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.
The best of all worlds
Sobika sree
This is really great...it has both the vertical and horizontal scrolling option - this is were it took its stars from me. I am a student , who is always on the go, the filling system works great and even the OCR . The only downside for this app is, it has a little bit of lag in each and everything I chose, there is a handwriting change , it lags than goodnotes 4, why is that . Yes, I know this is a newly released app so this might be rectified soon but this bothers me. Kudos, to the team. I hope it increases the fluidity of writing and user interface.Thank you.
LAGGY
afdkuwait
It lags so much its INSANE, when i subscribed to goodnotes 6 i thought i would enjoy the features but i don't, it always always lags, it takes for ever to “load” and when i want to scroll up it takes me all the way up and then duplicates the first pages like 6 times, its horrible and really annoying. When i scribble to delete something it doesn't delete and lags. When i want to copy text it doesn't let me if i highlighted it. Just writing this review is infuriating because of how much goodnotes 6 is laggy. Once the subscription is over im definitely going to be switching to notability or another app. Also dont act innovative and add an “ai feature” thats trash, it doesn't do anything, and when you want to type to select something you have to do it two times. Ive been using goodnotes everyday for years and ive been loving it but this new update made me hate it so much that i dont want to just switch to 5 i want to switch to ANOTHER APP. and before someone says anything no my ipads memory is not full for it to be this laggy.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! You can use Full Page Typing by selecting the Text Tool, long-pressing the page, and choosing "Start Typing." Learn more here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/7353727615375. You can also try Text Document, a new format designed for seamless typing across the page with block-based organization. Learn more about Text Document here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/13692184123279. For help or to share more feedback, contact us at https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new or visit our Suggestions Portal at http://feedback.goodnotes.com. Thank you for your support!
Great app but lacks key features
Student Mohammad
I’ve been using Goodnotes to study for 10 months and 7 hours a day. It is significantly easier than using pen and paper but for a digital note taking app i feel like it lacks key features like:Instead of copy-pasting with the lasso i want to be able to duplicate, the laser tool is only one color which is red, you can’t import GIFS or Videos in your notes, the audio recording tool records your writing per stroke so it doesn’t record the way you write.I feel like the most important features it lacks out of the above are importing videos or gifs alongside of duplicating with the lasso tool. as a digital note taking app, it is supposed to be easier than P&P.
- Smart geometry-based connections now attach lines to a shape's actual outline instead of its bounding box.
- Added indentation for bulleted lists, making it easier to create clear hierarchies and sub-bullets.
- Floating toolbar, alerts, and Time Keeper now slide in and out from the screen edge.
- Pasted URLs now automatically become clickable links when added to a Notebook or Whiteboard.
- Sharing a Text Document now starts collaboration immediately, without reopening it.
- Fixed several syncing issues, including slow sync startup, page import failures, and an incorrect sync error icon.
- Improved stylus drawing with smoother strokes, fewer unexpected corners, and cleaner lasso previews.
- Fixed an issue where pinch-to-zoom could trigger accidentally while writing with a stylus.
- Fixed object menu and toolbar issues, including arrow-key navigation, objects hiding behind the keyboard after closing popovers on iPhone, and the Record and Summarize audio icon disappearing from the toolbar.
- Fixed Mac issues where link taps and long-presses did not respond in edit mode, and the Shift key was not registered when resizing.
- Preserved PNG transparency when importing images from the Photos picker.
- Fixed copy and paste of text on Mac.
- Education: documents no longer break when moving the last page out, workbooks stay shared while loading, and resolved a crash on certain marking zoom values.
- Fixed an issue where rotating a page could offset auto-shapes.
- Education: Class Folders view default to "Active Only", so teachers can organise folders more easily.
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
Version 7.0.66
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