# MyScript Notes: AI Handwriting — user reviews > 2,177 indexed App Store user reviews of MyScript Notes by MyScript, rated 4.70/5 from 38,487 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/myscript-notes-ai-handwriting/id1119601770/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/myscript-notes-ai-handwriting/id1119601770.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 32,330 · 4★ 3,926 · 3★ 1,002 · 2★ 408 · 1★ 821 ## What do users think of MyScript Notes? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent handwriting recognition - 👍 Intuitive and responsive interface - 💡 Useful gestures and shortcuts - 🚀 Fast conversion of handwriting to text - 👍 Ability to organize notes in notebooks and collections - 👍 Smooth writing experience with Apple Pencil **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and freezes - 🐛 Issues with syncing and data loss - 🐛 Inconsistent behavior with formatting and editing - 💡 Lack of keyboard support and text editing features - 💡 Limited customization options for paper styles and fonts - 🐛 Problems with recognizing symbols, equations, and diagrams **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when importing large documents - Handwriting recognition fails for certain symbols and abbreviations - Formatting issues when converting handwritten notes to text - Sync issues leading to data loss across devices - Inability to move or rearrange pages within notebooks **Most requested features** - Add support for keyboard input and text editing - Improve syncing and backup functionality - Introduce more customization options for paper styles and fonts - Enhance diagram and equation handling capabilities - Implement better collaboration and sharing features - Add support for dark mode and night-friendly themes ## Newest reviews (15 of 2,177) ### 4/5 — Requesting shortcut for “Create document” *2026-08-25, version 7.4.4* Just started using the app and it looks great so far for handwriting to text conversion. I want to request a feature - for iOS, can also allow creating Documents (just like Board & notebook) from “Shortcuts” in apple? ### 3/5 — OK, but Needs Work *2026-08-14, version 7.4.4* I hope to see improvements on the typing function where a hard press on the typewriter icon will allow you to se the fonts prior to typing. Maybe allow the eraser tool to erase highlights only rather than the typed material, as you can select the type and delete it anyway. Also does it always have to open the pages screen on the left if you’ve closed it once. I appreciate it has a one-time payment option because that’s a rarity. ### 4/5 — Great for its purpose *2026-08-06, version 7.4.4* I’ve been using this app for uni for a bit more than a semester. I really love the simplicity and how easy it is to use. It has everything I need to help me study efficiently compared to actually handwriting. Considering one of the target audiences are uni students (such as myself), I think it would be beneficial to include more organisational elements. Such as being able to archive collections, having folders within folders, etc. Another small thing I noticed is I haven’t been able to copy paste links into the documents. ### 4/5 — Lasso won’t move selected *2026-07-08, version 7.4.3* When I use lasso, I can’t move selected, please make an update and make sure the update makes the lasso tool move selected items. And resize won’t work either. ### 4/5 — AI? Quizzes? Keep it simple, stupid! *2026-06-30, version 7.4.3* I agree with Steve@Aberdeen’s review. This app does everything you need from a note-taking app, and does it very well. Its handwriting recognition in particular is superb – far better than any others. But the authors are starting to add distracting bells and whistles. It links to some kind of AI engine. You can set up a “Study Space”, which is an automated way of producing an interactive quiz from your notes. FFS – just focus on being the best note-taking app out there, and cut out all the ridiculous distractions. ### 2/5 — Great at notetaking horrible at syncing *2026-06-26, version 7.4.3* I got this app because I needed something that did very well with handwritten recognition as well as backed up to a cloud base server. I am in and out of clients homes on a regular basis and had left my notebook full of Client notes accidentally in someone’s house a few times. The notes were probably worth thousands of dollars to me. I got the app because of its ability to recognize handwriting as well as to sync to a cloud base server. The app does one of these well. the syncing is horrible multiple times a week I have to reconnect it to the server. I can never trust that. It’s actually backing up my notes and always have to be double checking. In this day and age when things back up automatically, it is very annoying to have to be double checking to make sure your backup solution is actually working. By the way, I paid for a lifetime, premium subscription, so I’m not just trying to do this without paying for it. I also paid for the same subscription on my android device, which does not work at all. ### 4/5 — Almost perfect for me *2026-06-20, version 7.4.3* I’ve switched from my other note taking app because MyScript Notes is incredible at handwriting recognition, including for my fairly incomprehensible cursive writing. It’d be perfect if there were page options with different line widths though. Currently, it’s one size fits all and I really don’t want to have to zoom into the page to get the spacing that I want. ### 2/5 — Virtually no file management *2026-06-16, version 7.4.3* I couldn’t figure out how to copy files or move them between folders. You can’t have folders inside folders. Just 2 layers, collections and folders. So if you have a collection for work, school and personal. Then inside have a folder say for each job, you can’t have folders about different parts or people in the job. The response that it isn’t a bug is correct. All the issues I have are their design choices ### 3/5 — Great app! *2026-06-10, version 7.4.2* Wonderful app. I use it for drawing and I really love it. But you lost 2 stars for 2 reasons. 1: -.5 stars (because it's far less annoying than the other thing) because it crashes quite often. Usually when I'm trying to pick my colour. 2: -1.5 stars because it will randomly erase my work out of nowhere for no apparent reason. SOMETIMES I can click undo and it will come back. But most times it will undo the previous thing from it, like my work never happened. So that’s highly frustrating. Otherwise, it’d be awesome if the undo button was on the main screen 😊 Thanks for the app guys! ### 2/5 — My patience with this app couldn’t last for long… *2026-06-08, version 7.4.2* Since the app does not provide any option for private feedbacks, I will leave it here… I purchased a year of subscription, and wasn’t happy about my decision later. The app supposed to have an amazing feature where any line you draw can become a perfectly straight line. It did. But every single time the line was jumping around the screen, moving randomly up and down. Every line. This was extremely annoying and it messed up all of my notes. Eventually I started pressing a cancel-the-last-cation button to keep the lines in original format (not perfect at all), because the app does not offer an option to turn off this feature. Similarly how it does not offer to remove the feature of cancelling the last step by some hand move which often happened accidentally when my hand was resting on the screen during writing. Sometimes I would have to keep my hand lifted to void this annoying cancellation of the last action. The app definitely has some good potential as it offers convenient organization of notes by folders and exporting options, but it is still far from perfect. I am happy I finished this semester and won’t have to use this app ever again, because my patience was challenged all the time with the app. I hope the developers add report a bag or send a feedback feature for all current and future users. ### 4/5 — Developers Please Read 💜 *2026-06-06, version 7.4.2* I love this app, and I love the one-time payment option. It is also well maintained. However: Things this app desperately needs: - Ability to change the font of text - Fix copy and pasting my own writing—it’s broken - The ability to copy and paste images, text or writing between documents - More background color options - Fix the auto highlighter—it has a mind of its own - Fix the crop tool for images—it’s completely unusable Some things that would be nice: - Ability to non-uniformly resize sketches and also flip them vertically or horizontally - Be able to rotate written notes - A built in search function - Better support for tables - Make the AI less dumb—it struggles with math input - Allow LaTeX formatting in the chat bot’s responses - Better superscript and subscript recognition - Easier way to edit math conversions - Conversion to LaTeX code and the ability to search it—I will love y’all forever you have no idea - Ability to add voice notes and other simple accessibility features This is on its way to becoming a great app and could very well leave GoodNotes in the dust. The developers clearly listen to their users and are on top of app issues. Please keep up the updates!💜 ### 3/5 — Really good, but words overlap *2026-05-26, version 7.4.0* I like using the app for scribbling down notes and mind maps because it’s easy and quick, but one thing that keeps happening is that after a while, when i come back to the notes, the words I wrote down move and overlap another section of my writing and I cant move it because it’s merged with the other words now and I can’t read them anymore. ### 2/5 — Disappointing App *2026-05-05, version 7.3.1* This app is extremely disappointing. There are very few customizations in preferences, and many of the default shortucts (straight lines) are extremely frustrating. The app is very buggy as well, and frequently removes the ability to undo and go back. There is no continuous scroll notebook option and switching from one notebook page to the next is super slow and buggy. It lacks any sort of hierarchical folder organization necessary for more complex note taking structures. The only plus is the convert to math functionality, but even that is hit or miss. ### 3/5 — Handwriting is great, sync is a mess *2026-04-18, version 7.3.0* Basically the title. Sync is a hot mess most of the time. Every time I have to reconnect Google Drive I get a duplicate, triplicate, etc collection. ### 4/5 — AI? Quizzes? Keep it simple, stupid! *2026-04-16, version 7.3.0* I agree with Steve@Aberdeen’s review. This app does everything you need from a note-taking app, and does it very well. Its handwriting recognition in particular is superb – far better than any others. But the authors are starting to add distracting bells and whistles. It links to some kind of AI engine. You can set up a “Study Space”, which is an automated way of producing an interactive quiz from your notes. FFS – just focus on being the best note-taking app out there, and cut out all the ridiculous distractions. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sucks *2026-08-22, version 7.4.4* This sucks ### 1/5 — Unfortunate *2026-07-02, version 7.4.3* The app doesn’t allow you to test its handwriting recognition capabilities without buying, making the app worthless to a student or a career professional. Although I was ready to abandon Goodnotes, it’s still the only leading note-taking app with handwriting recognition capabilities. ### 1/5 — ALL FEATURES NOW BLOCKED TO FORCE PREMIUM *2026-06-25, version 7.4.3* I’ve been using this to take notes for work for 3 years bc of the convenient features like writing with pen and tapping to convert to text, scratching out to erase. I use it every day. Suddenly today every time I write and tap or try to erase, I get a pop up that this feature is only available if you subscribe. These are not premium features but basic features that make this app now unusable in the free version. Don’t bother. Ruined one of the best notes apps there was. ### 1/5 — worst note taking app *2026-06-02, version 7.4.1* it doesn’t basic note taking option and lag a lot .we have better apps to take note and do stuff .worse buying it. really mean it bro ### 1/5 — Contanly crashes, currently unable to access my notes and this app holds almost 3 years of notes *2026-05-26, version 7.4.0* This app constantly crashes on me, I once lost 12h worth of notes because of it and was unable to get them back a day before a big exam. I keep getting logged out and I am currently unable to access my notes. It shows an add and then the screen stays frozen and blurry. ### 1/5 — Hours of work lost *2026-05-05, version 7.3.1* I was genuinely enjoying this application on my iPad as I needed something more flexible than my MacBook. Today I noticed that I was signed out of my account. I attempted multiple times to sign in, but it would just freeze for no apparent reason. I tried to uninstall and reinstall hoping it was just a glitch with the software. Unfortunately it was not and all the information I wrote down is now lost. I will be moving onto more reliable note taking app after this experience. ### 1/5 — No more *2026-04-22, version 7.3.1* I loved this app but i refuse to use anything with ai slop forced onto it. It was perfect before this slopware was injected. I will miss it. ### 1/5 — Subscription *2026-04-22, version 7.3.1* Been using this app for a long time. It’s been an absolute favourite of mine for being able to write my notes and such. I don’t use the AI features aside from converting my writing to text on occasion. The pencils work well, the highlighting pens are excellent, and it’s super easy to organise things. However, despite how much I love everything else about the app, I’m sick of seeing everything get locked behind a subscription service. Every other app I have seems to fall to this eventually. Is it cheap? Yes. Are there similar free apps or one time payment apps? Also yes. I understand needing to make money but really I can’t find a single reason to pay a subscription for this. ### 1/5 — horrível *2026-04-11* qual é a graça se tem que pagar **Developer response:** Obrigado pelo seu interesse no MyScript Notes. Aqui está uma visão geral das suas opções e do que esperar: 🔹 Teste gratuito Inicie um teste gratuito de 7 dias para explorar todos os recursos do MyScript Notes. Durante este período, você pode usar todas as funcionalidades sem custo. Nenhuma cobrança será feita até o final do teste, e você pode cancelar a qualquer momento. Estamos trabalhando em uma versão que permitirá iniciar o teste sem necessidade de pagamento ou assinatura. 🔹 Assinatura ou compra única Se o MyScript Notes atender às suas necessidades, você pode continuar usando o aplicativo assinando o plano mensal ou anual escolhido ao iniciar o teste. Prefere não usar assinatura? Você também pode optar por uma compra única com acesso vitalício. 🔹 Versão gratuita com recursos limitados Se você cancelar a assinatura antes do fim do teste, passará automaticamente para a versão gratuita do aplicativo, que oferece funcionalidades limitadas. 🔹 Por que fazer upgrade? O upgrade desbloqueia a experiência completa e apoia diretamente nossa equipe de desenvolvimento. Sua contribuição nos ajuda a continuar melhorando o MyScript Notes com novos recursos, melhor desempenho e ferramentas avançadas para aumentar sua produtividade. Esta é uma ótima oportunidade para explorar tudo o que o aplicativo tem a oferecer. Agradecemos seu apoio e esperamos continuar evoluindo e inovando com sua ajuda. Atenciosamente, Sebastian – Equipe de Suporte MyScript ### 1/5 — Very plain and simple - better off downloading another note taking app with more features *2026-04-10, version 7.2.0* Very verrry simple and plain. Lacks a lot of other formatting, templates etc not so different to the free notes app you have with apple. Much better of getting free notes or something - I really regret paying for lifetime purchase !! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Busy Life Made Simple *2026-08-17, version 7.4.4* From undergrad degrees, to shopping lists, to graduate degrees, Nebo has simplified my life. I’m an on-the-go person on and off the road for work and studying in between, and Nebo has made it easy to type and write notes for work, life, language learning, and school. I love the organizational features, and the translation from written to typed notes is PURE GENIUS. I’ve been a huge fan of this app for over 5 years and still come back to it often. Thank you, Nebo! ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-08-15, version 7.4.4* A while ago I left a fairly negative review for the developers because I felt they had scammed me out of my money with a bogus subscription. Nevertheless, they hear your complaints and work to resolve them. The app itself has been exactly what I've needed for my church responsibilities. I'm able to keep my notes organized! I also love the fact I can go back and have my handwriting converted to text! ### 5/5 — None Better *2026-08-11, version 7.4.4* Goes from strength to strength. There is nothing better than MyScript Notes if you are looking for a cross platform app with a perpetual or subscription option. It does require DropBox for sync across the platform but if you don’t need mutli-platform then you don’t need DB. Complete and flexible app for multiple uses. I have seen it grow over the years. App store say it is only available for iOS but as expected, is running brilliantly on my MBP laptop on the MacOS, where I am writing this review. Congratulations and Thanks to the developers. ### 5/5 — Fantástico *2026-07-30* É para mim o melhor app de notas, testei alguns outros mas em termos de qualidade de escrita a mão, reconhecimento de escrita para conversão e facilidade de uso, não tem para ninguém!Aplicativo é excelente! ### 5/5 — Ignore more reviews *2026-06-28, version 7.4.3* This IS the best note taking app. I DO have horrible handwriting, this app better interprets my hieroglyphics than its reviews. More is not more accurate. I loved MyScript stylus, but this builds on a foundation. I think better with meditative cursive writing. This IS the app I will be using. ### 5/5 — Love this! *2026-06-06, version 7.4.2* Easy to use and love the handwriting options. ### 5/5 — キーボード打ちにしては最低のアプリです *2026-05-29* 手書き認証は申し分はありません。ただキーボードで入力している際、改行が起きる度、文字のダブルうちが発生します。その後文字を消しても消せない、バグがでる、再起動になるなど到底使えるものではありません。はっきり言って手書きよりキーボード打ちの方が早いので、ワイヤレスキーボードがある際はキーボード入力を使っていますが、使い物になりません。ノートも100ページ以上になり、他のアプにはいくつもりはありませんが、早急にバグの修正をしていただきたいです。 **Developer response:** Sorry you're experiencing this issue. Please contact our Support team by creating a ticket at https://app-support.myscript.com and we'll do our best to resolve this. Mila ### 5/5 — Great app just one problem *2026-04-15, version 7.3.0* My only problem with nebo is my black colored handwriting becoming white when I export the file as a pdf. This has resulted in my doing an entire assignment in black while I’m writing on a white background, then when I submit the assignment my professors think I’ve submitted a blank assignment because all of my text is now white. Not sure if this is explicitly nebo’s fault or not. ### 5/5 — Best *2026-04-08, version 7.2.0* Lots of features, and handwriting notes format well ### 5/5 — The best manual note taking app! *2026-04-02, version 7.2.0* How is this free?? --- *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 2026-08-31.*