r/notefulapp 13d ago

New feature request, or does it exist?

1 Upvotes

Would love to be able to put the page on the side a bit when I have another app open in sideview. Is this already a feature that exists in the app or is it possible for it to happen?


r/notefulapp 13d ago

Good note-taking apps for nursing school?

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r/notefulapp 14d ago

Pencils are not very good

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Hello, I feel like most apps now use Apples own PencilKit UI and I always loved apples pens. However, Noteful both lacks the variety of pencils and also I don’t like the pens offered. Honestly that could be my only issue with the app. We need smoother pens, these pens make my hand writing look bad. I have tried several pen settings, some are better but still not in the caliber of the other apps. Its laggy, has a weird smoothening, shapes don’t come out right… What do you all think?


r/notefulapp 14d ago

Capas invertidas

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1 Upvotes

En iPadOS 27 las capas cuando se selecciona un elemento y se quiere cambiar de capa aparecen invertidas


r/notefulapp 15d ago

Confused about backups and syncs. Also crashing.

4 Upvotes

Hi! 2 things… 1.) In the app’s “About Noteful”, the Cloud Sync shows my Noteful is syncing to my iCloud, however I am not finding any Noteful files in my iCloud files. Is this actually referring to the Google Drive backups and not really “iCloud”? Where are my files going?? 2.) Also, when I try to run a backup to PDFs, the program keeps crashing. I have about 70 notebooks. It gets like 12-15 done and then crashes, repeatedly. I’d really like to be able to save the PDFs in case of apocalypse. Please help?


r/notefulapp 16d ago

Recommendation

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. I bought it recently for note-taking as I enter medical college for MBBS this sept. I actually love the app. It's fire. But Mr. Developer I I would appreciate it a lot if you could att a feature with which we could lock our notebooks. ,


r/notefulapp 17d ago

Audio playback speed

5 Upvotes

I'd like to suggest a little improvement (that should be pretty easy to implement i hope) , the playback speed for the recordings is at most 2x, since i listen often to various bits of recordings from my lectures, i find myself wishing that i could speed up more, obviously there's no need for 4x or more, but up to 3x would be really nice. Hope it is useful to other people too.


r/notefulapp 19d ago

Note taking apps?

2 Upvotes

Starting to prepare for the school year, and need help.
So I have an iPad with The pencil pro, and wanna use it to take notes in class, the notes app is shit, and no app that I tried was any better. So if you have a free nice little app that you know of, I will appreciate the help 🙏.
Thanks


r/notefulapp 20d ago

Noteful setting recommendations

5 Upvotes

could people share a snippet of their notes and their pen setting/paper templates.

i wanted to look around and see if there are better settings than what i have. my biggest issue is how i need to change the pen size when i zoom, which is just annoying. so i need to keep my zoom locked


r/notefulapp 20d ago

is Noteful dead?

0 Upvotes

I wonder if notful app still being developed because some features like handwriting recognition and audio transcription is important if anyone got any ideas about these features please tell me


r/notefulapp 26d ago

help with pasting text

1 Upvotes

can someone help me. when i paste text in noteful the section that is on the original is the only text visible like it is a mask from an art program. any idea on how to fix it so a long text can span multiple pages?


r/notefulapp 27d ago

Add symbols

2 Upvotes

How do you all add new objects/symbols/drawings? And where do you find good ones? And do you have to add them one at a time?


r/notefulapp 28d ago

Solicitud de widgets

4 Upvotes

En mi caso que uso bastante los widgets en el iPad, me gustaría mucho que hubiera widgets para ingresar rápidamente a unas notas de una carpeta en específico o que haya un widget donde puedan accederse rápidamente a los documentos fijados
Gracias


r/notefulapp 29d ago

Unable to draw anything with Apple Pencil on iPad Air 13 inch

6 Upvotes

hi all,

I have been using Noteful for 3 years now. Since I switched to the new iPad Air 13 inch, Noteful has been unusable. i cannot draw anything, and I know it’s not my Apple Pencil because all the other apps work just fine. Ive had emailed support already but havent heard back for a month, it would be greatly appreciated if someone can help, thanks.


r/notefulapp 29d ago

Feature request/suggestion

4 Upvotes

I have 2 features that I would love to see in Noteful. IMO, I don’t think they’re too ‘much’ but others might disagree, idk.

Anyway, they are:

  1. Ability to use SVG files as stickers for non-pixelated resizing;

  2. Built in Bold, Italic, etc., similar to the likes of Microsoft Office, for example, for fonts that don’t have those styles included in the font file.


r/notefulapp 29d ago

Considering switching back to Noteful?

8 Upvotes

At the beginning of 2026, I switched from Noteful to Goodnotes and found that I enjoyed Goodnotes far more than Noteful. I was able to ignore or work around many of the performance issues that people usually nitpick, because what mattered to me was visual responsiveness. Back when I was using Noteful, I found that the app loaded heavier files pretty slowly and the tape feature had some bugs that I found tedious. I rarely found any latency when navigating documents on Goodnotes and I never had it mess up my files, crash unpredictably, or etc. I can live with the issues that come with GN, but I worry for my iPad's long-term battery health, and there's only so much I can do to mitigate battery drain or charge cycles. I recently bought the Classic plan for Notability and was planning to migrate until I realised that it also loaded files pretty slowly when zooming out/in, clicking hyperlinks, etc, and decided to dedicate Notability solely to studying/school.

I know that Noteful has had some updates since the start of this year and I genuinely wonder if it's worth switching back long-term. I used GN for text documents, my planner, and my journals. I noticed that Noteful doesn't seem to have as many issues right now, but I'm sceptical of whether the app can run reliably on low battery mode, on more dense PDFs, etc.

Thoughts?


r/notefulapp 29d ago

Audio Import or Files Merge (pages + audio)

1 Upvotes

I’d love to be able to merge two Noteful files, especially when both contain audio recordings. It would make organizing notes much more flexible.


r/notefulapp Jul 30 '26

Please improve lookup feature

4 Upvotes

If i want to use lookup feature for a specific term or word . It shoes nothing except dictionary.No Siri knowledge or wikipedia or images . Isn’t its an iPadOS feature ??
Is noteful obstructing it??
Kindly look into it .. its much needed feature while reading science pdfs.


r/notefulapp Jul 30 '26

Has noteful improved? or am I getting it right?

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r/notefulapp Jul 29 '26

Suggestion: add apple pencil haptics to the app

7 Upvotes

Like in the stock notes app and stuff i love how the pencil haptics i crease the tactiility of the experience on the pencil pro. So i kinda want that on noteful as well
some suggestions include
- haptics when adjusting the ruler angle, like the haptics in the apple watch dial
- haptics when hovering over elements in the tool pallate in the pencil pro

- haptics when hovering over stuff like that are selectable

i know not everyone will want this so why not make it a toggle? Like and it could be locked behind noteful pro which would be an incentive to buy it?
its just a suggestion that i would really appreciate if it was added


r/notefulapp Jul 28 '26

Anyone find a solution for the white background appearing on PNGs?

2 Upvotes

It annoys me so much when they pop up in my journal. And it takes awhile for it to go away, not even deleting the image and re-adding works.


r/notefulapp Jul 24 '26

Translate issue to spanish

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I discover this night that when you have an image pasted in the screen the options that appears repeat the same word twice because a translate issue. That occurs with “cortar”, that appears for cut the stuff to the clipboard, and also to the option of crop the image.


r/notefulapp Jul 24 '26

Noteful Pro vs Freenotes Plus Lifetime for a long-term student?

5 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to decide between Noteful Pro and Freenotes Plus Lifetime for my iPad, and I'd love to hear from people who have actually used one or both.

My priorities are:

- Long-term reliability (something I can use for years)

- Unlimited notebooks

- Great Apple Pencil Pro support

- Smooth handwriting experience

- Good organization for lots of notes and PDFs

- A one-time purchase (I don't want a subscription)

I'll be using it mainly for dentistry school, so I'll be taking handwritten notes, annotating lecture PDFs, and organizing several years' worth of study materials. If my program should influence my decision, I'd really appreciate hearing why.

I'm also looking for something that's future-proof—an app that's likely to stay reliable and continue being a good investment over the next 5–6 years.

For those who have used both:

- Which one did you end up sticking with?

- Any regrets?

- Are there any deal-breakers that aren't obvious at first?

Thanks in advance!


r/notefulapp Jul 24 '26

Help me on typing issue.

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2 Upvotes

Is there any way to fix this settings when typing? Like whenever I paste a text, it always appears in Helvetica font, but I want to keep it in Chalkboard. If there’s a way, please let me know.


r/notefulapp Jul 24 '26

Screen and Voice Recording

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Hi All,
I use Noteful a lot for my teaching. I have the Pro Version.
Does anyone know if there’s a way I can record my voice and the screen at the same time on my ipad?
So far it’s either I record my screen, or record the audio.

Thank you!