Best Goodnotes 5 Apps

4.7😊(453K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#80in Productivity

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Capture ideas, enhance productivity, and unlock insights with advanced AI features. This app offers tools for professionals, students, and creatives, including infinite whiteboards, AI-powered transcription and summarization, and customizable digital notebooks.

What We Love

🚀 Excellent note-taking experience
👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
🚀 Smooth writing with Apple Pencil
📁 Powerful organization with folders and notebooks
🖼️ Ability to annotate PDFs and documents
🌈 Customizable paper styles and covers

Room to Improve

🐛 Glitches and crashes
🔍 Syncing and iCloud issues
🔍 Lack of flexibility with text input
🔍 Limited eraser and highlighting options
🔍 Subpar performance on Mac app

Digital Planner – Task Journal by ToolStyle

Routine List & Notes Tracker

Strong Contender

4.3😞(14K ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

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This app combines a daily planner with creative tools to organize your life and express your imagination. Create habit trackers, to-do lists, and reading lists, all while using colorful templates, stickers, and brushes. It also features AI art generation to add unique visuals to your pages.

What We Love

🚀 Helpful for organization
🌟 Aesthetically pleasing design
👍 Useful for planning and tracking

Room to Improve

💰 Overly expensive subscription
🔒 Limited free features
🐛 Glitchy performance
📢 Constant prompts to upgrade

Greatnotes5 AI Note Taking app by Kanza Ahmad

Lecture & Meeting Notes Taker

Worth Considering

Take note of almost anything

4.6(1.4K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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Record, transcribe, and organize lectures, meetings, and ideas with AI-powered summaries, instant answers, and quick actions. Export notes as polished PDFs for easy sharing and collaboration.

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Handwritten notes and drawingImage insertion and PDF annotationOrganize and search documents

Wellnote: AI Notes, PDF, Docs

Memo, Planner, Note taking

Real handwriting experience with stylusCategorize and search notesImport and annotate PDFs, Word, PPT

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University Notes: Study Notes

New Handwritten Notes App

Handwritten and typed notesMemorization tools (masking, highlighting)Layered questions and answers

$49.99 | 100% OFF

This app allows students to create handwritten and typed study notes with advanced features for memorization and review. It includes tools for highlighting, masking, and layering content to aid in learning and exam preparation.

📚 Education

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by PORTSUN BIOTECH LIMITED

Notes: Color Notepad, Notebook

🔧 Utilities

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Notes for Daily Tasks

Quick note creationColor-coded notesNotebook organization

A fast and simple note-taking application for jotting down ideas, managing daily tasks, and organizing information. It allows for quick note creation, color-coding, and easy searching to keep important details accessible. Customize your notes with formatting options and share them in various formats.

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Fast Notes on Your Wrist

Simple notes, todos and memos

Simple note-taking experienceCross-device syncingCollaboration and sharing

Capture ideas, create to-do lists, and jot down thoughts effortlessly. Organize your notes with tags and pins, and find them instantly with search. Your content syncs across all devices for free, ensuring it's always accessible.

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UrNotes - Notes & Contracts

Capture Notes, Ideas and Memos

Capture thoughts and ideasDigital sketchbookOrganize and search notes

Capture thoughts, ideas, and plans in a digital notepad. Organize, search, and secure your notes, memos, and sketches. Sync across devices for access anywhere, anytime. Collaborate with others on shared notepads.