Comparison

Goodnotes vs Label Doc

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Goodnotes

Capture ideas, brainstorm, and create polished documents with powerful AI tools. Transcribe meetings, generate summaries, and organize notes effortlessly for work or study. Plan your life and journal your thoughts with customizable templates and creative freedom.

Highlights
  • AI-powered transcription and summarization
  • Infinite whiteboard for brainstorming
  • Handwritten and typed note organization
  • Customizable planner and journal templates
  • PDF annotation and document import
  • Study sets with flashcards
  • Presentation mode with laser pointer
Features
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Goodnotes has always been the place to capture your ideas — from quick notes to big plans. Now, it goes further. With powerful AI and new ways to capture information, Goodnotes helps you connect the dots, unlock insights, and turn ideas into action. *Existing Goodnotes 5 users can continue to use Goodnotes 5 indefinitely or upgrade to the new Goodnotes. Either way, your notes are safe!* For professionals: Increase productivity at work ■ Whiteboard + Goodnotes AI: Brainstorm, mind-map, and diagram freely on an infinite canvas that grows with your ideas. Enhanced diagramming tools and real-time collaboration make it easy for teams to workshop & ideate together, while Goodnotes AI helps you capture and organize key takeaways instantly. ■ Goodnotes AI Audio & Meetings: Stay fully present in every conversation while Goodnotes does the work for you. AI-powered transcription and live summarization automatically capture discussions and turns them into clear meeting minutes. After the meeting, merge transcripts with your own handwritten or typed notes to create polished, shareable documents in seconds. ■ Text Documents + AI: Create documents that think with you. Enjoy a superior typing experience with rich inline blocks, build on ideas with external insights, and collaborate seamlessly with teammates. With AI-powered summarization, automated note generation, and transcript support, turn rough notes and meetings into finished content faster than ever. ■ Present your notes, slides, and content directly from Goodnotes when you connect your device via AirPlay or HDMI to an external screen. ■ Use Laser Pointer to guide your audience's attention during your presentation. ■ Export your handwritten and typed notes to email, print, or share them anywhere as PDFs. ■ Send a link to your notebooks to work on the same notes. ■ Import documents by emailing them to your custom Goodnotes email. For students: Ace your exams with ease ■ Record audio notes that are magically synced to your iPhone or iPad exact moment you write: perfect for lectures, seminars, and presentations. ■ Take handwritten notes that stay fully searchable: instantly find any word across every class notebook, even mid-lecture. ■ Study and practice straight from your notes with study Sets: flashcards built on active recall and spaced repetition. ■ Use AI to summarize, shorten, change the tone of your words, and turn messy handwritten or typed student notes into polished, structured study material. For planners and journalers: Let your creativity flow ■ Plan your week, month, or year on your iPhone/ iPad with built-in and importable planner templates, fully customizable to match how you plan. ■ Keep a daily journal alongside your planner. Combine handwriting, typed reflections, photos, and stickers on the same page. ■ Use Goodnotes AI to summarize a week's worth of journal entries on your iPhone or iPad into key themes and takeaways. ■ Customize the size and color of your paper templates to create the planner or journal you want. ■ Add, create, or import stickers, stamps, washi tapes, images, and more on your iPad. Digital notebooks: unlimited notebooks for the price of a single physical one ■ Combine handwriting and typed text on one page, alongside images, stickers, diagrams, and doodles. ■ Create digital notebooks, planners, and journals with customizable paper templates, including Blank Paper, Ruled Paper, Cornell Paper, Checklists, Planners, and more. ■ Navigate long documents with ease. PDF tables of contents are automatically imported, or create custom outlines yourself. ■ Back up all your handwritten and typed notes to Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, and use iCloud to sync across iPad, iPhone, and Mac — so your notes are always safe. ■ Edit your handwriting by resizing it, changing the text color, or moving it to another spot on the page. Privacy Policy: https://www.goodnotes.com/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://www.goodnotes.com/terms-and-conditions

About

Label Doc

This app is a comprehensive field documentation tool that allows users to stamp photos with essential details like date, time, and location. It helps create professional reports, comparisons, and narrated stories from your captured images, all stored privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Stamp photos with date, time, GPS, and custom fields
  • Create proof-of-work reports and before/after comparisons
  • Generate invoices, quotes, and narrated photo stories
  • Organize work with job labels and QR codes
  • Build step-by-step manuals and track attendance
  • Password-protected photo vaults for privacy
Features
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Label Doc is a complete field-documentation toolkit that stores everything privately on your device — no account, no cloud, works fully offline. Stamp photos with the facts: date, time, GPS location with place name, sequence number, job label, comments, custom fields and your own logo. Then turn stamped photos into professional deliverables — proof-of-work reports, before/after comparisons, collages, invoices and narrated photo stories. LABEL & PHOTO EDITOR Shoot or upload, then stamp. Choose the layout (framed, overlay, engraved, transparent), font, size and a colour per line — label, date, number, location, custom field and comment. Add filters, crop, freehand drawing, arrows and callouts, emoji markers, your SVG logo and a copyright mark. Drop voice-memo pins on the image, set a reminder, or file the shot under a named job. Save four presets so every photo on a job matches. PROOF OF WORK Build a job record on site: before, progress and after photos, a checklist, places, notes and a client signature. Export one clean PDF report. Every job gets its own QR code and barcode for filing and scanning. BEFORE & AFTER, COLLAGE, SERIES, WATERMARK Put two photos side by side with separate times and notes for each. Lay several photos on one sheet. Turn a set of photos into a short narrated clip at low, medium or high resolution. Batch-stamp a watermark across images. Each tool keeps its own saved-work library, with preview, share and delete. PHOTO NOTES & DIARY Quick notes with a photo, time and place. The calendar shows the month as a contact sheet of your work, with a written journal for each day. Export any day or date range as a PDF or a video clip. QR ITEMS Give equipment, rooms or stock its own QR code. Keep photos, documents, description, category, location and history together, and export the lot as one PDF template sheet. Scan the code to open the record. INVOICES & QUOTES Numbered invoices and quotations with tax lines, saved clients, presets and photos. Payment due dates with automatic overdue flags, deposits and part payments, recurring work, one-tap copy, client signature, and PDF, Excel or package export. Inventory tracks stock levels with low-stock warnings and takes items off the shelf as you bill them. TASKS, MANUALS & ATTENDANCE Jobs to do with dates, progress, notes and photos. Build step-by-step manuals from photos and text, ready to print. Track attendance by QR badge, including a locked wall-mounted time clock, with Excel export. PHOTO VAULT As many password-protected vaults as you need, each with its own encrypted photos. SHARE AND COLLABORATE Every section has its own file type, so anything you send lands in the right place on the other person's device. Share a single item or a whole library, and back up everything in one file from Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No sign-up, no tracking, no servers. Your photos and records never leave your device unless you choose to share them.

Screenshots

Goodnotes4 screens
Label Doc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Label Doc at 100% against Goodnotes's 34%. Label Doc also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 20) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Goodnotes's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and ratings volume (467K vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Goodnotes is free to download; Label Doc costs $3.99 up front. Goodnotes sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Label Doc asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Label Doc holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Goodnotes has 467K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Goodnotes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Label Doc's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Goodnotes ships an update weekly, Label Doc every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Goodnotes versus Label Doc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoodnotesLabel Doc
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.7 (467K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings467K — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#103 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size778 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoodnotes LimitedSecure Sonique inc

Customer experience

Goodnotes

All ratings466,714 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews6,773 reviews
Positive33.8%
Neutral11.2%
Negative55.0%

Label Doc

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Goodnotes

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Text box issues - unable to edit, resize, or move properly
  • Handwriting recognition problems, especially with cursive
  • Unreliable scrolling and page navigation
  • Inconsistent behavior when using the zoom feature

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add bullet point and formatting options for typed text
  • Implement a full-screen writing mode
  • Improve the straight line and shape tools
  • Integrate audio recording and synchronization
  • Allow more customization of the toolbar and interface

Label Doc

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Goodnotes

Subscriptions5
  • AI Pass (Monthly)7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Goodnotes 6 (1 Year)1 Year trial$9.991 Year
  • Essential (Yearly)7 Days trial$11.991 Year
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  • Essential (Yearly)1 Year trial2 variants$11.991 Year
  • Goodnotes Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$35.991 Year
One-time11
  • Bunny Oasis StickersFree
  • Medicine-Academia Sticker SheeFree
  • Goodnotes 6 Free TrialFree
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  • Marketplace Content$1.99
  • Marketplace Content$6.99
  • Marketplace Content$8.99
  • GoodNotes 5 Unlock$9.99
  • Marketplace Content$9.99
  • Marketplace Content$10.99
  • Goodnotes 6 One-Time Payment$28.99
  • Special Edition$35.99
None

Label Doc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Goodnotes free?
Goodnotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Label Doc free?
Label Doc costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Goodnotes or Label Doc?
Label Doc is rated higher. Goodnotes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 467K ratings, while Label Doc averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Goodnotes or Label Doc have ads?
Neither Goodnotes nor Label Doc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Goodnotes or Label Doc?
Goodnotes ships an update weekly, and Label Doc every 3 days. Most recently, Goodnotes was updated on November 2, 2026 and Label Doc on October 31, 2026.

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