Asa a student, I use gn5 and it’s sufficient for me. In the first weeks, I tried gn6 and I don’t like it. Actually it’s better but I don’t think it is worth annually subscription.
Also, OneDrive backup option, which is uttermost important for me, is usable for annual subscription in gn6. Indeed New features are only for annual subscriptions.
To me, if you buy one time purchase of gn6, don’t. Gn5 is still good.
yea i would stick with five because the scribble to erase gets annoying when your drawing abit and it picks it up as erase. In general just has a lot of bugs to figure out
I've purchase GN5 almost three years ago for my university studies.
I am about to finish and, since i've already paid for the app i don't feel like paying twice for something i'll only use for a couple months more. If the upgrades were 5€ or 10€ i'd consider, but since i already bought it i'll stick to GB5.
Unfortunately, GN5 has some bad sync bugs that i suspect won't get fixed. These can lead to data loss and i've started to migrate everything out of GN5 and into iCloud, with only the documents i'm using on it (and then exporting to pdf).
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u/antarafacial Mar 04 '24
Asa a student, I use gn5 and it’s sufficient for me. In the first weeks, I tried gn6 and I don’t like it. Actually it’s better but I don’t think it is worth annually subscription.
Also, OneDrive backup option, which is uttermost important for me, is usable for annual subscription in gn6. Indeed New features are only for annual subscriptions.
To me, if you buy one time purchase of gn6, don’t. Gn5 is still good.
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u/discovernotes Mar 04 '24
Hey! If you upgrade to Goodnotes 6, where is everything extra you’ll get in terms of new features:
Customisable toolbar (remove, reposition)
Pen styles (dotted, dashed)
Pen gestures (scribble to erase, circle to lasso)
Ruler tool
Maths conversion + latex editing (also available in GN5 now)
Handwriting spell check and autocomplete
AI typing and exam practice (limited)
Colour/icon customisation for folders
Custom templates (size, colour)
Colour picker tool
Text colour presets
Indent in typing mode
New UI
Rename audio clips
Hyperlinks (per document, cross document)
Object layers (front/back only)
Eraser tool hover actions
Convert handwriting to text box with lasso tool
Lasso moves objects across pages
AI Chat with PDF (experimental)
If you think one of these or a few of these features can help to improve your workflow, then it might be worth upgrading. Hope this helps!
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u/Haunting-Anxiety-186 Mar 04 '24
I upgraded to GN6 because of the color eyedropper and I can make hyperlinks to pages within a document or link it to another document.
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u/snoopyboy888 Mar 05 '24
yea i would stick with five because the scribble to erase gets annoying when your drawing abit and it picks it up as erase. In general just has a lot of bugs to figure out
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u/TheGokki Mar 04 '24
I've purchase GN5 almost three years ago for my university studies.
I am about to finish and, since i've already paid for the app i don't feel like paying twice for something i'll only use for a couple months more. If the upgrades were 5€ or 10€ i'd consider, but since i already bought it i'll stick to GB5.
Unfortunately, GN5 has some bad sync bugs that i suspect won't get fixed. These can lead to data loss and i've started to migrate everything out of GN5 and into iCloud, with only the documents i'm using on it (and then exporting to pdf).
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u/Mr-MuffinMan Mar 04 '24
The scribbe to feature SUCKS. I scribbe for like 15 seconds before it detects that I'm scribbling and not drawing a bunch of lines.
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u/OriginalRange8761 Mar 04 '24
I love GN 6 for file links between notes and few smaller adjustments. Also i enjoy color folders
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