GoodNotes
Launched 2011
80 features found available
In their words
A handwriting experience like no other. Fall in love with handwriting all over again with Goodnotes’ digital ink. Loved by millions of people worldwide. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for GoodNotes:
Free- up to 3 notebooks
Unlocked features- $9.99 annual
$29.99- one time charge
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text.
A mechanism is provided to have more than one note concurrently open for editing in a separate viewing window contained within the application
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Content of the PDF can be marked up inside the note, rather than using an external editor
Content of the PDF can be viewed inside the note, rather than clicking on PDF and having it open in an external PDF viewer
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
There exists a publicly accessible site upon which users can upvote features they want to see implemented
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
Documented claim that all note data is encrypted at rest, on the server
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
Notes can exist purely on the local file system of the device, without syncing
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Excluding text that gets colored as a side effect of some other formatting feature listed (e.g., highlight)
There exists a means to recolor the background behind specific text in more than one color
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
Drawn content from within the app can be translated into text
Can font size be explicitly set? I.e., not just through setting it as a header
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
User can choose an explicit font (not just a theme) to restyle text
An open canvas view where blocks of text, images, and other content can be dragged to any horizontal or vertical coordinate
What functionality specific to images is possible?
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be cropped (e.g., to remove the left half of it)
The note app allows the edges of the picture to get dragged so it becomes larger or smaller
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
Without leaving the app, text can be drawn on top of an image
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be rotated (e.g., 90 degrees, counterclockwise)
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
Notes can be deleted from an active account en masse without emailing the company
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Emails can be forwarded to an email address that will create a new note w/ the email content, or append the email content to an existing note
Supports syntax allowing diagrams and charts (Mermaid, etc) to be inserted into a note body
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
A browsable collection of pre-existing sample notes (e.g., "weekly budget") that can be copied into one's own notebook
An algorithm to generate flashcards from note content is offered
Features specific to the mobile experience
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An installable app is available that isn't a Progressive Web App or thin Electron wrapper
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
An installable app is available that isn't a Progressive Web App or thin Electron wrapper
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
Nodes in the note hierarchy can be colored
The portion of the note that matches a user search query is shown on all desktop and mobile platforms
Notes that include PDFs, Word documents, and images show the portion within these that matches search query
Groups of notes can be bookmarked and accessed from a dedicated "Shortcuts," "Starred" or "Favorites" area
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Notes shared via a publicly-accessible link can be edited by any visitor without requiring explicit permissions from the note owner
Multiple parties can edit a note concurrently with a real-time editing system that prevents merge errors if the same paragraph is concurrently edited
A conversation thread is available inline throughout any section of a shared note
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
Did we miss something?
We are constantly working to make sure this page stays up-to-date with the features available in GoodNotes. If there is a feature you think we missed, please email us a screenshot and the URL where the feature is described to [email protected].
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