# Mental Note for iPad ๛ — user reviews > 149 indexed App Store user reviews of Mental Note for iPad ๛ by Zymbiotic Technologies, rated 2.70/5 from 6 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mental-note-for-ipad/id364091207/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mental-note-for-ipad/id364091207.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (15 of 149) ### 3/5 — Significant lag in notes with lots of text *2023-04-10* I use this app all the time. It's a place where all the little odds & ends and tidbits of info get stashed. I notice that when a note gets a lot of text (say 1,400+ words), there is a noticable lag for any action in that note (say...typing, or moving around the note using arrow keys on a keyboard). This does not effect other notes in the app. So if one note has 1,500 words...noticable lag, but typing in another note that has only 100 words, works just fine. There are other issues with this app, but this is the one that's currently bugging me. However, it *still* is my go to note app. **Developer response:** Here are a couple suggestions when working with a large amount of text. 1. Try small blocks of text: This may help with typing speed, moving around the note, and note taking in general. When you're working on a note, consider breaking up new thoughts or sections of the note with sketch lines. This will only work when you're creating a new note. One possible workflow might go like this: You create a new note, typing some text into the note. Then, before adding a new idea to the note, grab the sketch pen, and draw a horizontal line in the empty part of the page beneath the text you just typed. Tap Done, then tap in the blank part of the page beneath the line and type a new idea into the note. This may help make smaller text blocks, and help organize the thoughts in the note. It's like when you're working with pen and paper you might write an idea, then draw a line across the page, and start a new idea beneath the line. Please contact us by email at support@zymbiotic.com so we can send you a screenshot demonstrating this idea. Please note you need to: type, sketch, then type for this to work, (i.e. it will not work if you type everything and try to go back and draw sketch lines in between already typed text). You may have to re-create those notes with really long sections of text by copy-pasting sections into a new note and sectioning off (e.g. with a sketch line or a photo) at relevant points in the note to make some smaller chunks of text. Please let us know if you are going to recreate the note as we can send some additional tips (please contact us by email for more info). 2. Try multiple notes organized by tag and note linking: Another thought is to use a number of smaller notes, and those can be grouped together with tags. Special note links may help organize the notes as well - read more about that here: https://www.zymbiotic.com/usingmentalnote/notelink Please get in touch with us at support@zymbiotic.com to discuss this further, or for assistance with any issue. Thanks for using Mental Note! ### 3/5 — Adding colors & bold & italics to text. *2016-01-08, version 3.5* Would be awesome if we could use colors to text & also have BIU options like in notes app. ### 4/5 — Pheww!! *2014-11-20, version 3.5* This app helped me out so much this semester! If your in college I recommend this app to you. P.S. if you want to write in detail zoom in and write. Also if your looking to zoom in an image, screen shoot it, crop it in the regular photo app that comes with your iPad and just simply place the image in the note. You can write on it it's so easy. ### 3/5 — Недоработано *2014-09-11, version 3.5* Нельзя поменять шрифт отдельного слова, только всего текста. Хочется как-то оформить разными шрифтами, ну, хотя бы жирным или курсивом. Карта не работает. Это пока то, что бросилось в глаза при первом включении ### 3/5 — Bellissima app peccato no supporto jot touch! *2014-05-30, version 3.5* Bellissima applicazione, peccato non ci sia il, supporto per jot touch 4 sarebbe bellissimo, registra audio solamente con app in primo piano no backgroud, se le sistemate e perfetta la migliore applicazione di note su store ### 4/5 — Super! *2014-02-07, version 3.4.3* Ein echt nahezu perfekter Ersatz für die Apple Notizen App. Das arbeiten damit ist echt klasse, ebenso die Möglichkeiten. 3 technische Dinge vermisse ich: 1. Import aus oder noch besser Sync (dann erübrigt sich Punkt 2.) mit der Apple Notizen App 2. Eine echte realtime Syncfunction. Das eingebaute Handling mittels Export und Import ist umständlich, wenn man nur sein iPhone und sein iPad synchron halten will. 3. Drucken Funktion fehlt. Edit: Geht doch, über Export Other Apps kommt der iOS Dialog über den man auchdrucken kann. In English: Nearly perfect Notes App, as replacement for the original Apple Notes App. Possibilites and usabilty is great. 3 technical things i am missing: 1. Import from or better sync (with sync, option 2. is not needed) with the Apple Notes App. 2. Realtime sync function. The current Export/Import handling is not good usability just holding same data on an iPhone and an iPad. 3. Printing is not possible. Edit: It works, i was wrong! Use export other apps, iOS dialog is coming up with print possibility. ### 3/5 — Has Potential - Possibly Only Note-taking App with GPS Locations *2014-02-07, version 3.4.3* Nice app. I'm mostly happy with the program. I LOVE that it embeds GPS and city/state data in my notes so I can search my library by location. Unfortunately more than half of the time I take a picture from inside the app, it crashes and goes back to the home screen. Please fix this bug. I wish there were easier ways to scroll while handwriting notes and switching options while taking notes. Recommended but could be better. ### 2/5 — Flawed *2013-11-03, version 3.4.3* iCloud syncing doesn't work. Please fix this. When you go to a second device it just hangs trying to import the sync data. ### 3/5 — Make the synchronization between the ipad and iphone *2013-09-17, version 3.3* Сделайте синхронизацию между ipad и iphone версиями Make the synchronization between the ipad and iphone versions ### 4/5 — App eccellente se si usa con una buona penna *2013-09-03, version 3.3* Decisamente un'ottima app. ### 3/5 — Great app, absolutely, but... *2013-06-18, version 3.3* This is a great iPad app, almost exceptional, but for some reason they can't figure out how to make it synch automatically with another iPad,or a mini iPad. You have to do a separate Restore--in other words, it's an unnecessary pain in the neck. Other apps have a seamless synch. If this one did, it would be the #1 app out there. ### 3/5 — Не очень *2013-05-14, version 3.3* Качество изображения ужасное, соответственно и при экспорте в PDF получается отвратительное. Картинки нельзя позиционировать, только менять размер. Они просто добавляются посередине страницы, и потом с ними ничего не сделаешь. Качество аудиозаписей тоже оставляет желать лучшего. Из плюсов- теги и возможность выставлять аудио в конкретном месте документа. И все. ### 4/5 — Muito bom *2013-05-06, version 3.3* Muito bom o app mas as vezes pouco flexivel em termos de fontes e manuseio das figuras. Pode evoluir. Mas um dos melhores que eu testei até hoje para essa finalidade. ### 4/5 — Recording problem *2013-03-26, version 3.2* Problem： Recorded nothing when you pressed the home button accidentally。（If you can fix this， it will be a perfect Apps。） ### 3/5 — Excellent stat *2013-01-22, version 3.2* Very fast and very feature rich. Needs to be able to edit pictures after placing and resize or move them around. Very good start though. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointed! FURIOUS! *2019-06-02* Great if you don’t want to forward or export your notes, audio / images. It appears that there are tremendous technical support issues. Mental Note gives a false impression that the notes get sent, no error messages to the contrary return message and find that 2 months after emailing notes to clients that they were lost in space. I only discovered this because my new boss kept saying he didn’t get the notes which means my accounts from the convention and new clients didn’t either. When uploading to Drop Box it doesn’t keep any format and randomly you get 60 audio messages in your folder which means it’s completely useless. I thought I was being so efficient by sending notes to my accounts within minutes of them leaving the convention showroom from when they toured. No way to contact this Mental Note company, settings doesn’t allow you to troubleshoot. **Developer response:** Sorry that you are so disappointed and angry. In a number of emails between yourself and our company support email address (support@zymbiotic.com) we did discuss how Mental Note hands the note off to Mail to complete the email send, as is typical with most apps using email on iOS. We talked about how email may be sent right away or may be queued by Mail to be sent, and we suggested trying sending from an alternate email address in case certain mail providers have certain unknown email sending limitations. Export of notes is an extremely important feature, please see here for detailed export instructions: https://www.zymbiotic.com/usingmentalnote/exporting. Exporting to Dropbox as PDF will place a PDF document in the exported folder, along with any audio recordings contained in the note. The recordings have filenames which correspond to the same name used in the exported PDF document. The use of Mental Note is ideal in a tradeshow or convention showroom environment, unfortunately it is difficult to say whether network or email provider issues prevented your emails from being sent. One possibility which wasn't discussed before is the "60 audio" recordings. It was unclear if the 60 recordings were exported due to a single note export or if that happened when you used the "Export All" feature. Though having 60 audio recordings in a single note is definitely possible from a technical stand point, from a usability stand point that might mean all your client interactions from the tradeshow were going into a single note — which may not have been what you wanted. Though it is possible you could have had 60 audio recordings in a single note, if exported to email, that would cause more than 60 email attachments to be added to the email. Mental Note has a built-in check for attachment size limit — if the total email attachments would be more than 10 MB, Mental Note itself would not present the option to export with email. So if the Mental Note export option "Email" was used that means total attachment size was under 10 MB which any email provider should be able to handle. It is possible that certain email providers could have limits as to the number of items attached to an email; this might result in an email provider sending the message, but without the attachment(s) — do we know if recipients received an email but without an attachment? Another possibility which wasn't previously discussed is what if the recipients received the email message, but with an attachment that they didn't know how to open? The typical way of exporting with email is to use the "PDF to Email" option — that would have sent a PDF and all audio as attachments which anyone could open. If "Note" format was used that would have sent the message in a special Mental Note format which would have required the user to have Mental Note to open the note. Do you recall which format you attempted to use when you exported by email? Please get back in touch with us so we can try to find out what went wrong. ### 1/5 — Inutile *2015-08-28, version 3.5* App inutile in quanto non e' possibile appoggiare il polso altrimenti il touch screen non segna il tratto, pertanto diventa scomodissimo. Spero lo sviluppatore intervenga a riguardo altrimenti ho buttato via 5 euro e comunque mai piu' app a pagamento senza averle prima provate. ### 1/5 — Lack of colours *2014-11-14, version 3.5* I feel having paid for this app that there actually isn't much to it, bought it too fast, the instruction manual shows great icons, but the app is like Johnny age 5 drawing, also there are only 4 colours available, very little range. Shame ### 1/5 — Uma merda *2014-05-13, version 3.5* Uma merda. Uma vez selecionada a foto, está não pode ser recortada, diminuída. Não é possível mudar a foto de lugar, ficando sempre no centro da folha e assim não da para escrever ao lado dela. Péssimo, pessimo, pessimo!!!! ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2014-04-30, version 3.5* Pl do not waste money on this app, I did and it does not work at all, It's very frustrating, do not not buy this ### 1/5 — For class *2013-10-15, version 3.4.1* If you are using this app for class not good, sometimes the recording will delete on you. ### 1/5 — Not good *2013-06-17, version 3.3* Update is very rare. And u will find somthing which say express speaking. ### 1/5 — Not worth the price *2013-04-01, version 3.2* I bought this app trying to write on a picture to email or iMessage You can't iMessage and the email become and attachment not the body of the email, and the result is way to small for reading Over all not very pleasant design. Very simple app Don't waist your money ### 1/5 — 정말 형편없음. *2012-05-04, version 2.6.6* 어플의 의도는 참 좋은데, 버그가 너무 많음. 결국 쓰지를 못함.ㅠㅠ ### 1/5 — Can't use since update *2012-02-10, version 2.6.6* Sorry I updated this. When go click on it, it comes up and then disappears. Lot of good it's doing me and have even deleted and reinstalled, which now lost what was in there. STILL NOT WORKING!!!!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent update!!!!! *2024-08-21, version 3.17.1* The new update makes this the best notepad since star trek and a reality, perhaps a free lite version would convince anyone there is nothing like mental notes, a must have!! ### 5/5 — Simple enough *2020-06-28, version 3.14.3* App is simple enough yet has all the tools needed. Nice! ### 5/5 — Понятная, удобная программа *2019-09-20, version 3.13.3* Пользуюсь и доволен. Все нравится. Возможность ставить пароль на отдельные проекты 👍 ### 5/5 — Best *2019-01-09, version 3.12.2* Been using it for years. Still the best and very convenient. ### 5/5 — Быстро, Интуитивно, Понятно! *2014-04-11, version 3.5* Толково сбалансирован, не перегружен. Паролится, рисуется, диктофонится, фотится, дропбоксится, делится по тэгам, синхронится с родным календарем - всё шо мне надо! Спасибо разработчикам! ### 5/5 — Excellent lab notebook is getting better and better *2014-04-03, version 3.5* This program is a real bargain considering all of the features and capabilities. Pictures, annotations, and notes are critical to documenting lab experiments. And now with the time stamp feature, we can have a chronology of every step in our experiments. ### 5/5 — Great App *2012-12-11, version 3.1.1* This app is great. I really enjoy using it as a teacher in my classroom (great for assessment). I had some issues with the previous version crashing, however the current 3.1.1. version is wonderful! The support that I received was awesome! They helped me through my questions and followed up to ensure that I was satisfied with the app and their support. Great Job! Definitely recommended. ### 5/5 — Здорово! *2012-05-25, version 2.6.6* Спасибо большое за отличный блокнот и органайзер. Всем советую качать!!:) ### 5/5 — Love it! *2012-02-15, version 2.6.6* Awesome App! I highly recommend to anyone looking to keep day to day notes organized. I would love to see the Developers add the ability to utilize bullets or underlining of text. ### 5/5 — good *2011-12-12, version 2.6.4* good --- *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 2026-07-29.*