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.
Lifechanging notetaking app - no joke
m89o99ovo
The best notetaking app out there right now. Better user interface and updates in comparison to Notability. Also more features are free of extra charge. Very cool spaced repetition flascards beta. I really love this app and it has changed my uni journey significantly for the better. This and my Ipad are probably my best investments for the past 5 years.
Problems renewing app in Macbook
Kajatml
I so much want to leave you a positive comment, but I've ran into difficulties with renewing the app in Macbook Air (that has iOS Ventura 13.1). Currently the macbook has Goodnotes version 6.3.56 but ipad and iphone have version 7.0.30. I've tried million things to upgrade the macbook app (spent 2hrs with your AI-chat help followed each step, can assure that my ICloud storage has 1.52T of free capacity and sync is turend in in every device, I've unistalled/installed, signed out/resigned in etc) but no luck. Due to older version I'm not able to sync the notes (though the initial notes some days ago were synced from macbook to other devices) but now it's stopped. Iphone and Ipad sync nicely but I also need input from macbook to work effortlessly. I'm tired of AI help. If someone could help me, I would be really super helpful as I would really really like to start using (all the features I could test and the orgnaisation and everything meets all my expectations).
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! For further assistance or to share your feedback, please contact us at https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or share your suggestions in our Customer Suggestions portal https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274. We’re always happy to hear from you and are here to help.
Still a bit to improve
Kikipoldsamm
I truly like this app but there are things what UI/UX department should change -1. Changing from written into type (why so long process from convert- copy-delete written-paste text). Compared to other apps, they just have convert and thats it. Please change it. I use it all the time and i use other apps because of this super uncomfortable and extremely user anti-friendly feature convert into text feature2. Bigger highlight markers - i wish they had bigger highlight markers for the biggest handwritten bold text. I need to highlight many times and it looks ugly. Other apps have highlighters way bigger than other fonts3. More sizes when i want to write (only 3 options and it makes my texts so confusing). I want to have smaller or sharper fonts.
- Fixed several issues with audio recording and transcription, including the clip name disappearing, the seekbar drifting, transcript lines reordering, and details going out of sync when switching documents or opening a recording while another was active.
- Fixed an issue where Cloud Transcription was unavailable on a fresh install until the app was relaunched.
- Restored the Simplified, Traditional, and Cantonese Chinese options in the transcription language picker.
- Fixed an issue where Goodnotes AI did not follow your system language after you changed it.
- Fixed an issue where the status bar could reappear while importing a document after you had chosen to hide it.
- Fixed an issue where library thumbnails could appear too far apart after resuming the app.
- Fixed an issue where the text cursor could disappear while renaming a document or folder.
- Fixed an issue where comments could briefly disappear when saving a new comment thread.
- Fixed an issue with restoring documents from the trash.
- Education: Teachers can now invite other teachers as co-teachers to collaborate on shared class folders.
- Refreshed the Goodnotes interface for the new iOS 26 Liquid Glass design.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while closing the app.
- Education: Teachers can now invite other teachers as co-teachers to collaborate on shared class folders.
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
Version 7.1.0
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