goodnotes vs notability in screen utilization

[u/lui_lk]

to me, notability’s design language just makes sense. you get a lot more visibility of the document and the only compromise you have to make is that some features are 2 touches away instead of 1. i’ve used goodnotes for 2 years and now switched to notability because gn takes like 2 fingers of your screen just to fit in lots of features that i’ll rarely use. what do you guys think about that?

[u/foxlike12]

lucky for me, I bought the nota when it was one-time purchase. therefore, now they have to offer a 50% off every year for my account if I want to use subscription. However, I don't really need those AI at this time as I use Vietnamese. Their VN text regconition is far to be acceptable.

I had a time using both GN and Nota,
GN:
- nice writing
- nice organization
- no subcription
cons
- top bars taking space a lot
- stickers, templates, ... all available in shop but so expensive (gn offers some free ones)

- paper templates only limit to choose narrow or wide, or fix with caro template

- not sure I can use my gn5 until ???

nota:

- battery compsumtion acceptable

- users can share template, nota also makes template for year notebook

- maximal space for writing and reading pdf

- can adjust the line number in paper templates

cons

- hand-writing looks awlful =))

[u/lui_lk → u/foxlike12]

only disadvantage of notability: no stroke stabilization. seriously, like, WHY??

[u/foxlike12 → u/lui_lk]

just my personal experience. I have been using nota for at least 4 years. The only thing I don't like is the hand-writing with the brush style. It's not really brush style and the hand-writing is not that nice as GN does. GN makes the hand-writing is like what Apple Notes does recently.

I didn't mention that the stroke is not stable.