# UltraNotes - Note Taking & PDF — user reviews

> 83 indexed App Store user reviews of UltraNotes by Skyjos Co., Ltd., rated 4.50/5 from 163 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 131 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 9

## What do users think of UltraNotes?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- ✍️ Excellent handwriting and pen experience
- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- 🎨 Variety of pen styles and drawing tools
- 💰 One-time purchase with no subscription
- 🔒 Strong privacy policy
- 📱 Works seamlessly on iOS and Mac
- ⚡ Fast and responsive performance
- ♿ Highly accessible for blind users
- 📝 Good text recognition and handwriting transcription
- 🎯 Effective for note-taking and journaling
- 🔄 iCloud synchronization available
- 📂 Easy categorization and organization of notes

**Cons**

- 🐛 Writing/drawing input not registering properly
- 🐛 Frequent page scrolling when attempting to write
- 🔄 Slow or unreliable iCloud sync
- 📤 Export functionality issues
- 🔍 Search feature crashes the app
- 📊 Poor PDF export quality
- 🎨 Limited color options for pens and brushes
- 🔧 Text box resizing limitations
- 📱 App crashes and data loss
- 🌙 No dark/light theme toggle while writing
- 🗂️ Cumbersome folder navigation
- 🎯 Cannot nest list items properly
- 🔐 No individual note password protection
- 🎨 Pen stroke quality degrades when zoomed in

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Writing and drawing input not working
- Page scrolling interferes with writing
- iCloud sync not functioning
- Export to other apps failing
- Hand gestures changing page zoom during writing
- Shape resizing not working after cutting
- Search functionality crashes app
- Added pages not saving when importing PDFs
- PDF import quirks related to iCloud sync
- App crashes causing data loss
- Pro version access lost unexpectedly
- Audio recording cannot be exported

**Most requested features**

- Ability to lock zoom while writing with Apple Pencil
- Resize shapes after cutting/moving them
- Export notes to PDF and other apps
- Dark/light theme toggle for pages
- Nested list item support
- Additional font options
- More sticker varieties
- Infinite canvas on all sides
- Password protection for individual notes
- Straightened highlighter tool
- Zoom video with auto-advance feature
- LaTeX conversion support
- Hierarchical folder navigation panel
- Left-right page swiping navigation
- Borderless canvas option
- Selection tool with resize capability
- One-click PDF annotation save option
- Category deletion/renaming without cloud deletion
- Audio recording export
- UI language selection independent of system settings
- Finger tap to undo functionality

## Newest reviews (13 of 83)

### 4/5 — 文档中插入空白页面会闪屏

*2025-12-16*

可不可以改进一下写笔记的时候插入了空白的页面 放缩的时候会闪屏很闪眼睛！
其他都特别好

### 4/5 — PDF导入夜间模式

*2025-10-26*

PDF不能开启夜间模式吗？真的很需要智能夜间模式还要钢笔调节笔尖和书签功能

### 5/5 — Ottima app!

*2025-08-28, version 2.2.2*

Finalmente una app completa per chi ha bisogno I prende appunti e usa Apple Pencil. Apprezzo non solo la funzionalità e la semplicità, ma il fatto di non avere una subscription, per cui con un acquisto assolutamente accessibile a tutti si può usare l’app per sempre. Consigliatissima!

### 5/5 — Nice

*2025-08-13, version 2.2.2*

Real handwriting experience!

### 5/5 — 阅读模式中加个“全屏阅读”吧！

*2025-05-30*

能阅读模式中加个“全屏阅读”吧，现在阅读模式时上下都有工具栏，即占屏幕空间，也非常影响观感

### 4/5 — very nice but

*2025-05-18*

its very pleasing and has nice features but some improvements would make it exceptional. for example , adding more fonts and other aesthetic note taking features. and maybe some stickers would be nice and make a total 5/5

**Developer response:** We’ll consider your suggestions. Thank you!

### 4/5 — Request for additional features

*2025-05-18*

It is good for notes taking, easy to export notes. I like to request the developer to please made it possible to change the theme while taking notes just like in other note taking apps which can change the dark and light theme for the page I am writing. It make it different to export, when I export the notes with dark mode pages the PDF is also dark background it make it hard to print.

**Developer response:** Please contact our tech support (support@skyjos.com). They’ll help you.

### 5/5 — Bellissima App

*2025-05-16, version 2.2.2*

Ecco una app molto bella e funzionale. La trascrizione di testo scritto con la Pen funziona molto bene, ed è proprio quello che cercavo. Apprezzo anche che sia una applicazione senza abbonamento. 
Solo un problema:
Non è possibile scegliere liberamente la lingua preferita del UI. Prende quello del sistema impostato.

### 5/5 — 笔刷

*2025-05-13*

笔刷好用，页面简洁，强推

### 5/5 — nette, kleine App

*2025-05-13*

Bin gespannt wie sie sich entwickelt.

### 4/5 — 簡單易用的筆記軟體

*2025-05-13, version 2.2.2*

希望選取工具可以新增調整大小的功能，頁面可以改成左右滑動，新增無邊記畫布。

期待未來軟體越做越好

### 5/5 — Very handy

*2025-05-12*

Makes taking notes easier!

### 3/5 — Search crashes app.

*2025-05-11*

The app seems to have basic functionality and import/export options.  But every time I try to search in my notes it crashes.  Search is required for my uses.  Will add two stars back when fixed.

**Developer response:** We’ll look into this issue. Could you contact our tech support (support@skyjos.com)? They need to know how to reproduce the crash.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Didn’t work…

*2026-02-21*

It let me open a page and select stickers to put onto the page but wouldn’t let me write anything down!! Not with my pencil or with my finger it just kept scrolling the page everytime I tried to write or draw something on it… very frustrating because it looked like the perfect app for me taking notes.

### 1/5 — Synchronisieren geht nicht

*2025-11-15*

Synchronisieren mit iCloud ist ZU langsam und funktioniert fehlerhaft!

### 1/5 — No Sync

*2025-09-23*

Slow or no Sync with ICloud. The App is unusable its current state.

### 1/5 — 裝了等於沒裝

*2025-05-13, version 2.2.2*

開啟後無法使用任何功能

### 1/5 — I had gotten pro but now I need to pay

*2024-09-27*

Well guys I had the pro option but then today I opened the app to find out I have to pay to get pro

**Developer response:** Just tap the “restore purchase” button to get it back. If it doesn’t work, please contact our tech support(support@skyjos.com).

### 1/5 — 放大写字模糊

*2024-09-21*

最基本的功能没有做好

**Developer response:** 这个问题已经在v1.2中修复了。

### 2/5 — Can’t export the audio recording

*2024-11-11, version 1.2.1*

Really well app it’s just I can’t export the audio recording.

### 3/5 — Exporting notes, locking zoom, resizing shapes

*2026-01-26*

Hi. I’ve found 3 issues with this app. Firstly, exporting notes to other apps or making pdf of them is not working! Moreover, when writing with Apple Pencil my hand would change the size of the page (zoom in or out); it is better to add a locking button to lock the zooming when writing. 
Finally, when a shape is cut to move it to another position it is not possible to make it smaller or bigger using two fingers. 
Hope to enhance the application to make it more useful. 
Thanks.

### 3/5 — Pretty minimal but there's a bug

*2025-05-25, version 2.2.2*

I can tab and untab regular text but can't nest list items which is something I do often.

### 3/5 — 希望可以有中文可以選（英文太爛看不懂）

*2025-05-13, version 2.2.2*

如標題

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Top app

*2026-03-24*

Application extrêmement bien pensée, facile à prendre en main, très complète.

### 5/5 — 最近经常闪退

*2026-03-10*

笔记的页数多了以后，经常写着写着就闪退，希望开发者能处理下这个问题

### 5/5 — 超级棒的一款笔记软件

*2025-12-08*

我真不是托家人们，陆陆续续用了几个月了，我最喜欢的是用手写笔写字自动转换成印刷体的功能了，之前写的笔记很丑歪歪扭扭的，用了这个以后特别整洁。功能也很齐全，基本上我想要的功能它都有，非常推荐！

### 5/5 — Lovely app, I want to submit 1 bug

*2025-11-07*

Lovely app, this is like what apple notes should have been. Bug: after long press on a tool, the option “show on toolbar” is enabled and disabled on some tools. When I disabled on laser tool, it’s not appearing again, and I can’t find a way to use it again! Same with other tools I suppose. Please solve this. Love your app! More power to you!

### 5/5 — très bon éditeur

*2025-11-01*

cet éditeur est impeccable

### 5/5 — Fully Blind User

*2025-10-08, version 2.3*

2025.10.07: highly and extremely accessible; wonderful for on-the-go jotting

### 5/5 — 能不能出一个无限大的文稿呀

*2025-10-01*

这是我用的所有软件里书写转文本最丝滑智能的了，求求了🥺，如果能再出个思维导图模式，搞个无限文稿，杀遍所有软件呀，就是里面的一些功能再齐全一些，界面丰富一下，作者大大学习一些其他软件的布局就更好了，特别是marginnote，还有prodrafts，看好你，超过他们

### 5/5 — Good times

*2025-09-29*

I really enjoy using this app. I especially love the different pens.

### 5/5 — 横线线纸的横线能不能再细点？另外，加上一个书签功能。

*2025-09-05*

软件很棒。但是横线纸太粗了，尤其是在暗黑模式下，和笔记杂糅在一起，太容易视觉疲劳了，更细一点就完美了。有墨迹搜索太棒了，但是加上一个大纲视图和书签功能可能会
会更好。

### 5/5 — Love ittttttt

*2025-08-31*

I have been a long time user of Callanote, but I needed a change. That app wasn’t working for me anymore - too complicated to use. And I have been experiencing technical difficulties with that app. I have tried others too, but so far I am loving Ultra so far. It is simple and easy to use. I have had no technical problems so far. I also really like how my apple pen feels in my hand when I write with it. Sometimes, it really feels like I’m writing with a marker! Super Impressed! I am also LOVING how you can categorize the notes and create new categories. Super easy to access and find. I will be using this for my master’s program studies and possibly for daily journaling. I never leave reviews for apps and such, but I just had to for this app. Well done creators! Thanks for giving us a seemingly easy app to use :)

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