Goodnotes 6 4+

An app like an app. For some, it will be weak with flaws, for others it will be great. I am a consumer who can get used to weaknesses and turn them into strengths. I am very happy with this app despite its limitations. As for the conduct of the creators, it is like this. One prefers an off-road car, the second a passenger car, and the third a pick-up. Everyone can learn to ride and get used to it, tame their flaws. However, it is unforgivable that I bought a pick-up, I get an offer from the manufacturer to improve my car, and then I come home from the service and it turns out that now he has an improved vehicle, but every month I have to pay for this improvement! After all, I didn't take a rental car! I consciously bought your app with the idea that I pay for it 1 time for life. Now such a disappointment, and it must even be called an outright fraud. I want to have the freedom to choose, as one of your users wrote, whether I stay with my lifetime version or choose a new one with a subscription. The application with the subscription should be a new item in the App Store or new features, if I need them, they could be for an additional fee. Unfortunately, if this does not change, I will be forced to return to the Apple notebook or to the good old paper and pen. I count on the common sense of the creators. Yours sincerely, MS

it’s cheap and that is what you get -bad for fast note taking -bad for reliable note taking -bad for drawing -bad for carpal tunnel -bad for sensory issues -extremely basic graphic functions -no fill tool -ugly stickers and templates -file bloat -custom stickers cause file bloat -frequent crashes -lost progress after crash -can’t drag items between pages -can’t scroll past right edge, making the note look untidy -can’t scroll past right edge, causing pain in the hands. idk who this is for, someone with infinite time on their hands.

[edit]
still just as bad and feature-less as it was, but now it forces an update that DOES NOT migrate the license that you already purchased, and makes you pay way more than you already did.

there are some other downsides, i forgot to mention previously:
- doesn’t export your outlines as ToCs, when it exports PDFs
- user created templates get inexplicably shrunken, and stickers get ridiculously enlarged.
- no video embedding (kind of a big deal for people who use notes apps for education)

I’m going to stop using it and migrate to Pro Create: i already take most of my notes there because that painting app is literally more convenient and useful for taking notes than Goodnotes is. And they don’t make you pay exorbitant hidden fees (the Goodnotes license was supposed to be lifetime…). Embarrassing. It feels like a student project, and a passing-grade one at that.

giving it 5 stars ironically.

In general the application is great. Vertical scrolling is very confortable. The app allows to configurate the type of drawing of the pencil. In combination with apple pencil, the application is very useful. Nevertheless, it has had some, normally sporadic, bugs that have been unsolved for some time now. For example, when deleting some text, the application may become unstable: the deleted text will appear and dissappear arbitrarially. It is also unconfortable the fact that it is not possible to start drawing on a page and to finish on another one. The application does not recognize it. The application does not allow for moving a cut text on a page to another one. One has to copy and delete on one, and then to paste on the second page.