# Flexcil Note & Good PDF Reader — user reviews

> 765 indexed App Store user reviews of Flexcil Note & Good PDF Reader by Flexcil Inc., rated 4.40/5 from 391 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flexcil-note-and-good-pdf-reader/id1531466462/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flexcil-note-and-good-pdf-reader/id1531466462.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 294 · 4★ 41 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 29

## What do users think of Flexcil Note & Good PDF Reader?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🚀 Best Apps for STUDENTS!!! 😀😀
- 👍 Love this app
- 🚀 Powerful multi-page PDF viewer
- 👍 Great for studying
- 👍 Excellent app for note taking
- 👍 Useful for research and reading
- 👍 Intuitive and customizable interface

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes and performance issues
- 🐛 Syncing and backup problems
- 🐛 Buggy handwriting recognition
- 🐛 Unreliable palm rejection
- 🐛 Missing key features from previous version

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Sudden data loss and file deletion
- Inability to restore purchases
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Inconsistent behavior of undo/redo functions
- Annotations not exporting correctly

**Most requested features**

- Add iCloud sync and backup
- Improve handwriting search and recognition
- Bring back reading mode and one-page scrolling
- Add more pen and brush options
- Allow customizing notebook paper styles
- Implement auto-save and version control

## Newest reviews (16 of 765)

### 3/5 — Needs Liquid Glass Implementation in the App

*2026-07-13*

All features are good, although there are a few nitpicks 

1. The fountain pen doesn’t work any different from the normal one.

2. The app starting time is slow, at least 4 - 6 seconds.

3. There’s no proper liquid glass implementation in the app, I tried Notes + app and really loved the look. It would look great on Flexcil too. 

4. Add an option for a floating toolbar, and give us the option to minimise the toolbar like in Apple Notes.

5. Give us an option to export multiple folders as .zip or .flex.

6. I loved this concept called layers in which we can edit the same document as multiple layers like one for glancing, one for detailed marking and one for overview.

### 3/5 — Automatically new folder opens

*2026-06-27, version 1.5.28*

Every time I open the app a new folder named KTVhttpcache opens… i am facing this issue from 2 weeks..this is very annoying….before that it was fine …overall a very useful app for ios…i hope they will solve the issue very soon

### 4/5 — I hope you can develop a layers feature soon.

*2026-05-14, version 1.5.26*

I really like your note-taking app, especially the screenshot, hyperlink, and PDF annotation features. However, I hope you can develop a layers feature soon. This way, I could practice multiple times on a single test paper or in my mistake notebook.

### 4/5 — 잘쓰고 있는데요 화면분할 업데이트 후에 계속 렉이 걸려요

*2026-03-17*

최근에 이중스크린이 업데이트 되면서 이중스크린 사용 중에 갑자기 한쪽 스크린이 클릭이 안되는 문제가 계속 발생합니다.. 공부어플인데 렉 걸릴때마다 공부 중이던 페이지를 전부 다 닫고서 다시 열어야해서 너무너무 힘듭니다. 이 문제는 빨리 해결해줘야하지 않나요? 해결되겠지하고 기다린게 2달인데 아직도 이래요

### 5/5 — Review

*2026-01-28*

Been this app for more than a year and didn’t face any issue . No limit with notebook ,folder . Quick slide notebook option is my fav . So many options . I am using without subscription and it’s very productive and efficient . Kudos to the app maker . Very satisfying.

### 3/5 — 배터리 광탈 이슈

*2026-01-20, version 1.5.17*

iPad pro M4 사용중입니다. Goodnotes 6에 비해 배터리 소모 속도가 2배 빠른데요. 저만 그런가요? 갤탭 S11은 괜찮네요. 2시간 반 정도 사용하면 풀충전에서 0%가 되는데... 혹시 관련해 보고된 것 없나요?

### 5/5 — Great for DND

*2025-12-17, version 1.5.15*

Been using this for a few days now and I’m in love. I’m hoping there aren’t limits to docs and pages but so far everything’s perfect

### 5/5 — Good

*2025-11-05, version 1.5.11*

Good

### 4/5 — 펜툴바가 상단에 있을 때 터치가 안됩니다.

*2025-11-02, version 1.5.11*

펜툴바가 상단에 있을 때 터치도 안되고 펜슬로도 터치가 안되서 쓰질 못하고 잇어요. 빠른 수정 부탁드려요!

### 5/5 — Need improvement

*2025-11-01*

The app is taking longer time to load the doc. And crash the document while uploading. While I open my existing document it’s takes 20 second to open the file. Please improve it.

### 5/5 — Best Apps for STUDENTS!!! 😀😀

*2025-10-23, version 1.5.10*

This is the best thing you can use as a student and is an amazing alternative to Goodnotes. THANK YOU SO MUCH!😀😁

### 3/5 — Apple Pencil pro squeeze menu

*2025-10-23, version 1.5.10*

I like the app a lot, though my note taking could be a lot faster if they add the pop up menu for Apple Pencil pro with the squeeze feature. Thank you.

### 5/5 — Love this app

*2025-10-15, version 1.5.9*

Good app

### 3/5 — Not Good for Cursive

*2025-10-15*

I’ve used this app for years and enjoyed it for note taking in class and for managing PDFs, however recently something must have been updated with the writing functions and now this app is incredibly annoying if you write in cursive. If you are writing in sequence too long & don’t lift your Apple Pencil (ie a longer word in cursive) it will erase the entire thing you’ve just written as soon as you eventually lift the pencil. This is very frustrating. It’s also an issue for highlighting large chunks, it will just erase the highlight once you finish. Please fix this!

### 4/5 — 2026年スケジュール

*2025-10-10, version 1.5.9*

スケジュールを使いたくてプレミアム購入しました。2026年のスケジュールはいつ頃ストアに出てきますか？

### 2/5 — 为什么所有颜色都变成了灰色？

*2025-10-09, version 1.5.9*

我的笔记上只有黑色的笔是正常颜色，其余的笔如红色、绿色等写出来都是灰色，且以前的笔记红色也变成了灰色，请赶快修复！！！！！

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — 개 발암

*2026-06-28, version 1.5.28*

이런거 진짜 잘 안쓰는데 왜 단어로 검색이 안되나요? 분명 있는 단어인데 안 찾아짐. 시험 공부할 때 진심 발암임. 오류 수정 좀 하세요.......5년째 쓰는중인데 어떻게 앱이 다운그레이드 되는건지 의문임

### 1/5 — Djvu support would be appreciated

*2026-05-26, version 1.5.26*

Although not the best for taking notes, probably the best for reading PDFs
Edit. Ads make the experience much worse. Considering switching.

### 1/5 — FILES GETTING DELETED

*2026-02-12, version 1.5.18*

Files keep getting deleted on its own in the middle of me working on it. Its actually so frustrating because it happened so many times at least three times. The files were not even in the trash, it just vanished. All the work are constantly getting deleted although i am using the premium. Also, settings dont get saved such as display so i have to set it again everytime i use it. Tried emailing and asking for help MANY timed but no response and no one tries to help. This app is so unstable and keeps crashing with major problems like data loss (i have premium and have synced to my cloud but everything is just lose)

### 1/5 — Испортили приложение «улучшениями»

*2025-12-02*

Было очень хорошее приложение, пока его не испортили напрочь всякими абсолютно не нужными онлайн-возможностям и синхронизациями. Теперь при запуске дико тормозит, всё время требует куда-то залогиниться, и пользоваться стало практически невозможно.

### 1/5 — バグが多い

*2025-10-06, version 1.5.9*

何故か特定のファイルだけ削除した覚えがないのに消えていた。重要なファイルだったのでとても困った。

### 1/5 — Tape is Annoying

*2025-09-28, version 1.5.9*

Needs Not drawing Tape by tap, All tapes on/off button

### 1/5 — The app itself is good but not good at storing files.

*2025-09-26, version 1.5.9*

There are a lot of functions which students can benefit from but recently I lost data twice and the developer asks you to send google drive link and force you to download app from iMazing or whatever. So extensive recovery. I wish the app didnt crash in the beginning so I dont have to waste my time on how the recovery work. There is no guarantee whether if my data will get recovered. Time is essence and this app has wasted my time. Maybe find some other more durable note taking app until they make more solid foundation.

### 1/5 — No a la Última actualización

*2025-09-25, version 1.5.8*

Al actualizar borra todo y al tratar de abrir cualquier documento,esto se cierra el programa, además pide pago de nuevo

### 1/5 — 更新之後資料就全沒了

*2025-09-15, version 1.5.6*

每次更新都有bug 建議買其他家的筆記軟體

### 1/5 — 꼭 수동 백업 해두세요.

*2025-09-13, version 1.5.6*

업데이트 최악입니다. 와이파이 없으면 로그인이 안 되고, 로그인을 안 하면 어플 사용을 아예 못 하는 게 말이 되나요? 와이파이가 없는 환경에서는 파일 접근 조차 못하는 필기 앱이 어디 있나요. 아이패드에서 자동로그인도 안 돼서 매번 휴대폰으로 구글 로그인 수락을 해줘야 하니 매우 불편합니다. 로그인 안 해도 사용할 수 있게 되돌려주세요. (아직 로그인 안 하신 분들은 ‘다음에 하기’ 누르면서 최대한 미루세요. 그리고 파일 수동 백업 꼭 해두세요.)

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Carried me thru Med school

*2026-07-23, version 1.5.31*

Needs to have higher rating than goodnotes and notability

### 5/5 — Premium user - Major issues after most recent update (All fixed now!)

*2026-07-15*

[Update: All issues below were resolved within 1 DAY of my request. Thanks for the quick response 🙏]
Some issues:
1. I can’t add pages at the bottom of existing and new documents anymore. Every time I click the “+” button the app shuts down.
2. I can’t add pages in between the pages of existing documents. The app also shuts down every time I click the “+” button.
3. The document-specific settings, such as “pinching out to view page list” doesn’t conserve across sessions, meaning every time I open the app, the setting is reset.

OTHER THAN THE ISSUES ABOVE, THIS APP IS SO WORTH THE MONEY!

### 5/5 — Great for iPad and Studenrs

*2026-06-12, version 1.5.27*

you can upload docs and annotate really easily on here. It has good organisation features, for folders and notes. I use this for University and it’s great. (Free)

### 5/5 — Best budget pdf reader.

*2026-05-23*

Im using this reader for a while and the most useful feature for me is outline. It really helped me organise my PYQs. 
But one suggestion would be add page rotation feature. 
Other than that everything works really well.

### 5/5 — 뷰어와 필기를 동시에 사용하기에 좋음

*2026-05-06, version 1.5.26*

두 개 문서를 같이 띄우고 필기하며 발췌하기도 좋습니다

### 5/5 — W

*2026-05-06, version 1.5.26*

SO HELPFUL

### 5/5 — just an amazing app

*2026-04-07, version 1.5.24*

the app is just perfect, no annoying adds it has folders and everything you might need.

### 5/5 — So helpful!

*2026-03-12, version 1.5.22*

Best note taking app

### 5/5 — So good

*2026-02-22, version 1.5.19*

Love this app because it’s so simple. I can make any notes I want or insert a PDF and then draw on that. So good. The premium is worth getting but the free stuff is also really good.

### 5/5 — Best suited for annotating pdfs, simple and easy to use😊

*2026-02-11, version 1.5.18*

I initially used it for note-taking, but I later discovered its functionality goes far beyond that. It has almost all the common features of GoodNotes, OneNote, and Notability, and it's even more convenient to use. I love it!

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