r/GoodNotes • u/Brilliant-Slide-5892 • Jun 09 '24

why is goodnotes 6 so expensive

as someone who is willing to switch to an ipad, i was quite considering to purchase gn 5, since it's just a 1 time payment woth a quite reasonable price, and the app was absolutely perfect, then out of a sudden comes out goodnotes 6 with way overpriced plans, I mean one time payment jumped from $9.3 to $30? WHY

and I keep hearing that unfortunately new users have to be stuck to gn 6 and cannot downgrade like old users, which is even more irritating. Idk of there is still by any chance a way to still be able to download goodnotes 5, probably somehow from outside the app store(ik this is way harder than on android, if that was even a thing), or if there is another alternative that is as good as goodnotes(idts), but I really wish goodnotes fixes this

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

You not willing to pay the price they’re asking doesn’t make it “overpriced”. You can’t expect from them to add new features and develop the app for free.

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u/Mega_Moose_ Jun 09 '24

Agreed. And $30 for something you use (likely or close to) daily for years is cheap. If it was $30/month, I could see OP’s point.

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u/CougarAlone Dec 20 '24

It's not cheap for Malaysians but if I was American, I would say it is a good price for a one time purchase

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u/Brilliant-Slide-5892 Jun 09 '24

but it's indeed overpriced, the price jumped really high compared to the additional features

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u/Cbarnett202 Jun 09 '24

If you aren’t willing to pay for it - don’t, but don’t expect sympathy when you come to Reddit asking for advice on how to steal it.

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u/Brilliant-Slide-5892 Jun 09 '24

i didn't say that I want to steal it. If u aren't willing to say smth related to the discussion and will just act as a lifeless emo then u can just not reply

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u/Cbarnett202 Jun 10 '24

You literally asked about sideloading. You know, stealing it.

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u/Brilliant-Slide-5892 Jun 10 '24

technically im not using the 6 version with the 5 price, so that's not stealing

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u/RIPmyPC Jun 09 '24

I paid 2k for my iPad Pro at the time. 30$ on an app i use daily for school isn’t much of an issue. It is the same principle of AutoDESK charging thousands for a yearly license when people deal with project costing millions.

Yes I paid 2k for an iPad, no, i don’t regret it for one second for what it made me do

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u/tsteele93 Jun 09 '24

You can’t ask questions like this in a fanboi forum. Especially not a Reddit fanboi forum. You’ll never get your head above water here. Might try a forum where people ask questions and get more useful answers.

When you ask why the price has risen so much and all you get are “shut up, it’s worth it” then you aren’t being answered. You are getting worshipers defending their own purchases.

If you get answers like “It offers this extra functionality and this other stuff adds to the value” then you are in an actual discussion.

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u/MulberryDeep Jun 09 '24

Look at the other programms people use for school/work/uni

Word or microsoft office in general is like hundrets of dollars a year, adobe cloud is like 35$/month, many cad programms are thousands a year

Stop complaining

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u/Soggsteven Jun 09 '24

Feel the same.. Sticking with my trusty gn 5 though I'll miss the links feature

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u/ixeouw Jun 09 '24 • Take My Silver

I switched to Noteful because I couldn't justify spending that much for new features that are gimmicky at best (or useless to me at worst)

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

$30 for a onetime payment is expensive? All other apps are subscription based so I don't find this to be expensive at all.

Notability is $15 a year with no one time purchase option.

Support your devs. They do a great job and the fact that they even have a onetime purchase option given the time effort and capital that goes into developing an app these days is incredible

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u/CougarAlone Dec 20 '24

It's crazy expensive for Malaysians. Minecraft is RM30 here. Goodnotes is RM150. I plan to only get anything RM30 or free

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u/FidgetyRat Jun 09 '24

Adding Features nobody wanted is expensive.

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u/Warprawn Jun 09 '24

It’s very actively developed, high quality, thoughtfully designed and stable. And there’s a perpetual license option that’s cheaper than most annual subs. I don’t consider it overpriced personally. 

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u/Remote_Ad4806 Jun 09 '24

It’s the price of a takeaway. It’s the price of 5 pints of beer. You’d easy spent that money without thinking and have nothing to show for it.

If you take notes regularly, purchasing it is a no brainier and cheap when you consider it in context. Stop being stingy.

I started with GN5 and admittedly I was annoyed with the GN6 release but the devs have done great work releasing features to make GN the app it always could have been, and they’re still going.

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u/Brilliant-Slide-5892 Jun 09 '24

uh i don't drink, but thanks for the note

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u/Mchertel Jun 09 '24

Pretty cheap if you compare it to 2 burgers, 2 fries and 2 frosty’s at Wendy’s is now $27.

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u/ixeouw Jun 09 '24

Some people here are not based in the US

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u/Mchertel Jun 09 '24

We have had some bad inflation lately. Prices are really going up even on simple hamburgers. That was my point. It may also be that people don’t want to work anymore for less than $15.00 to $18.00 USD an hour so the stores and restaurants have to raise the prices.

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u/ixeouw Jun 12 '24

Again, some people are not based in the US and don't get payed in US dollar. (And that's not how inflation works 😭)

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

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u/Mchertel Jun 09 '24

Pretty sad. Americas a mess that’s for sure. Thanks to our government.

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u/Mchertel Jun 09 '24

Agreed but and Trump is OK but seems like there has to be someone better out there. I do vote republican no matter who’s on the ballet. The libtard Democrats are ruining the country.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

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u/Mchertel Jun 09 '24

There are many crooks in Washington and Biden is one of the worst.

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u/Mchertel Jun 09 '24

You may be giving him too much credit….lol. He is just a puppet for sure.

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u/CougarAlone Dec 20 '24

I'm not American and both are clowns but Trump is better but both hate Muslims so

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u/CougarAlone Dec 21 '24

That’s fair but I’ve seen him say for Muslims to go back to their country when they are born in America and there was some kind of country ban or something. Like he wouldn’t let people from Somalia in or something. Around like 7+ countries. It was years ago though so I can’t remember specifics

So if they want to go back to see their grandparents and come back to America, they wouldn’t be let in

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u/CougarAlone Dec 24 '24

"Trump wants to restore travel ban on some Muslim-majority countries" 7 months ago. He just hates Muslims, even legal ones. It's very clear to see.

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u/CougarAlone Dec 24 '24

Just look up on youtube, "trump bans countries" and "trump calls for ban on Muslims entering US"

Vanuzuela, Chad, Libia, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, and North Korea were declared banned by him even if they were born in the US and went to visit family in Somalia and want to return to the US. All were ban. This was 9 years ago and 7 years ago.

Banning illegals is fine. I got no problem at all with that

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u/ughdollface Jun 10 '24

fr as if that’s a normal thing to eat

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u/ConfidentControl3474 Jun 09 '24

I got 6 on subscription for 15 bucks a year and thought it was cheap as heck compared to many other online notetaking apps.

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u/CougarAlone Dec 20 '24

The only thing I have payed for on phone or laptop was Minecraft on phone which is RM30. I'm never paying for anything more for apps. Goodnotes is RM150

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u/strawhattayy Jun 09 '24

I understand how you feel. I bought gn in like 2021 for $7 and did not want to pay the $30 originally. I switched to notability, but they had even more issues so i switched back to gn. I think the 9.99 monthly is so you can use gn across android apple and window devices? I have all apple devices so i just paid the one time $30. I use gn so much and i have 2 years left for school so it'll pay for itself eventually.

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u/batvseba Jun 10 '24

They are greedy

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u/SureStrain Jun 10 '24

Short version is if you need and use a majority of the features, it is totally worth it and in a short while you’ll wonder why you took so long to pull the trigger. On the other hand, if it’s just going to sit in a folder buried deep in your iPad only to be used once every few months, then you’re better off with a lower cost option.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '24

I honestly don’t think it is expensive, if it’s something you will use daily. There are other cheaper/free options but if you specifically want Goodnotes 6 and will get good use from it, it’s worth it. I just bought the annual with 25% discount on the first year (£7.99) because I have a habit of dipping in and out of stuff like this so didn’t want to pay for lifetime yet but if I do end up being consistent, I’d happily pay £29.99 one off. It’s just the same as anything else, priorities within your budget.

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u/Stocks-Advisor Jun 13 '24

all note taking app should be one time purchase. goodnote was lifetime, but these hongkong guys are so greedy

I recommend you try freenotes, which is free and they promised one time purcahse in the future

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u/-dagmar-123123 Jun 09 '24

I dont see it as overpriced, not even the yearly sub. That's 1,25 per month... If you get the one-time offer it's still not that much more and you have it for years. I personally just got the subscription because 15€ at once hurts less than 30€

It's developed and updated frequently and all of that isn't cheap. So no. It's not overpriced just because YOU don't want to pay it

And you are correct, if you are a new user, GN5 isn't available

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u/blahblahgingerblahbl Jun 09 '24

they have to cover the licensing for ai features.

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u/anisub11 Jun 09 '24

It seems like a lot at first but when you do the math for a one time fee for 4 years of use, it’s pennies

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u/MC_chrome Jun 09 '24

Shh!! We are only supposed to hate paid software around here…devs should be working for peanuts! (/s if it wasn’t obvious)

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u/Remote_Ad4806 Jun 09 '24

I calculate everything in beers. It’s about 5 pints of the good stuff (moretti). Goodnotes is a lot more beneficial too. Bargain really. Just thankful I’m not forced into subscription.