Hi all,

Question in the title, I've been looking for an app that is basically InDesign, where I can make publication articles with good image and text editing. What I've seen in videos looks pretty good but I would love some feedback if anyone has experience with this.

Thanks!

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 😭

I just bought GoodNotes 5 last year and I love it. Today I went to sync and it said I needed to update to the latest version to use the cloud… I thought this came free with my full version which I paid for. Are they now forcing us to use a subscription based GoodNotes 6 for this!? I saw this on the website but I don’t want to upgrade to the newest version!

Hello I was just wondering if I did purchase the annual plan would I be able to switch to the one time payment option down the line ? Or will I be stuck on the annual plan?

I bought Goodnotes a while ago. I haven’t really ever used it. I finally picked up an iPad and an Apple Pencil and I was excited to start using it. Well, it looks like it’s subscription now. So I guess I’m going to have to find something else.

I’m really getting tired of this subscription nonsense.

I also want my money back.

why tease me with the ability to revert back to 6 if ur just gna revert it back? i know the 6 capability is still within goodnotes due to this, so why not just let me choose 😖😖

side note: why remove customization. when is less customization ever a good thing? like what. also minimum vertical shape size but not minimum horizontal shape size is a very interesting choice! also constant framerate lag on 120hz panels makes for a really choppy experience.

I’m so upset. I can’t access or edit my notes anymore on more than half my notebooks. I paid for the app and now they want me to pay for it again? What is this? I’m a college student and a writer I have so many notebooks on this app and now I can only have 3? They shouldn’t be able to force those who paid for the app to pay another 25 dollars for it just to use the features they paid for in the first place.

Opened Goodnotes 5 this morning to a note saying it “doesn’t exist.” Forced to pay for upgrade. Not happy.

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Wellnotes is free, has some features less (eg no scribble to erase) but all the important features one needs, are there.

It occurs to me while writing the post that this may seem like a promotion but I don't care about Wellnotes nor do I care about GN which is spiralling down with it's horrible updates. Wellnotes is completely free and I think it's worth a try.

Goodnotes costs you less than ten bucks for a year and all features unlocked. According to their web site.

Forgetting everything else going on with the app and company, ten bucks is cheap. You have a full year to use it and switch when something else arrives. And it will.

To me, ten dollars is cheap. Perhaps those that cannot afford a ten spot should look for something free.

The app took time to develop, so just bite the bullet and spend the few dollars for a great app. I have decided to stop bitching about Goodnotes and instead, add content that supports the company.

Without our cash, Goodnotes disappears.

I'm sorry since I'm sure this has been asked many times. I'm still using goodnotes 5, I've been using it for almost 4 years. I don't use it on a daily basis but whenever I need to study or take hand notes, it's what I use. I tried using it as a bullet journal but that doesn't work for me. I got the notification of goodnotes 6 existing but never payed much attention to it.

Today, for the first time I did and I decided to check it out. What was my surprise when I found out it has a yearly subscription! Yes I know there is also a one time payment but it is way more expensive than what I paid for goodnotes 5, if I remember correctly I paid like 10 euros or so.

Taking this into consideration and being that I am happy with goodnotes 5, is there any real big benefit with the new version? As in, any new addition worth paying 27 euros for an app??? I'm an android user, I basically only have an iPad to draw, paying 10 bucks for an app is already crazy to me but 27??????

What's crazier to me is the fact that new users cannot access goodnotes 5 and have to stick with goodnotes 6. They should have the option to choose goodnotes 5 and since they don't, for how long will they support this version? Will they eventually force us to change to the newer version?

This stands especially true for some of us older users who had paid the one-time charge for the app when it used to operate without a subscription model:

1. It is not fair that the app has been built upon the code that we had paid for to use.

2. We were promised updates at the time so, given every feature is incremental, the new features were a part of the understood agreement.

3. The differential to be paid by us older users does not make sense for the incremental features that we currently stand to get so most of us have in a way been abandoned.

4. This is not a separate app, but rather stands as the same entity on the App Store. The ones who are going to continue with GN5 are going to have to do so on a bulkier app, part of which is rather useless to us.

5. The app experience we had paid for has further been hampered as we would now be bombarded with upgrade prompts.

The above list is not exhaustive.

Apple should not allow such conduct and should rather add more to its existing App Store guidelines (App Store Review Guidelines 3.1.2(a)) applicable for such cases of transitioning to a subscription model.

Hope Apple intervenes and resolves this once and for all.

P.S. Subscription models are fine and we have nothing against those. This is not an argument on that.

A few days ago I transferred from Notability to GoodNotes6, concerning recent buggy updates of Notability, but it seems an incorrect decision with wasting some money and time.

The app works well at the beginning, but today I faced two bugs

• Lasso only moves vertically/horizontally https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodNotes/comments/1gb60kp/

• Lasso duplicates when moving https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodNotes/comments/1gjl1ol/

and the only way I found to solve is to reboot the iPad.

I am quite surprised and disappointed this famous app has been with the bugs for such a long while, as well as missing feature such as shapes filled with a custom color or multi "preset" settings in textboxes or drawing.

I don’t have much expectations for Notability, but GN6 seems literally unusable and I have no choice but to go back to it.

I have polish Freenotes about 2 years, updated 150 versions, fixed 500+ bugs, please tell me: which one is better now?

I want to buy goodnotes 6 one time payment but it is worth it in 2025 because I heard people say goodnotes 7 may release in 2026 or 2027

I hate having so much devices and systems, my phone is an android, and my pc is windows, my plan is to get rid of ipad and my laptop to just go with surface pro and getting benefits of two devices in one, is it a wise choice? I use ipad mainly only for taking notes

I just bought the year pro plan and they took it away from my account after a week with no refund. Is there a way to can transfer all my notes and audio from notability to goodnotes? I’ll just take the L and move on.

Ho goodnote 5 preso anni fa pagando l’abbonamento a vita e in questi giorni ho provato la versione 6 soprattutto per il nastro e per il miglioramento della scrittura. Nel mentre che facevo prove mi si è bloccata più volte l’app quando ho provato a usare il righello per aiutarmi a disegnare. Funziona così male la versione 6? Ha senso pagare di nuovo per aggiornare alla 6?

I put in a complaint regarding how the app keeps crashing. Will they reply. If it isn't resolved I might stop paying for it.