# BoardNotes: Whiteboard & PDF — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of BoardNotes by Chongqing Ouluowa Technology Co., Ltd., rated 4.70/5 from 111 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boardnotes-whiteboard-and-pdf/id6448847544/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boardnotes-whiteboard-and-pdf/id6448847544.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 92 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 4 ## Newest reviews (12 of 42) ### 4/5 — Export Annotations *2025-12-13* Good product with a few limitations. Like the search functions. But there is no way I can see to export annotations. Also would be helpful if the user manual had an English version. ### 4/5 — Great App, could use improvement *2025-10-15* This app had been really great for research and study. I would like better synching between my ipad and my mac, handwriting notes i make on the ipad aren’t showing up on the mac and vice versa. It would also br nice if we can add stickers from apple’s emoji keyboard as well as add pre drawn shapes. ### 4/5 — Handwriting search *2025-10-09, version 1.1.3* It would be nice to have a handwriting recognition and be able to search for specific words after. ### 4/5 — 急需优化防误触 *2025-06-18* 从一年前使用这个软件开始，我就发现手掌极其容易误触，用到今天实在忍不了了，来反馈一下，手放在屏幕上，落笔的时候经常屏幕抽搐。提议：设计成笔尖接近屏幕到一段距离时（比如屏幕上显示出落笔点的时候），直接屏蔽手的触控，就能解决这个问题 ### 5/5 — انا بحاجة هذا الحساب 🙏🙏🙏🙏 *2024-09-13* Please, how do I get my account back? I have a book that contains all my notes. I deleted the app and downloaded it, but the account has not been returned?? **Developer response:** Please contact us by email, 1339717879@qq.com ### 4/5 — Decent but some spelling mistakes in the menus and buttons *2024-08-27* Decent app but has a lot of spelling mistakes in the buttons and menus which detracts from the experience. **Developer response:** Thank you for the feedback. These issues will be fixed in the next version ### 5/5 — A surprisingly good app *2024-08-26* For the price, this is actually quite a decent app. I was using MarginNote but that interface is a bit complicated. This app offers similar features such as the mindmap but less complicated. I was using Noteful to annotate pdfs but actually this works better. I'm able to see a summary of all my highlights and excerpts which Noteful does not offer. It has all the features of the other more expensive subscription for much less. I hope they keep refining it and improving it but it's already pretty. ### 5/5 — A hidden gem! *2024-08-03* Wow!I just found a diamond in the rough. I have downloaded just about every note taking, mind mapping, whiteboard and annotation app, and this one combines all of these apps together in one. I was resigned to paying a yearly fee for another app that is not as robust as this one. They all seem to be missing one or two features I desperately wanted but this app includes them all. The developer has clearly paid attention to detail. The handbook and English translations are excellent as well as the Apple Pencil integration. The free version provides full use of all the tools. The full upgraded version is extremely affordable.. and no subscription. It took me a day to figure out when to use my pencil vs when to use my finger to make the proper edits that I wanted. The privacy policy is a bit suspect, but so far my iPad has not registered any data access by this app. Thank you to the developer. Keep up the good work ! Update: after switching UI interface to dark mode, the gear icon to access app settings is gone. I can not access the in-app portal to submit for help. This is the only place I can seem to reach you. **Developer response:** Thanks for your support ### 5/5 — 总体非常满意！ *2024-06-12* 各方面功能都超级棒！！！ 就是可不可以多一点笔刷（带笔锋的那种） 还有就是有可以查找自己写的字这个功能就更好了 ### 5/5 — Best note taking/planner/pdf annotation app I use *2024-05-20, version 0.5.3* I’m new to the whole note taking thing. Before this, I mostly plan using Google keep, calendar and notes on iPad. This app has given me the opportunity to use templates bought online or on Etsy. I can have an infinite whiteboard where I can create a vision board or plan. I don’t know how I went through life without organizing my thoughts through this. I also like that I just paid a one time fee and I can use it when I want. I really hate subscriptions to various things because I can’t keep track of how many I have and it feels ridiculous to need to pay so much per month or year to use something that should be available to as many people as possible to help their life be more productive. I adore the notes app on iPad because of the way the pencil behaves. When I saw that this app has a similar layout but with an infinite board and better organization for PDFs, planners. I immediately bought this. Noteful is also great. But I find myself using this more purely because of the pencil ### 4/5 — 增加WebDAV功能和markdown编辑查看功能 *2024-04-15* 希望能有WebDAV功能，结合坚果云进行zotero文献管理与同步就太方便了 markdown文件导入/打开时中文字体显示异常，希望增加markdown功能。像PDF expert一样 ### 4/5 — WebDAV功能 *2024-03-28* 希望能有WebDAV功能，结合坚果云进行zotero文献管理与同步就太方便了 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Utter disappointment: Unstable App *2026-01-03, version 1.2.0* After creating several whiteboards within Boardnotes, it has been erasing all of my whiteboards, even while I am working in them. There is not automatic backup, which means that months of hard work is wiped out without warning 😦! ### 1/5 — 发烫 *2025-04-24* m2芯片使用一个半小时掉电百分之六十，发烫很严重 **Developer response:** 你好 使用自研钢笔会省电一些。关闭 icloud 同步，需要同步数据时再打开也会省电一些。 ### 1/5 — 开发者是跑路了吗 *2024-11-17* 最近bug不断，搜索功能一用秒卡出应用，没跑路的话知会我一下，焦灼地等待更新 **Developer response:** 你好 我们使用的苹果 PDF 阅读器，和图书 app 和文件 app 中一样的。如果搜索就闪退，应该是内存达到设备极限了。这个暂时只能等以后苹果来优化这个问题了。大部分的 PDF 是可以正常使用的。 另外一个，我们是不会跑路的，我们差不多一两周就会更新一个版本。 ### 1/5 — Can’t create a new note book *2024-08-28* I’m the vip member, idk why I can’t create a note book or any thing new. I’m pretty sure is the problem of app. I also try to restart my iPads, but it’s not working. **Developer response:** Please contact us via email 1339717879@qq.com We will assist you in resolving this issue. ### 1/5 — 恶性bug恶心人！ *2024-01-12, version 0.4.1* 我上课笔记写着写着就崩溃了，整个课件之后打开就一片空白没法操作！重启也没用，真的很坑！求回复解决方法！ ### 1/5 — 连续两天录音丢失！！ *2023-09-12* 请问录音是有上限吗！！！！每次录音录着录着就突然没有了而且也没有保存下来 录音很重要结果却这样真的是太差了 **Developer response:** 不好意思，录音时请不要退出后台或者息屏，如果退出了后台或者息屏时间久了，app 会被操作系统终止，从而导致录音无法保存 ### 3/5 — battery *2025-12-01* this is an amazing app all with features i love but the only caveat is, is that it burns up my battery pretty quick. my ipad also gets extremely hot when using and though i turned off all the suggested features in the faq, it still goes quick so i'm on the fence of switching to another note taking app ### 3/5 — 新版本似乎解决了同步问题，但是又发现一个新bug *2024-03-18, version 0.4.7* 如题。但其他功能很好用。 请程序员注意软件设计的逻辑问题。当用橡皮后，如果选择笔的颜色则无法直接切换成相应笔刷。难道说橡皮也有颜色？个人认为一般使用完橡皮擦除错误的地方之后大概率应该用先前笔刷重写。所以，按道理说使用完橡皮无论选笔还是颜色应该都是笔刷。不知道程序员能不能明白我在说什么。如果不知道欢迎联系我讨论。 最近又发现一个bug: 套索工具选中文字后没有剪切按钮。只有先套索选中然后裁剪，关闭裁剪才会出现剪切菜单选项。 ### 4/5 — Feature Requests *2026-03-02* A try worthwhile notetaking app for medical students, but a couple things would streamline/make it less inconvenient. Would it be possible to make the “add to cards” a bit faster, like an instant tool or button for it the way Kilonotes has? Also it would be great to view carded items in a sidebar in the whiteboard and color coding for pins in the menu would also be great! A major necessity is to be able to change the opacity of images so I can overlay them and a faster way to copy images from the whiteboard to another app, as right now it requires me to lasso, take a screenshot, then copy. ### 4/5 — Let me sync to google drive!! *2026-01-27* Only problem I have is that I can only sync to iCloud but not google drive or any other cloud service ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A hidden gem! *2026-06-02* I like this app more everyday. Lots of nice surprises, like the extra functions on the pen and marker/highlighter tools. Truly the swiss army knife of note taking apps. ### 5/5 — I have finally found the one *2026-05-09, version 1.2.9* Thank you so much. I don’t have to pay I LOVE YOU genuinely thank youuuu. It has it all, I can be anything or anyone I want. I can even use the fonts I have downloaded on my computer. YES! ### 5/5 — Excellent ‼️ *2026-05-02, version 1.2.9* This app is perfect, best out of any I’ve come across. ### 5/5 — Android app *2025-12-04, version 1.1.8* Can you please make like this to android ? ### 5/5 — So impressed! *2025-11-16, version 1.1.7* This app keeps getting better and better with every update. ### 5/5 — 增加WebDAV功能和markdown编辑查看功能 *2025-10-11* 希望能有WebDAV功能，结合坚果云进行zotero文献管理与同步就太方便了 markdown文件导入/打开时中文字体显示异常，希望增加markdown功能。像PDF expert一样 ### 5/5 — 增加WebDAV功能和markdown编辑查看功能 *2025-05-11* 希望能有WebDAV功能，结合坚果云进行zotero文献管理与同步就太方便了 markdown文件导入/打开时中文字体显示异常，希望增加markdown功能。像PDF expert一样 ### 5/5 — A problem with the tip *2025-04-29* Dear Support Team, I'm writing to report an issue .. I’m experiencing with my Apple Pencil Pro on my iPad Pro M4 while annotating PDF files using [BoardNotes; Whiteboard & PDF]. When I bring the pencil close to the screen to write, only the pencil's shadow appears without the pencil tip. This issue only occurs when I'm working on PDF files, but the pencil works perfectly fine when using the Whiteboard or Notebook features within the app. I've updated the app to the latest version to ensure I have all the latest features and fixes. I've purchased the VIP subscription, which includes all premium features and support. My device details are: - iPad model: Ipad Pro M4 - Apple Pencil model: Apple Pencil Pro - App version: [v0.9.8] Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. I look forward to your assistance in resolving this issue. ### 5/5 — Promising *2025-03-07* Just stumbled upon this and good work so far! A couple things: 1. It would be awesome if PDF embeds in the whiteboard were as vectors; currently they look blurry. 2. I swear my drawing with wacom one on mac looks worse than usual, maybe brush paths can be improved? Maybe look at how “Rnote” does both of these things. It’s on github and there’s a macos build. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Sync way better than marginNote 4 *2025-03-01, version 0.8.7* I spent at least more than a week stress and work on how to sync the marginNote 4. And it still not working well, which make me very sad and angry. But BoardNote help me with all my need! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*