Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF
Note taking, Planner & Journal
Free · In-App Purchases
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: One of our most requested features — 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, and problem-solve 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 structure them into clear meeting minutes. After the meeting, merge transcripts with your own 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, you can 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 notes to email, print, or share them anywhere as PDFs.
■ Send a link to your notebooks to work on the same notes directly — perfect for asynchronous work or collaborative brainstorming.
■ 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 the moment you write — perfect for lectures or presentations.
■ Search and instantly find any of your notes from any class.
■ 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 perfect your typed text.
For planners: Let your creativity flow
■ Customize the size and color of your paper templates to create the template you want.
■ Add, create, or import stickers, stamps, washi tapes, images, and more
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 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 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 writing by resizing it, changing the text color, or moving it to another spot on the page.
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more This digital notepad and PDF markup tool covers all the bases. Create notes with your keyboard or Apple Pencil: the app transforms your hand-drawn shapes into perfect ones, and can even convert your handwriting to text.
This digital notepad and PDF markup tool covers all the bases. Create notes with your keyboard or Apple Pencil: the app transforms your hand-drawn shapes into perfect ones, and can even convert your handwriting to text.
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This Goodnote application is good for medical student like me to use this app❤️it’s easy to use it and has many functions.Cute functions🥰
Oh my god, Goodnotes has always been a great app—I hate to say this. But ever since I updated to Goodnotes 6, this keeps happening: I’m writing, and when I add another page, the app freezes. I have to refresh it, and when I reopen it, everything is erased! It’s so frustrating…
Oh my god, Goodnotes has always been a great app—I hate to say this. But ever since I updated to Goodnotes 6, this keeps happening: I’m writing, and when I add another page, the app freezes. I have to refresh it, and when I reopen it, everything is erased! It’s so frustrating…
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- Introduced Handwriting Restyle. Select your handwriting with the Lasso Tool and tap Restyle to turn it into a cleaner, more polished style.
- Auto Backup now runs less often by default to save battery and performance. Increase the backup frequency or back up manually anytime in Cloud & Backup Settings.
- Auto Backup handles paused uploads more reliably so documents are not missed after resuming.
- Improved document and window layout reliability, including external-display resizing on iPhone, Mac window resizing, windowed tabs, sidebar modals, and landscape coachmarks.
- Locked documents are better protected: printing and document-link sharing now correctly require unlocking or show the proper locked-document alert.
- Export, print, share, and Study Set flows are more reliable, with clearer Study Set export layouts, working Study Set sharing, and less temporary storage left behind.
- Dark mode, toolbar, and picker popovers look and behave more consistently, with clearer menu rows and fewer clipping, resizing, or flicker issues.
- Sync and sharing are more robust, fixing invisible synced documents or folders, stuck Goodnotes Cloud sync, early collaborator invites, shared-copy links, share-link toggle state, and clearer alerts when sync is off.
- Account and subscription screens show the right state more consistently, including purchase restore errors, country-specific paywall indicators, account mismatch warnings, one-time code sign-in, and Microsoft sign-in email handling.
- Shape, selection, and navigation tools are more reliable, fixing connector crashes, filled shape rendering, draw-and-hold fills, link popover editing, restyled selection borders, and trackpad or mouse-wheel scrolling with Hand Selection.
- Settings and modal screens now use more consistent, rounded table layouts.
- Sheets on Mac present more reliably.
- Outlook calendar integration is now available.
- Several fixes for iOS 27/macOS 27 compatibility.
- Education: Classroom workflows are more dependable, including subfolder selection, favorited lesson actions, Quick Lessons QR code access, and launch behavior for license-key users.
- Education: Class Folders now support more sorting options.
- Education: Zoom setting change in View by Question now applies across all questions.
- Fixed an issue where the close buttons on the laser pointer, page-actions, and comment popovers were not visible at compact width.
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
7.1.22 2 days ago
- Introduced Quick Diagramming. Tap or drag any edge dot on a selected shape to instantly create a connected node and build flowcharts without switching tools.
- Added connector style switching: Switch a connector between curved and elbow styles right from its selection menu.
- Fixed an issue where Microsoft accounts would be created without an associated email.
- Fixed an issue where tapping a link in full-page typing on iPhone / iPad-compact could show an unstable edit-link sheet
- Fixed an issue where the save-draft popover could appear misplaced next to the Home button on iPad
- Fixed an issue where popover arrows didn't match the color of the popover body
- Fixed an issue where the "Empty" label in Trash was nearly invisible when the bin was empty
- Fixed an issue where the document sidebar title could appear cropped
- Fixed an issue where popover sections had no visible separation in Dark Mode
- Fixed an issue where the font picker's grouped sections could become invisible in landscape
- Fixed several issues with the Font Size and Line Height popovers
- Fixed an issue where rotating the device while cropping an image could misalign it
- Fixed an issue where the Edit Equation field didn't match the current text field style
- Fixed an issue where the "Share details" field didn't scroll while typing long feedback
- Fixed an issue where web pills could appear cut off
- Fixed an issue where students could join an organization without seeing a data-loss warning on every path
- Fixed an issue where the sample lesson could fail to load smart clustering for signed-out license users
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
7.1.19 4 Sept
- Introduced Quick Diagramming. Tap or drag any edge dot on a selected shape to instantly create a connected node and build flowcharts without switching tools.
- Added connector style switching: Switch a connector between curved and elbow styles right from its selection menu.
- Fixed an issue where tapping a link in full-page typing on iPhone / iPad-compact could show an unstable edit-link sheet
- Fixed an issue where the save-draft popover could appear misplaced next to the Home button on iPad
- Fixed an issue where popover arrows didn't match the color of the popover body
- Fixed an issue where the "Empty" label in Trash was nearly invisible when the bin was empty
- Fixed an issue where the document sidebar title could appear cropped
- Fixed an issue where popover sections had no visible separation in Dark Mode
- Fixed an issue where the font picker's grouped sections could become invisible in landscape
- Fixed several issues with the Font Size and Line Height popovers
- Fixed an issue where rotating the device while cropping an image could misalign it
- Fixed an issue where the Edit Equation field didn't match the current text field style
- Fixed an issue where the "Share details" field didn't scroll while typing long feedback
- Fixed an issue where web pills could appear cut off
- Fixed an issue where students could join an organization without seeing a data-loss warning on every path
- Fixed an issue where the sample lesson could fail to load smart clustering for signed-out license users
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
7.1.18 30 Aug
- Fixed a crash affecting managed (VPP) devices.
- Fixed a layout bug where landscape pages couldn't be zoomed out or panned clear of the document sidebar.
- Fixed gray lines appearing along the Notification popover background in Dark Mode.
- Fixed an issue where math graphs weren't generated for duplicated or concurrently visualized equations.
- Fixed the Insert Graph tooltip on Mac not dismissing correctly.
- Fixed the paywall not resizing to fit narrower screens.
- Fixed a contrast issue that made the trial countdown pill hard to read.
- Fixed the image picker not opening from the toolbar in some cases.
- Fixed a layout bug where the textbox style popover showed extra spacing on first open.
- Fixed toolbar popovers opening above the sub-toolbar and covering it.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when restyling handwriting on large whiteboard pages.
- Fixed a scroll indicator not appearing when a popover overlapped the page edge.
- Fixed handwriting beautification quality degrading after repeated use in the same session.
- Fixed several issues with connectors in diagrams, including duplicate strokes and incorrect routing when zoomed out or rotated.
- Fixed an issue where formatting-only edits to connected shapes could be lost.
- Fixed sync reliability issues affecting document duplication and page copying.
- Fixed an issue where some previously-created textboxes couldn't be edited.
- Fixed text highlight rendering issues.
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
7.1.16 24 Aug
- Download language packs while recording, so transcription never has to wait.
- Redesigned the Share and Export menu, with new options including CSV export and presentation mirroring.
- Fix sync issues yourself with a new in-app option — no more reinstalling.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the app to hang while paging through documents.
- Fixed an issue where shared PDF pages could appear blank and comments could be created more than once.
- Fixed an issue where documents could fail to reopen after being closed while still loading.
- Fixed an issue where pasted text could lose formatting and highlight pills could render incorrectly when zoomed.
- Fixed several issues with audio recording and playback.
- Fixed an issue where the close button didn't respond on an unsaved tab, and connector strokes could duplicate with Apple Pencil.
- Fixed an issue where the secondary toolbar would be on top of the page in some situations.
- General bug fixes and stability improvements.
7.1.14 17 Aug
* Introduced Quick Diagramming. Tap any edge dot on a selected shape to instantly create a connected node and build flowcharts without switching tools.
* Connectors now automatically switch to a cleaner route when shapes are repositioned. Added the ability to add and remove control points on Connector paths for more precise editing.
* Added keyboard shortcuts for Text Document, including inline code, subscript, superscript, block quote, bulleted and numbered lists, to-do/checklist, add comment, paste without formatting, and table cell navigation.
* Fixed several visual polish issues across dialogs, coachmarks, and Search empty states under Liquid Glass.
* Fixed an issue where certain Vietnamese characters didn't display correctly when previewing files to import.
* Fixed an issue that could cause the app to hang during launch on some iPad models, and for users with a lot of saved preferences.
* Restored "More from Templates" in the Add Page menu for Education users.
* Fixed a rare crash during the erasure flow on shared iPad devices in Classroom, and added extra safeguards to keep student and teacher notes separate.
* Education: Fixed the Ask Classroom button text being truncated, and the Search result bar moving from the bottom of the screen in Teaching mode.
* Fixed a visual glitch where shrinking a shape containing text could leave ghosting on the canvas.
* Fixed an issue where the Lasso object menu could stop appearing after using circle-to-lasso.
* Fixed an issue where the Laser tool could get stuck.
* Fixed an issue with context menu ordering on iPhone when using long press.
* Fixed an issue where accepting an org invite while already a member could show a misleading error.
* General bug fixes and stability improvements.
7.1.12 10 Aug
* Fixed crashes that could occur when opening the Change Color menu, using the Toolbar's More Options popover, switching to iCloud while offline, or starting Auto Backup with no files uploaded.
* Added Selective Eraser, allowing more control of the content type removed with the eraser.
* Added alignment guides and smart spacing when moving objects on the canvas, helping everything line up with consistent, even spacing without manual nudging.
* Get more space back on your Notebook pages by pulling the page down to close the secondary toolbar.
* Fixed color palette clipping in the Text Box Style and Change Color menus on iPhone, and corrected Image Crop's dark mode appearance under Liquid Glass.
* Fixed scrolling and delete issues in the object menu, a misplaced rotation handle, a flickering canvas element, and a glitch that could occur when scrolling between pages side to side.
* Fixed several issues with the Images tool.
* Fixed website links added via Add Link not working, a duplicated title after splitting notes, and slash-command sizing issues.
* Fixed text issues, including undo in text boxes, cursor tracking in Text Documents, and numbered list markers resetting while typing.
* Fixed issues with audio transcription and AI-generated diagrams.
* Improved security when opening certain legacy GoodNotes 4 files.
* Added a clear message when a document needs a newer app version to open and improved messaging when iCloud storage is full.
* Fixed sign-in appearing inside the settings popover for Goodnotes Education, the in-app keyboard not opening for the SSO email field in landscape mode, and Sample Lesson documents falling out of sync.
* Restored the audio sidebar automatically opening when a recording starts.
* General bug fixes and stability improvements.
7.1.10 3 Aug