GoodNotes
Launched 2011
66 features found available
In their words
Take beautiful, searchable handwritten notes with the note-taking app that turns your iPad into digital paper. Thanks to handwriting recognition and OCR technology, your entire library of digital notes is searchable. Effortlessly write out equations, draw mind maps, mark up PDFs and more. Handwrite all over the page and experience limitless note-taking on the iPad. Create as many folders and subfolders as you need, to separate notes from different courses and school years for example. You can even back up your notes to Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox so your notes are always safe. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for GoodNotes:
Free- up to 3 notebooks
$7.99- one time charge
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
A mechanism is provided to have more than one note concurrently open for editing in a separate viewing window contained within the application
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be cropped (e.g., to remove the left half of it)
The note app allows the edges of the picture to get dragged so it becomes larger or smaller
Content of the PDF can be viewed inside the note, rather than clicking on PDF and having it open in a new tab or external PDF viewer
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
There exists a publicly accessible site upon which users can upvote features they want to see implemented
The company offers a version of the product that can be used indefinitely at no cost
Company has averaged at least one blog post or newsletter per month over the past year that details recent feature updates
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
A documented claim exists that note content will not be accessed by employees
Notes can exist purely on the local file system of the device, without syncing
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Excluding text that gets colored as a side effect of some other formatting feature listed (e.g., highlight)
There exists a means to recolor the background behind specific text in more than one color
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
Drawn content can be translated into text
Can font size be explicitly set? I.e., not just through setting it as a header
User can choose an explicit font (not just a theme) to restyle text
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Emails can be forwarded to an email address that will create a new note w/ the email content, or append the email content to an existing note
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
A browsable collection of pre-existing sample notes (e.g., "weekly budget") that can be copied into one's own notebook
An algorithm to generate flashcards from note content is offered
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
An installable app is available that isn't a Progressive Web App
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
Groups of notes can be accessed from a dedicated "Shortcuts" or "Favorites" area within the app
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Notes shared via a publicly-accessible link can be edited by any visitor without requiring explicit permissions from the note owner
Multiple parties can edit a note concurrently + see where each editor's cursor resides
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
Did we miss something?
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