Fantastic Note-Taking App – GoodNotes 4 Review

I use this daily (with my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil) for work purposes: to record meeting notes, telephone conference notes, and occasional brainstorming or outlining. The search function works great and recognizes my handwriting almost perfectly—on rare occasion it can’t recognize what I’ve written. Templates can be created relatively easily. If I had a complaint, it’s that exported PDFs are too large in file size. Also, the help/“user manual” could be better, but all of my questions were answered eventually. Otherwise, fantastic. If you need to record audio AND sync that to your notes, check out Notability, because GoodNotes doesn’t do that. But since that function would have limited utility for me, it’s a non-issue. I’ve been using this since late June 2017 and cannot imagine working without it. It also gets significant use at home for basically anything I would typically write down with pen and paper.
Review by Iron Chef on GoodNotes 4.