Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF

Goodnotes

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About this app

Goodnotes: Handwrite Notes, Annotate PDFs, and Organize Every Doc.
Goodnotes is a powerful note-taking and PDF annotation app that helps you capture ideas in your own handwriting, organize your notes and documents, and get more done — across Android, Windows, and Chromebooks. Whether you’re in class, at work, or planning your day, Goodnotes gives you everything you need to write, edit, and organize your notes, PDFs, and docs in one place.

🏆 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

Handwrite, Annotate, and Organize Your Way
▪ Take handwritten notes with natural pen and highlighter tools
▪ Import and annotate PDFs — fill forms, sign documents, and mark up textbooks or reports
▪ 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
▪ Search typed and handwritten notes to find key moments fast
▪ Sync your notes automatically across devices, so your work is always up to date
▪ Access your notes across Android, Chromebooks, Windows, and Web

For Students:
Built for students at every stage — from first lectures to finals.
▪ Capture and organize learning with easy handwritten note taking and PDF annotation
▪ Share links to notebooks, docs, PDFs, and whiteboards for collaborative note taking
▪ Work together with classmates in real time
▪ Keep your lectures organized with folders and favorites
▪ 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 PDFs to fill, sign, annotate, and mark up
▪ Export notes as PDFs 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 boost productivity and creativity

Goodnotes is trusted by millions for intuitive note taking, PDF annotation, and document organization. Download now and start writing, annotating, and organizing your notes, docs, PDFs, and whiteboards like never before.

Some highlighted features, such as collaboration, sharing, and unlimited notebooks, require an active Goodnotes subscription. All new users get a 7-day free trial to explore the full range of Goodnotes features.

On older or entry-level devices, like tablets with 4GB RAM or less or basic Chromebooks, performance and functionality may be limited.

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Ratings and reviews

it was working fine until I didn't want to pay for the subscription. even though the free version should let your one notebook work it doesn't. lags and practically broken none of the hyperlinks work. making it a pain to navigate. I ended up buying the subscription again but this problem persist if it's a bug why hasn't it been fixed?

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

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.

What’s new

Organizations can now receive notifications about membership and billing events.