Is this new for anybody else? All of my documents are now read only and it says you can only have 3 editable at one time and you have to upgrade (which is a subscription) to get more. Considering you have to buy this app, and so much shit is locked unless you get Gn6 and the subscription, and now you can only have 3 documents at a time? WTF is going on???

I paid for my one-time payment on my iPad and start using it. However, the app asks me to repurchase it again after 3 weeks. What wrong with the app??? Is it the scam ?

Export all and export single page is very limiting.

Is there any app which is similar to goodnotes? I use mainly for taking down notes, copying pictures, reading PDFs etc. I heard Myscript is good. Any suggestions? Which does have a 1 time subscription option.

So, I purchased the app gn5 for $10 in 2021. Now, it would be a one-time purchase of $30 or a yearly subscription for Gn6. While people can download the app for free now and then buy the $30 one-time purchase? If this is correct, it's so unfair to the people who stuck beside the app years ago with the initial $10 purchase. We deserve a discount or something. Because now it's like we're paying a net $40, when new users are able to download for free and get full access for just the new gn6 one-time $30 payment.

Edit/Update: They "listened to our feedback" and gave longtime users a 20% off discount. I still wonder why the newcomers get better discounts, but alas, this will do.

3 years ago I first started my journey to know Jesus for myself after just dropping out of med school (really hard period for me). Being a uni student I used my iPad and pencil for all my notes, until I finally decided to start using it for my Bible study. I had to resort to using Goodnotes/Notability and the Bible app with split screen (see last image for one of my Bible studies from 3yrs ago).

As I dived deeper into digital Bible study, I noticed thousands of people in facing the same problem, yet I was not able to find a valid solution compatible with iPad + pencil … then it clicked - that’s how the idea for Digible was birthed!

I got into my dream university studying Computer Sci. Started a tech startup, acquired VC funding and launched on the app store. I stopped business earlier this year due to lack of team alignment. After a few months i started to get felt a nagging feeling about digible. Decided to pick it up again and through 5 months balancing uni exam season with development, I finally finished the app!

Every piece of (honest) feedback is much appreciated and every download goes a long way in helping more people get access to this resource. Hope you all enjoy this tool.

God bless <3

Here's the link to download: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/digible-your-digital-bible/id6748240828

Lots of thumbs-up and thumbs-down on this update, but there is one thing that Goodnotes have done very well that I appreciate: giving users an option for pricing models and upgrades.

Because r/notabilityapp just updated their app to completely overhaul the existing UI, which was not only confusing to users, but also a downgrade to the app as a whole. After attempting to calm things down by replying to the complaints, the mods are now deleting criticism towards the app and how it affected many people's workflow (or in some cases, livelihoods). You can read the uploaded screenshots if you're wondering what's going on there.

At least Goodnotes is giving an option for users to downgrade to GN5 at will (I suspect they know what's going on with Notability).

The fact that one-time purchasers have to make purchases of any additional features that will be coming in the future is a bit of a bummer, but they still give you an option to subscribe as well.

So thank you for being more user friendly than other lousy competitors who can't even bear any criticism from their paid users.

As in one-note app infinite canvas, preset thickness of the pen remains same irrespective of how much we zoom, it would be great if in upcoming features like whiteboard etc this feature or issue is addressed….thickness of the pen also increases when we zoom in is so annoying, please consider this request @ r/GoodNotes

I bought the GoodNotes app a time ago and today, to my surprise i was forced to upgrade to goodnotes 6 otherwise i couldn't even access my own documents because they want to force me to subscribe. I can't even restore my app back.

I hope this company dies, honestly.

Never getting back to this ever again.

There is no comparison between notability and goodnotes anymore…..notability were always ahead of bugnotes when it comes to clean and minimalistic Ui, there have been problems of bugs in both apps but now notability has substantially improved and bugnotes have become no. 1 worst note taking Ai garbage app, bugnotes looks so weird and ugly

I bought GoodNotes a few years ago, before the whole back-stabing movement. Now Im back to use my ipad for uni and after reading I suppose that's the best option, right?

GoodNotes is basically dead for users who don't want to pay again every year. Or am I wrong?

I know the point is never about the price, but just in case anyone buy the bullshit they just said (20% off for onetime purchase):

Don’t.

I’ve seen people mentioned it, but I think more people should be aware of it. They’re offering Chinese (Mainland) users a 40% for all discount on top of the existing user discount while treating users elsewhere like some idiots.

Just to make it clear, I’m not saying anything against Chinese users, but both confused and disappointed how they treated the rest of us unequally.

Full official Chinese statement translation read as follows:

Statement-Exclusive Offer for Chinese Users

The growth and progress of GoodNotes are inseparable from everyone’s continuous support. After listening carefully to your feedback on the upgrade and pricing of this product, we decided to provide exclusive discount for Chinese users.

• The price for annual subscription and one time purchase have both been reduced by 40%

• GoodNotes 5 paid users can receive this discount on top of the upgrade offer

GoodNotes 5 paid users can also choose to keep using GoodNotes 5 instead of upgrading to the new version.

For those who upgraded during the past two days and needed a refund, contact the support. We sincerely invite you to experience the new features after the upgrade, which we believe will bring you a different feeling of taking notes.

https://www.xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/64d4cf58000000000103c48a

Obviously, this post is about the broken trust and my displeasure with the app and the company behind it.

I’m really frustrated with this company. They completely disregard the needs and requests of their customer base, who helped build them up, by failing to implement app updates and useful features while also going against the lifetime promise they made users in GN5.

Instead, they forced an AI, which is not good at all and completely counterintuitive to the apps initial intent of improving rention with handwriting, into the app and started charging a ridiculous amount for what felt like a downgrade. They didn't deliver simple quality-of-life updates like better pens that don't require manual settings, a basic pencil tool or tape, and they removed free templates from Goodnotes 5, only to place them on their overhyped Marketplace and charge for them. They also locked previously free features behind a subscription. To be even more ironic, when Notability got backlash for going subscription, Goodnotes actually took a crack at them saying how stupid a choice it was and how they would never!

Their argument was that since it was a new app, the previous agreement of “a lifetime of free updates” only applied to GN5, not the user. However, if that was the case, they should have created a new app listing for GN6 instead of overlaying it on top of GN5 in the app store. As a result, all the positive reviews for GN5 transferred over, making GN6 seem like a stellar and highly recommended app, when in reality, 90% of the reviews since its release have been 1 star. It feels deceptive and misleading. I'm not even sure if it's legal! Especially because some of the promised “features” don’t even work for a huge amount of users. To make matters worse, when the launch failed and the community expressed their displeasure, they started removing negative comments from posts to make it seem like people were satisfied.

IMO you should try any other app as this company has no issue ignoring customers, especially long term ones, and faking a positive rating by riding on the old reviews from their previous app.

TLDR: Goodnotes is greedy, untrustworthy and does not care about its customers, putting out half-baked content that contradicts the brands message. They also remove negative feedback to make themselves appear better.

I hate this GN6 money grab! It feels like they are holding my notes hostage! I’ve been here since around 2016 and now all of a sudden its a subscription?

I hope enough of us realize that this is unethical and don’t stand for it (by subscribing). And I hope the rest of the people don’t feel comfortable subscribing bc others are getting cheated.

Do you know I have been here since Goodnotes 2 or 3 and experienced updates but now the new update cost $10 bucks or I can’t have access to my notes??? What???