# Notes Writer Pro: Beyond PDFs — user reviews > 784 indexed App Store user reviews of Notes Writer Pro by Kairoos Solutions SL, rated 4.60/5 from 3,193 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/notes-writer-pro-beyond-pdfs/id1422480068/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/notes-writer-pro-beyond-pdfs/id1422480068.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,590 · 4★ 317 · 3★ 82 · 2★ 53 · 1★ 151 ## What do users think of Notes Writer Pro? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent note-taking app - 📁 Great folder organization - 🎨 Customizable notebook covers - 🔍 Useful PDF annotation tools - 🤖 Impressive AI capabilities **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔄 Sync and file transfer issues - 🕰️ Slow performance and lag - 🔒 Poor customer support - 💰 Misleading upgrade pricing **Commonly reported bugs** - Notes randomly disappearing - Formatting issues with text and images - Unreliable audio recording and playback - Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions - Inability to transfer files between free and pro versions **Most requested features** - Handwriting recognition - Improved eraser and shape tools - Customizable keyboard and toolbar - Better integration with cloud storage - Ability to rotate and resize images ## Newest reviews (12 of 784) ### 4/5 — Crashes Automatically *2026-07-24* NW Pro crashes(closes) itself automatically ### 4/5 — iPad側の環境？ *2026-05-21* 手書きの精度もよく、日本語も検索できるため、便利に使っております！ アップデート後に使いづらくなった以下の2点を元にもどせませんか？ ・何年か前のバージョンであった、ページ送り用のスクロールバーを復活させてほしい。 ・ファイルアプリからPDFを開いた時、空の新規ウィンドウを作成するようになった。（PDF自体は最初のウィンドウに開かれています。不要なウィンドウだらけになって邪魔） 以下は要望です。 ・表示の「左から右へ」などの設定を固定にしたい。 ### 4/5 — 急に大幅改善 *2026-05-14* 前バージョンのこのアプリはひどいバグがあったりしてお世辞にも有料アプリのクオリティにしては不満が残るものだった しかし今回のアップデートでバグ修正にUIの改善を通してかなり使い勝手の良いアプリになった 今のバージョンなら十分満足できる出来だと思う ### 4/5 — Beautiful and useful!🤎 *2026-05-04* Your app is wonderful and truly useful. It has been with me since my undergraduate studies and continues to support me now during my master’s journey. Thank you so much for adding the Arabic language, and I really appreciate your responsiveness! 🤎 I would be very happy to see improvements in the following areas: Improving the pen tool to make it more flexible and smoother to use. Adding a modern sticker library and removing outdated ones. Enabling audio file import and export, and improving the voice recording feature by syncing it with written notes. Adding a long-press feature to help straighten lines when selecting text. Further enhancing the app’s user interface. Allowing file sharing with others through an online link. Making it possible to open multiple files (for example, 10 files) at once with a single action. This feature is extremely important for researchers, who often work with many files simultaneously. Being able to select and open multiple files at once would greatly improve workflow and productivity. Improving the lasso (freeform) selection tool. Adding the Hijri date alongside the Gregorian date and the day, with an option to enable it in settings. In the annotations section, it would be helpful to include an image of the page, rather than only showing the page reference, font color, and date. **Developer response:** Hello! Thank you! We will add Arabic soon. Best regards, Notes Writer Team ### 3/5 — Mediocre *2026-03-10, version 18.7.0* I expected something decent for the money. I just needed to take text notes with simple sketches. The text box feature is terrible. It barely works, and when you edit them it makes a ghost copy of the old version on the screen until you leave the note and come back. You can only draw on one type of note, and those can’t be made into templates. Kinda trash but maybe okay. Price too high for what it provides ### 4/5 — Buon rapporto qualità prezzo *2026-02-24, version 18.7.0* Ottima app, ogni tanto poco intuitiva ma molto versatile ### 3/5 — App jumps back to page 1 when using top toolbar with Apple Pencil *2026-02-16, version 18.7.0* When writing with Apple Pencil, if you‘re on any page other than the first (e.g., page 30) and you select something on the top toolbar, the app automatically jumps back to page 1. You then have to manually scroll all the way back just to continue working. This happens very easily . I’ve already reported this bug, but still no response or fix. Please address this issue. ### 3/5 — Travando muito *2026-02-06* Uso o aplicativo há mais de 3 anos e sempre gostei muito. Mas ultimamente ele tem travado bastante, e ai preciso reiniciar, ele acaba apagando todo o documento que eu havia feito (no momento que travou). Tá bem complicado ### 3/5 — FALLO AL ABRIR *2026-02-03, version 18.7.0* Desde hace ya tiempo, me da problemas en mi iPad 10. Intento abrir un documento en la app y se abre esta, pero no el documento. Tengo que ir luego dentro de la app a buscar el documento para abrirlo. ### 2/5 — App da migliorare *2026-02-01, version 18.7.0* 1. Una app per appunti dovrebbe aggiungere le pagine in automatico quando finiscono 2. Spesso in assenza di wifi o dati mobili gli appunti non si salvano…e per uno studente è un problema. 3. Ci deve essere un comando con le dita, magari due tocchi con due dita insieme per cancellare una azione al posto che andare a schiacciare il bottone della gomma e poi cancellare…quasi tutte le app hanno questo comando giusto per farvi sapere… 4. Il bottone della gomma spesso si impalla. Cioe che cancella e poi si blocca e poi cancella a tratti… insomma fa a modo suo questa gomma. E in piu ci dovrebbe essere l’opzione nella gomma di cancellare direttamente tutta l’azione di scrittura o solo piccoli tratti. (Per esempio se scrivo “cuore” e “cuo” la scrivo tutta con lo stesso tratto, vorrei avere lopzione o di cancellare “cuo” o di cancellare solo le lettere “c, o”). Insomma continuo a usare questa app perche ormai l’ho pagata e non ha senso comprarne un’altra, ma se si chiama “PRO” allora deve essere pro. Confido in un vostro miglioramento ### 3/5 — scrolling issues *2026-01-07, version 18.7.0* sometimes the app auto scrolls the pdf to the first page while i am choosing from the highlighters in the menu. please resolve the issue. its getting cumbersome while annotating ### 4/5 — I need a ruler to draw the line. *2025-11-25, version 18.5.0* I need a ruler to draw the line. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Dejo de funcionar *2026-07-14, version 26.5.0* He pagado por esta app, y funcionó bien por unos meses, pero ahora ha dejado de funcionar por completo, he probado de todo y simplemente no ha vuelto a funcionar, entro y se queda congelado, no responde ### 1/5 — From Great App to Complete Garbage *2026-05-27, version 26.4.1* Before, NotesWriter used to be a great app for marking up drawings and adding notes. It was simple, reliable, and actually useful. Now it’s a piece of garbage. The app has become frustrating to use. Really disappointing to see such a good app go downhill like this. ### 1/5 — Worst stupid update *2026-05-11* Why r things all changed and messed up and you cant even choose which pen to use when it’s half screened? Change it back ### 1/5 — Una puta mañana a la mierda. NO DESCARGAR *2026-03-29, version 18.7.0* Una maña he estado para redactar un trabajo. Se me cierra la aplicación y desaparece TODO lo que he hecho. Es una basura y mierda de Apple. NO DESCARGUÉIS SEMEJANTE MOJÓN QUE NO ES CAPAZ DE GUARDAR AL MOMENTO. ### 1/5 — Crash unlimited *2026-03-26, version 18.7.0* I hate it when it crashes all my highlighted sentence does not sync ### 1/5 — แอ๊พค้าง *2026-02-18, version 18.7.0* ช่วงหลังมานี้แอ๊พค้างบ่อย ไม่สเถียรเหมือนเดิม ### 1/5 — Lagging *2026-02-05, version 18.7.0* The app gets lagging recently that I couldn’t write note. The experience was bad that I have to change to the another note app ### 1/5 — Aplicación bloqueada *2026-01-26, version 18.7.0* No se pueden usar las plantillas propuestas. He pagado la aplicación y no había habido ningún problema, pero llevo meses mandando correos de quejas para que me lo soluciones y no contestan. Siempre había recomendado la aplicación, pero a partir de ahora va a ser que no. ### 1/5 — I don't recommend this. *2025-11-19, version 18.5.0* While the app doesn't fix any glitches that are noticeable within five minutes of launching, it has made significant improvements to the AI-assisted text generation feature, which is only available if you pay for the app, even though it is a paid app. ### 1/5 — App keeps crashing *2025-10-31, version 18.5.0* Do not install and purchase this app. It deleted all of my documents and i cannot restore it anymore. I tried to ask for any support but no one answers. This app is a scam. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Gets the Job Done *2026-07-28, version 26.5.0* It takes notes easily on the cloud or no. The writing of thie review however is bad. I can ot see what is being written. ### 5/5 — Great for construction *2026-05-11* Big fan! I’ve been using this app for a few years for construction drawings. Making mark-ups, doing as-builts and filling out forms like time cards, hazard assessments and expense reports. There used to be a feature where when you selected something, there was an option to select more items to group them together. I found that tool VERY useful for overlaying things from one print to another, though it didn’t last long. Would it be possible to get it again? A scaling tool would be great, if possible! ### 5/5 — شكرا. لكم *2026-03-28, version 18.7.0* شكراّ ### 5/5 — Notes Writer *2026-02-11, version 18.7.0* This app is good to organize my taxes, and to take my notes everywhere ### 5/5 — Great apps! Would love to see more improvements *2026-01-10, version 18.7.0* Thank you for made this helpful app, however i wish there will be improvements on the editing feature especially for writing ### 5/5 — Must buy *2026-01-06, version 18.7.0* Love this app. It is a all purpose app ### 5/5 — 推薦 *2025-12-28, version 18.7.0* 用幾年了，很好用，希望在直線跟幾何圖形可以設幾種筆刷 ### 5/5 — Good app *2025-12-04, version 18.6.0* A very user friendly app ### 5/5 — من أفضل البرامج *2025-11-14, version 18.5.0* ‏الأفضل البرامج المخصصة لقراءة ملفات ال PDF والكتابة عليها ### 5/5 — Best app *2025-09-16, version 18.5.0* 100/100, love it - v. 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 2026-08-26.*