UPAD for iCloud Reviews

by Chel Dorado

Like everyone else, I lost everything

by OH AK

Recently, all of my documents have been deleted from UPAD . Apparently they are on iCloud, but I can’t seem to locate them. What the heck?!?!

by Kabazz

I have used this app for about 5 or 6 years to teach each of my classes, and I have loved using it. I had notes and slides organized for each class by semester. Recently, I noticed a few notes were missing from my folders. Then whole folders disappeared. Now, most of my folders are gone and I have no notes to use to deliver my lectures for 6 different courses. UPAD left me stranded, which wasn’t a good look in front of my students. Luckily I know the material well. I’m going to have to find another app.

by Phannphann

I would give this negative stars if I can. I’ve been using UPAD for 3+ years and recently found that all my notes were deleted. My school, work and personal notes all gone !!! What was the point of purchasing the iCloud version when it doesn’t even sync and save the notes? I’m very upset. Please fix this and restore all our notes or I’d like to demand our money back .

by Sofanbed

my files are all gone and i can’t find them. terrible.

by Zenotheperipatetic

Like others, hundreds of my files have suddenly disappeared. Many of them represent data, journal articles, & e-books that I have saved into this app since 2012. this app is an excellent App when it works properly, and does not lose one’s data. this app: please restore our missing data, & correct this deleterious glitch immediately!

by Its Torture

Loved this app. Used it all the time (for years) for research and study. Lost everything. Even after the “bug fix” a years worth of work completely gone. A literal year of my life’s work flushed and apparently unrecoverable. I will never use this again. Don’t use it unless you export everything.

by 636372929474

My notes are disappearing, and are nowhere to be found. This only started happening recently - and at first it was only a few at a time. I thought it was something I did, not UPAD . Today I opened UPAD and hundreds of notes are gone. I’m devastated.

I do not believe the developer exists. The “email developer” button in UPAD does not work. When you click “App Support” from the Apple Store page it takes you to a dead website.

In case the developer is still out there: I really need my notes back. Also, this is a great app! Update/fix it please.

by KMVtx

I love the way UPAD is set up but recently for some reason I am finding random documents deleted. I keep my stuff in date order and I am missing random documents as far back as when I started saving them weekly in august.

by Ddjhand19821pops

This was a good app that I liked and used all of the time. After I updated my ipad operating system, it now crashes whenever I export as a pdf to email. I dought if the develper will fix because it looks like they don’t even have a website anymore.

by Skids73

Nice app — until it deletes your files. Now, I need to see if there is a way to recover my files.

by Baronharris

Update#2: Seriously guys, you had the best note taking app on iTunes, but the lack of updates is killing UPAD . On an iPad3 I can not use the zoom entry box on PDFs anymore since it places the text anywhere other than its supposed to. I teach in large lecture halls, and used this app as a glorified over-head projector with my course notes, but its too embarrassing. You should start updating your website with the status of your work and fixes, otherwise I am going to be forced to spend time learning a new program, which once I do, you won't see me coming back. Please pay attention to Apple culture and user loyalty, if your product is not great, it will die, if it is great, you get the best marketing in the world from this user base, and bask in your success. Please fix it quickly!
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Update#1: Thnx this app for the retina update, waiting for the zoom text input and we are back to 4-5 stars.
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Went to teach this morning with my new iPad 3 and this app, but the video out signal was pixelated. Please update one of my favorite apps. I love showing it off to colleagues all the time.

by Yumi Sohma

I wrote my lab in UPAD and saved it but went back to finish it and found it deleted, i cant find it anywhere. I'll change the review if i find it or if this doesnt happen again but i am now going to fail this lab

by Gabhut

It’s deleting my files for some reasons.

by TFBUTLER

I have used UPAD for a few years and loved it! It was one of my favorite apps! I used it every day. Now my documents are disappearing! So frustrating!

by Astor23

I like the features and functionality of UPAD, but it is very unreliable. I lost the entire note for one of my classes and am very disappointed

by Shayeperry

I’ve been using this app for a couple of years and I love it. lately, however, every time I open it I have to wait for it to finish ‘thingking’?

It pauses for up to 5 seconds while it thinks. I guess. it’s never done this before. It’s highly annoying, as I use this program with clients, etc.

Please advise.

thank you,
SP

by 49282):8/0-8-$;73829

My go to app for the calendar. They have different templates of calendars that you can use. No add ons. No importing other files. It just works.

UPAD with the Apple Pencil makes my iPad indispensable.

I use UPAD dozens of times a day.

Really makes my life so much better.

by Hartefbrown1

Ive owned pretty much all the apps for note taking, i always come back to U-pad, best one out there. Please come see us more often, thanks keep up the great work!

by Doc798324

**Update**
I’m not sure what all the negative reviews are about for the new version of UPAD…..it is awesome! I just noticed today that it was updated on my iPad and so I had to try it out. It is true that this company went a VERLY LONG time without updating or supporting their previous version, but…..they revamped a ton of stuff and this new version is excellent!
I had not issues with any of my files updating from the previous version as other reviews have stated. I love the new additions such as the folder system, being able to add shapes, the landscape notepad options, etc. The developers really thought this update though and did a wonderful job!! They should be applauded for their new design and not bashed by reviewers on the new version only because they didn’t update for so long. A review is meant to review the current product, and this one is stellar. When they hadn’t updated for so long I looked at, and tried, several other apps that were similar to this one, and I’m so glad this one is back because I didn’t find any others that I liked better! Keep up the good work PockeySoft. And if I may suggest one thing, please continue to update UPAD regularly from now on. You have a great product and I appreciate it!

by Docdentist

Downloaded this to take notes over the PDF slides we are given for class. It worked well the first day I used it, or so I thought. Then today (only day 2 of use), I was taking notes and the diagram I drew on page 8 showed up on page 10 once I flipped to page 10, and was no longer on page 8. I just rewrote the notes and re-saved. Tonight when I went to export the notes, I found that all my notes had disappeared. They were viewable in the preview but would not show up on the actual pages. This made me worry and I went back and checked other notes that I had taken yesterday. Same thing, notes missing, but luckily just on the last few pages of them.

Don't waste your money on UPAD if your notes are important to you, it's apparently unreliable. I had to sit through hours of lectures to get these notes, now I'm just out of luck and can't get them back or go to the lecture again. UPAD is terrible and a waste of time and money. I've emailed support, they said to make sure to have only the apps you are using open, and that my iPad had enough memory...I had one other app open and it's a brand new 32gb iPad, pretty sure that should be enough memory for the notes. I emailed them back letting them no this and asked for another solution, no response.

Update: A classmate of mine recently purchased UPAD as well and experienced the same problems after just the first day of use as well. Don't buy UPAD!

by BaronMH

Update#2: Seriously guys, you had the best note taking app on iTunes, but the lack of updates is killing UPAD . On an iPad3 I can not use the zoom entry box on PDFs anymore since it places the text anywhere other than its supposed to. I teach in large lecture halls, and used this app as a glorified over-head projector with my course notes, but its too embarrassing. You should start updating your website with the status of your work and fixes, otherwise I am going to be forced to spend time learning a new program, which once I do, you won't see me coming back. Please pay attention to Apple culture and user loyalty, if your product is not great, it will die, if it is great, you get the best marketing in the world from this user base, and bask in your success. Please fix it quickly!
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Update#1: Thnx this app for the retina update, waiting for the zoom text input and we are back to 4-5 stars.
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Went to teach this morning with my new iPad 3 and this app, but the video out signal was pixelated. Please update one of my favorite apps. I love showing it off to colleagues all the time.

by Don LaVange

UPAD does what it does nicely. The tools are nicely laid out and logically organized. The ink flow is smooth and beautiful, in fact it's easier to switch from drawing to writing and back using this than my other apps I use for notes. However, one thing that is a problem is the unpredictable auto advance for the closeup handwriting. Compared to Notetaker HD (which I LOVE, is more powerful, but perhaps less beautiful than UPAD) this app doesn't let me enter long streams of text without having to stop and see where the edit point is going to move.

In Notetaker HD, the "advance" is at the beginning of the writing area, so when you get to the end of the window, you just move to the beginning and keep writing. With this system though, when you remove your finger while it's in the hot zone at the end of the window it shifts... if you keep writing you've just written in a weird place.

I'm thinking I can get used to it, but I dislike it. When Dan Bricklin adds the sort of smoothing this and Penultimate have, I'll abandon this probably.

by Shawno7

I have been using this app in a professional setting for all note taking for the past two weeks. Overall, it is the best note-taking application currently available in terms of balance of features, interface, and ease of use. I have tried all the competitors (Penultimate, Notes Plus, Note Taker HD, Note Shelf, etc) and this application is the easiest and most efficient for hand written notes using a stylus. Sure there are some features that would be nice to have (hold to zoom and direct import of PPT files), but everything else is top notch.

Beyond the features, this app has an advantage in that the writing process is very fluid with minimal to zero delay between writing and the appearance of 'ink' on the screen. Other applications have a significant delay which is both ackward and can result in missed movements (for instance, an 'E' looking like a 'C').

Very happy with this one - three other people on my team have switched to this app.

by RhodesInChina

I love this app and was really saddened during its long hiatus to have to use a different app to do what this app does better. I am a graduate student and I do all of my reading (and that's a lot!) on my iPad, with this app as my primary app because it allows me to annotate and highlight and easily send my finished product back into the cloud. I was thrilled to see it updated and rapidly went back to it. I preferred the old folder format for pdf's, although can live with the current one, but recently, it has to back up when it opens. If it shuts down (which has been more frequent lately), I have had to wait for it to complete that process every time I start it back up. This is probably not bad enough to make me go to my other app, but it is still inconvenient and a rather new issue -- even after deleting many of the pdfs off of my iPad in case the large number was causing the hangups.

by Southdrexel

It's the best note taking app out there for sure. It offers a very intuitive and smooth writing experience, which many other apps simply fail to deliver. That said, it still needs more work in some areas.

1. Better sync options. this app should take a few clues from apps like Goodreader. Specifically, it would be great to have (pre-selected) notes converted to pdf format and synced with dropbox at the touch of a button. this app already has a dedicated section for PDF files (for annotation). Once it becomes possible to sync files or entire folders in that section with dropbox, it can simply maintain 'shadow' folders for the notes; these will keep pdf version of the notes (updated whenever the user wishes to) and will be automatically synced with dropbox.

2. Nesting folders. This is a must for organizing notes. I was surprised to find that it wasn't supported when this app first introduced folders.

by Kengarc

I'll try to keep this review really short. I tried a handful of note taking apps. And BLINDLY purchased Notetaker HD, PenUltimate and Notes plus -_- I wished i coulda just listened to my gut and bought this app. Disclaimer: I used to own a HTC View tablet; i'm very big on taking notes on tablets.

With this app, you can create folders, view/insert pdfs/pics, create shapes and lines. The palm rest feature is very good. The "zoom to write" feature is the best out of all the other note taking apps IMO.

Based on my research, Notes plus seems to have the best reviews on the web; the only thing that caught my attention on notes plus was the audio recording feature. However, it lacked the ability to import pdfs and images. Penultimate has the best ink simulation, but falls short on every other category. Notetaker HD user interface is super messy and the ink simulation is flat out ugly.

Furthermore, if audio recording is important to you, stick with notes plus. However, if you want a really good note taking app with simple interface, nice amount of tools for shapes and lines (for graphs) and the ability to export to email and pdf, download now. Lite version works just fine. Paid version allows you to use the VGA out feature (project to tv) which is another function that seems exclusive to the this app. (which i think is irrelevant if you have the ipad 2)

by Ahaurat

UPAD was already my favorite note taking app and now that it includes support for images in the "pad" view I'm even more impressed! Can't wait to incorporate this functionality into what I already do... I've used this app for teaching math and art classes (with a projector) and for note taking in my grad school classes. The grid view is really great for math along with the variety of tools (varying pen colors, thicknesses and highlighter). These features are also great for taking notes. Also handy is the ability to annotate pdf's. Most of my professors provide lecture notes in pdf format on their websites so I usually just pull them up and annotate them. I highly recommend UPAD for teachers and students.

I'd love to see more customizable sort options for files within the folders (by default they are sorted by date, not name). Now that I can bring images into my documents and draw on top of them I'm excited for all the new things I'll be able to do in my art classes! Great job this app developers!

by Dtrout243

I use this program in higher academia courses and have come to love the functionality of this software. If you have a stylus for the iPad, the handwriting recognition is really well done and I feel like I am actually writing a document or notes over some of the other products where they act a little sluggish in recognition. I have used this to take notes, give presentations to undergraduate students, scribble quick notes on image files, or just doodle (favorite past time!). The downloadable templates from the website, i.e. weekly and monthly calendars, have been a great help in scheduling appointments with students, faculty, and staff when i am away from my office and allows me to quick jot down items when they arise. For the price range, this is definitely worth the money.
Only thing I would like to probably see included would probably be a calculator program to help when i am doing some complicated equations, but that isn't a major necessity!

by Note Taker 53

I haven't written a review in my life, but I feel so passionate about this app. I have purchased and used most of the decent note taking apps: Penultimate (which is my second favorite), Bamboo Paper (writes nicely, but no notebooks), Note Taker HD, Notes Plus, and Paper Desk. The latter does not compare to the fluid writing and ease-of-use to this app! I take many phone calls a day and take notes of what our customers report to me, therefore, I have to write fast. this app keeps up with my productivity. I use it everyday and I love it! I have shown others in our company the power of this app and iPad together, and now, we may incorporate it at our company in the near future. Yes, it's that good! You may already have Penultimate, which is great, but if you are looking for a note-taking app to purchase with more to offer, don't waste your money on anything else but put your $ down on this app. I wish someone would have told me that before buying all the others. What would make this perfect? Add a cut/copy/ paste feature. Awesome!!!

by 123Accent

If I could rate UPAD higher, I would. I am a teacher in Thailand and lucky enough to have a projector in my classroom, but not lucky enough to have books! I love that I can use this app as a whiteboard and print them later for students who may have been absent. I can download PDF worksheets, and we can work out the problems "on the board" using a stylus. I can then upload anything to Facebook so that students can have them available as a future reference. Having them available on DropBox now is a bonus, as now I can have them available anywhere!

I am also a coordinator with weekly forms to complete, and it makes it easy to simply fill out the forms "by hand" immediately have an electronic copy for myself, and I can print them (with the help of Printopia) as well. Completing Lesson Plan forms is a snap as well, and required by our school. I can submit them electronically or print a copy out!

My one little request would be the ability to have folders within folder :)

by Andr9e

I had given up on UPAD because of the length of time it took to for them to update it and address certain issues however I think I see now what all the wait was about. Aside from the data loss I see people reporting in the comments when they updated I think the developers have truly delivered on UPAD. Fortunately for me data was not an issue when I updated so I have been putting UPAD through some rigorous testing and I must say I am impressed. The addition of cut paste, resize text and objects, refined zoom close up mode and floating toolbar are just some of the features that makes this update amazing. Oh and did I mention the ink quality! .....it is probably the best I have seen and having owned pretty much every note taking app in UPAD store I have Seen my fare share of what other note taking apps can do. The addition of elegantly designed horizontal scroll bars also make it possible to write directly on the screen more efficient. Is it perfect? No but it's pretty dam close and anyone who disagrees probably just needs to learn how to use UPAD .

by Mack Burnett III

As a mobile warrior who has lots of unnecessary meetings and ideas I need to capture, I was looking for a way of using my iPad to actually use as a PAD! The problem is most iPad writing applications aren't flexible enough for me not to have to have 2 or 3 supporting applications. I had to switch and switch again. It forced me to carry a yellow pad and my ipad.

this app has not only made the yellow disappear, but it has made me a star with both colleagues and clients. When I have agreements to review, I just import them, mark them up and send them out. When I need to explain what we're doing on a project, I take a screenshot and write on it. I can also draw attention with handwriting or importing text. The last piece of genius is that I can import and write on images that I can manipulate.

I use UPAD everyday and has made my like simpler, faster and everyone is asking me HOW I am doing it. Thank you this app for finally giving me a tool to make me truly mobile. I look forward to whatever new features you release and please let me know if you need testing or feedback... Thanks!

by Happily Overjoyed

I think I'm may be like most of us that have tried absolutely EVERY note taking app out there. this app has always been close to the top of my list, but I hadn't really used it until recently. The only thing that really kept me from using it all the time was the inability to have folders with covers. I didn't like that seemingly anyone could see everything that I'd written after I was finished. So I used other apps with folder covers. I finally started using this one again the other day after my normal note taking app started getting annoyingly sticky in zoom in writing. this app is so seemlessly smooth when I write. It's much more natural for writing since i can rest my entire hand on my ipad while in Zoom. I don't know why I've used anything else. I've gotten over the lack of really private folders for the best ease in writing. Thanks this app!