OrigNotes Reviews: Is It Legit?

OrigNotes
OrigNotes
Hangzhou Future Writing Technology Co.,LTD.

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.7% of reviews
Neutral2.8% of reviews
Negative experience12.5% of reviews

~ Based on 72 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is OrigNotes Safe?

OrigNotes appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for OrigNotes is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 382 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 371 App Store ratings for OrigNotes.

Is OrigNotes Legit?

OrigNotes appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for OrigNotes is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Fantastic app, one small feature request

I love this app so much, it’s invaluable for my engineering courses. The one tiny thing that would be great to fix is the copy-paste workflow. Whenever I copy a section (which works great), it’s really finicky to then paste it. You kinda have to double tap with your finger at just the right spot, with the right timing, if that could be made easier that would be fabulous. I have to draw large diagrams (yay shear and moment), and I need to copy them and make small changes often, which is obviously hard with the way things work currently. Oh also, if you could add shapes, where you can add a triangle, a star, a curved-corner rectangle, etc, that would be awesome, but that’s way less important. Thank you all for all that you do, I really do love this app and if that one thing is fixed I will sing its praises to all my friends.
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Response from developer

Thank you so much for your kind words and support! We're glad to hear that OrigNotes has been helpful for your engineering courses. Regarding the copy-and-paste experience, we've made improvements that will be available in the next update. You'll be able to simply long-press anywhere on the canvas to bring up the Paste menu, making the process much easier. As for shapes, OrigNotes already includes an automatic shape recognition feature! Simply draw a shape and hold your pen in place for about one second. It will automatically transform into a regular shape. This feature supports triangles, stars, rounded rectangles, and many other shapes. We hope these features will make your note-taking experience even better. Thank you again for your encouragement and valuable feedback!

Copy and Paste feature not working in the app.

This app is amazing for note taking but I’m afraid the recent update may have messed up a very crucial feature. The copy and paste feature stopped working on “Pencil Only” on Touch Guard settings. Can you guys fix that?

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your support and feedback! When using “Pencil Only” mode, you can still copy and paste content. To paste, simply press and hold on the screen with your finger to bring up the Paste menu. Pressing and holding with Apple Pencil will not trigger this menu. We hope this helps, and thank you for using OrigNotes!

Absolutely amazing

best app I have ever used for work ever, everything is free which amazed me. I never leave reviews but this app is so underrated! Please never make it cost money!!

Love!! Great for coloring and notes

I love this app. I haven’t used it too much yet but it’s wonderful for what I have used. The amount of options for writing utensils, handwriting into typed notes, color options like everything is so wonderful. Would fs download again

Vraiment cool

Pas de limite de note mm sans souscrire j'aime beaucoup

Idée d’amélioration

Quand on a un document pdf à annoter, j’aimerais qu’on puisse l’ajouter dans une note OrigNotes déjà existante pour avoir un seul document continu et prolongé. Sinon, super application!

Tremendously good

I can't believe this great notes solution is so generously provided. Thanks to the developer. only suggestion I have at all — maybe we can have the auto font from recognized strokewriting have a serif option?

great—except for when my notes disappear

overall an amazing app and so much more than i can usually get for free. however twice today the app did not save a page of my notes, so i had to go back and redo it. there have been other minor things that have been fixed by just closing and reopening the note but i have not been able to fix this. i’m not looking forward to wading through a bunch of other apps to find an alternative but i do in fact need my notes to save in order to do my schoolwork
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Response from developer

Thank you for letting us know, and we’re sorry you ran into this issue. We’ll investigate the saving problem carefully. If you notice that some of your notes are missing, you may not need to redo them. Please go to Settings in the top-right corner → Time Machine, where you can check previous versions of your notes and restore the missing content. Thank you again for your feedback and support!

This application is amazing but I do would like more tools

I absolutely love this application and the best thing is that it’s free! But I just found out I can’t download my own notes because I want to share them so that’s a bit annoying. And also you can’t put image in your notes. But otherwise I definitely recommend this application, it is very good and simple in design!
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Great app!

I really needed a good notetaking app for college, and orignotes was perfect for the job! It easily helped me write on my textbook and assignments. It is super easy to use, and is super high quality. Strongly recommend!

AMAZING

please don’t ever change, this is exactly what I need had to change apps AGAIN because everything is now a subscription model…. this has all the tools I need and more! really happy with the stickers and tape wayy better than other note apps since a lot wouldn’t let me write on top of the images. although the tape you cannot write on top of, not really sure what it’s for but THIS IS THE ONE IF U USE IPAD TO WRITE NOTES IN SCHOOL will keep yall updated if it changes when i start class but so far this is the best notes app ever!! 🙂🙂🙂
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整体好评,除了笔记翻页会卡+空间占得很大+导入之后无法选择文字

问题:1. 笔记翻页时会明显卡,开了那些翻页顺滑的模式后反而更卡 2. 所有pdf到这里都会莫名其妙大一圈,本来200k的变成1m,2m变成3m,大的书根本不敢往这里放,主要只能记笔记 3. pdf书导入进来之后无法选择文字复制/查找,很不方便 但毕竟是免费的良心软件,其他体验也可以,所以给好评,希望能尽快更新

I like this app, but can you improve it?

I love this app, I hope it never ends up having a paywall it is almost perfect. One thing I would like to be added is fixing the zoom in feature, dont get me wrong its a verry good feature however, I dont like that when you zoom out or just viewing your notebook normally without any zooming in, it leaves this big gap which is annoying and personally dont like this huge space, but when you zoom in its not there anymore when, but in that case, its good to see that blank space away from the paper instead of shooing it away while you zoom in because it gives the paper more space to zoom in naturally and surprisedly its easier to write like with more precision as well without things getting clunky or feeling like you have to squeeze in space, having that gap while you zoom in due to having more freedom to decide HOW you want zooming in to look like (whether if it fills the page leaving none of this gap or does, it would be betterif this choice is up to the user) its is very important to me. And when its not zoomed in, I would either like that gap to not be there at all or if not, to be disturbuted evenly with the top and bottom instead taking unnautrally heavier space on the top, again Im seeing in issue when your page is in vertical mode, I dont know if this issue exists within other page modes such as horizontal, etc.Please improve on this or leave a button where we can switch this feature on or off. Also for the free-cropping for images, I really like this idea but I dont like that we can only draw one and if you try to add more, it resets, i would like if we have to choice to not free crop all in one go because it easily makes mistakes and its really hard to get the result you want and removes extra control over the result we want, it would be good to he able to have mutiple or many strokes to complete the freecrop and another feature that allows us to save those images into our stickers with a click of a button instead of having to save it somewhere else and THEN import it as a sticker, it saves so much time and makes the experience or decoration better.

Another thing, I try to add in imaged but they go under my handwriting, I want to be able to move my image down or above my handwriting instead of having it stay below, can you make it so that for each image or something you can rither move it up or down seperately instead of relying on layer settings because its too limited for this freedom to place our things the exact way we want on the page.

I would also like a feature where you can use the eraser to erase images and have a toggle where you can choose to erase images, handwriting, and text all at the same time.

I love your app, dont ever set a price tag on this, and I will use it forever, thank you.
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Really good

Nice

I love using this notepad

Thank you developer to provide us such a wonderful tool.

Definitely the best free note taking app

I’ve been looking for a free note taking app and this is the best one so far. The draft note is huge and it’s basically an infinite canvas. The experience is excellent. I’m only waiting for it to become compatible with the squeeze gesture.

Good

The best free app, unlimited notes and very easily organised . Perfect.

Incredible App

This app is incredible! The fact that it has no in app purchases for the features it contains is such a blessing. As a college student, I tell all of my friends and peers about this app. It is better than GoodNotes and Notability because there are no purchases required or limits within the app. I also enjoy the future version section where you can see what the developers are working on to further enhance the app. So simple, useful, and handy, I cannot thank the developers enough! ✨
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Лучшее приложение для конспектов и заметок

, очень нравится, сначала не понимала, как вставлять фото и перелистывать, но потом поняла. 10/10

Love the App; How to contact for new features/improvements

Hello, I’ve recently downloaded the app, and I’ve been enjoying using it for storyboarding and note-taking tasks. I do have a a few suggestion for new features and improvements. Is there a way to contact you so that I can explain these suggestions to you?

Edit: I’ve been using this app for a couple of weeks. I still love it, but there are a lot of bugs present in it. I’m just gonna paste in the list of bugs and requested features. I wish I could post images of what I’m experiencing on this review.
A drawing that’s been copied needs remain available for until I copy something else, not just for one time. (Explanation: The app removes the ability to paste after only pasting once)
Pencil strokes keeps randomly changing from small to big for no reason.
Allow us to rotate the page using our fingers when sketching on whiteboard or notebook for better drawing experience.
Issues where undoing a stroke also undos an erased stroke after only pressing once.
Allow us to directly upload photos from our photo library instead of on the stickers tab
Selecting a single stroke selects other strokes.
Also, there’s a whiteboard I’ve made, and every time I try to export it as pdf, it crashes. I followed the instructions to reduce the chances of it crashing, including lowering the threshold, as well as deleting and reinstalling the app. However, it has continued crashing. The whiteboard is ~ 250MB, just to let you know. Could you please help me with this?

Sorry if this is long to read.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your support and for enjoying the app! We’d love to hear your ideas and suggestions. Please feel free to contact us at wlsx_support@126.com with any feature requests or feedback. We truly appreciate input from our users and look forward to hearing from you!