Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF

Goodnotes

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About this app

Goodnotes – Take Notes, Organize Docs, and Boost Productivity Goodnotes is a powerful note taking app designed to help you capture ideas, organize your notes, and manage your docs and documents across Android, Windows tablets, Chromebooks, and the web browser. Whether you’re in class, at work, or planning your day, Goodnotes gives you all the tools you need to create, edit, and organize your notes and docs in one place for seamless note taking and document management.

🏆 Awarded Google Play Best of 2025 — Best App for Large Screens.

Now with Goodnotes AI: Type, think, and ship faster.
▪ Summarize, rewrite, and edit your notes with tone suggestions and smart corrections
▪ Create first drafts in seconds instead of starting from scratch
▪ Ask questions about your notes and get instant insights

Organize Notes, Docs, and PDFs Your Way
▪ Create unlimited folders to manage all your notes, docs, and PDFs
▪ Choose Notebooks for daily planning and PDFs, Whiteboard for brainstorming and mind mapping, and Text Documents for fast typing and polished docs.
▪ Instantly search across your entire library, including handwritten notes
▪ Tag, label, and categorize your notes, docs, and PDFs for easy access
▪ Access your notes seamlessly across Android, Chromebooks, Windows and Web

For Students:
▪ Capture and organize learning with easy note taking
▪ Share links to notebooks, docs, PDFs, and whiteboards for collaborative note taking
▪ Work together with classmates in real time
▪ Keep your notes tidy with folders, tags, and search
▪ Personalize your notes with planners, covers, stickers, paper templates, and layouts
▪ Download templates for journaling, planning, and creative note taking
▪ Use the lasso tool, layering, shapes, and sticky notes to design unique notes and whiteboard content

For Professionals:
▪ Work smarter with your notes, docs, and PDFs
▪ Import meeting docs, images, presentations, and more
▪ Add handwritten or typed notes directly onto your PDFs and docs
▪ Export your notes as PDFs or images to share, print, or email
▪ Present directly from your device using the built-in laser pointer
▪ Brainstorm and collaborate in real time—see your collaborators and their updates instantly
▪ Use note taking and whiteboard features to enhance productivity and creativity

Enjoy uninterrupted note taking and real-time collaboration anytime, anywhere.

Goodnotes is trusted by millions for intuitive note taking, smart document organization, and creative productivity. Download now and start organizing your notes, docs, PDFs, and whiteboards like never before.
On older or entry‑level devices, like tablets 4 GB RAM or less or basic Chromebooks, performance and functionality may be limited.

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Ratings and reviews

I had high hopes after looking at my friends notes with iPads. Friends, it is NOT THE SAME. At all. It lacks canvas compatibility that iOS has which is absolutely obnoxious. It won't let you upload notes into the notebooks themselves and it lags pretty badly. I was constantly behind on lectures. I wanted to like it because of long press for line straightening and palm rejection, but this is the worst app I've used for notes. That's even compared to One Note and my default app.

I've long been a Goodnotes apostle. It basically got me through anesthesia school and I never would've searched for anything else. At that time, I had an iPad that was my primary note taking device and an iPhone. Shortly after graduation, I switched to a Z Fold 5 (still iPad for tablet). Everything still worked well, but the syncing options were horrendous. Then, my next phone is a traditional-style Android and the app isn't even compatible? Why? It isn't a form factor issue when iPhone has it.

Terrible on android! There is no full library sync, as a person coming from the iPhone/ iPad version which is wonderful, this version is slow, doesn't have full library offline sync(as a one click so you have to go to every item and load), takes forever to load a notebook initially, is extremely laggy when scrolling through pdfs, doesn't have a good outline feature to browse chapters of notebooks, doesn't have a good UX in general, can't scroll through pages fast on the preview pane when, etc

What’s new

- Introducing Whiteboard: An infinite canvas to brainstorm, sketch, and plan without limits
- Redesigned Toolbar: Smarter layout to help you find tools faster and stay in the flow
- Updated toolbar UI: Surfaces the right tools exactly when you need them for faster, more intuitive note-taking
- Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes