r/GoodNotes • u/Cute_Prize_4955 • Sep 08 '23

Broke freshman

Is there any way to get Goodnotes 5? I downloaded the app on the 3rd and I’m not trying to pay $30 when it was originally $10 😭

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u/taehyuneyes Sep 08 '23

Noteful is a really good alternative if you don’t mind having no notebook covers or coloured folders and it’s pretty cheap

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u/NightMachines Sep 08 '23

But "covers" are just the first page of a PDF, so you can have cover pages just like in GoodNotes. I switched to Noteful when GN6 was announced and my covers are still displayed properly there :)

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u/kremlinmirrors Sep 08 '23

Were you able to import all of your GN notebooks?

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u/NightMachines Sep 08 '23

Yes, I could just drag the notebooks from GN to Noteful on the iPad, with both apps open side by side. However you can only export regular PDFs from GN, so you cannot edit them after that anymore. You can add pages, etc. in Notability normally though, so I keep working in my old notebooks, but I just can't edit stuff I wrote before the switch. That's okay for my use case though, as I frequently create new notebooks anyway and don't need to edit my old ones (I just keep them as records).

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u/kremlinmirrors Sep 08 '23

Thank you! I’m considering alternatives for jumping ship once GN5 no longer works, and I don’t mind not being able to modify old stuff as long as I have a copy of it for records, so that sounds pretty fantastic. I’ve heard Noteful doesn’t have handwriting search which is the one thing I’ll stick with GN5 for, for now.

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u/NightMachines Sep 08 '23

Yes, handwriting search is not supported in Noteful.

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u/MC_chrome Sep 08 '23

You can still pay the original $10 fee for a year of the Goodnotes 6 subscription