Goodnotes 6 Overview
What is Goodnotes 6? GoodNotes is a note-taking app that allows users to take beautiful, searchable handwritten notes on their iPad, Mac, and iPhone. The app offers a fluent, precise, and completely natural writing experience thanks to its pioneering vector ink engine. Users can select and customize their pen color, thickness, pressure sensitivity, and style, and write with the Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, or other capacitive styluses. GoodNotes also allows users to search their handwritten notes, typed text, PDF text, document outlines, folder titles, and document titles, and create unlimited folders and subfolders to keep everything organized. Users can annotate PDFs, lecture slides, and documents, import PDF, PowerPoint, Word, images, photos, and more, and markup documents right on their iPad with customizable pens, highlighters, stickers, and shape tools. GoodNotes also allows users to create, move, resize, zoom, and rotate their handwriting or change colors, draw perfect shapes and lines with the Shape Tool, and choose from a large set of beautiful covers and useful paper templates.
Features
- Fluent, precise, and completely natural writing experience
- Select and customize pen color, thickness, pressure sensitivity, and style
- Write with the Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, or other capacitive styluses
- Convert handwriting to text in the same page or share it with other apps
- Search handwritten notes, typed text, PDF text, document outlines, folder titles, and document titles
- Create unlimited folders and subfolders
- Create custom outlines for easier navigation through documents
- Back up all notes to iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive and sync across all devices
- Annotate PDFs, lecture slides, and documents
- Import PDF, PowerPoint, Word, images, photos, and more
- Markup documents right on the iPad with customizable pens, highlighters, stickers, and shape tools
- Create, move, resize, zoom, and rotate handwriting or change colors
- Draw perfect shapes and lines with the Shape Tool
- Choose from a large set of beautiful covers and useful paper templates
- Present a lecture, a lesson, a business plan, a brainstorming result, or your group study without distractions when you connect your device via AirPlay or HDMI to an external screen
- Collaborate with others on the same document using a sharable link
- Export documents in PDF or image for printing or share them with others for a fully digital workflow
- Prioritized email support.
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Goodnotes 6 Pricing Plans
| Duration | Amount (USD) |
|---|---|
| Billed Once | $12.16 |
| Monthly Subscription | $11.99 |
**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..
Product Details and Description of
Take beautiful, searchable handwritten notes with the note-taking app that turns your iPad into digital paper. See why GoodNotes is Editors’ Choice. Download now and unlock on all platforms. Available on the iPad, Mac, and iPhone. WRITE - BETTER THAN REAL PAPER • Enjoy a fluent, precise, and completely natural writing experience thanks to GoodNotes pioneering vector ink engine. • Select and customize your pen color, thickness, pressure sensitivity, and style (fountain pen, ball pen, brush pen, and highlighter). • Write with the Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, or other capacitive styluses. • Convert your handwriting to text in the same page or share it with other apps. SEARCH AND FIND - NEVER LOSE YOUR NOTES • Search your handwritten notes, typed text, PDF text, document outlines, folder titles, and document titles. • Create unlimited folders and subfolders, or mark your Favorite ones to keep everything organized. • Create custom outlines for easier navigation through your documents. • Back up all your notes to iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive and sync across all devices so you will never lose them. ANNOTATE - MARKUP PDFS, LECTURE SLIDES & DOCUMENTS • Import PDF, PowerPoint, Word, images, photos and more. • Scan any paper documents and import them to your library with built-in OCR. • Annotate documents right on your iPad with customizable pens, highlighters, stickers, and shape tools. • Open notes or documents side by side on iPad for easy referencing. • Use tabs to quickly switch between open documents. • Add hyperlinks to external websites, videos, articles to build your knowledge map. CREATE - UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVITY • Move, resize, zoom, and rotate your handwriting or change colors. • Draw perfect shapes and lines with the Shape Tool. • Support gesture control for faster undo & redo. • Choose to erase the entire stroke, only parts of it, or only highlighters to leave the ink intact. • Select to edit or move a specific object with the Lasso Tool. • Add, create, or import your stickers, pictures, tables, diagrams, and more with Elements to enrich your notes. • Choose from a large set of beautiful covers and useful paper templates, including Blank Paper, Ruled Paper, Cornell Paper, Checklists, To-dos, Planners, Music Paper, Flashcards, and more. • Upload any PDF or image as a custom notebook cover or paper template for more customization. PRESENT - SHARE & TEACH FROM YOUR IPAD • Present a lecture, a lesson, a business plan, a brainstorming result, or your group study without distractions when you connect your device via AirPlay or HDMI to an external screen. • Use Laser Pointer on your iPad to guide your audience’s attention during your presentation. • Move around freely and interact with the audience while adding new information to the digital whiteboard. SHARE - COLLABORATE ON THE SAME DOCUMENTS • Collaborate with others on the same document using a sharable link. • Export documents in PDF or image for printing, or share them with others for a fully digital workflow. • Forward important emails with PDF attachments to your unique GoodNotes email address to automatically add them to your library. --- Download GoodNotes 5 for free on iPad, Mac, and iPhone and create your first 3 notebooks for free. Get the full GoodNotes experience with a One-Time Unlock In-App Purchase (IAP): - Create unlimited notebooks - Unlock handwriting recognition to search handwritten notes - Import documents via e-mail - Prioritized email support GoodNotes supports Apple’s Universal Purchase which means you can purchase once to unlock GoodNotes on all your iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices for free. --- Website: www.goodnotes.com Twitter: @goodnotesapp Instagram: @goodnotes.app Pinterest: @goodnotesapp TikTok: @goodnotesapp
Top Reviews
By Jess, a cellist
Love being paper free
I’ve been using this app for years, & recently upgraded to 5. There’s a lot of additional functionality, with more powerful tools, new objects, & way better templates. The only thing I miss is the way the app opens. Previously when opening the app it presented the view I left it int when closing the app. Now every time I start the app it opens to my folder list. I have a loootttt of notebooks, and remembering which one I was last using is sometimes difficult. Maybe I’m just not as organized as I should be, but it’s just annoying that every time I open the app I have to search through my folders & then my notebooks to get to the one I was in the middle of using. I open one notebook only to find that the page I’m looking for is actually in another one. Many of my notebooks hold similar data, but I keep the in separate books for specific reasons. I’d just rather not have to search every time I start, especially when I’m already used to picking up right where I left off with GN4. That minor thing aside, I love this app worthy of all 5 stars, & the upgrade to 5 was a great improvement. The developers seem to really pay attention to what additional functionality could be useful as the way we work evolves. So I’m always looking forward to the next version to see what new stuff I’ll get!
By jsherrer
Best App Out There for Writing & Drawing with Apple Pencil ESPECIALLY
I downloaded several different apps that were free for note taking and or drawing in notebooks, etc. After not being satisfied with any of them, I decided to pay for this one. It is so worth the price! You can easily organize notes and notebooks while customizing them for whatever you need! The Apple Pencil works flawlessly as if you are using real pen and paper. I use the 1st Edition Apple Pencil with my 2019 iPad. One of the best things about this app is the fact that you can set it so that it does not capture anything from your hand or palm resting on the screen and allows you to still use your fingers to zoom, scroll through, and navigate the app all while still connected to the Apple Pencil. Also, it can literally READ and SEARCH your own handwriting so you can find where you left a certain note on a page. I have found that it this feature is very accurate! You can also customize your notebook covers, create outlines for easy navigation throughout a notebook, and you can create folders to organize each notebook even further. My only suggestion to the developers is to make it easier to get different templates for pages/covers and also allow those pages to have more background colors than just yellow or white.
By Kem 86437
Makes Doing Work a Pleasure!
Thank you GoodNotes! Since I’m an old person of 35 years - it took a few college student vlogs and some practice before I could really get to appreciate all that this app can do...but that little bit of time was SO WORTH IT! Your app rocks. YOU HAVE BROUGHT JOY BACK INTO MY WORK LIFE! Seriously though, I’m enthusiastic but not sarcastic on this point. I work with boring documents/sit in LONG meetings (that go on for days on end) and have to take copious notes...and thanks to GoodNotes I can be efficient&creative while having fun highlighting my documents with rainbows of any colour I like, and taking notes that are both fun to write&read afterwards, as well as pack maximum info/images into a single page...plus, my past life of piles of notepads and sticky notes has been left in the dust where it belongs. THANK you for saving my shoulder from breaking off with a stupid/heavy briefcase, and for making me smile while I create the most beautiful notes I’ve ever taken of some of the most boring subjects I’ve ever had to keep awake and pay attention too. GoodNotes has probably played a significant role in my ability to excel at my job (and maintaining my sanity whiles getting it done). Cheers!
