several master equations in your clipboard and copy them and then do some minor changes. 3. The primitive shapes and arrows help you to create good graphs. 4. Adding name to each page help you to find a particular part of your notes easily. CONS (Glitch all over the place!): 1. The support of Apple Pencil is not very good. Some of your tiny writing disappear. 2. Inserting a page corrupts a page after that, so you end up loosing a page if you decided to add a page in the middle of a notebook. 3. Voice recording is basically fake. It only keeps the voice while your app is still open, As soon as you close the app the voices disappear. 4. There are other glitches in other functionalities as well. Sometimes the app stops recording your writing. The lasso selection sometimes does not work. The first three, especially second and third one are deal breaker for me. Loosing pages and recorded voice mean I cannot rely on the app in any way. The worst thing is that if you look at their website noting is mentioned about such egregious errors. No timeline to fix them. In the last update for iOS 10, they only mentioned they fixed bugs, but I could not find any of these got fixed after many months, while they were aware of these bugs for a long time. This means either the app was made in such a mishmash way, they don't know how to fix it, or they don't have enough manpower to do that. Such a pity! Apps like Microsoft notes are ugly to use, but you feel, they at least fixed horrible bugs such as these quickly. I am going to move to Noteshelf. Hopefully they would listen more often.
Review by Azkhodrazy on Notes Plus.

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