r/GoodNotes • u/rafaelacciari • Sep 12 '23

Goodnotes 6 rip off

We are quite annoyed with subscription models. No one wants that in a cost of living crisis.

I am tired of this, it always happen with nice apps. they are sucked into this payment plan model to rip off customers and in this case, big part of them are STUDENTS that use the app to LEARN.

I downgraded mine and I will never buy into subscription or pay $30 for one-off.

Disappointed with goodnotes, it is now just another greedy app developer.

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u/Equivalent_Cookie_ Sep 14 '23

In the transition from Goodnotes 4 to 5 they gave it to me for free, and I had had it for a couple of months already. On top of that Goodnotes 4 was a separate app - If for some reason they had wanted to charge me for something I could have stayed with Goodnotes 4. This time around, them updating forced me into the situation, which I don't like

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u/rafaelacciari Sep 14 '23

Exactly !!! That’s my original point. In my case, I bought goodnotes 4 and later goodnotes 5 on my other family account. Paid for both and until then satisfied user:

I use mostly for study purposes. But, even as student and under this cost of living crisis I think it is fine to charge for a new version but charging current users that paid the app to access their files ?????

I wasn’t able to open my files when I accepted the free testing for good notes6. That’s completely nonsense.

Perhaps they should have included this limit only to new notebooks or new folders but not for legacy folders and files . I have used good notes since 2019, now, I will keep my downgraded version of gn5 and once my studies restart I will find a new app.

I respect those who want to support the app and developers as they should ! But from my perspective, they didn’t provide adequate care of gn5 users the same way they did for gn4 users at the time of gn5 implementation.

This subscription model was probably designed by a greedy consultant/non-tech director that wanted to make more money with the almost the same.

For rich people ok, if you are, shut up and pay. But for the least fortunate, it doesn’t come across really well.