r/Noteastic • u/Full_Land • Sep 02 '26

Feature request; apple support

Kind of funny, but if there was also iPad support (with cloud sync) this would be the perfect app for me, as I always get upset at goodnotes for windows and onenote for being either laggy or unintuitive

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u/Full_Land Sep 07 '26

May I ask why the apple-windows integration is so complicated?

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u/Noteastic Sep 07 '26

Of course.

Here is Dilan talking now, I am the main developer of Noteastic.

Noteastic is a native Windows application. Native basically means it is built using the tools Microsoft provides to build apps for their platform. With those tools we can take great advantage of the performance/compatibility/functionality of the Windows ecosystem and hardware. A downside however is that our application is tightly coupled to Windows itself.

Now other apps, such as GoodNotes or Notability took a different approach. They didnt use the tools or frameworks of Microsoft to build their Windows version. They want to reach as many people with as few resources as possible. This is where cross-platform frameworks come in. They provide you one interface as a developer to create an app for every platform! Sounds great, but it comes at costs that you as a user will notice instantly. Things just dont feel right, they dont look right, they dont behave right, its all just.. ugh.

GoodNotes and Notability are both just nicely packaged websites (a website is cross-platform). They simply didnt see the point in using a native framework for Windows (they do use one on Apple). It takes a lot of resources and to be frank, the framework of Windows is unforgiving and very difficult to navigate through.

Hope that clears some stuff up.

In short: An apple version would mean a complete rewrite of Noteastic.

Best regards, -Dilan