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Was great but ... Is STILL Great!
I don’t know if it was removed or there is a bug but my app doesn’t allow stylus + finger mode anymore. App is nearly unusable now that my finger keeps writing instead of manipulating the page.
**Update: The feature returned and then went away again. What am I doing wrong?
**Update: So apparently the Apple Pencil still works as a stylus even with the Bluetooth off. And the stylus + finger feature only works when APencil is “connected”.
I’m not going to say this is a bug. I’m guessing this feature is specifically for the featured styli. So that being said I restarred to 5 and would like to say this app is awesome. I have no other problems with it and for college purposes it’s perfect. Thanks to Notes Plus (and other apps and digital textbooks) my iPad is now the only thing I need for classes.Show lessGr8npowerful
Has a lot to praise!
I don’t usually take much time on writing reviews, but this one I just found very useful, and has a lot of potentials. You can tell the app maker must have worked really hard for this app! It has a lot of features for just a notetaking app!
It’s great for people who are visual and like to write in notes.
This is good for anyone who uses a lot of note taking, especially students or even drawing if you are good at it.
I like to experience with different apps, and I’ve tried good notes, evernote, penultimate, and a lot of some other notes taking apps. This one stands out the best among all. It pretty much cover most of other note taking apps features:
4 ink styles, any colors(with color number), tons of fonts, clipboard, 4 ways of deleting, different hand guesters(including left handed), audio, photo, camera close-up writing, vector shape recognition, a lot of page and cover backgrounds, handwriting recognition(OCR) in so many languages and be able to be searched all over too! It just has a ton of features.
Definitely recommend it! Way better than the ratings should be.Show lessShanluvtech
Good App But With Unfixed Glitches
I use this app a lot and generally love the way it works. Handwriting is well done, and it has several nice features for selecting and editing my writing. I also use it for taking notes on pdf files.
However one very annoying bug seems to be the Back (or Erase) button. After a few lines of writing, it seems to randomly activate, and what I just wrote immediately disappears. Sometimes hitting the Back button causes it to reappear! When taking notes in a meeting, this can be very frustrating.
So I would say it is a really good app I want to keep, and I have used it for literally hundreds of pages and dozens of files. I have contacted tech support more than once, but no fix is in sight. If the trend continues I may have to look for another handwriting app, though I have mastered the learning curve and would rather give it five stars!Show lessGoffstown Dave
Should have normal responses
I like the idea of this program and much of it works relatively as you would expect. However, I like to combine text with writing and the text part of the program is glitchy causing me to save, quit and restart often in one writing session. A few suggestions I hope get fixed SOON: when selecting a location to type in the T mode, the pages automatically scroll up, up, up, up every time and don’t select where I am touching. Weird and super frustrating. Also, when you select to delete a page, which the app creates blank pages seemingly randomly as you type or move text/notes, the app says you can’t. Undo this option but it doesn’t confirm the page you want to delete, so you just cross your fingers the right page gets deleted. Some times the text pages don’t have borders or are zoomed in randomly while other pages are the opposite, and as you scroll your work appears to have disappeared, then slowly reappears on the page. Hope you wait to make sure the page isn’t blank and then delete it! Lastly, if use return to move a section of text, the app will spread that section over multiple pages, often leaving just a few words on a few pages with the rest of the words on a few more pages. What?! Lastly, there is not option to save your document as one document. Instead, it is saved and exported with each page being a separate document. Why in the...?! Please fix these things, makers of Notes Plus!Show lessHC Stevens
Great app for handwriting but has hiccups
I use this app daily both at work and school. It is the perfect companion for the Ipad with Apple Pencil. It has many pro’s to the handwriting experience and have preferred this app to many others (goodnotes, metamoji, Notes, ect.) Good job building the app.
Nevertheless, I have to bring up the fact that lately the app is losing its credibility. I have had various features that have broken on me. When I got the app, getting files from dropbox was readily available. A while back, I could no longer reach dropbox through the app (had to find an alternative way to import files into the app). I cannot export recordings without having to disable icloud backup when transferring the files to my computer. Recently adding pages to a pdf, corrupts the files and all marks get shifted and messes the whole file. When renaming files, it gets messed up and shuts down. As you may expect, I’ve spent a bit of time having to find alternatives to these problems. I’ve sent request through their help service and have not gotten many responses to my requests. Hopefully this is not a negative trend team.
The app is a great product, but I hope the team gets on the ball with all of these required bug fixes.Show lessAddy111dffffffff
Not worth it for bad handwritters
I got this app purely because I wanted to convert my handwritten notes to text so that it’s easier to read because my handwriting is terrible. Well I read a review from an engineer who was raving about it, and engineers are also known for having bad handwriting. Well I’m a math and geophysics major and so handwritten notes are necessary because of all the symbols, but I would like to have legible notes. The handwriting to text conversion didn’t recognize ANY of my text. All of it was wrong. I regret buying this app. It’s a waste of money for me. It’s only useful because of that conversion, but if it doesn’t work for bad handwriting what’s even the point? It’s not as necessary to convert good handwriting to text as it is to convert bad handwriting to text. This in general was actually one of the biggest reason why I even wanted an iPad Pro, so my notes could be legible. There should at least be a free trial because I wouldn’t have bought it if I had known how bad the app was for what I needed it for. And the interfaces of free apps are a lot better than this one. I also hate that it erases things when I didn’t even scribble it out and then other times I scribble for like an entire minute and still doesn’t delete the thing. It’s so frustrating. Definitely not worth it.Show lessBaileyontherockz
Developer Response
Hi Debactor, we're so sorry that Notes Plus doesn't work right for you. If you try convert handwriting to text with our default Tips or Quick Start notebooks, you'll see the conversion result is pretty accurately. There are some tips can help to improve conversion result like: write in straight lines, leaving ample space between each line. Avoid complicated layouts, multiple columns etc. also write in clear horizontal blocks of text and make sure the recognition language is intended. I believe the result would be much improved if you follow these tips. Otherwise, we'd love to see some samples of your handwritten notes so we can offer further support to the matter. We've helped a lot of users to go paperless with our tool on their daily workflow/school and we're confident we can help you make the most out of Notes Plus. You can email us at support@notesplusapp.com for quick support.Just what I needed
This app is just what I've been looking for. I just got an iPad Pro as a gift along with the Apple Pencil. I remember the old Newton write recognition and was looking forward to doing similar on the iPad, as I take notes for research and other things. This app great, easy to use, and versatile.
Update
Since my last comment, NotesPlus has become an even greater part of my workflow. Using it for research notes, the ability to view, copy and paste directly from the internet while remaining in NotesPlus, export directly into Scrivener ( iOS version) projects, sketching with notes, all using my Apple Pencil. Like back in school, taking notes. It's surprising that Notes Plus hasn't been given the credit it deserves. It definitely stands up to its more popular competition. An extremely well thought out and well done application that has made my work easier.Show lessBCtripper
Best App for Writing, Bad for File Sizes
First and foremost, this is by far the best app for writing. I prefer pen and paper over typing, and I use a Lamy Safari fountain pen. This app is the closest to my penmanship on pen and paper, and so I love this app for that reason. I also like the functionality of working on PDFs from within the app and marking them up. The zoom feature is fantastic and is another important reason one should use this app.
However, my main issue is the file sizes when exporting. I had the same problem with an app on my old Samsung device when I wrote notes on top of a PDF. The file sizes when exporting to a PDF are tremendously large. If exporting three (3) hand-written pages, expect the file to be about 3MB. Compare this to a 6 page typed document that was converted to PDF and it is 56KB. Those three pages compose a 54x bigger file. This means that my notes from class, which can be over 50 pages (~1MB/page), would not even be able to be emailed as most emails only allow <25MB files. I know the reasons is because of the handwriting which seems to be vectors, but something needs to be done to make this more reasonable.Show lessCarterMDiv
Good but needs improvement
The app works very well, but I think a better palm rejection (much better) and I would really like to have ruler tool available like in apple notes. I'm an architect and often draw sketches right on the job sites, iPad if often just rested on my arm as I move through premises and take notes, draw sketches. I know there's an area that I can pull up for palm rejection but then it interferes with my sketches. Also some bugs need fixing, sometimes area where I write won't accept my Apple Pencil (not on the sides of the notes, but literally in the middle of the page), sometimes PDFs won't import into a folder that I have open but will save themselves after an import randomly in my files and sometimes when I use the magnified handwriting window it would write somewhere completely in a different area on the page. Also I would love to see a pencil tool added. Other then that it is awesome and when all works correctly it is super responsive and easy to use.Show lessNyakimiv
Fast and beautiful
I use this app as my electronic Engineering Notebook. I especially like the natural appearance of the inking engine. The pens can be tailored to mimic my pen on paper appearance almost to a tee! The conversion of written notes to text to make searchable notebooks is particularly handy, specially when searching for old data.
Notes Plus has relegated my other note apps to the archives. This app has won a coveted page 1 icon location! What also seems to set Notes Plus apart is the developers commitment to constantly improving the app. They gladly accept ideas and criticisms and will establish open dialog with their users to reach resolution.
Sure Notes Plus is not perfect ( yet ) but it has become my go to notebook app. There are some things I wish it did better but those issues are mainly one of personal preference. I do wish that the search function highlighted the found words on the page - I am told this is coming!
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This app is stupendous on the new iPad 10.5! I was considering getting the Pencil but the Adonit Pixel works so well with this app, and the new glass feels so smooth, it actually improved my handwriting. I did cooberate the graphics placement issue, but this was addressed nearly immediately.
I've worked with the team at Notes Plus and they are responsive and interested in me as a customer. I cannot recommend this app enough.Show lessiWanit
