Goodnotes for Android

In-app purchases
3.6
11.6K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Goodnotes – Your Digital Notebook, PDF Editor, and All-in-One Notes App
Goodnotes is the go-to app for creating, editing, and organizing all your notes, documents, and PDFs across Android tablets, Chromebooks, and the web. Whether you're writing class notes, editing a PDF, or planning your day, Goodnotes helps you stay productive with clean, accessible, and well-organized good notes.
Capture Notes and Ideas Anywhere:
Write with a stylus or type your notes using a keyboard on supported Android devices. Sync your notes and documents seamlessly across Android, iOS, Windows, and Web. Access your entire library of good notes with automatic cloud backup. Take fast, flexible notes during lectures, meetings, or daily journaling sessions
For Students- Smarter Note Organization with Goodnotes:
Create, manage, and share interactive notes with classmates. Collaborate in real time or asynchronously on shared notebooks. Organize notes into folders, apply tags, and use powerful search to stay on top of studies. Open PDFs like textbooks or assignments and annotate them directly with the built-in PDF editor
Plan, Journal, and Design Your Good Notes:
Choose from pens like pencil, ball pen, brush pen, and highlighter to take detailed notes. Download templates for bullet journaling, daily planning, or creative note-taking. Design personalized notes using layers, the lasso tool, and reusable elements. Customize covers, stickers, paper styles, and folder layouts for your good notes
Professionals- Work Efficiently with Notes and PDFs:
Import business docs, reports, and presentation slides as PDFs. Add typed or handwritten notes directly onto any document. Use the powerful PDF editor to review, comment, or sign documents. Export your notes or annotated PDFs for email, printing, or cloud sharing.Present your notes directly from your device with Goodnotes’ laser pointer tool
The PDF Editor Built into Your Notes App:
Open any file as a PDF and annotate it using familiar notes tools. Highlight, draw, underline, or type in your PDFs while keeping your notes organized. Use Goodnotes as a full-featured PDF editor and notebook in one. Convert handwritten notes into searchable, shareable PDF files
Organize and Find Notes Instantly:
Create unlimited folders to group and manage your notes and documents.Build your digital library of structured, easy-to-access good notes
Always in Sync with Goodnotes:
Take notes on Android tablets and Chromebooks with stylus support. Access your notes, good notes, and PDFs on any platform: Android, Web, iOS, or Windows.Goodnotes delivers a consistent, cross-platform experience for all your note-taking needs
Join millions who trust Goodnotes for productive, organized, and creative note-taking. Start building your personalized digital notebook today—and make every idea count with Goodnotes.
Note: Features like collaboration and unlimited notebooks require an active Goodnotes subscription.
Compatible Devices:
Android tablets (8” or larger, 4 GB RAM or more) and Chromebooks with stylus support
Privacy Policy: https://www.goodnotes.com/privacy-policy
Terms: https://www.goodnotes.com/terms-and-conditions
Website: www.goodnotes.com
Twitter: @goodnotesapp
Instagram: @goodnotes.app
TikTok: @goodnotesapp
Updated on
17 June 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families policy

Ratings and reviews

2.2
377 reviews
Marc Wolpert
26 February 2025
Terrible on android! There is no full library sync, as a person coming from the iPhone/ iPad version which is wonderful, this version is slow, doesn't have full library offline sync(as a one click so you have to go to every item and load), takes forever to load a notebook initially, is extremely laggy when scrolling through pdfs, doesn't have a good outline feature to browse chapters of notebooks, doesn't have a good UX in general, can't scroll through pages fast on the preview pane when, etc
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Goodnotes
27 February 2025
Thank you for your feedback! We truly value your suggestions and will pass them along to our team. We’d love to hear more from you on our feedback forums: https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/950440. Also check out our upcoming updates: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/9978929767695. Have a fantastic day!
Nathan Roberts
17 April 2025
I've long been a Goodnotes apostle. It basically got me through anesthesia school and I never would've searched for anything else. At that time, I had an iPad that was my primary note taking device and an iPhone. Shortly after graduation, I switched to a Z Fold 5 (still iPad for tablet). Everything still worked well, but the syncing options were horrendous. Then, my next phone is a traditional-style Android and the app isn't even compatible? Why? It isn't a form factor issue when iPhone has it.
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Bella Petramala
4 September 2024
I had high hopes after looking at my friends notes with iPads. Friends, it is NOT THE SAME. At all. It lacks canvas compatibility that iOS has which is absolutely obnoxious. It won't let you upload notes into the notebooks themselves and it lags pretty badly. I was constantly behind on lectures. I wanted to like it because of long press for line straightening and palm rejection, but this is the worst app I've used for notes. That's even compared to One Note and my default app.
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What's new

- Introducing Pencil Tool
- Handwriting to Text Conversion: Support for English and Latin languages
- Support for Dotted and Dashed Lines
- Copy and Paste Page
- Change Shapes of Existing Strokes
- Circle to Lasso: Select multiple items by drawing a circle around them, without switching tools
- UI Updates: Page operation shortcuts added to the toolbar's "More" (...) menu